The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-03-29
RAILROAD MIDDLE.
4 Conference to be Held Next
Wednesday Evening.
WHAT THE UNION PACIFIC ASKS.


The council last night referred the petit
ton OF the Union Pacific for franchise
over Railroad avenue % the COMMITTEES of
the whole. which viii hold . meeting in
the council chamber next Wednesday
evening 10 decide il IL - the purpose OF
the council 70 make this meeting . confer
ence of the management OF
the railroad companies now hold
ing franchises over Railroad avenue
and those desiring franchises. concerning
the solution Of the present middle. This
meeting was arranged upon the statement
Of one Of the members of the council that
the management of eli the interested roads
could be present 1t the time agreed upon
After adjournment Of the council. last
night. Mr.. Zera Snow, general attorney for
the Union Pacific Company. was seen by
. Posr-IxrELLIcExcKRrpp reporter in hisroom
at the Russell house Il had understood.
said he, that the matter of Railroad
avenue franchises was to be referred for
future consideration. 1t was stated in the
council meeting that Wednesday would be
satisfactory TO all; bat l wish to say
that our company had not been consulted,
and | cannot say that we are entirely sat-
isfied with the arrangement II may be
that our management can be here Wednes-
day evening, and is may be that it can
not"
rs there any truth in the reported
statement that the Union Pacific has
entered into . trackagc arrangement with
the Northern Pscihcg"
II read in an evening paper what pur-
ports to be an interview with Assistant
superintendent NadeAu. of the North
ern Pacific, in which he SAYS
il Is Eot the intention of the Union Pacific
to build here this year or next
replied Mr.. Snow. and that
statement. coupled with previous
reported press interviews with others con-
nected with the Union Racine road indi-
cate that the Northern Pacific expresses
an idea that trackage arrangements have
been made, or are probable, with the
Union Pacific. The tendency of these
reported interviews indicates that the
Northern Pacific is impugning the motive
OF the Union Pacific in seeking this en-
trance into Seattle.
Heretofore, when | have been asked
whether or not such trackagc arrangements
have been made. have uniformly an
swered that had no information OF any
such arrangements, and that il they had been
made could not see why was sent here
TO ask Of the city OF Seattle the franchise
we are seeking
when | have been asked about the
probable commencement of work toward
Seattle, / have heretofore replied that
could not state just when that work would
begin, but that IL was absurd to suppose
that = railroad company operating 5000
miles OF road, with no outlet TO Puget
sound. and within lbs miles thereof, would
expend $4,000 in locating . survey and
then stop.
II want to say now that have tele-
graphic advices from the management that
no traffic arrangements have been made
with the Northern Pacific, and that the
Union Pacific are making preparations to
build.
Many of the reported statements OF the
intentions and plans Of the Union Pacific
have come from sources hostile 10 the en-
trance OF the Union Pacific into Seattle,
and ordinarily from Seattles experience
with the sources from which these re
ported statements come, ought not
to call from US much explanation or
denial. Their repeated publication. how
ever, justifies my securing the Geographic
information, the substance of which have