The herald., 1894-07-31

expense. If the company is
compelled to pay for the
street paving they would have to aban-
don the occupancy OF Fifth street. The
company. he added, would positively do
nothing on Tenth street that would in
tertereswith the services at the Imman:
uel church. There would be no more
noise than if the track was straight at
that point. They would keep the tracks
well oiled at that point.
MIR, WARDS VIEWS.
j. Shirley Ward stated that the trus-
teea OF the church had not been satiefied
by the electric company that they could
operate the care around the curves with
out making noise which would eeri
ously disturb the services. He had
taken occasion to note the cars on other
curves on the line, and he had uni
formly found that the cars made great
deal OF noiee. To put the curve near
the church would virtually amount to
coniscstion OF the church prop
erty. There were 1000 members
OF the church who would be
damaged, while but few people
would be benefited by the line. The
people west would eimply have to walk
built. He did not see why Pearl street
should be used for street car purposes.
| IL WAS one of the show streets of the
| city and should be maintained as
| driveway. II the council is desiroua of
facilitating the travel in the southwest
part OF the city, it should provide more
| efficient street car service instead Of mul =
| tiplying the number OF street cars. Make
a hve-minute service instead OF 10 min
utes. Make the existing system effect
! i've. He did not think it WAS practics-
BILE for the Electric Railway company to
| run the cara ut Tenth street without
making a nois7.
| COL. AYERS POSITION.
| Col. J. j. Ayers stated that he ap-
peared MS one of the property ownerH on
that portion of Pearl street who were
the only ones possibly directly injured
by not granting this railroad extension.
he wished to say that he afelt as much
interest in Emmanuel church as any one
present, and would deplore any disturb
ance OF public worship there. He felt,
however, that the fears of the gentle
men protesting were groundless. Pearl
street was wide street and would carry
curves with wide radius with mini
mum OF friction, and consequently @
minimum Of noise. The property own
ers on the lower portion of Pearl street
had been in fix. They had street
car tracks in front of their property
| without street car service. He Was
thoroughly satisfied that a street car
line benefits the property which it
passes, as it enables the property own
ora to go and come as they pleased
There was another consideration, and
that was the almost certain presump-
ton that the line from Ninth to Pico
will be abandoned if the railroad has
the option OF going to Flower street by
Eleventh; with two additional curves
they will abandon Pearl street. II they
do it means depreciation OF property OF
the eection he represented. The people
on Pearl street were entitled to street Car
accommodations by continuance OF the
rights under the original for back fran
chise. He did not think the curve at
Tenth street would cause the slightest
disturbance to the church services, ard
the fears that 1t would were groundless
and shadowy. The property owners
we're anxious that the road should be
built; that IL should not be stopped.
The data aa to noise had been taken
from the experience OF the church at
Second and Broadway, where two car
lines passed the structure, one of which
was cable line.
MANAGER cLARK's REASON.
General Manager Clark stated that
they were considering the question Of
removing the tracks from Flower street.
They had received many petitions from
property owners asking for O 5treet-car
line on the full length of Figueroa street
from Washington street south,
and they would take care OF the
pavement. As to holding the
franchise on Pearl street it was well
known why the tracks were not oper-
sted from Tenth street. 1t was only in
the control Of the company during the
past six months. 1t would not have
been discontinued had it been paying
lire. There are hours in the day when
the traffic is crowded while at other
times the cars are empty. The company
intends to increase its service in line
with the development of the business
in the future. The company would
guarantee to remove the tracks if there
was sufi cient noise on the curve on
Tenth street to disturb the service.
MR.. CALKENs' REMARKS.
W. w. Oalkens stated that he appre-
hended that the strongest argument
which Colonel Ayres could make in
favor of having the road located al
Tenth street, inasmuch as he lived al
Eleventh and Pearl streets and would
not want the line to turn that corner
Anyone who would take ride to Uni
versity could demonstrate whether
there was any noise on electric road
curves. He expected that there would
bs car service every two minutes al
the Tenth street curve. DR.. Stewart
just before he died, spoke sgsinet the
noise caused by the cars st Second and
Broadway, and said Re would not ac
cept call at Emmanuel church by rea
son of experience with this noise.
Ex- Mayor Hazard spoke on the pro-
test on the Elith-atreet portion OF the
line and the necessity of compelling the
road to pay for the pavement of the
same, as the entire frontage WAS in pro-
test.
Alter come further discussion Mr..
Rhodes moved to strike out Tenth
street, from Pearl to Flower street. as
the road could then go on Eleventh
street.
THE PROTEST PREVAILS.
A ytts was then taken and Mr.
Rhode motion was adopted, receiving
nine affirmative votes
Mr.. Munsoa r!lered an amendment