The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-06
Mr.. clark ON TENDERS
Says Traction Company Will Have
Them When q Good One Is Invented.
TRACK ON ROBINSON STREET
Mr.. Clark Docs Not Look with Favor
on the Project to Move 1t
to the Middle OF tho
ThOroughfarc.

Vice President C. NJ. Clark, OF the
Scranton Traction company, Is In the
city, and was interviewed yesterday
afternoon at the office of General Man
ager Beetem by a Tribune reporter.
Mr.. Clark and Mr.. Beetem had Just ar
rived at the office after coming from the
West Side, where they had met by ap-
pointment committee from the West
Side board of trade, and had inspected
Robinson, Ninth and jackson streets.
An ordinance providing for paving these
streets Is pending in the city councils.
Before the work of paving these
streets begins, the street car tracks will
have to be moved, as they run along
the lower side OF the. street. Besides
being moved to the center Of the streets,
the tracks Will have to be made new,
that Is, an entire new rail, of different
pattern, the girder rail used on asphalt
ed streets, will have to be substituted
for the old r rail now in use. The
Traction company has had the right of
way and has operated the tracks on
these streets since 1870.
Condition ofAfrairs.
AS Is well known, the expense of paw
Ing street has to be met by the own
ers of property abutting on the said
street. The condition of affairs on
Ninth, Robinson, and a part of Jackson
streets, Is this: The property owners
ON the lower or easterly side would
have nothing to pay in the way of paw
ing assessment, it is said, because their
properties abut against the street. car
tracks.
Councilman p. J. Nealis, with c. E.
Daniels and A. NJ. Morse, of the board
of trade, met Messrs. Clark and Beetem
yesterday and they went over the
ground. Nothing was done in a busl-
ness way, but another conference will
take place today and Mr.. Clark will
make known his ultimatum.
The idea Of removing the tracks and
substituting new girder rail- which
will have to be done If the street Is
paved with sheet asphalt, did not strike
Mr.. Clark very agreeably. The tracks
now used on these three streets, Mr..
Clark said. are good, and he even went
so far as to state that the company will
not put In a girder rail. This is what
he said to a Tribune reporter, and he
will likely tell the same story TO the
board of trade gentlemen this morning
In regard to rumors that bob up inter-
mittently concerning a contemplated
change In the management Of the COM
pany. Mr.. Clark said with emphatic
force that there is no foundation in
fact to them.
A Good Fender Wanted.
Asked to say something of the prob
ability Of soon equipping the cars with
safety tenders, Mr. Clark looked pu2-
zled and answered that the company is
ready at any time to do this when a
fender has been invented that will fend.
According to Mr.. Clark, none of the fend-
ers now in use will do what is claimed
for them. Many of these equipments,
he believes, are more ornamental than
useful. Mr.. Clark referred to the sad
accident Thursday on Adams avenue
and the reporter asked him If the fend-
ers now in use would not have pre-
vented the accident? This question he
answered by saying that no human
agency could prevent some accidents
upder certain circumstances.
The Moosic line was inspected by Mr..
Clark, and he spoke about the likeli-
hood of opening the road to Pittston
in this style: The Moosic line is owned
by the Scranton and Pittston Traction
company, and is leased by the Scranton
Traction company. Just as soon as the