The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-10-03

hence could have but little voice in
the matter CT material changes in
present conditions.
THE next interview was with Mr.
P. c. Hart, general manager of the
| Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railway company, al his Offices in
Chicago. Mr. Hart but recently came
to Chicago from Seattle and was
quito unacquainted with conditions
| in Mankato. We went over the mat.
| ter OF conditions here quite fully
and an attempt was made, and we
think quite successfully, to impress
/ Mr.. Hart with the seeming indiffer-
ence of some of the officers of that
company to switching conditions on
Main street, which we thought could
! be corrected by re-arranging the
yards, moving all tracks nearer the
river and locating Union depot be,
tween the tracks and the city,
"This, of course, would have to be
done by cooperation of all of the
| roads Mr.. Hart did not commit
himself upon the Union depot prop
osition, saying, as before, that he
was wholly unacquainted with condi-
tions here, but he expressed his will
| lingness to come to Mankato, or
send a competent representative, at
any time we desired, and take the
matter up with our people anc The
other railway officers.
"NeXt, and but short time ago, we
personally interviewed Mr. Trenholm,
general manager OF the Omaha Rail
way. company, at his Offices in St.
Paul, and We also went over the
matter quite thoroughly, with yard
maps, etc. Mr.. Trenholm thought
that no Encouragement OF the yards
! could be made that would be at all
satisfactory to the people, and Drac-
| tlcal from a railway standpoint,
without great and extraordinary ex-
pense, involving procuring title to
property, which he thought could not
be gotten at anything like a reason,
able price, the whole project inyolv-
ing an expenditure wholly unwar-
rantcd now in the present condition
of the money and bond market. and
more than this he was quite firmly
opposed to a Union depot here, and,
in fact, Union depots generally, from
railway business standpoint. He
stated that he was the president of
the Union Depot company in St.
! Paul, and that his cares and re-
| sponsibilities were very burdensome,
and that conditions there were very
annoying
! while he much doubted whether
his company could do anything that
would much improve conditions
here, he said that he would come
up here with an engineer at any
time and go over the ground
1--WE are of the opinion that we
will be unable to get the several
railway companies to join in a
Union depot
''We have seer no officers of the
| Chicago Great Western company, as
we understand that their line from
Mankato to Randolph is to be con-
| Iiol ny llC Ian IdICn lluS.
dated this Goth day of September,
1913.
Respectfully submitted,
'LORIN CRAY,
CARL j. HOLMAN.
Committee. -
"P. S. Since we prepared the
foregoing report, the general super
intendent and general counsel of the
! Milwaukee road has visited the city,
and an interview with them sug-
gests to us that if possible this club
bring about meeting in this city
of the managers of the several roads,
| the common council of the city, and
members of the Commercial club.
and again consider the Union depot
proposition" .-. .a
The Milwaukee Switching.
| w. H Pay, chairman of the com.
mittee on switching, stated that a
few days ago General Superintend-
ent Foster and General Counsel Root
| Of the Milwaukee road came here to
take up the matter of switching on
! the main street crossing 1t was
proposed by them that the switching
on the Main street crossing be done
away with and that this work be
done further south in the yards or
| over the Jackson street crossing.
This plan does not meet with favor
nv tho committoa
Mr.. Pay put up to Messrs. Foster
and Root a proposition that seemed
| to overcome Mr.. Roots opposition to
the Union depot idea. Briefly stated
it is this: Remove the Omaha pas
senger depot to the site of the pres
ent Milwaukee freight depot and re-.
| move the latter to a point in the
rear of the L. Patterson Mercantile
company's building. This would OBJ
viate the necessity of people cross
| ing tracks in order to reach the pas
! senger depots and would permit
more trackage on the west side of
the depots. Each road would have
| to concede something to the other
/ and the city must cOncede some
thing to the roads. The alley on
the east side of the depots could be
made into street. The Omaha
could lay track on the Milwaukee
right of way and its passenger trains
could very easily run into its own
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