Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-24

TraYeling Facilities.
A meeting to take into consideration the
propriety of extending the Iendleton and
tiith-street Railroad was heH at Firemens
Hall, In the Seventeenth Wad last night.
The attendance was large, although the de-
plorsble condition of the steets in that Vi
cinity, where gas is unknown, rendered To-
comotion difficult if not dangerous, during
the night; and il is doubfulwhether ques-
ton Of less importance wouH have induced
half dozen persons to venture beyond the
place where the sidewalks are supposed TO
be.
Milton Glenn, ESQ.,, was called to the
Chair, and J. ]. Hooper appointed Secretary.
Mr.. Thorpe, Superintendent of the road,
said that the Compay proposed to lay down
the track in the Seventeenth Ward, to the
postoffice, and Macadamife the road until
such time as the whole rdate to Pendleton
should be disposed OF; and should it fall into
the hands of other parties, the present owners
to oreceive the actual cost o. laying it down. A
petition to that effect, heSaid, had been cir
culated, and about half tie property-holders
had signed it, and sevtn-eighths could be
obtained. The memorial had now been re-
ferred to a committee n the Council, and
would be reported upo1, He then offered
the following resolutions:
"Resolved, That our representatives in the
City Council arc hereby Instructed to adyo-
cate the extension of the Seventh-street
Railroad to the vicinity of the Postoffice,
provided that the ordinance making said
extension shall vAcate the same at any time
that they be so directed by the City CounciL
and that Council in making a grant of
the route through the Seventeenth Ward to
other parties, shall make it an obligation
that they purchase so much of the track east
ward from Washington-street, at its cash
N0Gf from fba norfioc on i'm fbn
"ReSolUed, That the President and Secre-
tary be instructed to transmit these resolu-
tions to our representatives in Council and
publish copy of the same in the daily
papers"
Mr.. Startzman stated that he had no doubt
that the resolution came from Mr.. Kilgour.
1t was an effort to get possession of the street
without q compensation. Its effect would
be to give the railroad companies q little
stronger hold than they now have.
Mr.. D. H. Morton said that the company
had made loud professions of acting only tor
the benefit Of the people; for his part, he be-
lieved the citizens would get enough of that
corporation. He thought that the idea was
preposterous. Once get a railroad track
down, and the people are sold. There could
be no relief obtained in the Courts. If all
theproperty- holders want the road, as stated,
let It be built at once. But the company had
BOdSlCu ludt bu6J WOulu the
ward, in spite of the devil, or the people-he
did not recollect which. The citizens of the
ward have the advantages of the railroad,
and if they are to have the right of way, let
them pay for it.
Mr.. Starzman thought that if temporary
grant was made, it would become perma-
nent. A similar arrangement had been
entered into with the Little Miami Railroad,
but it would now be impossible to enforce
the contract.
Mr.. Thorpe, as a citizen, and as railroad
man, disclaimed any intention of deceiving.
The company had no wish to deceive, but
would act in good faith.
Mr.. Hooker thought railroads great ad-
vantage, and even q necessity. He wanted
them to extend entirely through the ward,
however, or remain as at present. The ex-
tension would take the best of the travel,
but leave portion of the people out. Ifthe
railroad company would make liberal
offer to extend the track entirely through
the ward, it would receive the assent of at
least three-fourths of the people.
Mr.. Morton said he was opposed to street
railroads all the time, but he believed the
citizens of the ward were favorable to them
The roads had made one fairproposition, and
that was to boWlder and curb the entire
street; but they had backed down from that.
Mr.. Stone opposed the resolution because
IL ulu HOt propose lO eAVeuu bu6 rOdu eullr6ly
through the ward. He then offered the fol-
lowing substitute:
"ReSoloed, That it is the sense of this
meeting that we are willing for the Pendle-
ton and Fifth-street Railroad Company to
lay double track on East Front-street
through the Seventeenth Ward, provided
they grade and bowlder and keep in repair
at least twenty feet of the street, agreeable
to an act of Council establishing the railroad
route, and advertising for bids for parties to
build the same"
Mr.. Thorpe said that there would be no
bids as long as the people demanded certain
specified conditions the Council should be
the judges. The Company was going to have
more railroads; if they could not be had at the
East-end, they would be obtained at theWest-
end; but more railroads they would have.
| No parties, however, would ever bowlder
! the street twenty feet.
Mr.. Hooker said that the condition spoken
| Of simply was q request on the part of the
citizens of the ward to relieve the companies
of many of the burdens of the general Or
dinance, which required the railroad COM
panies to bowlder the streets from side to
side.
Mr.. Welsh moved to amend by requiring
the Company to bowlder the streets from
curb to curb. Lost.
.. The substitute was then adopted with loud
cheers. Adjourned.
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