San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-19
MUNICIPAL MELANCE.
The Council Co in Coy--The
New Route to the Fair Ground
Commerce Street
MIGHT Wnrk Nil.

The city council met in special ses-
sion at $50 p. m. yesterday. His
honor, the mayor, and Aldermen Boel-
hauwe, Bolton, Common, Fest, Lock
wood, Reimann, Rogers, Weber and
Wulff were present.
The mayor stated that pressing bust
ness required the presence of the
council, and that the first matter was
the election of an assistant city mar
shall.
Aldermen Lockwood and Bolton
contended that the vote heretofore
taken in the election of city marshal's
assistant elected Fitzhenry, as he had
received majority of the votes cast
by the council at its last session. The
mayor and Alderman Conner conten-
ed that it required majority vote of
the entire council, and his honor
so ruled. An appeal was taken
from this ruling and the chair
was sustained, Bolton and Lockwood
dissenting from the ruling
Council proceeded to the election of
assistant city marshal, with Connor
and Sartor as tellers.
Andreas Coy, Joe Corr and John
Fitzhenry were put in nomin alton.
On the first ballot Coy received six
votes, Fitzhenry three and Corr one.
On the second ballot Coy received
seven votes and was declared elected.
The Mayor then stated that he had
received petition from Messrs. Pres
nall and Altgelt, for the committee
holding franchise for right of way to
Fair grounds, asking right of way
over Quintana street, Dwyer Avenue
and 80 on to the Fair grounds, instead
of over South Flores street.
The objections to the Flores street
route were stated by the Mayor to lie
in the interruption to business, the
interference with the street car COM
pany and in the difficulty of relaying
the macadamized road. The only
contingency was as to the L. 5. au-
thori ties granting right of way
through Arsenal grounds.
The ordinance governing the fran
chise as read, amended and passed to
its final reading, is as follows:
Be it ordained:
Section l. That Thomas J. Devine,
George c. Altgelt, Henry Z. Vernon
and J. H. Presnall be and are hereby
granted the right to construct and
operate a line of railway, with all the
necessary turnOuts and switches, in
and upon and along the following
streets of the city of San Antonio,
namely: Beginning at the southeast
corner of Main plaza, thence south
along Quinta street to its intersection
with Nueva street and Dwyer avenue;
thence across said Nueva street to
said Dryer avenue thence south
along and upon Dryer avenue and
across all cross streets to the railway
track OF the San Antonio and Arab
sas Pass railway company.
Sec 2. The right of way herein
or; mt ID shall include the right to
construct a standard gauge railway
track, and to operate such railway,
by propelling the passenger coaches
of the same by means of railway loco
motives.
Sec. 5. The said grantees herein
laying of track and the construction
of said line of railway as early as they
deem advisable, and shall have the
same completed on or before the COM
mencement of the fair to be held at
the grounds of the San Antonio Inter-
national Fair association, 1889; but
this franchise is granted upon the ex-
press condition that said railway
track shall only be used for the trans
portation of passengers, land that the
grantees herein shall remove said
track from said streets within fifteen
days after the close of said fair, and
the said streets restored to the same
condition they were in before said
track or tracks were placed in said
streets
Sec. /. The above grant j., made on
the further condition that the gran tees
herein shall convey passengers to and
from the grounds of the San Antonio
International Fair association, and
shall charge for a single trip or fare
to or from said grounds, not exceed
ing the sum of Is cents, and for a
round trip, where ticket is procured
by the passenger in advance, that is
to say, from the fair grounds to the
city at the starting point on the Main
plaza, and return; or from the start
ing point on the Main plaza in the city
to the fair grounds and return, fare
not exceeding - cents: and further
that said grantees shall hold the city
of San Antonio harmless from all suits
or claims tor damages, OccasIoned by
reason of the construction or opera
ton of said railroad; and for the faith
full performance of the obligations
herein stated the grantees shall give
bond in the sum of $1,000, payable to
said city of San Antonio, to be ap-
proved by the mayor, with at least
two good sn ratios conditioned for the
faithful performance Of all the said