The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-29
Inquiry Replies to Citizens
Lament in the Tribune.
DEFENSE OF THE HORSE CAB co
Several Examples Cited tn Show the
Liberal Tendencies or the Old
Street Car Company.
To the Editor of the HERALD:

ohoOiuons Auo W hSat0 ask perEIsSlOE
TO tresp iss upon your columns in reply
TO furious article appearing in yester.
days Tribune over the cognomen O
Citizen" IN relation to the Street Rail
road Company Of this city.
The principal writer of that article i.
evidently lawyer, hired to do hi.
masters work.
He begins thus, "Tbe Warfare being
waged between the citizens and City
Railway Company" etc. This L sub
NIT is s damaging way of charactsrizir e
the efforts of Messrs. Remiogtou and
Murphy to make a little money by
trying to get charter for street rail
road. l see no warfare anywhere
around. Hiring lawyer is not warfare
not yet; neither is getting up a petition.
l SEQ onlyan effort being made to rob
the old company of some of its old
rights, but as thev have not hired a
lawyer. the warfare has not commenced.
lie next complains that communi-
cations have actually appeared in the
daily papers upon the subject, sug-
gestsd. If lot prepared, by STOCKHOLDERS
in the company We'll, thar Is not
crime III this free laud, ard could not
surely suggest that some Of the CITY
representatives (meaning the Mayor in
particularly needed 10 be "m0b5ed L0rg
ago" What will not some people write,
aye or do for money? Some rash fel.
low must nave been aiding the lawyer
here.
But let me tell the writer thai moth
Ing OF the kind IVES suggested or writ
ten, so far as | know, by any one inter
ested IN the company.
Citizen" then states "heayy losses
are entailed upon our citizens by the
lordly Indifference of our representa-
tlves in the CITY COuD Gil" This means
that our boom is past and nobody east
or west can any longer be made TO be-
lleve that the soil around Salt Sake City
Is worth three Thousand dollsrs an
ounce, and the money that could have
been obtained for the desired franchise,
II 1t had been granted some months
ago, will not now be forthcoming TO the
same amount, if at all, and the parties
are beginning to despair. The chance
Is being lost day by day! Will nobody
mob the Mayorl! Will nobody do it'll!
That lat home and away fro IL home
our council is la ughing stock" claw
yer, that Is doing your client no good. }
1t ID not true, bat they might possibly
deserve this cognomen, if they were
vile enough to help the new parties rob
the old company of any at ali Of Their
rights, after they have carried the raul
roa through the many years past, when !
few, very few nickels were in the pock- |
cts of the people, and only few had |
money enough 10 pay car fare. Now,
when 1t is beginning to pay little, l |
would respectfully suggest let the old |
company have chance. That is onlg |
right and fatc, aob or no mob.
The next words are "trees are diving
in every part of the city for want Of |
water. and no more heed is paid to the
wishes OF the people in this matter than
In the matter of street car accommods-
ton. =" Now | suggest to the Lawyer in
this case that his employer might OBJ
lecs to paying anything for carrying
the water question into the warfare"
Besides the w ritter is wrong, altogether.
The City Council is and has bean
greatly exercised over this matter and
like good generals don't propose to tell
citizens when they want to secure any,
thing for the benefit Of the people, be-
cause small boom sets jn and it be-
ZONES impossible TO accomplish the de-
sired purpose.
II is now we'll known, however. that
the city has secured recently consid-
arabie supply of water from Parley's
canyon, which can be led TO the high
ands. 1t take long time to negotiate
With neighboTho0d of farmers, and !
1ont think the Lawyer, or any lawyer
Gould have done 1t at all, not even With
he help of CClone! Murray. Thus 1t is
'een how false, how unLruthfuI, how
malicious are the assertions of tbs
Eriter who thus defilss the name OF
,itizen.
Then follows. 81 happened to arrive
rom Lake Park on Pioneer Day at 10
clock p. M, with hundreds of ladies
md gentlemen, and the car company
lid not have respect enough for their
ceilings to send single street car to
'he depot, that as a consequence, hun
ireds OF people weregobliged to walk"
tic.
| leaned on inquiry that this aggre-
Tatins circumstance occurred this way
The cars we're sent, Tor started, as usual
% meet the incoming of that train,
put it (the train) was forty min
ltes late, and il the cars stayed
1t the depot TO await that train they
would miss toe train arriving from
Garfield, which was shortly due, They
we're then dispatched to meet the West
srn, but 1t was also few minutes late.
.nd alter taking those excursinnists up
own tbs cars returned with all haste,
lnly To meet the eXcurSionisCs from
Salt Lake Ell route home, block or two
his side of the depot NOBODY, now
ever, biames he big railroads, the little
log has TO take the kicks. Any of us
lare kick a little dog. We are brave.
yerg brave.
No car company that I have ever
cen has transportation at all times for
III excursionists-they furnish what
hey nave, but never have enough in
he big cities for more than part wh,u
al sc EXCURSIONS occur. !
The fret that the company are re- ,
Iu'red by their franchise, as Citizsn
quotes, Ito place cars on said railroad, !
which shali be run thereon each and $
very day, both ways, as often as public
may require" seems to re- :
er to the natural. everyday travel i
# the residents and business people
'eipg in the city. This is the reason ,
bic view which the law would take, but :
hey would probably be expected tn do