The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-12
Ray RAYwoNp,s VIEWS.
What He THINKS of TIE Rapid Transit
Company's Petition.

am going TO write On a matter of
concern TO every Salt Laker, and in so
doing must necessarily let go q. few
prosaic truths with q cutting edge
commensurate to the time and occasion,
as eMgencies of the hour demand plain
speech entirely free from any gloss and
fine finish.
Should the Rapid Transit company
be permitted TO lay a third track on
First South and Main streets?
With all due regard for the interests
of both railway companies, and also
the general public, whose rights must
in no instance be shelYed in pandering
TO requests from either corporations or
Individuals say no. 1t is perfectly
proper for either an individual or cor
poration 10 ask for anything they want
and can get away Witn-aLl perfectly
pToper-but IL an instance OF this kil-C
the walking as well as the riding public
have both interest and voice in the
matter. ! do not think the city council
viii at this time grant such petition
this deduction pure and simple from
the intelligence and perspicuity of mind
accredited 10 the members individually
rkand manifesting itself collectively in
the delibera tons CT that honorable
body when passing on measures that
afIect every resident within our beauti-
fUl city, and those abiding in the nu-
merous additions" as yet without the
confines, as well.
Desecraue cur streets with three
tracks, together with the additional
poles and wires attendant upon apar-
lures Of the same? Out upOa the un-
terable proposition. Crush IL in its in
fancy, and consider it, nlayhap, III
twenty years from now if the phenom-
enal g-r0Ysta of this city then warrants
X - to-
public. The governmental affairs Of
OR city must be conducted on the
plan Of the greatest good to the great
est possible number and question: BILE
as ,Yell as the pernicious legislation is
" aletines railroaded through without
Yros2er consideration OF the subject
matter presented to Lawmakers by in
dEriduals and "cliques" having in view
furaheranee of personal interests. The
visitor is. under no obligations to either
company, and desires naught in the
matter, save such action as is conduc-
i've 10 maintenance of that safety char
acterizing our bread streets. When -oc-
casion demands and my finances admit
of so-called ''untrammeled locomotion'
upon the cars of either line, l put up
my nickel" the same as any other pa
tTon-why shouldn't 1? Suppose some
OF the property owners on the blocks
mentioned do incline to favor three
enacl1s, is that in amy way a beacon
LIGHT for the guidance of all the rest of
u.s. Not noticably SO. Suppose, as
ono disinterested % writer observes in
the Tribune, Larimer. street, in Dem
Yer. with two tracks, is but as wide as
from the curb ITO the center of the
tracks on our streets, is that a, sane or
valid reason why this city should cur
rail its driving width? We are not in
clined TO ape" Denver or amy other
city. SO far as to obstruct our broad
streets. were it possible. I will say
this: If The Rapid Transit people de-
sire so earnestly to benefit the travel
ing public, and not to make their plant
more valuable. looking towards posi-
BILE sale, why are they not content to
run their cars around those on the
Salt Lake City company's tracks, IN
der trackage agreement? Were such
an arrangement perfected, while there
would be a greater number Of cars for
the public to dodge on these two
blocks. there would be more room 70 DO
If in-plenty Of room is good in the
public streets
Does some Rapid Transit enthusiast
rise up to eXciaim 1T would be an in
Justice to make the Rapid Transit peo-
pie pay toll!" Oh it would-would it?
Net save in the conception Of some peo-
pie of strong partisan tendencies, or a
few others not versed in the railway
matters that they essay to speak of
Let me tell you that when g. street rail-
way company is granted a franchise
and they spend money to establish the
line and build up patronage, such
patronage is justly theirs, and no bust
ness man with an ounce of brain mat
ter would invest in such enterprise II
he believed for q moment his invest
y.aent would be shot to pieces by an
csner company being allowed to come
A,oE the scene and cut n upon reven-
ues he had SO worked for, and risked
n his money TO obtain. Is any other view
logical?
Let the Rapid Transit company go
out into the field and build up a great