The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-17
OWL CAR ORDINANCE
WILL HAVE HARD
SHEDDING
Some Members of Aldermanic
Board Are Opposed to
Measure; So Are Mayor
Smith and President Haas
Proposal Is Made to Test
the Measure for a Month.

resent prospects would indicate that
the owl car" measure, passed by the
assembly Thursday evening, will not
nave smooth sailing when it reaches
the board of aldermen, but if it is de-
Ieated 1t will not be the fault of the
several hundred advocates who are
now pleading with the obdurate mem
pers TO support the measure.
Alu. Huber, when the all-night Serv-
ice was first proposed announced his
unaIterable opposition to it, and Aid.
Dooher, another stalwart, is said to be
OF. the same frame of mind. Two 9TH
ers, 1t is said, stand against the serv-
ice, so 1t can be said that the measure
will have rough sledding
1t was announced yesterday that an
attempt would be made to kill the "owI
car scheme for all time, but those that
are fathering it will, in case of refusal
10 approve 1t, at once demand that it be
sent 70 the committee on streets. Here
All who favor it may be given a hear
ing.
Even should the measure get through
the board of aldermen it will encounter
another obstacle in the possible veto Of
the mayor. Mayor Smith announced a
week ago that he would veto it If 1T
ever reached him, and this feature has
since been further complicated by the
attitude of President Henry Haas, Who
- ShS HEASCul7N6- III the absence OF Nav
or Smith.
Mr. Haas opposed it in the assembly
on the ground that it would disturb the
patients In the hospitals, and it will
take considerable argument to sWerye
him from his stand
The success of an aIl-night service
may be demonstrated by actual trial.
II II goes not prove satisfactory it may
be abandoned after a months test.
Aid R1ntu
ne thinks it would relieve some of The
members who are fearful that the COM
pany would lose money.
Inc leaders and members of organ
lzed labor generally are a unit for all
night cars and are now preparing to
take up the question in their councils
How those who work at night view the
proposed service is shown in the fol-
lowing communication received by
e q o from a we'll known print
er and labor leader:
To the Editor of The Clone.
A most progressive move and one
showing an advancement of ideas. would
pc the PASSAGE by the board of aldermen
OF an ordnance backing up the one lust
passed by the assembly for an "owl'' car
on our street railway system No one
Knows better than he who has to earn his
living working at night-the telegraph
operator the printer, the morning news
paper man in general, the baker: yes
and the hundreds and hundreds in our
city who are kept out after midnight
would be accommodated by car once ar.
hour, from to 6, in the morning. Surely
the opponents of this ordinance cannot
say that the st. Paul. Street Railway com
pany could not afford to do it, for any
business man knows that it is the best
paying corporation in tIlen Twin Cities
They say 1t would tend to encourage i'm
morality by keeping some (who would
otherwise go home) in the saloons Why
would 1t not let the night worker get home
as soon as, he is through work? 1t would
give. more street car men work and thus
benefit them, and the more men we put to
work work the more prosperous we become.
The board of aldermen should pass the
ordinance for a car every hour from l to
a. m.
One Who Works at Night.
Jan. 16, 1903