The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01
SHOULD BE BOULEvARDED.
suggestion In Regard to the Street
Railway and University Avenne.

suggestion In Regard to the Street
Railway and University Avenue.
To the Editor Of the Globe:
Having an interest in some property c.
University avenue, owned by my wife,
wish to say in regard to the pT0pos
fast express line. that already our pr
erty interests have greatly deprecated
account of the tracks laid on our str, NJ,
which by right of situation oua1t
to be the main thoroughfare OF the city,
and the connecting link between the NO
cities.
AT present the cars make 50 much noise
especially during the evening and night
when other traffic Is nearly stopped the
ground under our houses fairly guakes
and trembles, and the plaster is often
times shaken from the walls Nervous
people and those uraccustomed to tho
cars could not live on the avenue and
get any rest at night, and for the most
part, excepting the stores, the owners
generally occupy the property themselves
Other property on the avenue is often
rented several times during the Year and
has deprecated so in value that the own
ers have hard time making it paw ex-
pehses, and often have to reduce tie rent
to that figure. The cars often exceed
the limit of speed allowed by fifteen 1uilas
an hCur, and oftentimes won't stop even,
If passenger is waiting at some outs6~i
POINT; anyhow, they don't stop unlo,
they have to, and in the majority Of tritl
the NUMBER of stops are about equal eHa
cept during the morning or evening rush A
don't think the proposed new cars will
make much faster time than ten or pos
sloiy hfteen minutes quicker than the
present schedule, even if they only STOP
pea once; however 1T is a very dangerous
experiment, which ought to be tried on
OF
roadway If the company is allowed to
put any more tracks. we might as well
transfer our deeds to them-unless we
want to bear up with the torture our
selves
University avenue is in a very bad con-
dItion as a street, and l presume that
next spring will seeua new pavement
begun, which it needs so badly. Bicycle
traffic on this account has been driven
off the avenue almost entirely and the
stcrekeepers are all Ia favor of new
pavement, and want 1t put down quickly.
too ''-''
b. Probably with this fact in view the
railway company are laying their plans
so as to commence on the ground floor
without having to tear up the streets, and
thus save much expense If the tracks
had not been laid on our street it would
be boulevarded, and, next to Summit ave-
nue., would be the finest street and the
main roadway between the two cities,
and don't know buuow it is even
now the main roadway; and, if it is-why
should this traffic be blockaded almost
entirely, driven off by the street rail-
way company.
We have been outraged enough already.
many of our citizens have been MANNED
and some killed. our children are in con-
slant danger of cars and runaways and
[ believe it would be rightly and Justly
in order to have the railway company re-
move its tracks to some other more favor
ed locality, and fence them in. University
avenue being the main thoroughfare be-
tween the two cities, by rights should be
boulevarded all the way through. and 1t
ought to be made one of the finest drive
ways in the world.
-Edw. r. Burt
81 parl SoD+ 90