The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-26
Takes Firm Stand Relative to
Omaha Road West Side
Spur Track
CALLS FOR A MEETING
Unless His Demands Receive Proper
Consideration He VIII Cease
to Manage the Public
u Ii
Baths.

| The abandonment Of the Gednev spur
track which the Omaha railroad is pre-
pairing to build on the West side levee fill
| the erection of suitable fence parallel
| with the tracks already down. the filing
up OF the dangerous hole that now exists
and assurances that no more tracks will
be laid along the fill between the Wa
baSha street bridge and the public baths
This is what DR.. Ohage demands and
he has put it into the shape Of an uIti-
matUm, which, if not acceded to, or at
least respected to the extent Of hear
ing to see if something cannot be Done
Will be followed by his resignation as far
as the care of the public baths are con-
cerned. This resignation, if the end justi-
mes the means, will be in the hands of
Mayor Smith Wednesday morning
mo more of this worry for me- said
DR.. Ohage yesterday. I'm getting to be
a crank now, 50 some people say, and be
fore [ become a public nuisance I had
better quite right here. / don't want that
track along the fill, and unless its con-
structlon Is abandoned and the grounds
kept violate from further dissertation in
this line, | will quit. 1 have asked the
members of the Commercial club to meet
me and talk over the question, and IN
less the conference is satisfactory my
resignation will be in Mayor Smiths
hands at 10 O'Clock Wednesday morning
l am breaking down IN health and in
pocket, for | am inegleeting myself and
my practice in my Adesire to make the
Harriet island institution the first in the
land. Friends tell me l had better quit
it and [ guess they are, right. This will
be my last appeal for the island.
Writes to Comm erciaI Club.
In line with his contemplated step, DR.
Ohage yesterday dictated the following
letter to Secretary Slime, of the ST. Paul
Commercial club:
The contemplated laying of a spur
track by the Omaha road to the Gedney
PICKING works, IN addition to eight
moro tracks which they are going to
build between Water and Fillmore
streets would in such. a way endanger
| the approach to Harriet island that it
would mean its ultimate destruction.
L have been fighting the location of
| these tracks, not the railroads, single
| believe 1 am entitled to the support Of
| our fellow citizens who have the welfare
| of our city at heart.
The greatest damage which was ever
| done to Minneapolis was the giving
| away of Nicollet island Before we
| take ike step let US see if there is no
| reasonable way of preventing such.
| Action must be taken at once, and in
! order to see whether the members of the
| Commercial club will support me in this
| matter, or whether it is best for me to
relinquish all further interests in Har-
riet island, this matter must be decided
| at once. I therefore ask that you cali
| meeting of your body not later than
| next Tuesday, so we may talk this mat
| ter over and arrive at some decision
The legal department has practically re-
fused to stultify the city by asking for
an enjoining order to prevent the laying
of the track, but it isE understood that
such an order may be asked for by a
| friend of the doctor in which the validity
of the grant will be attacked This would
be on the question of the imposition Of
| the charter per cent gross earnings pro-
| vision, something touched upon when the
grant was made. The legal department
| then touched upon this question, but it
was not inserted in the ordinance.