Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-07-28

ings or other heavy bodies are being removed
across tho track, iufioisDt time shall be allowed
them to remove from the way, Il consent for such
removal has been obtained from Board Of City I'm
provements.
Section 1lth provides that all contracts under
this ordinance shall be for the term Of twenty
years.
The above ordnsnce was passed and became
law, but at the Council on Tuesday uight last,
Mr., Thayer presented another, repeating this
one. In comparing the two ordinances we End
the lst and "a sections are the same. In the
80 section he strikes out all that requiring the
Rsihoad Company to give bonds for $4,000 with
sureties, &c. a. specified above, and also the right
reserved to the Council 10 take up and remove the
tracks when the company shall fail to comply with
the provisions Of The ordinance, In making this
srasure we think Mr.. Thayer is wrong. There
should be some safeguard to protect the city, Auy
company which may construct railway should
give somo such surety for the performance Of their
part Of the contract The city requires parties
with which II contracts for paving grading, &c,
to give sufficient security, and will not allow the
lowest civil officer to enter upon bis duties With,
out first signing and delivering bonds for the per-
formanco Of those duties. Why should it allow a
railway company to go on with less restrictions2
Let US have some provision FOR giving bonds
But let those bonds be given by the Railway Com
pany alone aud lot Il alone be responsible for
its own acts. Let tho requirement that Eve
free holders endorse tho bonds be stricken out and
the provision for the Company's own bonds re-
maiu for it will probably not only be difficult to
Rnd Eve individuals who will endorse S50,0OO for
th, Company, but it is right that the Company
should be alone responsible and answerablo for
their part Of the contract
The ith Section is uuatered in Mr.. Thoyers
ordinance In the 9th he strikes out the provision
for the bonds to be signed by the company, by
which ,hey engage to abide by this or other ordi
nanccs Does Mr.. Thayer intend TO rely merely
upon the reputation or verbal promise Of the con-
tracuug parties,
Sections G, 7, 8, and remain unaltered. Sec
10 MIR. Thayer strikes out entirely, BY the above
synopsis it will be seen that this will leave
any contracting company to choose their own
time for commencing, carrying on OF completing
the railway. So that our streets may be eucum-
bered with the work of construction for five OF
ten years, unless the private interests Of the
pany stir them up to complete the work as quickly
as possible. This last would doubtless be the case
but the city should not leave so much TO the option
of the company. Ii this is left without any limi-
tation any company may obtain permit to occu
by certain streets, aud may then delay building
merely to keep some other company that wou
perhaps build directly, from usingn those streets
aud thus may prevent any track nom being lai
for any length OF time they choose. II one yea
is not enough for the completion of the road, Civ
them two but, to ensure prompt action, some lin
iiation should be insisted on.
Section IL is retained unaltcred, but section !
is stricken out entirely BY this section the Couu
company the right to use and occupy the sam
track that the original company built This Cras
ure is tight aud proper. The multiplication {
companies upon the same track would not wcr
harwouiously. The Council directs the operatio
of running the cars, anl if they protect themseye
bv bonds from the company in the first place, IN
have confidence enough to grant them the con
tract, they can direct that company to put o
enough cars, and TO run at such times as 10 sui'
ciently provide for all the travel.
Iu the first provision OF section l3 Mr., Thayt
ns, rts a clause, 80 that it will read "no car sha
be drawn at greater speed than five miles an hot
bcttosc,l Eric street and Rirer street" This is
Improvement upon the original. The idea tn
through the whole route, the cars must not
drawn faster Than five miles an hour is an absul
one A fast walker will walk from four
Eve miles per hour, and we want a railroad TO ~
sist in point of time as well as comfort Look
the cars in New York or Boston In these cite
narrow aud crooked as some Of the streets ar
the horses travel ut a fast trot, averaging sevC
miles an hour and that too, in some cases. whe
the streets are very crooked that one can hearu
car bell before he can see the horses. Upon %
wide and straight streets it il sheer nonsense a
humbug to say that safety requires this restrcu
to fast walking gait. II is oil well enough to
limit the speed through Superior street west Of {
Square, but let the seven mile an hour speed col
meuce at the Post Office. From there to Erie 4
street is wide enough for dozen carriages abrea
By all means, gentlemen, amend that useless
striution.
With these changes Mr.. Thayer's ordinance
the same AZ Mr.. Ransoms, But in the Sd secti
there is a provision that should be amended n
, section provides that only one track shall be Ii
/ in any street. that track to be provided with tur
p outs and switches where the cars can meet a
r pass. We do not want single track railwl
E where we shall be compelled to wait every Il
minutes for another car to pass, If the switUl
aud turn outs are near enough together to prevC
= delay in passing then It will be less work 10 &C
, strnctR double track throughout Our sire
are wide enough for double tracks, even for qua
ruple tracks if necessary, and the people shot
Insist upon having them. Other cities ha
them, aud their experience proves their a
, yantagcs, la that case, the cars can go
> reclly in at all times without unnecessary I
lay. Let us have double track from one
of the routes to the other, and thus dispense wi
. the labor of dozen or two switchmon, as v
as render the tracks far safer, pleasanter, and mt
permanent
. Should but single track be laid, we can SAT,
II assume that Eve minutes will be taken up in WI
Q ing at switches between River street and Wills
Avenue. Now we may also safely estimate d
ave. "b'Hb 'HS IN-N' N"N'''y JN"i't IAN - ''''''
d people will be carried annually over the roads
Hero are half a million passengers each losing
minutes in waiting. In the aggregate this
amount to nearly $1,000 hours, or nearly hir
q three and a half yedTf. 80 much lost in a sin
year, to say nothing Of the III feeling and dissa
IL faction, or of the constantly increasing travel q
i. consequent demand for double tracks. By
, means lot US have double track for our fut
need
= We want a street railroad and must have {
and while one is being built, let it be done in 8
y a manner as will serve all the purposes Of a ,
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