The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-19
POOR CAR SERVICE
CITIZENS ARRANGING ron MASS
MEETING TO DEMAND RENE,
DIAL MEASURES
LACK OF HEAT AND POWER
Meeting of Eighth and Ninth Ward
People Decided On-WorkiHg-
men Suffer Most on Cold
Mornings.

Plans are being made, and, according
to the statements credited to the pre-
meters, will materialize in few days,
when the initial step will be taken toward
calling public mass meeting for the pur-
nose of influencing street car legislation
and reform.
The meeting, it is said. is being fos-
tered by Aid Bantz and Hunt, anJ on
the list of speakers which is being pre-
pared they will have leading part. 1t
will be controlled by citizens entirely,
and, if possible. it will be held in the Au-
ditorium Or some large hall equally as
advantageous as far as location IS con-
cerned.
The reforms which%it is desired 10 bring
about are more cars, quicker service
abolition OF practically cold storage cars,
better time schedules and less cro~stsing
of cars Additional reform in the pres
ent system is desired, but those enunef :
ated are the principal ones.
THE only mass meeting that L know
of. said Aid Rantz, when questioned re-
garding the rurnor last right, lis one that
residents of the Eighth and Ninth wards
are getting up. They know how l stand
en- the question of st. Paul being entitled
to reform in its street car service, and
have asked me, With others, tc dudfeSS
them.
''In the past two days" continued MI.
Bantz "a half dozen delegations have
called at my store asking if something
could not be done to obtain more cars. ]
was compelled to tell them that j had
done everything in my power, but | had
to confess to a failure,
WorI1inemen Are Sufferers.
1.-THE greatest complaint comes from the
workmen along the Rondo and Uniyef-
sity lines who work down town. They
have to go to work early in the morn
ing and the rush then is so great that
they are compelled to stand in the cola
and see car after ear pass them by With
out stopping. Half frozen with the cold,
they finally get a car, only to lind that
it is net heated. In the carly morning
few of the cars are heated, while during
the Gay the heat is hardly noticea ole.
To the hundreds of women who patron
ize the cars during the rush hours this
condition is certainly hardship. Last
Friday evening ! boarded carr at the
Ryan hotel at $50 o'clock, and when l
got off at Avon and University 1t was
within a few minutes of o'clock. What
do you think Of that for time. In this
weather cars should be run oftener The
travel is greater in consequence of the
cold and there certainly should be some
consideration for the poor deyils VINO
have to stand shivering on the corners
waiting for them. Twenty minute waits
are quite common, while thirty minutes
is nothing out of the ordinary.
''If the mass meeting can be made to
take in the entire city, I will be more
than pleased You can rest assured it
will have all the aid | can give it,
Much of the delay now existing is at
tributed by the street car company to
the difficulty in. securing power, the wa
ter having fallen so low that the steam
plants have had to be called into reGui-
sition. On the West side the cars crawl
at snail's pace in making the grades,
while the lights in the car are so re-
duced in volume as to render them dark.
On South Robert street motormen in
making the grade approaching the bridge
have refused to stop on several occa-
sions for fear of getting stalled. To the
shivering crowds in waiting this is a
hardship they have not been slow in PRO
testing against. Complaint is also made
regarding a lack of heat in the morn
ing cars. According to one patron of
the system the Selby avenue line is the
only one on which satisfactory service
is being given: s 's