, 1875-08-01
WABASH AVENUE.
Answer of the South Side Street
Railway Company.
GeStimeaials to the Excellence of the
Wrbash Avenue Track.
ID Appears Twelve Thousand Persons
Are Daily Carried Over It,

Ire Daily Carried Over It.
Reaaons Why Il Should Not Be Interfsret
With.
fon tbs 10Th Of July last, TIE TRIBUNE pub
;, shed copy Of bill fled on that day by ". u
Tldcn and halt. a-dozeu others asainst ths Ch1
czxo City Railway Company. That bill IN sub
stanoe chkrged that tho City Railway Compan,
: had unjustly and illegally laid track on Wabash
3veuue that said track wae nulsance. ana %
r&xucted travel on The street. and she' complain
ante asked that the hallway Company might bt
eufoined from further uslnR eaid track
THE Answer
Of the Company vss fled yesterday afternoon
aud il Is follows:
T1s defendant now, md At al t!mea hereafter a..
ing md rs.e.ng nntS % sssn al '1S 2dea h en- or
be had or taken to The many errots, nnoe1tAu
IT, .oa ipPeaesc9s sns9s, tbs1epnto ta' or to
10 uaueh eod such rar+z thereof ~ thia defendant
b .drised it u or material or necessary to5 MN 10
make answer unto anawfrng ~ pat nn e..
bsxh avenue, in the City od Chicago ana eia@oos sao
.tax-MJers in said dy- -. A.. ,.a,
defendant also AufuaU tn6 passage u AA1 0At@
n,nce OF the CITY Of Chicago substantially as ee: out
IN said b Of complaint and that 1t ~as duly sceepted
bJ thl1 defendant
atructou Of faiiwxy track aid avenue from HAD.
tson street to Congress street, aud that the residue Of
said avenue from Congress street to Txensy,
street has os set heen rorared bnt denies that the
Crude Of sid avenuo for TIE requirement. thereof has
not yet been Axed and established. .
Further an9wering, this defendant adnits thxt it
eansAd s fr1cs to be ia1d Hail avenue On Sunday
but ts defendant den:es that !, for the purpose
of avoiding interference Herewith by jnd.cA proc
~ but .veF' .lh ,h's r,n3 IL "p'ee' poasihs
70 public ttaTel th1t in constructing said railway
larRs 1nx&ses Of material we're necessarily thrown M
this dsiendant therefore selected day for sad COD
s:ruction when said aseuue waa frec from vehicles,
vail knowing SHAT by statute and judicial d3cislon
rrocexs Of Injunction ooula we'll be sued out On
This defendant furthe: answering, denies Tat its
tack Is hid that vehicles cannot essiy and freely
the same, that Its track are elevated above
the surface Of xsid avr1ue.
This defendant further answering den3ea that 1t has
tnserfered Win the fzra nso Of said asenne or the
enjoyment Of prirats property thezeon and further
denies that tie copiaiuanh arc entitled TO the relief
uz any part thereof in the said tih Of COZ palnt
demanded, and rrsxs ths Sane Advantage OF this
enswer - fis hid pexded d-mnrred the sid till
Of ro.npdnt; md rrzys to ne hence ds1nisse With
the reasonable costs md charges In this behan most
'@TongfuAy Eust8aosd.
FITTED with tho answer *ware III at1idavit4 OF
,ownerso or iessees along the avenue ,and also the
affidavit Of Mayor Colvin. OF c. B. Holmes, this
Superintendent OF the railway company, Of G.
". Wilson, ,6uperlnt@ ndent of the Board OF
Public Works, aud Of .Me<6rs. Prindlvillo,
THOMPSON, and Wahl, comprising the Board.
Tie afn1ay1ts ct the Owners and lesseas srn
mostly printed with blanks left for .tle l,ames.
Tie following as = copy OF one OF than, omlttine
the formal L2rt:
sn. coo1BAroH.
William r. CooihhH Icing 0uJv EWoru AeuABe4
and asys that he redes in the City Of Chicago No.
12J c.ltunes aveuae, and il owner Of httJ-!esr.'
Madison street, betxeen ssxte srd Wabash that lie
haa examined the track Of the ChcsCo City Railway
Comranyas laid on Wahash ayenus from Congress
street to TEeoty street That tie IL laid
as nearly - possible mon the existing -ado; that it
.msy he e&ai1y and freely .c7oased in al direa-
aaa saa .rs1e, n 10 ah,n 'effs Fl
trAcla nace1sariy are. And said avenue Along tbs
hne of sad rztway In q good condition ~ before
sadd trsct hzs tean Of great lenshs to the properly
a1ong whi4h It Fa1ns.
CHARLES B. 'Ho1MB
superintendent Of tie Chicago City Railway,
also hed an xfda vt setting forth tifat the Com
pany has in operation On Wabash avenue sixteen
ten cars composing It's ent.re Cottage G1oge
avenue to Tweuty-ffth street line;
thirteen ears composing its entire limo
On Cottage Grove aseaue to Thirty~fifth
erteet-iu ali thirty-nine cars that car leaving
Madison elreet on Wabash a7enEe about every
xwo minutes; that N average Of II, 600 ra:sen-
gers are carried over said line per dar that the
ordinance under Which said railway has been
constructed Was petitoned for by mure than
&hrse~fonrtbs OF the property owners alorg sh@
lne OF said aEenue; that the construction there
Of has INCREASED the value Of SAID property and
prsmoted tire public convenience. The afiaut
FURTHER says that he has been in
formed and believes it to be true