Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-08-27
RIVAL LINES
OF Street Railways Seeking to Lay
Tracks on Madison Street
A Breezy Session
OF the Council Committee The New
Company Ready for Work
Lively War Brewing.

the stone street without, a pin might have
been heard to fall in the stuffy little Of
fee of the Taxing District yesterday after
at 8 o'clock when the Police and Fire
Commissioner met as a committee of the
Council'to discuss the petition of various
residents of jefferson street, asking that
permission be given the Memphis City
Railway Company to lay its tracks on that
t~horoughfsre. President Hadden took the
chair, and Messrs. Lee and Montgomery
were boih present. Within reaching dis
lance of the commissioners sat President
r. Dudley Frsyser of the Memphis City
railway and Manager Thomas Barrett OF
the same company, while the Citizens
Railway Company was represented by
Mr.. George Gilman. Among others no-
ticed in the room were Capt. X. j. black,
Maj. Hugh A. Hamilton, Mr.. John Over
ton, IT,, and Maj. Mes Meriwether and
Judge Walker Of the city government.
The ball was opened by he reading OF
the resolution OF the Council giving the
Committee power 10 contract with any
person or persons who might ask permits
sion OF the city to lay tracks on Jefferson
AMI Madison streets.
"The Memphis City railway" said Mr..
Frayser, lis ready to go 10 work tomorrow
morning laying tracks on Madison and
Jefferson streets, and is willing to do it
under the direction of the city engineer,
laying the tracks with johnson steel rails,
which will not interfere with the wheels
of carriages. We would like Tor the engi-
neer to give in he grades at once"
"Have you a written proposition to sub
nit to the board" asked Col. Montgom-
cry. =,
"No," replied Mr.. Frayser, "but / will
write one if it is necessary"
He thereupon wrote out the following,
and, with a jaunty, here-we a~re-aSain air,
handed it over the table. 1t ran as fol-
lows:
To the Honorable Legislative Council:
The Memphis CITY Railroad Company
respectfully request that you will act upon
the petition of the citizens requesting this
company to lay street railroad tracks on
Madison and Jefferson streets. This com
pany is ready to lay tracks and will com
ply with all regulations and ordinances
that the law authorizes you to make, and
contract with the late city of Memphis re-
| quire it to submit to. Respectfully,
r. DUDLEY FRAYSER, President.
snow, that don't provide for a line out
Marshall avenue" remarked President
MADDEN, who adjusted his spectacles and
read over a memorandum of a route out
to the City Hospital.
"We are not discussing the City Hoe-
pital," said Mr.. Frayser, but we want the
committee to act On the petition OF the
citizens OF Jefferson street. Nobody has
petitioned for a route out there, and when
they petition it will be time enough"
81 can get you 250) Names" Mr.. Had
| den said.
"Well, when you get them and we GET
the money we will lay the track"
at is too late now, but We will reach
the hospital by next spring" said Mr..
Barrett.
"But there is another company which
wants to put it down right away" said
Mr.. Hadden.
"We nave nothing to do with any othel
company" remarked Mr.. Frayser.
"But we have" retoited Mr.. Hadden.
snow, look here" calculated Mr.. Fray.
ser "we didn't come here to listen to AM
jokes. Wei mean business, and we wan
to know what this committee is going t.
do with that petition"
President Hadden read the Paper sub
mitted by Mr. Frayser and tossed it bacl
over the table with the remark that it Wa!
the same old story. 'If the tracks are t.
be laid on those streete,' he said, "a grea
del of work must be done, and the city i
not able to do it. The whole corner @
Madison street must come off to the gut
ters and the pavement must be relaid
The gravel pavement OF Jefferson stree
won't do, and if tracks are put there j
must be replaced with block stone. II no
it will wash away"
Col. Montgomery wanted to see the pro
p~rietors of the other street railway com
panies and said he would b. in favor o
giving the right OF way to the company
which offered the most for the public
Every row and then giance5 were shot q
Mr.. q l,ham, who maintained q rigi
silence.
Finally Mr.. Gillian advanced and res,
the following:
To tie Honorable Legislative Council, Taxin
District, Shelby County:
Gentlsmen-The Citizens SUreet Rail
road Company, chartered and organize
rs p corporation under the laws of thi
State, with a capital stock OF $3.50, eco, dul
subscribed, byssuppiemental petition woult
show That said company desires to con
stfuCt, run and maintain, in sccordanc
with the terms and conditions of thei
chatter, a system Of street railroads, O,
certain of the streets and alleys of sal
District. Their purpose is 10 construc
said roads so as to be no impeachment f.
ordinary travel en- said streets, or as neal
ly SO as is practicable. They submit tbs
my fiOPocO W DuilQ III
same, viii prove . g.ea6 convenience +
tie public. They file herewith a COPY q
their charter, list of their stockho der,
and certain schedules showing the loca
iiJn OF the propose d lines, and the mamie
in which it is intended to locate the same
They desire to work at once
and complete the construction of the sam,
es soon as practicable. They, therefore
respectfully ask that your honorable bod,
will give you consent to the proposed 10
cation Of their said lines, and cause III
proper officer OF your sovernment to Civ
them t e g grades OF the Streets. etc.
BY order OF the Board of Directors an,
President.
August ., 1885.
Appended YVES the following list o
nsmes, evidently not signatures, marke,
stock subscribed:
noISSou htl "-....' S0O,U
!. 300
SuoN Hen 6O,UU
Te0' hTnnlu "
y. y. Meeiy -v,U
sam tate J.---.".--"- .-............. 500
c. f. DeGaris.... ........ 200
a. a. A. 2l,0
-auId 100
--an Arn.1I and Sam Tafa ~ IN "A