Evening journal., 1893-02-09
RAILWAY MEN TALK.
Continued From rirst Page.


make perfect city system without
going outside, and they will doubtless do
it. il granted.
The city of Wilmington has given us
the right to use electricity and under
our charter we could use steam if we
wanted to. As to Mr. Coopers claim
that the Legislature cannot grant priv
ilege in atown or city without the con
sent of the municipal authorities is one
which, think, be would not be willing
TO 60 into court with.
Several of these bills provide that the
City Council shall be asked for extention
of privileges.
Cooper-"It is not IN It now"
Saulsbury-"Wel Il was when Il
came here Under the Wilmington and
Brandywine charter the commissioners
can receive subscriptions, bond the road
and run it for year and not a stock
holder could have any voice in its man
agement for a year.
If these lines viii build their lines to
the end of our lines we will give them
exchanges, transfers aud haul their
cars to any point on an honest basis.
But we cannot consent to these piratical
incursions upon our privileges. The pro-
visions for circuits in the Wilmington
and Brandywine bill are deceptive and
allow that company to parallel any of
our lines.
eve will give them every fair facility
and transfer them cheaper than they
can build the line themselves. l thank
you for your attention, aud feel assured
that we shall receive fair treatment at
your hands.
Carpenter Names Precedents.
Frank d. Carpenter, Jr., spoke in be.
half of the Wilmington and Brandy
wine road He denounced the Whining.
ton City Company as a gasping
monopoly. He said they had said that
they owned the st reefs of Wilmington.
He referred to the charters of the Front
and Union Company, Wilmington and
Brandywine Passenger Railway Company
and Eighth Street Passenger Railway Com.
pany. He said that as many eXcursionists
would be carried to Brandywine Springs
in four months in the year as the vii.
mington City Railway Company would
carry in eight months. What past Leg
islatures have done in the way OF
granting street railway charters this
General Assembly can do.
He presented petitions signed by fifty
persons from Brandywine Springs and
Falkland, all the people of Elsmere with
the exception of two or three; 15C
citizens of Greenbank; over 800 citizens
of the town of Newport, and over /, ,00(
people along the proposed route in vii
mington.
He said that If there were any dis
honest features in the bill it could be
amended.
Peter L. Cooper, Jr, denied that Mr.
Addieks would own a share of Whining
ton and New Castle, ,Company's stock.
Carpenter Nor,in ours either.
Cooper-"The Wilmington City Street
Railway Company need not build a road
over Third street bridge if it doesni
want to. We gladly submit to the
amendment that we shall begin the worl
in six months and complete it in twl
years. The present company was bull
by Messrs. Lowering and Morton, o
Philadelphia.
Mr.. Salisbury read a Supreme Court
decision upholding charter contracts be
tween the state and corporations.
The Executives Praise.
Mayor Wiley spoke in favor Of tn
q Wilmington City Street Railway Com
+ pany. He said that the present system
was perfectly satisfactory. He had neve
in all his travels seen one as efficient
4 The people are proud of the system an
tell Philadelphians that Wilmingtonian
| have rapid transit.
4 The meeting then adjourned.