The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-21
THE PROPOSED BONDS
Meeting Of Citizens and Council
on Friday Night.
GUY PhlNNEY's NEW CAR LINE.
Another Sesslen Devoted 20 the Consid-
GRAFTON Of FraDehises-Cal1 for
Joint Convention.

IN FRIDAY night there will be joint
convention Of the city council for the pur-
pose Of considering the subject of issuing
bonds to fund the floating Indebtedness.
Citisens generally are invited to attend the
meeting and to express their views on the
subject
President Klosber asked the house of
delegates to pass IN ordinance appropriate
ing $19,058 for 1000 tons of water pipe.
In reply to Mr.. Calligan the chair ex-
plained that an ordinance had been passed
to provide for the purchase of 200 tons.
but the board Of public works had taken
l.473 tons, and there are still seven car
loads lying at the depot. The response
bility as TO this will have to be considered.
The ordinance was passed.
Guy Phinney's application for street
railway from Pioneer place to Woodland
park was the special order of business be-
fore the house in committee OF the whole.
President Kloeber and Delegates Calligan,
Brace. Carlisle, Cook, Coryell, Lyon and
Crichton were present. tho last named be-
ing called to the chair. The following u
the proposed route:
Commencing ON Yeslsr avenue at the east line
OF Commercial street. along Yesler avenue to
Terrace street, to Fourth, to Seneca, to Seventh.
70 Depot, TO Farm, to north line OF Lake Union
addition, northerly 70 Lombard In Hunters
Lake Union addition. TO Clyde place in Days
Eldorado addition, northeasterly and acroes
Woodland avenue to Lombard In unrscosdsd
plat OF San Francisco addition, to Evanston and
Florentia streets. Evanston TO Fremont avenue.
TO Lake avenue. to Campaign and Fifth streets
In woodland addition TO Salmon Bay City, to
north line Of Woodland avenue addition ct the
entrance of Woodland park
The terms of the franchise were mainly
the same as in other franchises recently
granted except that the road is to run
through wooded land. The regulations as
to street planking are not 80 rigorous.
Delegate Brace desired TO have . proviso
inserted that the builder of the road should
construct sixteen-foot roadway upon un-
graded streets to the line of the road. Mr..
Phinney was present and objected to such
hardship, since two miles of the line
would run through q wooded, uninh abited
district. Delegate Bruce replied that it
would not be long after the road was built
there would be houses along the line and
people living In them. The amendment
was voted down.
Considerable discussion arose over the
proposition to make the fare 8 cents over
the entire line 'or connecting lines" Mr..
Phinney objected. He was, he said, will
Ing to carry passengers from Pioneer place
to Woodland park, . distance Of five miles,
for S cents, but he could not transfer them
over the Madison street or Yesler avenue
line, either Of which might become q
connecting line, in a sense.
There was considerable discussion over
the question whether the grantee of this
road should be required to begin payment
of percentage of gross earnings as early as
on roads running through moro densely
populated districts, but it was resolved to
put oil roads on an equality.
Delegate Coryell moved that the com.
pany be required to purchase all supplies
in Seattle provided that they could be OBJ
tanned Of a. good quality and At the same
price - elsewhere
Delegate Carlisle said such Q provision
was contrary to the spirit of the age, and
he made thoroughly Democratic speech
in favor Of free trade, in whose principles
he declared his firm and sincere belief
He also considered such restriction to be
tainted with unconstitutionality.
Delegate Coryell said they were legis-
lating for fifty years ahead and the people
of Seattle long before the end OF that time
might have to deal not with public-spir-
tied citizens but with q monopoly, whose
interests were not 30 great in Seattle as in
other towns near by. The only object was
to give Seattle the preference. all other
things being equal.
Delegate Lyon said il tho road was only
compelled to buy here when it could do it
TO good advantage, the company might be
depended on to do il.
The amendment was lost on tie vote.
Delegate Cook moved to reconsider a
section so as to revive the proposition for
sixteen-foot roadway. but it was met by
q parliamentary objection of DIR. Kloebers
that it required a two-trirds vote. The
committee reported progress at this stage.
THE dispatch from Cheney asking the
council to intercede with Gov. McGraw to
reconsider his veto of the normal school
appropriation was referred to the commit
tee on library and printing.
Several petitions and communications
were referred TO committees for report.
Among them was one from Guy c. Phin-
ney. asking that blocks 100 to l4O of sup
Elemental plat of Woodland park be
vacated.
The ordinance providing for the print
ing Of the revised ordinances was passed;
and that for the printing of the annual
reports by Koch & Oakley was also passed
and signed.