, 1881-10-16
ADAMS STREET.
Property.owners: Protpst Against
: = a Street Railway 5-s:
;: There. ".~ J.
The West Side Company Severe
= ly Denounced by the q"
H. Speakers. =
r.:
Adoption of a Remonstrancs Against Civ
ing It the Street. i: =.

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{ A vrry large meeting OF property-owncrs and
!. residents on East and West Albums streets was
hpld lust evening In Lower Marines Hall on
!: Ada street. Among thuse present we're Peter
scpur,ler, Ch7istiaa Hotz, T. S Tutnili Willurt1
=, Tovdard, ano Gcorgc Sherwood. Mr.. Christian
: Ho,z vas chuscn to preside :
Mr. II. F. Donohue presented refuuustranco
acai,.st street railroad ON Adams street be-
1yecn Michigan avenue and Hais:ed street.
signed by large number of prope1ry-owuer5
and residents un tho street.
Mr. R. j. Smith moved that q committee of
" fire be appointed to rzfpare remonstrance and
resolutions To be presented to tho N .etinx The
f,l!owiug committee was ct,osen: T. j. Smith.
George Sherwood. BIT: Carpenter, P. Schuttler,
F. Dpnoaue.
While the committee vas out, i
Mr. DOW
said that be did not beiiere In allowing street
railroads to run everywhere over the CITY He
favored them. but was opposed to granting
1nem any more rights They had a11 eady enough.
=: Mr. George Sherwood did NOT believe in grant
ing any cx'tnpany Us much AS had already been
granted To tho West Division Railway COMPANY.
They ail remembered how TINT company tried to
raise the fare to seven cents twelve years ago.
1t had taken everything 1t had, and had paid
nothing for it. l. laid its gridirons al over the
West Side and then put the public On them and
held then. there to sizzle- 1t was resisting and
fighting the license ordinance at every point
Il proposed to ger all it could, and pay nothing
for il. This was a great monopoly: which al
ready had all the rights it was entitled to. lie
could not see why the company wanted TO como
rp 1u naisled street on Albums If 1t did not want
10 c,1ue fArrn.r.
.tr Frauk H. Collier said that they had al
:dv had enough uf the west DIVISION RalI-
> - IT 1nfertcrcd corruQtly iu every election.
N."'anc:date eo.1fri tc p#ap On the West Side
MIN Inar he was NOT ,nittEat Il; the West Side
NufIrtud interest The COMPANY oyerran the
eita II ~ snrn t palaTtes, ~ re oIten a.,
ranss oy lrcu unler the lead OF The barn buses
H. branded this last effort Of the company
TIE e..s-A.Est ooitsA'E ~ -A11ks!fhn
!" ss @ads ha os
nearly all tne bF'dtcs. ..-.:-...---.
- narasr ssphs ~ @ e OF ene
w.. 20 fasnn.ss ~ s..,n< az .-os f tta.n
e~ar 1or rI,e usr ~ st1,cnt ra,i,vsrs a.. snnte
81 I;,. ntscnssi,v nr hav,r tirstsciass doiI,le.
whfa hr.irc snd ytad,,cT ~ iacEs1n srre.r
WHEN sn"ni1 b.. ,niI1 1t,is coming year' to sc
ronm,.la1e fne nat,nte ~ ho t.rnf - 81 fhe ;fr
an esnecI,iI.r If 1re Nin1h snd Eieyenrh
W"n1s NJ ~ ->A '411 e-1'A
r. E,s, .boueA, ,ba+ r,ara ,ras ,ror,s,on
in 1te s1a1u1es Which T.,rcvcr held Tree Mnnrae
/. Adam: and .jncEsnn s1n.e,s frnrn s1reet rail.
s 7 WasT mIS .no nes
eh'.s ~, .',I 80 !ih;s co a ~
,ts ,o,d' ',ns ;1nn,s. rhen ,ha nY,ensf"n wa
sr,n,.sS 49,; r. ,rns ~ t,nn,r1ant waffer ,rh;ch
E1an.ec, su MI ! S VIZ ! au 'hatee1 WHICH,
H. n,..x 80. tt1 no o,n,o1,1- straa7r hod
<a.. 49, M s.s, sa LIN N, ~ - ~ srnIra;y - 80 a. 1a,ta
terr T. ensm, au ~ =. ,,., - IL a f,na
u ct'u1o aav ~ puo..s. A. - - o.eu -
~, f.ss =, - ta.ad n ar - coperafi,on
W " h s,, I'D ~ "a ~ ~ 1on,ts,;t ~
tha,. = Ira - r,o1 1 ,nnix.;arsi -rh+e q"
Nr. Wstlurd Woodurd spoke of the manner in
which, passengers we're transpnrted from the
SOUTH 10 the es1 Sloe- Oumb orutes Wonlo
not he allowed to be transported in this way