The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-16
|ST. PAUL SCHEME
| IS TURNED DOWN
NO FIVE-CENT FARE TO MINNIE
HAHA FALLS. *.
Vice President Goodrich Tells the AL
e.. dermen the streetcar Company Can
not Afford to Take Chances on the
Disturbing Of Fare Schedules Be-
tween the Twins. o..

The St. Paul City Railway company
declined, before the st. Paul board OF
aldermen last night, to grant Scent
Falls.
Concerning the proposition. a letter
was read from G. g. Goodrich, vice presi
dent OF the company, saying that the
request Of the council will not be grant
ed, for the reason that such conces
sion would have an unsettling influ-
ence on the question Of fares. Mr.
Goodrich said the company cannot
change its contract affec ting fares.
The letter addressed to the common
council is as follows:
"We have carefully considered your
request that the St. Paul City Railway
company install a Scent fare to Min.
nehaha Falls to and from st. Paul, and
we regret to say the company cannot
make such concession.
Might Unsettle System.
"We do not feel impelled to decline
this request SO much on account Of the
fare itself as upon the unsettling infu
ence such concession would have upor
the question Of fares generally thruout
the city, and the further fact that the
company cannot make any amendments
rate Of fare in the city Of st. Paul.
cat the time the first interurbar
line was built, On University avenue
at the request Of some residents in the
vicinity Of University and Prior ave
pues, the company inaugurated a Scent
fare from that point to and from the
city Of Minneapolis. Such rate Of fare
extended only from Prior avenue west
to the city of Minneapolis.
GAS that locality built up, the PEG.
pie living east of Prior avenue, a dis,
planned that people living only block
or two nearer the city Of Minneapolis
than they were had the advantage OF
5 cents over them in the rate of fare
to Minneapolis and urged for that rea.
son that the Scent territory be ex.
tended as far east as Fairview avenue
This the company did.
Expect Further Requests.
GAS soon as this extension of Scent
territory was made and the territory il
the vicinity of Fairview avenue, began
to fill up, people living just east of that
formerly living just east Of Prior ave
nue. and requested that the extension
| Of the scent territory be made as fa1
east as Smelling avenue. We believe
it is only a question Of time when fur
ther requests will be made to extend
the scent territory even farther east
| than Smelling avenue. =;
| ssAfter the Smelling avenue line was
built, people living south Of University
avenue as far as Grand and both, east
and westzeof Smelling avenue. entered
complaints against paying more than
cents from such territory to the city Of
Minneapolis via the Smelling avenue
| and University avenue lines, and de
| handed that the company issue trans
| fer upon a transfer so they could reach
the city Of Minneapolis for cents =,
| Thus you can readily see that con
cession of this character creates dis
content and places one portion: of thu
city at disadvantage as against an
other.
"Should concession Of Scent far,
be granted to Minnehaha, it is only {
question Of time before thecityofMin
question of time before the city of Min
neapolis would demand a scent fare t,
Como park, and ultimately as far cas-
as Phalen park. Thus by such contin
ual requests and concessions obliterat
ing our contract as to rate of fare il
the two Cities
'tFor these reasons we feel compelled
to- deny the request.'