The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-26
YIN A FRANCHISE.
- Northern Pacific Secures
Entrance to the City.
- RAILROAD AVENUE SOUTH.
So C,npaay Given Rights Over the
Avssss from the Southern City
Lfmits 10 West Seattle.

-. eouncil in committee of the whole
urday afternoon. decided upon fran
~ for the Northern Pacific over Rail
~ lvsnue south from the southern city
~ 10 is intersection with Railroad
- north over the western branch of
4. S,cad Avenue around 10 West Seattle
- 1war Railroad Avenue Y connecting
S - branches. The franchise granted
/ = Sivtv-6ye feet IN width and Is alsng the
3sS ma southern lines OF the avenue
- aed,nsuce granting this franchise
edcpsed after . great deal OF Discus
II oInnsd to introduce rough draft Of an
/ 1Isance be had drafted, which the coun-
- nfeht consider as the backbone OF an
Ss1l.ancs. granting a franchise to the
v1hern Pacific Il Puget Sonnd Shore
S1nroed Company to lay down. operate
1 maintain one or more tracks or the
B ss1,..ions OF Railroad avenue. He first
s11 over the proposed ordinance as
-
An some informal discussion the COM
!. ~ proceeded TO the consideration OF
YnllingfOrd said he didn't see how the
6nchiss would help the Northern Pacific
ding 70 the representation OF their
/. ,6aie 81 Counsel Mcknight, who wished
: muassts their passenger and freight
- The present franchise only gave
( - a entrance TO the water front and TO
n. Seattle and not along Railroad ave-
- proper.
& niII Vas In favor Of combining them TO
neuesont franchise Of thirty feet, as that
- ~ he company had recen thy asked
n committee then agreed 20 pass the
finance in . general way and amend sec
s 90 where necessary. afterwards having
e dty attorney prepare it in proper form.
M said he had been sick in bed most
Z - week or he would have tried 70 pre-
NJ 5 n1neeal ordinance for last Tuesday
rkAfb uouk1ng which would give running
i1kts . Ill lines over Railroad avenue
dnflar 10 what was suggested to the conn
~ Manager H. w. Mcneil, Of the Ore
n Improvement Company. He was in
fsor Of general railway franchise ordi-
o1Dcs that would deal with the avenue, the
pood Of trains and the re- possession OF the
svusus when . terminal company was
jwnsd. The counci would not then be in
langer Of giving too much or too little TO
naways Is had been done.
WaIlingiord said there was nothing very
eomplicatsd on the avenue now, and he
~ tired Of oil this talk INDUCED in for q
~ past about policies and general ordi-
nnnces which were never defined. This
natter Was now in the hands of the COM
niitse Of the whole and he hoped it would
y daposed Of.
Neu then asked Counsel Mitchell. of the
northern Pacific. for his idea Of q general
edinance for railways, giving them equal
running rights on Railroad avenue. Mr..
NcNsll had said there were only two things
hdo: One was to grant equal running
Hshts 10 the railways, and the other was TO
I'm terminal company.
NJ. Mitchell said that An ordinance Civ
ing general running rights would be so
general that TO accept such franchise
would b TO get practically nothing. He
nsves understood Manager McNeil's state
nsnt from any standpoint, rs meaning
running rights as outlined by Mr.. Niesz. or
Aat such an arrangement would be accept
stood Mr.. McNeill to say that there was no
escape from = terminal company. and If
innchises we're not granted on that basis.
equal widths on Railroad avenue e should be
given eli the roads.
Assistant Superintendent Nadeau said he
thought Mr.. McNeill's idea had in view the
ryocation Of the exclusive rights granted
zone OF the lines. or q revocation of all the
franchises and the formation OF terminal
company.
White said he wished before the council
I'D anything in this matter to know what
rights the Seattle & Montana would relin-
suish to the city. Judge Burke had kept
ssyine that Vice-Presidsnt Clough would
.oon b here. but he did not come. He
shoueht u would be better 10 let the mat
81 rest till the council knew what the Seat
w Montana would do.
Niesz said he wanted 10 see what MIR.
Tough would do when he came. but pre-
srred delay until his arrival so as not to
pat him on the defensive by publicity.
Inc city wanted to get room for two tracks
snefe and then make general ordinance
~ which the railroads would be put on an
even footing. say on the basis OF running
rights.
HAL said he didn't like the idea OF the
asy being . beggar from q company that
nad been given a franchise
Durie said the Northern Pacific franchise
sas only what the company had asked
u'n one or two reservations. and did not
sassmpt 10 solve the Railroad avenue mat
kf nom the Y north. II, when Mr.. Ciough
zane he would give back some of Railroad
avenue. we'll and good, and more than
FOOD: bat he was not in favor of asking for
u IN that way. Ii would be for the next
council TO settle the Railroad avenue ques-
Won In all probability.
Mess did not wish 10 he considered as an
eostructionist 10 the Northern Pacific. but
u road was already here and the delay he
proposed was only with . view TO putting
me HE on an equal footing Anyway =
flnng sweep would he the proper thing
vnen The council had an opportunity to
Do L.
Attorney Mitchell said the company
Wished TO get TO the steamboats, on the water
nont, and he had reason 10 believe that
'or The next two years The Northern Pa
anc was expected 20 connect
mn and carry What over the
saanbui line 20 the wheat elevators. The
northern Pacific. he said. has terminal
nounds now. coo feet of water front In
eae place, 800 feet in another and large
uontaee In another quarter. The road
sisned To reach the terminals as soon as
possible and divorce itself as much as pos
aos from the Oregon improvement Com.
p.nys and the Joint usage OF tracks, get
sas somewhere where the road would he
.Ns TO do city business with switching.
'csding and passing or burden tracks. II
saen proper and reasonable franchise
me company would begin work within