The record-union., 1892-09-13

to the Park would so tie up eastern II
street that it would never have street-car
facilities.
THE TRUSTEES DID WE'LL,
Said Mr.. Hinkson, when they granted
Mr.. Henry permission to run out to Oak
Park and to tap other portions of the city,
but it would make a mistake in granting
the one now asked for. lie argued that
the new branch, ii built at ALL should run
on II street-two blocks from the present
line on street-instead of ON q street.
This would develop a portion of the city
that had been neglected. Mr.. Hinkson
concluded his argument with the aSser-
ton that the franchise should be denied
on the ground that it was bad thing for
one company to have a monopoly of all
the street-car lines of city. 1t was APP
parent, he thought, that the company did
not intend to extend toward East Park
until its Oak Park lots were all sold of. 81
THE OTHER SIDE.
Mr.. Henry replied rather warmly to
the attorney for the directors. The
statement that the company owned prop
erty at Oak Park was untrue, he said. It
did not own foot of land there. 1t was
true that l.. l.. Lewis, one Of the stock
holders, owned property there, but he
was not the company. On the other
hand, he tMr. Henry owned nearly a
controlling interest in East Park, and if
he, as a business man, considered it safe
to build to East Park now, he would GER
tainly apply for the franchise. The old
horse-car line had not run to East Park
for years, simply because it did not pay.
In conclusion he said that he wanted it
understood that he was perfectly honest
in his application; he did not want the
franchise for the purpose of tying up G.
street or any other street. AS he had an
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heavy bond as guarantee of good faith.
DEAD ISSUE.
Mayor Comstock said it was his opin-
ion that the remonstrance against the
first application made by Mr.. Henry for
a road on q street was still in effect.
Mr.. Henry disputed this. The old petit
ton was a dead issue. The present petit
ton was new one, under entirely differ
ent conditions. There was at present no
opposition from the G-street people. and
those who had placed their names on
the old remonstrance were now sign
ers on his petition. He had acceded to
their demands for through line to the
depot, and they were now his friends.
No other company could come in now
and offer the people as thorough q service
as the present company. The newcomers
could not transfer to all parts of the city
as the existing one will, and the newcom-
ers could not give what the G-street peo-
pie wanted-a through line to the depot.
MIR. CoNKLIN KINDLY DISPOSED.
Trustee Conklin spoke kindly of Mr..
Henry's application. He favored it be-
cause the people along the proposed
route wanted it. He considered that their
wishes should be considered in prefer
ence to those of people living in other
parts of the city.
Attorney Hinkson and V. S. McClat-
chy argued that the entire community
had as much to say about road on q
street as the residents of g street them
selves.
Mr.. Conklin did not take much stock
in that, however. The board had estab-
Iished the precedent of considering the
opinions of people who own property on
a street which it is proposed to place
tracks and wires or anything else upon,
and he believed it was right.
WANT DELAY NOW.
Attorney Hinkson next asked that fur
Their consideration of Mr.. Henry's appli-
cation be postponed for sufficient length
of time to enable those he represented to
look about for another company to build
the kind of road they wanted.
Mr.. Henry said this was perfectly agree
able to him. If they could find anybody
who was willing to put good money into
such proposition no objection would be
heard from him. He added rather sigui-
ficantly, though, that he supposed as a
matter of course that Mr.. Hinkson's new
company would do as he proposed to do
put up good bond as guarantee OF
good faith to show that it did not propose
to sell out right away
Trustee Green moved that further hear
ing of the matter be postponed for two
weeks, and the motion prevailed.
If the earth should cease to revolye alto
gether the oceans of the equator would
forsake their beds and hasten toward the
poles. Probably the entire globe, north
of Boston. would he submerged