, 1880-07-18
STREET RAILWAYS.
Efforts to Get a Track Laid on
West Lake Street,,
Two New Companies Seeking Or
dinanccs from the Council.
The Extensive Territory Which They
Propose to Cover.

Depot to Union Park met yesterday MORN
ing at II o'clock in the Office OF E. II. Haines,
No. ~ Fifth avenue. There were present n.
s. Peck, Thomas Cnrbine, L. 6. Fairbanks,
Frank Crumbs, and Z. II. Haines. Previous
to the meeting of the Committee Mr.. D. L.
Uou8h, President Of the Metropolitan Street
Hallway, was present and made statement
In regard to the status Of the corporation
which he represented. He claimed to have
4 petition representing a majority OF the
frontage from the Union Depot to Union
Park plsce; that they had already made the
necessary publication, and on the evening
Of the seth inst they would apply to the City
Council for an ordinance to lay track on
Cannl and Lake streets, running to Four
teenth on Canal. He claimed that his conf
pany was acting in good faith, and that the
city had tied its hands, and that the West Di-
vision Railway could not allege black1nai1
against this enterprise. There was discus
sion Of desultory character between the
Committee and Mr. Hough, which ended in
nothing.
Upon the retirement of Mr.. Hough the
Committee got together again, and Mr..
Haines presented =. =.
THE DRAFT OF AN ORDINANCE
which provides s.that, in consideration of
the acceptance and the undertaking OF the
WfS pvsioa Ra!way c0mRany to xs s9mpy y
lay double~track street railway, with nee,
essary sidetracks, curves. turnouts, and
switches, from its tracks now in use on West
Lake street to point 15o feet west of Michl-
from the present truck at the intersection OF
Clinton to Lake street to connection with
the West Lake street tracks. The ordinance
further grants the usual privileges, and re-
quires the construction Of the road within
ancs @ Of its terms By the Railway Company:
The above will be embodied in the report
to be presented to the general meeting OF
propcrty-holders, which will be called to
meet to o-1norrow afternoon at oclocR a synarp ynp
in the Office Of Mr.. Carbine, No. 32o west
Lake streot.
It will be remembered that
TIE METROPOLITAN STREET RAILWAY COM
PANY,
OF which Mr.. D. L. Hough IS now President,
got from the Council an ordinance allowing
it to lay down street-railway track on lake
teepth, and thence west to the city limits:
This Company purchased its iron, and started
on Lake and Canal streets. It was
prevented. So far as the former was con-
lay its tracks on Canal street, it mel, with
legal difficulty which took some time to
overcome. The West Division Street Rail
way once had permission to lay its tracks on
that horoughfate; but abandoned it many
use other Streets it being stipulated that the
right of way on the street it abandoned
shoukt not be granted to any other
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spseiXusoh psaiX mat in I capa ho street whis hhiees Would
have to be condemned by the Metropolitan
before it could lay its tracks there: SUCH
condemnation proceeding, , were had, ana
nominal sum. In the meantime, however,
tho claim was set up that the ordinance
granted by the Council was invalid because
certain fornlalities had not been complied
matter WAS appealed to the Supreme Court,
where it now rests. Now, however, the
Metropolitan is seeking to
OBTAIN A NEW ORDINANCE
from the Council, covering not merely the
territory embraced in the previous one: hut
also Lake street from Canal to Union Park
tic property-owners along the line lave sig
nitod their approval, and that the matter will
be laid before the Council week from Mon
day night. What action that body will take
on 1t is unknown: # it should pass the
however, tAst the Mayor may veto it Oh the
same ground that he did the second
ordinance admitting the Chicago & Western
Indiana He vetoed that tor the reason.
among others, that the Company had alp-
cision OF the Appellate Court. declaring the
first ordinance invalid, and that II the
Council should pass the second ordinance,
ausd the Supreme Court should declare the
first valid, the railroad company would have
two ordinances covering, to q certain extent,
the same ground, under either OF which it
might work.
The West Side Street Railway Company
obtained from the Council Il couple Of years
e lay down their tracks on Lake street from
Union Park place to the Union Depot, but it
was vetoed by Mayor Heath, on the ground
that the previous consent Of the reQuisit
number Of ,property-owners had not been
male BY tbs West Side Company to obtain
tho franchise.
There will also come up before the Council
4 week from Monday the petition
OF TIE PEOPLES HORSE d DualMT RAIL-
ROAD COMPANY,
Of which Mr.. E. G. Asay Is President for
lowing streets: Union Park place, between
Lake street ami Fulton street; Fulton street,
between Union Park place and Maple
wood avenues; Harrison street, be-
tvs twsen @ Frsnkln aetoontH StTset md camR- etsaa9
between Canal street and Ashland avenue;
franklin street, between Lake street and
Harrison street; Centre avenue, between
Harrison street and Fourteenth street;
Tiroop street, between Fourteenth street
and the Chicago River; Michigan avenue,
between the north side OF Lake street and
the south side Of Adams street; Adams
street, between the east side Of Michigan
avenue and the west side Of Canal street;
and Jackson street, between the cast siue Of
Canal street and Campbell avenue
While this petition covers, to certain ex- /
tent the same territory as does that Of the
metropolitan Company, yet it is understood
that there Is no conflict between the two cor
porations. and that the Peoples will not
make any effort to secure right-of-Way
along Lake, Fourteenth, or Canal streets,
but that the two companies
WILL WORK nARMoS1oUsLY TOGETHER;
that the Peoples Company, crossing the
South Branch ut Harrison street, will run
lip Franklin to Lake, and there unite with
the Metropolitan, making its other connection
with it by the Adams street line, which will
run up Michigan avenue to the Exposition
Building, and thence north on MICHIGAN ave-
nue. to Lake street. The Peoples Company
will, even if it gets its ordinance, be delayed
in its operations by having to go through, the
sa1,1e condemnation process in the courts
that the Metropolitan did year or more ago.
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