The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-23
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Aid. RohIand Accuses Brother
Alderman of Aiding Street
Railway Company.

Aid Otto Rohland, Of the Fifth
ward, says that Aid. L. J. Dobner, of
the Tenth ward, is not serious in his
suggestion of conference with vice
President Goodrich, of the street rail-
way company, for the purpose of talk
ing over needed improvements IN the
local street car service.
Aid. Rohland thinks it is scheme
to shelve the ordinances now pending
for extensions in various parts of the
city, and to incidentally gain for the
company a spur or so-called cross
town line, which the company desires
to lay on Smelling avenue, between
University and Grand avenues.
While on its face giving st. Paul
what it has been asking for-another
cross-town line-the improvement. Mr..
Rohland says. would be simply spur,
convenient to the shops and barns
which the company will build next year
on Smelling and University avenues.
Dobner Advised Conference.
A week ago, when the committee on
streets of the board of aldermen met,
several street car measures were up
for consideration. They were for ex-
tensions in various parts of the city.
and there was a clamor for their pas
sage by the interested members.
Aid. Dobner, who was presiding, de-
INJURED. Too many demands, he de-
clared, would gain nothing. Subordi-
nate all the little things to something
needed, he advised, and suggested that
the members seek a conference with
Vice President Goodrich, of the street
car company and see what could be Sc
cured. In his opinion the most needed
thing was a cross-town car line on
Smelling avenue. This conference was
agreed to, and the clerk was instructed
to write to Mr.. Goodrich.
Il do not take any stock in Mr.
Dobner's advice" said Mr.. Rohland
yesterday at looks to me like a
scheme to give the street car company
what it will need-a spur track on
Smelling avenue-without having to
ask for it. If the company asked for
the track 1T would have to pay the 5
per cent gross earnings tax. 1 told the
other members that if they want any
street car legislation they will have to
get busy, and not hold conferences
with Mr.. Goodrich. 1t will not get
them anything"
For two years Mr.. Rohland has been
trying to secure for his ward the re-
building of the Randolph street car
line, which was torn up after its pur-
chase by the street car company from
Archbishop Ireland and Thomas Coch-
rane. but without avail.
Scheme to Shelve the Matter.
The conference, he thinks, is
scheme to shelve it, with other meas
ures bearing on needed street car i'm
provements, on a promise to give a
cross-town line, which would be such
only in name. The company will, when
it's Smelling and University avenue
shops and barns are built, abandon the
barns on Ramsey street, which now ac-
commodate all Grand avenue and West
side cars To run these cars around
the loop and then out to University
avenue to the new barns would be in
convenient. Instead, Mr.. Rohland says.
the company would prefer to use the
Grand avenue tracks, which, with a
connecting spur on Smelling avenue.
would provide the needed connections.
Mr.. Dobner says he stands for the
location of the proposed new cross
town line on Smelling avenue. He says
that is where it will be located if ever
built. Mr.. Rohland gives notice that
he will again push the ordinance call
ing for the rebuilding of the Randolph
line, and will endeavor to bring it to a
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