The herald., 1894-07-18
A NOVEL PROTEST.

company are changing and readjustin
their lines for the purpose of removing
as far as possible the close parallel
which have heretofore stood in the wa
OF equalizing the traffic on the differen
roads and extending their accommoda
ton to the public. Instead OF continu
ing to run the University cars for tire
blocks over ths cable system on Broad
way, and go as to remove the electri
cars etill farther from that system al
the rest of the route, they have ex
tended their electric road alon,
Spring street to Tenth and Main, wher,
by building block of new road they
connect with their present road .alonl
Tenth street. In pursuance of this plsr
they have proposed to the city council
to bid for franchise to extend theiI
road along Tenth to Pearl, one block far
Their west than it now goes, 90 AZ to run
their University cars down Pearl street
to Washington instead of. as at present,
Down Flower street. This would extend
very materially the patronage territory
OF the cable cars, and conciliate the
people on Pearl street, who have been
very indignant at the suspension OF
service on the old Blue car line.
But the proposition has met with q
very sharp protest from some OF the
officers of the Emmanuel church, who
strenrously object to the proposed con.
nection of the road between Flower and
Pearl street Zone block) on Tenth. They
say that the noise created by the trains
turning the corner in front of their
church will interfere with divine wor.
ship in that temple. and urge that the
acoustics OF the building are now poor
and that tbs noise OF the cars would add
to the exciting difficulty to hear the
servicee.
We do not believe that the grounds for
this opposition are we'll taken. Pearl
street s one OF our very widest streets,
and the turn can be made at that corper
with 80 ample a sweep that there will be
but very little friction to cause disturb
ing noise. The parallel cited, of the
dlscommoding effects of the street rail-
way traffic at Broadway and Second
streets upon the congregation of the
First Presbyterian church, is not fair
one. At that point two lines of cars
operate-the electric and the cable, the
former starting there upon a sharp up.
grade, and therefore making greater
noise than en- level plane, such as
exists at Pearl and Tenth streets. The
working of the cable cars is far more
disturbing than the smooth working of
The electric system on a level road. |
8esides, the noise of cable road ia un-
Intermittent, which is not the case with
IN electric road, but the First church
seems to have gone along prosperously
or several years Notwithstanding its
,lose proximity to the disturbing noisen
Vi these two roads.
II it is public advantage to have the
electric road go down Pearl street in
tesd of Flower, it would be curious
rmProvomont that the
acoustics OF Emmanuel church are bad.
A local architectural defect snouiu up.
peal to another remedy than that OF
az improvement of beneficial
public character.
The alternative proposition which the
church officials suggest. would effect
1ally kill the plan OF railroad improve
ment proposed. To proceed along
Flower to Eleventh street and thence
INTO Pearl would add two turning cor
ner curves to the road. which is con-
sidered by the experts. in view OF the
TACT that the company will be compelled
to take their Pico Heights cars to Pico
street along Flower. ss inadmiasible
We believe that the scare OF the Him.
manuel church officials is unfounded,
and that the extension of the road to
Pearl street along Tenth will be an ad-
instead of disadvantage to
that church. 1t will place it in more
and direct communication
with the church.goers in the populous
part OF the city than it now is, and
prove an additional accommodation to
the members over thoee it now has. The
noise of the passing cars will be go
slight that it will cause no inconvenience
to the congregation, and we have not
the least doubt that the professionals will
laugh at their present apprehensions
when the work 10 accomplished. The
churches have thu right to all the quiet
possible in live city, but the world
must be permitted to move on in it's pro.
greesive course.