The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-10
TWO REPORTS TO BE MADE
A Majority of the Council Committee
Want the hcNeal Ordinance Passed.
Councilman DarnelI Favors the Dudley Com
pany-Colonsl Holloway Says Electricity
Is the Coming Street-Car Motor.

The railway committee Of the Council Was ia
session again yesterday, aud while the members
are uncommunieativs regarding what conclu-
sions were reached, il il understood that no
unanimous action WAS taken. Councilmen Swain
and Cummings viii submit . majority report
recommending that the McNeal company be
granted q charter for an electric road, and Coun-
Gilman Darnell, the chairman OF the com mittes,
will recommend that the amendment to the
Dudley charter. giving the company the right to
build an electric, instead of a cable -oad, be
passed. The two reports will be submitted to
the Council Monday night for consideration.
The Citizens company was again pushing its
work, yesterday, and by the time the Council
acts on ths.reauests Of the Dudley aud McNeal
companies will have mile or moro Of track
completed.
COL W. R. Holloway. of the Dudley Com
pany, says that it is only question Of time
when electric roads will DO in use all over the
country They have been tried in mum Der Of
cities and are rapidly displacing every other
kind of motor force. In Cleveland two lines
are being built at the present time. St Louis
Brooklyn, New York. Richmond, Va, aud q
number of other places have them. lie states that
. speed or twelve and fifteen miles
per hour can be made by this electric motor.
and that ten-horse power force can be secured,
making 1t far superior in speed and strength,
besides Icing more desirable in many other
ways than the horse car 1t has also advantages,
ne says, over cable cars, In that there Is no sus
pension, no breakage, no delay of any kind.
which are so common with al. cable lines. He
predicts that the progress of invention in this
field will be great IN the next few
years-since there 10 great deal of talent at
work on the questions-that there will be no
comparison between the cara thea and those
that the public are now served with. The city,
be thinks, cannot afford to be behind in adopt
ing all modern means of rapid transit-since
this 10 one OF the vital things in. building up
city.
he states that the position of the Dudley COM
pany 10 not clearly by the people of the
city. The delay in the first instance. he says,
was due to parties coming out here. looking over
the field, and then going back and reporting. for
some reason, unfavorably to the city. When
ers they refused to comply with the terms of their
contract. This, of course, made it necessary to
open arrangements with new syndicate, which
was done, but this syndicate aid NOT take hold
OF It Tor certain reasons which, Colonel
nssurs. X third SSsi o Syndicate p''S ~.s
formed at once and without difficulty,
which. after dallying with the matter for some
time, gave evidence Of lack OF faith: whereup-
on Colonel Dudley entered into negotiations with
corporation, which expressed determination TO
take hold Of things at once and push the road
through
During the process of all these negotiations"
the Colonel continued in his talk TO the reporter
"a charter for a cable road secured from
Council. When the contract with the electric
company Was closed we, of course, had to ask
for an amended charter and we did so believing
that upon proper presentation of the matter
there would be no delay or opposition whatever
While We were asking for the amended charter
rails were sent out here by the electric company
by express and work was begun, only to have it
summarily stopped by the Council. Well, we
wanted to do the fair thing and have fair I'M
derstanding with ali the Council, we sus-
pended operations for the time. The result of
this suspension 10 known to the public. Now
you have an exact statement of the situation.
leave the public to decide on this question who
Is in the right and who is in the wrong and
what is to the interest of the city Of Indianap-
oils. The action Of the old company is keeping
out million dollars in capital, and il sustained
by the citizens Of this city, will succeed in in
surine them the present street-car facilities for
some time to come What we want in this place
10 rapid and competitive transit That's what
builds up city. and that is one of the questions
that is sRitatine our suburbs now. l take il
that indianapolis is tired Of street-car monop-
oily. We shall see."