, 1875-08-08
CAPTURING A MEETING
Tho Advocates Of q New Ra,,u.-
Project Discounted.
The Indiana Street People Want II,
West Side Company.


! 80 1'o WI oeI ~ HeatetA avenue aud Ohio stra.t
last night. but was rasber disappointed with H..
result They expected to got together li,t1.
crowd and hare their project indorse1 20 tn.
their men in the Council would have sometb,n.
to talk about, but the citizens Of the Fou.te.,,h
| War1 favor the West Side Railway, and. tskfns
hold OF the meeting, turned it jus. thu o.h..
way from what its callers had Intended,
The meeting vas called to order by W;11i,,.
| Williams. T. z. Cowles WAS elected Chxtrm,,
| and II. Barry Secretary. Mr. Cowles made .o,s,.
remarks. stating the object OF the meeting IA
skech1ug the progress OF the movement for .
| street railway on Indiana street.
Mr, Massey said that there was hardly I d,.
sen ing voice in the Fourteenth Ward for MI
roa.l along Indiana street. The question W,
what company should have it. He favored Ia
West Side road.
am. cos1D1NE
did not believe the new corporation would b,x.
the street between Horne avenue and Western
avenue as they promised. Anybody who believed
them would be badly fooled. Tho new COMPANY
WAS not company to bo trusted, and should b.
exposed. It WAS humbug gotten up to 1oata
money orlt Of the West Side Company.
nR. WILLIAM WILLIAMS,
who was the President Of the Tanmany Han
He said lie had Lived in tnat neighborhood for
tou Fteep vears, and had always uorkod
for improvements. The section hI
BEEN greatly neglected Seveu-eighths Of
thu property -holdcFs had expressed
Il ernselyes in favor OF tho West Side COMPANY
Aying the track. He moved that it be declared
The sense of the meeting that the West Side
Railroad Company should receive the franchise.
MI. KENNY
said that those in the west end OF the ward waes
yr,$o tad ~
they had now no line down to the city. Ths
West Side Company only proposed to 70 70
Hoyne street and to Western avenue in
year. The point was for the people to ses
that the cars should run to Western aveuua
at once. and he moved that the Council be peti-
toned to make that u requirement in granting
the franchise. The street cara might not run 70
Western avenue for two years it the franchise
we're granted without such requirement.. Theso
were between two aud three thousand peopse
who had now no means OF communication and
would not have until the line Was completed 70
Western avenue.
Mr. kassoll said that he did not care which,
company Ibid the track so that the people go7
the desired accommodation It did not seem
reasonable to him to think tho old company
could do more for them than any new line 1
new hue might be started which could get capi-
sal enough to reach Western avenue. What WA
wanted was = complete line, and II the West
Side road was going only to Hoyne st1oet il
NQQlu U0t u1 Qlb Gnu OF kl6 H6EQ mHCn good
He criticised the proposed route from indians
street to Halsted and Halated to Randolph, and
thought q better route to the South Side coud
be laid out
Mr. Kenny said that tho new company wss Z
myth- [Applause-1 The people wanted accom-
modations, and the West Side Company could
give them, and they ehould direct their e1ortd
towards inducing that Company to lay iis line 70
Western avenue [ApplausaI
MH- POLICY
said he was one OF tho ''mytha." TAughter,1
He was interested in having road on the street.
although he did not live on the street. He WAS
not surprised that tho pcople wero sentative IN
this subject, ~ they had been struggling
to get accommodations from the West Side Com
pany for years. That Company bad mover moved
until the new Company sent in its petition to tho
Council about eight months ago. The building
OF q road. it done III the interests OF the people,
would double the value OF their property. But
it was necessary that the road should b con-
Quoted IN their interests. The road should run
it's cars frequently, and It would be well thai
such competition should be kept up al would
keep down fares. It WAS not true that the only
route was by way OF Halsted street to Randolph.
There was route down Union street to Lake
that could be used AS for those behind ths
new Company being "myths, what could they
say Of Samuel Hale, man who could buy out
the West Side road and paw cash Tor it2 ZAP
plause. The seven men who had come together
to try to build railroad had done 80 because
they believed there WAS money IN It, The orti-
nance required the now Company to Lay tss
tricks 10 sixty days.
Mr.. DemoLay interrupted the speaker. aud
said that it Was sixty days nfter tha completion
Of the Milwaukee avenue vlaluct, which might
be 3ears-
The speaker eaid that before ths complericn
Of the Milwaukee vlsd1ct the road would be run
down Union to Lake. They could mako thai
requirement in the ordinance. He continued to
urge the value Of the competition that would be
secured II new company got the franchise Il
there wete competing lines on the West Adn.
the roads would be running u Central Park. II
the old Company got the franchise, how could
they regulate or control The monopoly He
urged the meeting to consider carefully the mat
ter. They could not doubt tho financial ability
Of Samuel Hale and Quinlan-
said that the preceding speaker was not resi-
dens OF the ward, and acted like - paid attorney
in tho room. He seemed to be speaking fos
money, go much an hour. [aear, Hear.] It
''as s,on fine nhn thing ,+to.+ to tt r.. about .,
man was not addressing 4 jary, but
= gathering Of senaiblc citizens. Ills special
pleading would not answer. They did not want
q line on Union street, to croas thoae tricks
there. And as for the Mil"aukee avenue -"
docs, that would not be done for years. Mt.
Policy had said that m appropriation hsd bean
made for the Milwaukee avenue viaduct Tho
decision against the city In the tax cases wonld
require all public Improvements to be Suspended
until the taxes Of rs wero collected He pointed
ont that it would be impossible TO lay the track
to Western avenue until the street waa seHoted
Mr.. Policy endeavored to get tbs floor In rspts
but his voice Was drowned By c1laa for Barry.
MI HARRY
said the ordinance OF the new Company PRO
vided that their line went over tue Metropolitan
Road There WAS no metropolitan Company.
It Was 3 fraud. And then again The osdiuanca