The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-04
The Street Car MIDDLE.

Ogden is all ablaze with excitement over
the street car question.
As stated in Sundays HERALD the Hen
derson -Garretson Brinker electric railway
company have begun to tear up the earth
Tor their lines along size that of the old
company. Sunday night a change in the
situation came about. Shortly after eight
O'Clock the Ogden City company sent a con
struction train down, Washington avenue. to
the intersection of Twenty-fi fifth street load
ed with men and material and began to Law
cross tracks on the ground broken up by
the henderson company. 1t being Sunday
evening the police ordered the meu to stop
work, which they did but signified their
intentions OF resumlng operations at mid
night. Presently the Henderson company
were on the scene with gang of men, one
hundred strong, who had orders to begin
laying the cross-tracks at that hour.
The bitterness of the two companies had
now come together, and the police seeing
that some of the men were only too eager
TO have hostilities and conduct riot, the
entire police forces Of The city was ordered
out, both day and night shifts, along with
the United States marshals and Sheriff
Belnap and his deputies, to avert any dis
tureance. BY this time an immense
crowd of citizens had gathered to avert
developments.
backed the construction train, motor and
a lot of cars together to block the streets.
thinking that would prevent the Hender-
son company from crossing their tracks at
all. AT II O'Clock the men made prepara-
tons to begin work and were about to
come together when Deputy United States
Marshall Bowman stepped up and served
writ Of attachment on the Ogden City COM
pany, issued by the First National bank
Tor over $4,000. and seized the cars and
engines used to block the streets, with all
their tools and a pile of ties and rails
This move came so sudden and unexpect-
edly to the Ogden City company that they
were paralyzed to know what to do and
being without tools ETC., were compelled to
Work at once and before day
break they had ties and cross
tracks laio. The attachment seemed
to be de ath-blow TO Mr.. Swan
and his company. for all day long the Hen
derson company had teams and men turn
ing up the ground and laying tracks on
Washington avenue and Twenty fifth
street
Corey Brothers, who have the contract
Tor laying the new lines, informed the re-
porter yesterday that men We're being
picked up and put on the streets as fast as
possible, and that the work would be
pushed along just as fast as teams and men
could possibly 90 IT,
Mir. Henderson had nothing to say for
publication, only that his company did not
intend to let the Ogden City company scare
them out.
Mr.. Swan said IL was doing him an in
justice on the city's part to allow the Hen
oerson company to build road parallel to
his company in this city. He had invested
his money here with the intention of doing
the city of Ogden much good, and they
will fight the measure in the courts to an
end.
In an interview one of the attorneys for
the Ogden City company informed a HER
AID representative that Mr.. Henderson
would be stopped from proceeding with his
work. I'VE are not by any means in very
much of hurry, either,'' be said, 'sas the
more work they do on the proposed road,
the more money they will be OUT
The situation is getting exceedingly in
teresting, and the end is not yet