Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-28
AFTER RAPID TRANSIT.
Bellevue People Hold a Mass Meeting
to Demand Faster Progress
TOWARD THE MUCH-DESIRED END.
They We're Tired of Waiting on Their Coun-
Gil to Act for Them.
A FEW TOO MANY ROADS FOR THE RAILS.

Not like the three tailors who constituted
themselves the people of England, but like an
uprising of citizens, who are property hold
ers and taxpayers, was the meeting last night
in Bellevue. The heindecision of the council
has brought to defeat, so far, the consum-
nation of a contract entered into between
the Allegheny and Bellevue Railroad Com
pany and last years council.
Some members wanted the road to GO their
way, and others insisted upon it passing in
front of their property. Still others advo-
Gated the continuing of California avenue
straight out, thus going up 45o grade, on
across the town, paralleling another street
100 feet distant, cutting through barn anda
couple of houses, and passing over n
wide gullet and Forester's old ice pond.
This line, as projected, would have resem-
bIed the path described by a cannon shot
through the crests of any number of waves.
but that didn't matter to its projectors. who
didn't either consider the cost the excava-
tion and filling such street would have en-
tailed upon the borough, or the impossibility
of getting tho street finished before the mil
lennium.
Another Councilman upon whose property
the bridge across Jacks rum from California
avenue, ended, insisted that his property
was the natural gateway OF the growing sub
urb; and with all these conflicting inter
tend. Finally, some level headed
from a point about 200 feet northward from
the proposed terminus of the bridge, on the
property of the Councilman who owned the
gateway of the burg, and being on the prop
erty OF gardener, Mr.. Glassbruenner. From
that point this location ran northward and
through the gardeners place, touching
Squire Johnson's lot, through Jenkfnson's
ground, crossing Grant avenue diagonally,
and after taking off q small corner of the
Clancy lot, opened into Lincoln avenue.
This location of a street was q bright sug
gestion, as the Jacks Run bridge
could be built for $1,000 less to
itself would be but 1000 feet long and would
give the electric road almost immediate
access to the New Brighton turnpike, along
which 1t could run to Howard street, and
thence to the Bayne farm, also owned by the
railway company and its hacker, the Pleas
ant Valley Company.
Thls compromise street has been urged
upon the members of Council as a cheap and
easy solution of the troubles in that body
iected, and the tall member from the foot
hills wouldn't agree to it because it de-
stroyed Glassbruenner's onion patch. The
citizens hereupon rose en- masse. Hence
the meeting last night, at which "many
citizens" made few remarks embodying
all the grievances.
The product of the meeting was q series of
"Whereases' and "Resolves," expressing
the general public dissatisfaction with Coun-
cilmanic delays and the Illustration OF long
entertained hopes that the electric railway
would be completed this summer. COM
mittee of seven citizens, of which F. w.
Keifer is chairman, was appointed to assist
the railroad company in getting a street
through by fall.