The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-08
CITY We US
one DAM STARTS
FLOW OF OTHERS
MINNEAPoLITANs HOPED IT
HOME LAST NIGHT.
Trolley System "out Of the Going'' by
the Accidental Lowering of the Level
Of the River Thomas Lowry's Pri-
) vate Car Caught in the Standstill-
The Trouble Explained.

Yesterday evening, from to z
Q clock, Minneapolis was not any bet
ter off, so far as transportation was con-
cerned, than it was when Father Henne-
pin and Ed Bromley landed at Bridge
square and traded pink beads and red
flannel neckties to the Indians for ham
sandwiches and coffee.
The citv resembled the environs of
st. Petersburg in strike time with
everybody on foot. There was no Faith
er Gopon, in fact the father would have
been shocked, immeasurably, to have
heard the lurid English that trickled
from tortured tongues to fall on the
smoke-stained snow and melt the icicles
from the city hall tower.
Inc power was off again. y
A workman had lowered the thing
umbob at the powerhouse and the
whatchucallit had clogged with sand
and the doodadhad refused to work and
that settled it. Cars stood still all
over the city. Conductors and motor
men, serene in the knowledge that their
pay was going if the cars were not.
cuddled down in the upholstered seats
and slumbered while the tramping
thousands marched by and their utter
ances swamped the office Of the record
ing angel. If every oath puts the Of
paradise, some Minneapolitans viii have
to stay on the spiritual pioneer limited
for five years to recover lost ground.
Tired laborers pumped their sandals
for long distances and shop soubrettes
tried to navigate towards the suburbs
at as high rate as is permissible with
the kangaroo lope and French heels.
Dinner parties were broken up and the
DISTINGUISHED guests, was stuck on a
reef. The dis. gsts, had to climb into
deep-sea.. going carriages and have the
Jehu drive to beat the band in order
to- keep. a dinner engagement. Holders
Of theater tickets attempted to turn
them in by telephone and the box office
Shy,locks gave them the refrigerated
reply. It was a time of labor, and
travail, and temptation and prof nity.
and the cars began to move. No one
knew what caused the trouble. This
lack of knowledge had not been re.
| moved, even this morning, in some of
the high Offices of the Twin City Rapid
Transit company. A voice at the office
Of the superintendent declared that it
nd l !, not know and, therefore, could
An attache of the office Of the mas
ter mechanic "did not really know
what was the matter. It was at the
Ffo, ~ y, 'oe'o' Oc'AA w tAC ScAcIdl HAL
ager. -,
He was called.
He knew. b..
And said so. . -
The st. Anthony Falls Water Powe
company controls the water supply. ,
said Mr.. Held. 'They control the sup
ply at the power plant, dam and th
pond. They are making extensive re
pairs and we have seen depending en-
tirely on steam since Monday. TIL,
water power plant was out Nof service
In making the repairs the >workme1
lowered the water level. The cana
supplying the condensers for the big en-
glnes ran so low that the pumps coul,
not reach the water. While the waite
was lowering, the pipes had sucked III
+ silt, debris and bark, until it was nee
essary to clean them out, before the en-
! gines could be started again. The wa
ter trouble was remedied by the powe
company in a short time, but the della,
was thru having to clean up befor'
| While the shutdown caused no end O:
annoyance to the populace it meant :
heavy loss to the transit company. L
has been estimated by a statisticial
that the accident deprived the com
pany Of $25 a minute. for. two hours
and under these circumstances the pub
lie knows that great corporation lose
no time in making repairs. The acct
dent was a .two-edged affair, cutting thu
comfort Of the populace and the cash o:
the corporation. .-,. w..