The record-union., 1891-06-30
WHAT THEY SAY.
Trustees Mclaughlin and ConkIin In.
terviewed.

Trustees Mclaughlin and ConkIin In
tervfewed.
The matter, as it now stands, is very
discouraging to that class of citizens who
favor the city's progress. Mr.. Henry.
the chief owner in the Electric Railway
Company, which has such a splendid
system already in operation here, asks
for franchise to operate a branch along
Sixth and p streets. He has selected
Sixth street through which to cross from
p to the J-street tracks, because it is near
the center of business and travel. He
would prefer TO run his line through
Seventh street, but Mr.. Carey holds a
franchise on that street.
Front street, the river bank is the western
limit or boundary Of the city and Mr. Hen
ry does not regard it as u good business
venture 10 construct and operate an ex-
pensiye line along or close to the very
verge Of the city, where the travel must,
he believes, always be very light.
But two Of the City Trustees (Nfessrs.
Mclaughlin and Conklin) happen to re-
side in the corner of the city through
which Mr.. Henry's proposed line of road
would not run.
These gentlemen were interviewed on
the subject by a RECoRD-UNION reporter,
after the board adjourned, and both
maintained that the southwestern
portion of the city should be favored by
having the line run through Second or
Third streets. Mr.. Conlllin said the peo-
pie there were just as anxious TO have the
road as were those living out along p
street, and ought TO have it.
Mr.. Mclaughlin said the residents west
Of Sixth street were entitled to recogni-
ton. If the proposed road were allowed
10 run through Sixth street, they never
would have a railroad down that way
il To fraf ho
would insist upon their having it.
But" remarked prominent P-street
citizen who has no individual preference
rs to which cross street is used, Mr.
Henry says he wants his road where he
Will have a possible chance to secure Gus
tom, and says that if he cannot get Il
franchise to run the road there, he doesn't
want it at all. Now, are the people from,
say Fourth street to Twenty eighth to be
deprived of the electric railroad because
those between Fourth street and the river
cannot have it What kind of enterprise
do you call that? Deny the electric COM
pany the franchise asked for-and which
would not only benefit the greater num-
Der Of people but would insure a better
patronage Tor the company-and then
neither the P-street residents nor those
of the southwestern corner of the city
would have railroad
Trustee Mclaughlin, TO whom these re-
marks were addressed, laughed and said:
'bh, guess 1t viii all come around all
right"
Ex-Trustee Wolf, who resides on 2
street. between Fourth and Fifth, hap
pcned along while tho conversation was
in progress, and he said he was emphat-
Ically in favor of having the road go
through Sixth street. THE people in
my neighbOrhood do not want IL TO come
down below Sixth" he said, ''and we
snail Kick against it vigorously"
property owners out along u street are
pracucally unanimous in favor of the
road, and they say they would not care
vety much through which street it might
run from to J, were il not for the dis
reputable character of that portion of the
city IN The vicinity of Second Third, X
and l. streets and its remoteness from the
Lheatcrs.
''Do you suppose asked one of these
citizens yesterday ofa reporter, Il would
take my wife and daughter down town
after dark and land them among the
dives and bagnios at Second and X
streets? Not much! And Third street
Is not a whit better anywhere north of l.
Even X street, from Second TO Fourth. is
not fit place for any modest woman to
walk after dark, even though accompan-
led by husband or father. The dives and
hqll-holes have captured that locality
and they overflow after dark upon the
sidewalks. No, if that road should be
,.,,p through the slums of the city I
,so1lld have no use for it."
.nother up-town citizen called atten-
zion 10 the fact that the railroad, if run
fbrouuh Sixth street, would aecommo-
eiafe neople going to and from the the
otnrs and two of the more prominent
,.bnrebes OF the city, which it could not
do If located farther down town.
- IL earnestly hoped that Mr.. Henry
ard the Trustees will be able 20 come to