The morning times., 1895-08-14
FAcTSUHDER THE SURFACE
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bold represented an entirely different
party, he yet has the same business shrewd-
ness which has led great corporations TO
hang on with a death grip TIL they have
wrested what they want from the people,
as the steam railroads have done here and
as this very trolley interest has done In
other cities
1t would, in answer TO fair promises call
on Mr.. Newbold to explain why, if he pro-
poses in Difference TO public sentiment
to withdraw the trolley, he does not SIM
ply remove the trolley poles and wires and
say mol more about i5. II would ask why he
continues the case before the Court OF Ap-
2eaIs Just as if he meant, if possible, to
hold the ground the trolley has already
gained in the city.
The Commissioners stand ready tO help
him remove the trolley from New York
avenue. That would make it cheaper and
easier TO do it now than at some future
time. Again il is cheaper TO drop the
suit before the court of appeals than to
maintain it. 1t would be less trouble to
the manage OF the road Jo escape further
citation before the police court by taking
away the poles at once without another
word.
If the Star had not for some reason
changed its spectaCles it would answer
President Newbold's soothing assurances
that he does not want To- put the trolley
in Washington by telling him that the
way TO withdraw is to withdraw, and the
time was never more opportune than in the
delightful August days it is hoped VII
follow this hot spell
NETWORK THIS CITY.
The fact is not new TO the star that it
is isvastlyto the profit Of the trolley syndicate
TO network this city with wires making
danger from fires ten times greater, as i5
has done in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Louis
vile, Nashville, and many other cities.
That the street railroad OF which Gov.
Brown, of Maryland, is president, Is even
I to-day replacing a cable line on Gilmore
street in Baltimore with this same trolley
may have escaped the star but when il is
informed of this by The Times, it should
! not be slow To- picture Pennsylvania ave
/ nue. disfigured with trolley poles and wires,
/ and to tell Mr. NewbOld that it is this sort
/ of thing which makes Washington prefer
/ TO see him take away the poles from New
/ York avenue rather than hear him tell OF
/ his good intentions while he is fEhung
/ his best 20 keep them there
/ 1t is clear that the time for the Com
/ nItsSiouers to act is now. There never viii
4 be a time when there will be less iECOn-
venience TO the travelling public and less
| injury TO private property The court OF
| appeals may find a ground upon which 10
sustain the claims OF the lexington Com
pany.
But If now, while they have the acknowl-
edged power and right tOremOve theObstruc-
/ tions. the Commissioners actually 10 re-
/ move them, ii is probable Congress may be
| in session before the court of appeals decides
| the case, and legislation may be had tocarry
| out the plain intent OF the law already en-
| &C ted
| Its the part ofwisdOm, ,asshownb ydozens
| of railroads in laying tracks stealthily and
/ by night, for the Commissioners TO act now
| while 1T is possible to leave it TO the oppo-
/ sition TO undo them if they can.
| All this the Star would be saying II
| something had not changed its mind and
set ii to saying one thing when quite an
/ other thing is true.
] Commissioner TTuesdeH stated yesterday
| that he knew OF no reason why the board
should expect letter from the lexington
managers defining its purposes as to the
trolley such as the Star yesterday said
/ they were expecting.