The record-union., 1891-07-09
The P-street Franchise.

The P-Street Franchise,
EDS. RECoRD-U UNION: As a taxpayer
of this city join in the manifestation of
great surprise at the peculiar action of
the Board of Trustees. The unusual
silence of some of the public organs and
the personal privileges usurped by our
representatives is a menace and bar to
all public enterprise. Have they forgot
ten that they are only clothed with the
execution of the common desires and
needs of the people? IF not, then let us
be heard. 1t has long been the voice of
our citizens, Give us enterprise mot in
cluding the ancient system Of the aborig-
inals), which is the very life and being of
every prosperous city" AS a means of
support it gives us employment and
offers facilities which we have long
felt the need of.
To-day there appears before us J. H.
Henry, whose bold enterprise is too well
known to need repetition, and through
the Trustees asks the taxpayers to grant
him franchise on P street, from Twenty
eighth to Sixth, thence to j. Recogniz-
ing the great value Of the road, both as a
means of travel and the consequent in
voice eagerly gave their consent to the
franchise, which was opposed by a
minority too small to mention.
One OF the reasons given is that it
would not afford sufficient accommoda-
ton to those residing in the southwestern
portion OF town. In answer to this, l
need only refer to line of railway that
Third, thence to X. That the owner
soon realized the mistake made was evil
dent from the fact that the company soon
tore the road up. When we see men of
enterprise and careful consideration of
the public interest, and who have made
Sacramento their homes for so many
years, voluntarily take up the track, for
the reason that it did not pay, after fair
and costly trial, what hope is there for
another to replace the track2 And fur
ther, because an enterprise is opposed by
few upon the unreasonable objection
that it does not in detail comply with
their desire, are we, as the majority, to
submit to the disposition OF a few? If
this proposition, upon any reasonable
ground, can be maintained, then we are
hopelessly in state Of degeneration, and
we must acknowledge that it is useless
to undertake an enterprise of any kind.
The residents of all of the most popu-
lous portions of Sacramento might as
well express their dissent to the granting
of this franchise and openly oppose it,
because the line is not laid in their re-
spective districts. If this objection is to
be sustained, how will our city ever
grow? The Trustees, acting in their rep
resentative capacity, should consider the
great Improvement that Mr.. Henry has
made in this city, affording easy access to
suburban homes; the long and comfort
able ride afforded to those who are
wearied and tired after their days work
is done, and, above all, the great rise in
the value of property and the many nice
residences which have since been con-
structed on its line; and lastly, at the de-
mand Of the people, they should recog-
niZe the source from which their author
ity came. A TAXPAYER.
Sacramento, July Z, 1891.
EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: Seein' as my
piece was printed in your paper, and
complimented you said Nancy Nobody
talks sense), / take kurage TO write a few
lines agen.
pve been thinkin' about what you said
this mornin', bout the Trusty's buildin'
wall roun' the city and printin' on it
"The City of the Dead" Them words
has been runnin' in my head all the
mIcrnin' and as l dun up my work kept
sayin' 'em, and by the time | got to
ironin' l was singin' 'em: but all off sud-
den there came to me the thot, the
Trustys don't need to build no wall
around this city to keep folks out of it;
there's one built already, and its just as
plane to be seen as tho the Trustys built
one. 'Tother day / had occashun to 90
down to the dapo, and / overhearn
sum toorists talking to themselves.
They said they were going further on;
their relashuns, who lived in Sacramento,
wanted 'eIn to settle here, but they was
gOin' TO try to find some place that didn't
look quite SO much like SODIUM and Co
morrow, and if they couldn't find it in
Californy, they'd go back where they
cum from. They bad money, and judg-
i'm from clothes, etc, they was what
the newspapers call cultivated people.
l guess they wasn't prohibishun, but
from what they said, / think they was for
an awful high license. 1 didn't agree
with 'em, but they seemed to be very
respectable folks.
They sed they didn't believe in stacks
ashun without representashun," and it
was plain there either want no Christian
men in Sacramento or else they didn't
have no say in the guverment of the city,
for there was more salunes than any
other kind of biZness, and the churches
were cheap lookin' and few of 'em, and
even the skule houses want nothin' to
brag on, and then they kinder laffed, and
looked toward an old blue street car, that
was tryin to turn round on the turn-table
at the dapo, and said there didn't seem to
be much interest taken in street cars and
sich like here, and then they sed sumthin'
about sicknin' odors. There friends live
out on Seventeenth street, and we'd been
havin' pretty warm spell, and the Trus-
tvs haven't quite got the sewerage question
fixed up yet, for that back water which
runs thro' the Seventeenth-street sewer
still smells ruther disagreabul, and one
of their children he'd a sore throat, and
one of 'em he'd tech of fever, aud they
laid 1t to the sewers. l was little Gurus
to know whether these folks found any
place in Caiiforny, and so / made an
egscuse to drop in on there relashuns one
day TO find out if they wanted the electric
road on p street. MY man wus inter-
estin' hisself little to find out who did,
and who didn't, and they sed their
friends he'd found place in Southern
Californy to infest their money in.
So, Mr.. Editor, our eckynomicul Trus-
tvs won't have to build no wall around
our city, for the handwritin' is plane to be
read by those that pass us by-"A City of
the Dead" NANCY NOBODY.
Sacramento, July Z, 1891.
p. S.-My man sez, when you talk
about the city Of the dead its called fig
curative language. Now, I've put P. S.
onto my piece to say that if the Trustys
and the Board of Health and sitizens
don't do sumthin' about the sewers, it
amt goin' TO be figgurative very long-it
will be true fact-for we shall all be
dead. n. n.
Young Mems Institute Election.
On Tuesday evening last, at the regular