The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-15
IN STRAITS FOR A DEPOT
MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS MAY
BUILD NEW ONE on THE
WEST SIDE
SEVERAL COURSES ARE OPEN
May Gain an Entrance Into Union
Depot, Which Would lie the
Most Desirable Way
Ont

Having been refused admission into the
union depot and having taken the mat
ter into court, the Minneapolis ST. Louis
road still has some chance of gaining ade-
qu2te and satisfactory terminals in this
city, but their success in this particular
is by no means assured, and many rail-
road men are of the opinion that the
road will be obliged to abide by the rul-
ing of the Union depot company, barring
them from entrance. There is not lit
tie specula ton lust at present over this
matter. 1t is a proposition Of consider.
able Importance whether or not the Min
neapOliS & St Louis gains its suit and
becomes a member of the Union depot
company. BY so doing it would fail heir
to the facilities which it seeks and is
so badly in need of and in the event of
its failure to obtain these advantages, or
in other words to gain the suit, the road
will be placed in a rather embarrassing
position
At present the Minneapolis is using the
Northern Pacific freight and passenger
terminals in st. Paul, running its trains
between this city and Minneapolis on n.
p. tracks but it is understood from GER
tain railroad sources that the Northern
Pacific is DESTROYS of canceling the ar
engagements under which the Minneapolis
& st. Louis is given the use of its freight
house ard terminals. The lease for the
use of the passenger facilities having eX-
pired last July, it is probable that some
different plans will have to be made in
that department as we'll.
Just what recourse the Minneapolis &
st. Louis will avail itself Of is rot clear,
but there are two or three open to it. One
is, in the failure of the road to get in
the union depot, to lease the old St.
Paul & Duluth freight house, which SO
far as space is concerned, would be en-
I'D IA fDr itc or
probably be found more satisfactory in
other respects than the one they are now
patrCnizing But this would not provide
for passenger facilities. It has been sug-
gested that the Great Western might
make room for the Minneapolis & St
Louis on the West SIDE in their pros
pectiVe building, but this is perhaps out
of the question. Again there is talk that
the road might construct a building OF
it's own on the West side. There are
many causes which render this course
highly improbable and Improbable. In
the first place there is no way of reach
ing the West side except over the Great
Westerns bridge and this would not
accommodate any other road but the one
to which it belongs and by which it is
now used. The Minneapolis & st. Louis
would then have to build crossing of its
own, which it would probably not do.
However. there is a charter for a bridge
below Broadway, SO If the company
should wish to construct ore. his very
complicated part of getS1ng 1t there would
be already accomplished. But after all,
why would the road want to so over to
the West side? There are no special ad>
vantages to be derived by the operation,
bat upon the other hand there are many
disadvantages to be encountered.
Obviously the most desirable and most
profitable course for the Minneapolis &
St Louis is to get into the union depo-,
but their chances of this are not of the
best Tic next best thing in the minds
of men who are watching the case, would
be for the road to lease anew the
Northern Pacifc's passenger terminals
and acquire right to lard their freight
I'm tie o'd St. Paul & Duluth building
The present situation is very unsatis-
factory 10 the officials of the road, bat
nothing will or can be done, probably,
until the action seeking to gain admis-
sion into the union depot is settled.