Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-31
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The Traction Company Calls Halt on Coun
cIlmen-They COncede Everything buI
Transfer Tickets - Their Ordinance

The Traction Company Calls Halt on Coun
cIlmen-They Concede Everything bu
Transfer Tickets = Their Ordinance
Passed the Committee.
The Allegheny street Railway Committee
spent last evening considering the ordinance
granting right of way to the Pittsburg, ALE
gheny and Manchester Railway Company.
President Hunter offered an amendment tc
the first section, substituting the word
tracks for route" He desired that the or
dinance give a right of way over only the
streets upon which the company's tracks are
now laid. The amendment was adopted and
the section passed as amended.
Mr.. Dalzell, President OF the Tractlon com
pany, who was present. said that they did not
object to paving between the rails and Ioot
on the outside for a cable road, but IL they
same privilege as the other electric roads.
They only paved foot outside the rails. Mr..
Muehlbrouner remarked that Allegheny has
been trying to get good streets and now was a
good chance to commence getting them.
Chairman McAfee said that in Pittsburg, ii a
pipe line was laid, the company would be re-
CURED to repave with block stone. MT.
Dalzell knows that" he added.
mo, DON'T" replied MIR. Dalzell.
"Well, 1 understand your company is favored
over there" answered Mr.. McAfee.
Mr.. Lowe suggested that the ordinance be
amended so that if an electric road is built
they would only be required to pave with block
a foot on each side of the rail.
Mr. Muehlbronner insisted that the company
be required to repave between the rails and for
a foot outside. President Hunter said that
this would be a hardship. Also when the new
roads to the suburban districts would be built,
this would be demanded, and 1t would have the
effect of preventing the construction OF such
roads.
Mr. Ober offered an amendment that if a
cable road is built the company repave all be-
tween the rails and foot on the outside; but
q n rnQd foot S106 of
the rails.
Arthur Hunter wanted to know, as Mr.. Ober
is interested in new street railway, If he was
entitled to vote on this uestion. Chairman Nc
Afee replied that he was not interested in this
railway. The amendment was passed, and Mr.
Neeb offered another. The clause liking 3
cent fare between Woods Run and Plttsburg
read over the line via the market house." As
the line did not go by way of the market house
he wanted it to read "via Western avenue and
Federal street." 1t was adopted.
Section required that the company aban-
don one Of the two tracks now on Rebecca and
Lacock streets, and the tracks on School and
Craig streets. A. M. Neeper, Esq, attorney
for the company, said that the intention was to
abandon either the track on School street or
Craig street, and not on both streets. The
clause was amended to read either School or
Craig street, instead of both.
Mr.. Dalzell said that the company would con-
cede the paving matter already agreed upon.
They did not wish any opposition In Councils
which would send the ordinance back to the
committee, and though they considered 1t un-
fair they wanted to go 70 work at once on the
road, having been waiting year now.
This offer, which involved paving to the ex-
tent of nearly $3.50 600, was at once acted upon
and the amendment to the paving clause
stricken out, thus obliging the company to
pave all between the rails and foot outside
with block stone.
Section was amended to provide that the
work of construction be done under such regu-
lations as may be prescribed by the City Engi-
neer and Committee on Street Railways. City
Engineer EhlerS suggested that provision be
made that the street car companies pay into
the City Treasury enough to cover the cost of
cleaning and repaving the streets over which
the railways run. The city now has about 20
miles of street railways and the cost of clean
ing and repairing the streets over which they
run is about $4,000 per year. Chairman Nc
Afee said the Pittsburg, Allegheny and Man
chester Company scrape up the dirt and leave
piles of mud lay sometimes as long as three
weeks.
Section 8 provides for transfer tickets to
be given at the corner of Ohio and Federal
streets on the Troy Hill and P1tJsburg, Allie
gheny and Manchester lines. SO that the fare
from any point on the Troy Il i'll line to any
point on the Western avenue line would not
exceed 5 cents. Mr.. Dalzell said they had
agreed to do SO for cents extra, but not for a
single fare. He said:
Gentlemen, 1 think that have made all
concessions that the company can make. l have
nothing more to say either way"