The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-10

ton street simultaneously with the laying Of
its snsoks on said street.
1t Has a regular fis!d lay for the street
railway companies. and petition was or
pec.ed from kho Germantown and South
Lake Railway Company, bat they evidently
concludt d 10 wAis and see if there will be
any stree = let afser the Belt Line and the
Enterpris G folks get their innings.
Dl;AyToS STREET OBJECTS.
There we're two vigorous protests 10
granting the Use Of Drayton street 20 any
street railroad company, both Of which wore
referred to the committee OF The whole. Ons
il in the form OF = petition and Is signed by
John r. Dillon, attorney for @, = and A j.
Dillon. and by w. II. Baker. P. F. Burdsl..
L. KAyuou- J. n. Einstein, Robert u. But
Ter, g. KroHskof and ID. b. Lester, property
holders along the line OF Drayton street.
They not ouiy Oppose a double track but a
single one also, for an electric railway.
They say in brief that the grant OF such a
franchise wo uld interfere with the rights
and protectio due them as good citizens and
would be unjust to them. Their objections
are "a follows:
THE street is too narrow for single or
| double track.
at is the only centrally located street
running north and south used for large
traffic.
ut Is the only street available for pleasure
| drives TO the shell road, and when properly
paved will be the finest avenue south.
at will interfere with the safety and pro-
lection that ladies and children now enjoy
In the park and park extension"
Quite a number Of dire predictions are
made IL the street is given over to a street
railroad company, among which are depre-
cintion Of real estate beyond the cost of
paving the street.
THE CRY AND sUBURBAN'S KICK.
The second protest is from the City and
Suburban railway Company. The docu-
ment sets up that by ordinance Of July %,
1868. the Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard
Railroad Company was granted the exclu-
sive right-of-way over all the streets in the
city Of Savannah, except such streets as
were intersected by squares and those
streets less than forty-fve feet wide, for
ten years, and such further time as might
be granted by the legislature, Drayton
street being one Of the streets granted, and
that by provision of the ordinance the
street railway was to be in operation
on Drayton street, from Bay to
Anderson within three years from
tue passage of the ordinance; that the
legislature confirmed the ordinance Sept.
%, 1868, extending the franchise for thirty
years, which have not yet expired. That
on March 30, 1871, 30 much of the ordinance
was repealed as to the time limit Of three
years 10 build on Drayton street, leaving
the company the exclusive right to build on
Drayton street within the extended time of
thirty years as granted by legislative en-
actment.
BIT OF RAILROAD HISTORY.
The protest sets up the fact that the
company proceeded to lay track on Dray-
ton street, but public opinion was 80 strong
against having roadbed on Drayton that
an ordinance was passed granting the right
to use Abercorn street instead of Drayton if
the consent Of the general assembly could
be obt lined, but as the legislature
refused 1T the ordinance became inopera-
tive, the right to track Drayton street re-
naming undisturbed. That in 1879 the city
fled bill Of injunction to prevent the track
from being laid on Drayton, one of the
grounds being that the street was not forty
five feet in width, but finding the company
could not rightfully be prevented from
tracking the street dismissed the suit, but
that the company, In Difference to the public
opposition to the use of Drayton street.
purchased, at great expense, the right to
lay track through Abercorn street, and
the City and Suburban as the successor of
the Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard
Railroad Company enjoys the exclusive
franchise of running through DraytOn
street.
PRIOR CLAIM PRESENTED.
A disavowal is made of any present in
tentionn to lay a track on Drayton street
except as an act of necessary protection TO
its shareholders. The legal right is denied
the city to grant the right to any other
company to track Drayton street without
manifest injustice to the City and Suburban,
and a violation Of the understanding which
led to the postponement Of the right to
cover Drayton street. In conclusion the
City and Suburban Company says: Your
petitioner, therefore, respectfully protests
against the grant of the use Of Drayton
street to any other company, and asks if
the policy of the mayor and aldermen as to
the use Of Drayton street for railway pur-
poses is to be altered, that the right of petit
toner to use said street be now recognized
and granted