The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-14
WANTS COUNTY 70 Do II
GEORGE STEWART SAYS CITY
FAILS TO REGULATE STREET
OARS FR0FERLY
FOUR COUNTIES SOLICITED
Ramsey, Washington, Hennepin and
Dakota to BE Enlisted I'm
the Cause of
Reform.

The board OF county commissioners yes
terday received from George ]. Stewart,
of $50 Ottawa street, West ST. Paul, q
communication requesting them to look
into the matter of compelling the city
railway company to have their cars
properly lighted and to have proper hand
rails on all Of its cars. This action,
he says, 10 brought about by his wife
being injured at the corner of Smith ave
nue. and Annapolis street, West side,
Sept. ,, 1893, when In the act of alight-
Ing from an open car while dark. The
accident was caused, he alleges, by the
street car being without either handle
accommodations or light.
Accompanying his communication to
the county commissioners, Is a commune
cation which he addressed &c the Da-
kota county grand jury, in which he
says: Since the accident occurred. my
wife has been almost daily under the
doctors care, so that what did get from
the street car company after finding 1t
compulsory to fight them in the courts,
will not pay expenses. This fight made
glaring public facts that this corporation
known as the Twin City Rapid Transit
company employs any method whether
honorable or dishonorable and their claim
agent would occupy his proper place II
left with the beasts in the field. All the
city has done was to order the city en-
gineer to examine and report, which he
did April 1, 1859, and declared the street
car company trespassers. Our city at
torney paid the bill, So by his own per-
sonal check, as per request of street car
company, where he is daily employed
Getty records for May and June, 1899, will
certify this transRctfoH9, rather a Pc
culiar way to paysa debt and do justice
to d citizen and taxpayer.
The change FROM horse power to cleo
tricity has been taken advantage of by
street car company insyiolation of rail-
road law, and when trolley is pulled down
for any purpose, All lights are extin-
guished, includingS head lights. This Is
daily occurrence Ing Dakota county
when passengers Eelre getting off. There
is no franchise toAgoyeFn nor city lamps
to give light, but at ttbsSother end of the
Mississippi street Ear :lane on Arlington
hills, there Is only 9ong wire and light
remains perfect asylongaas power is per-
feet. The same rule gould be made to
apply to all terminals. THE place where
the accident occurredSWas repaired by
street car company, Sept. II. 1895, by five
or six cars of ballast Everything re-
mains in the same dangerous condition
and will until renedied by the county or
city authorities. and 1 hope instruction
will be forthcoming through county at
torneys from your honorable body, COM
pelling one and all to act promptly. In
conclusion do trust that open cars with
no handle or light as they are at pres
ent when dark, will quickly be abolished.
Copies of this letter will be sent the
board of county commissioners at st,
Paul, Minneapolis and Saltwater and
public protection asked for before some
thing perhaps worse, occurs
In his communication to the board of
county commissioners, Mr.. Stewart says
that his wife sswas the seventh accident
recorded within asyear at theasame place.