The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-09-14
ASSUME SURVEY.
Board of Trade Guarantee From
Oshawa to City.
Special Committee Report in Favor of
Automobile Service, Also as to
Tenement Houses.

ana the erection VI uOuSSo WIN Oh
modern conveniences to rent at a mod
crate rental per month, made the fol
lowing reports
Gentlemen: Your committee OF
rapid transit has had correspondence
with the Northwestern Motor Vehicle
Co., of Minneapolis We believe the
operation of automobiles in the city Of
Mankato is entirely feasible and will
fully solve the problem of rapid
transit, provided some of our princi
pal streets are put in better condition.
Automobiles of heavy carrying capa-
city cannot be advantageously oper-
ated upon common dirt roads in muddy
weather. No city in this state has
better facilities for making macad-
aimed roads than Mankato, We have
hundreds of thousands of tons of gran
ite stone and a mill for crushing and
pulverizing it. We have an mex
haustible supply of common riprap
stone All of these within the city
limits. We have an excellent road
roller, weighing, we believe, about 80
tons.
1--WE exhibit to you this morning
two photographs of automobiles No
261 and No. 1852 The first can be pur-
chased at an expense of So, 900 and has
mileage capacity of 40 miles an hour,
and a carrying capacity of ten pas
sengers. This would be very prac-
tical bus to run on Front street from
the Blue Earth bridge to Vine street
A similar one of less carrying capa-
city could be run ON Broad street from
May to Lincoln. Now three or four
smaller vehicles having a carrying
capacity of about four passengers could
run to all other parts of the city over
the hills, down the hills in North
Mankato, and in the summer even to
the lakes. These would supply Man
kato's needs very we'll
Your committee estimates that
these could be put in at a cost of
so, 900 or $12, 900. We would recon-
mend that the motor power be electri-
city, as that is noiseless, very efficient
and the batteries could easily be
charged from our city plant. Your
committee would further recommend
that there be a committee from the
board of trade appointed for the pur-
pose of organizing company with
sufficient capital to consumate the pro-
ject.
Your committee would further rec
ommend that necessary and proper
efforts be made through our city coun-
Gil to macadamize Second and Broad
streets and that the work be completed
as early as possible in 1901. Much of
this work could be economically done
during the winter months.
81. w. ANDREWS,
sd. G. DAVIES,
GEO. NJ. PALMER. "
W. P. Coffin and Jno. N. Hall, of
the committee did not sign the report.
The consideration of the matter was
laid over until the next meeting of the
board .......
In relation to the erection of houses
for rent at a moderate rental having
modern conveniences the committee
reported their belief that the erection
of small neatly built modern resi-
dences anywhere within reasonable
distance of the business center of the
city and the depots will yield an in
teresU of from to 10 per cent on the
investment 4" This is at rental from
SO to $50 per month. The committee
further stated:
"As desirable and economical, we
- would recommend the erection of a
few compartment residences such as
represented by plan prepared by
Architect Frank Thayer and which we
exhibit to you. These plans contem-
plate the erection of'six conveniently
arranged, modern residences under one
roof and yet entirely separate one
from the other, having solid brick
wall between them. By these plans
you will observe that each compart-
ment is provided with a basement
first and second stories The basement
is provided with laundry, heating
plant and cistern and the first and Sec
ond stories are complete in every de-
tail, of which you will be convinced
after examining the plans. The es-
timated cost including the ground is
about So, 600 for each residence. These
we believe, would rent readily at $50
per month.
''We would recommend the appoint
ment of a special committee whose
duty it shall be to visit personally q
few of our capitalists, lay before them
these plans and endeavor to enlist theil
cooperation in movement whic /
shall result in the early erection Of
these much needle d residences -
The report was signed by the full
committee The consideration of this
report also went over to the mex
meeting of the board.
The matter of the St. Cloud, Glen
coe & Mankato road was then taker
up and F. NJ. Currier read several let.
tiers from Captain Reed, the substance
of which show that the road has beer
surveyed from Glencoe toward THU
city as far as Oshawa on the c. & N.
w. road, and further operations have
been suspended to see what MankatC
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