Daily Republican., 1884-04-07
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Defeated.
For the REPUBLICAN.

tOr Lne hEPUBLICAN.
The Baltimore& Philadelphia hail
road Company have had presented ant
twice read, at the last session of th'
City Council, an ordinance to amend th'
original ordinance passed by the City
Council In October, 1882, giving to saiG
Railroad Company the right Of way, ETC.,
through the western portion Of our city.
The amendment proposed is 80 skillfully
worded that its true intent and mean
ing Is completely covered from the
masses, but by comparing 1t with the
original ordinance 1t will be found that
the said Company was compelled by the
first ordinance to cross Fourteenth and
Scott street at point twelve feet in the
clear from the bed Of said street to the
bottom of the railroad bridges to be con-
structed over the same.
Where the railroad crosses Scott
street it was found TO be feet above es-
tablished grade (of Scott street, and
the X. X. Co. was required to depress
Scott street five feet at the crossing of
the said railroad to make the II feet
clear space between the street and bot
tom of the K. Il. bridge.
Now, said Company Rave the As.
surance, yea, the iDpudence to ask Coun-
Gil to so amend said ordinance as to
allow it to Cross said Fourteenth street
and said Scott street at grade, thereby,
instead OF depressing Scott street at the
railroad crossing, elevate said street at
that point fully Z feet. Scott street is
one of the leading streets Of the city,
and the only one curbed and paved
leading from that rapidly growing and
thickly populated district Of our city,
known as the Forty Acres"
Scott street is a wide, Level street,
and over this (the only paved and
curbed> street from the district above
stated, over one hundred little chill
dren from 6 years of age upward,
travel four times daily to attend No. II
public school, south Of Pennsylvania
avenue, and If this railroad company is
allowed to cross the street at grade with
the multitudinous tracks which will
necessarily be placed over said street,
the: lives of all these children will be
endangered four times daily ON their
way to and from said school. As the
point asked TO be crossed at grade is
within two squares of where the depot
buildings and railroad woskshops are
now about to be erected, it is an unde-
niable fact that the coming into and
going out of passenger and freight
trains, and the switching off and ma
king up OF trains at SO close proximi.
ty to the station will almost constantly
keep cars and locomotives almost con-
stantly crossing Scott street, and not
only make it unsafe for travel, but also
for wagons and carriages. With incom-
ing and going out trains, make up trains
and shifting which must necessarily
take place at a point SO close to the
station as Scott street, the PROPOSE
ton to make the railroad crossing on
such a street at grade is a monstrous
and prepostrous one, and one that should
meet the universal condemnation of all
our citizens, and should, as | have no
doubt it will do when 1t is understoOd)
receive the negative vote of every MEM
ber of the City Council.
I am informed that remonstrances
numerously signed are now in circula-
ton against granting this infamous
outrage to this Company. THIS is a step
in the right direction. Remember
that vigilance Is the price of Liberty"
Send In your rem0nstrances at once in
such magnitude that this infamous
proposition to grant this Company a
license to endanger the lives of hun
dreds of our citizens daily, to save the
Company few Thousands of dol ars ex-
pense, which to get the grant for cross
ing said streets, they originally agreed
to expend. To allow Scott street to be
crossed at grade would not only be de-
structive Of human life, but one OF the
most beautiful and levelest streets in
the Western part of the city would
be ruined thereby, anil property there
in and contiguous thereto, would be
greatly deprecated in value thereby.
Citizens, arouse in your might, and pre-.
vent, this outrage from being consum-
mated, whilst the privilege is still &C.
corded to YOU. SAFETY.