The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-31
IT Is PRIVATE PROPERTY.
USELESS EFFORTS BY THE BAYOU
GAYoSo STREET RAILWAY.
Property Lines on Each Side of That
Stream Extend to Its Center, and the
City Has No Right to Give Away or
Sell It-How 1t Jared in the Council.

The APPEAL yesterday announced the
application Of the Bayou Gayoso Street
Railway and Improvement Company for
charter, which was duly filed at the secre-
tary OF States Office, Nashville.
OF course the application was originally
filed in the Shelby County Registers
Office, but somehow all the local papers
got left on the fact, and the news came all
the way from Nashville.
After worshiping as usual yesterday
morning, an APPEAL reporter called at the
police station for the usual Sunday layout
OF sensations. There he found President
Hadden, but the news was a matter for
future development The President was
asked what he thought of the preliminary
move for a street railway company, the
~ eference being to the one last filing an APP
seation for charter.
My, that was before the Council some
, Ago," said he, "and claimed attention
feriod OF perhaps two months. The
kny was granted nothing, the appli-
for right OF way being promptly
in the table,"
~ What was the difficulty"
"The Council has nothing to do with
giving away or selling any rights on or inn
mediately along the bayou. 1t is all pri-
waite property owned by the proprietors Of
abutting property The lines ON the east
side project to the center OF the bayou, fN
the most part. Don't you remember q
case that arose here last spring, in which a
negro lot owner acted upon his ownership
iaA hio lot Ia no Ia,
speaking, his action was all right, but UNI
reasonable damage to his ncighbors
caused the city to interfere for their relief
and make the man remove the obstruc-
TONS Several OF the lot owners along the
bayou have extended their houses half
way over the stream, but on piers, which
do not disturb the flow of water, and
therefore come within bounds This is
also the case with the city stables on Had
den avenue. No, the Bayou Gayoso Street
Railway and Improvement Company can
hope for no rights, as prayed, from the
City Government"
could they not secure the privilege Of
bridging the bayou lengthwisc, so TO speak,
and thus secure a right OF way?"
"How could they, when the bayou for
lis entire length in the corporate limits is
private property? II il is proposed by the
company to buy these rights from the
multitude OF owners, then it will bc in
order for us to consider the proposition in
its new phase. That is II condition not
likely TO present itself. however. at very
carly day; you and will hardly be here
10 witness any such monster enterprise.
Perhaps when Memphis reaches the
metropolitan proportions most surely held
in reserve for her by destiny, the bayou
course will present such an attractive ap-
pearance to street railway capitalists that
they will have II, even ii II comes ever 80
high. But not now, not now"
As the last five words fell from the Prcsi-
~ilsS,'s lips with melancholy curl and fell
dpon tie damp. chilly atmosphere with
!. dull thud. lis coat tails disappeared
through the 2xl2 door OF the station, and
lac was gone-gonc TO start his trusted
Napoleon at a rackiug pace through rain
and mud, while he serencly sat aslridc,
protecting himself by overalls and an
umbrella.