The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-26
BY FORCE OF ARMS
Railroad Builders Driven From
Their Work.
RAILROAD AVE RIGHTS DISPUTED
The orexss I~pr.y~m~~s Company s~m-
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psiss on Railroad avenue- near Lane street
for the Seattle Terminal Railway Ard Eie-
vasor Company. were driven from Their
work as iosB O'Clock yesterday morning
by force Of fifteen men under the leader
ssir of b T. Carr, OF the Oregon Improve
nsnt Company. The invading forces we're
armed with pIkeposes. croxbxrs. esc-. and
the sir men on the pile-driver offered 10
resistance whatever and readily quit work
The Seattle Terminal Hallway and Ele-
vator Company holds franchise 70 oniid
. railroad from south Second and Weller
streets along Weller street 20 Railroad
avenue. and along Railroad avenue south,
southwest and west 20 West Seattle.
Acting under its franchise. the company
let contract to the San Francisco Bridge
Company for the building OF the road. and
operations we're begun yesterday morning.
A psle-driver was taken into the stretch OF
water lying inside Of the wharves Of the
Oregon improvement Company. At the
foot OF Lane and Dearborn streets. yeste--
day morning. and the work OF driving piles
for the railroad on the lire OF Railroad ave-
nue. was commenced. A few poles had
been driven when Mr.. Il. r. Carr. Manager
McNeiil's assistant. appeared upon the
scene. He grasped the situation, aud i'm
nediately decided 10 put stop TO opera
tons.
He went TO the company's mill and Sc
cured fifteen men. Taking with him A.
Branin and Joseph Williams. employees OF
the company. be marched his force down
Railroad avenue TO where the pile driver
was At work. Arriving there he promptly
be- Il 80. u4xt nd ~
move their piie-driver The order as TO
work was obeyed but Manager Cath. of the
San Francisco Bridge Company. refused TO
move the driver. He gave his word that
no more piles should be driven during the
day. Mr.. Carr ordered the driver removed
by 4:3o o'clock. and threatened to remove
ii himself II Superintendent Cath would
not.
Here hostilities ceased, only to be re-
sumed at 4 80 O'Clock. the hour named BY
Mr.. Carr for the removal OF the driver. At
that hour he took force OF twenty Eve
men down TO the driver and forcibly re-
moved II outside Of the south wharf. As
In the first instance, neither the San Fran
cisco Bridge Company nor the Seattle Ter
minal 4 Elevator Company offered any
resistance.
At O'Clock last evening the Oregon I'm
provement Company obtained an iniunc-
ton from Judge Lichtenberg restraining
the Seattle Terminal Railway & Elevator
Company and the San Francisco Bridge
Company from going ahead with the work.
The land upon which the work was done
yesterday morning is on the site of the
yard OF the Oregon Improvement Com
pany's old sawmill The company has
two wharves. one running from the foot OF
Lane street. and the other from the foot of
Dearborn street At Railroad avenue. and
connected At the end and a, deep water by
another wharf. Around these wharves and
the connection Is q nsrrow-gauged tram
way, and running from Railroad avenue 10
the connection at the end of the wharyes
midway between the two Is an elevated
roadway. The driver was taken in through
the south wharf three days ago. and to the
north wharf where II joins Railroad ave-
nue.. yesterday morning. To effect q pas
sage section twenty feet wide was cut out
OF the elevated roadway. The Oregon I'm
provement Company claims the land, and
also land 10 and connecting with the land
on shore directly east
Colonel Thomas Ewing. president of the
Seattle Terminal Railway e. Elevator Com
pany. was seen relative to the matter last
evening by Posr-lsrxLIieKscKa reporter.
He said: Seattle has been wanting wheat
to handle for years, and we have agreed 10
handle II hy August |. We have contracted
this railway 10 the San Francisco Bridge
Company 20 be completed by July 1. so
you see there IL no time TO lose We have
gone so far ~ 10 contract for hundreds of
thousands OF bushels OF wheat. We have n
perfect right TO build this road Wehsye a
franchise TO build II over an avenue made
public by city ordinance, and the iegisla-
tnre OF Washington has confirmed the
right OF cities TO make streets over the tide
lands. There Is just one thing that the
city OF Seattle has 20 do in this matter
and that il TO open Railroad ave-
nue.. or she will soon realize the
pFedicsment that she Is placed in hv no,
doing 80. II there is going 10 be a lawsuit
over every foot of Railroad avenue how
many railroads ar. going onto Railroad
svenueY How many railroads are coming
Ia Seattle If they have TO Law their WAY
into the city, The contracts for the can.
ssrneiion OF our warehouses ana our rail.
road have been let and both will be com.
rletsd ey August at total cost OF $685.
90"
When asked what would be the policy of
the company during the pending dlfflcultv
Colonel Ewing said. I'VE intend 20 hu,la
that railroad along the avenue" Contin.
uing he said: These people place them.
selves IN the position Of obstructiunists IN
every enterprise and have done so since
the fire. The mayor and city council hay.
taken broad view of this matter. and
have done everything to pro-
mote enterprises that will bnila
M Seattle, and every xooa
citizen will say so. This company Is mora
OF public good than ANYTHING else
While do net seek IA deny that the mem.
sers OF the company viii make good
thing out of This. do say. however. that
IN The main |, Sill benefit the peopls of the
city more than il viii u.s. The action az
to-day vt the Oregon improvement Com
ranS u hat the commencement az a policx
Outlined oefoFe the city council
ey Manager III. " Mcneil. However. We
VII leave no stone unsurned 20 carry In
COMPOSITION The great enterprise which we
have started. | wlsi saw In conclusion that
anyone Who opposes Railroad avenue takes
narrow minded position. and ene thai
~'a alsn eS detrimental 10 the best inter
ss's 81 Seattle. Without railroad facilities
Ne CITY car never become great
AE. r. T. Carr. assistant To MANAGER
AcNesa, who mAFshalled the forces of the
ofesoa improvement Company in the
morning encounter, vas seen last syealns
of fosr.lSrzittSkScxR reporter. he
ssia BE Oregon improvement Com
PAW Pun these peorls Of OF Us ground and