The herald., 1895-06-14
PASADENA NEWS NOTES
Another Session of the City
Council
LOAN ASSOCIATIONS EXHIBIT
The Raymond Hotel Site Used for
Concerts
DAN ASSOCIATIONS EXHIBIT
Selecting New School Sites-A Presentation.
Bicyclists Fined for Using the Side-
walks-Ncws items

PASADENA, June 13.-The city coun-
Gil met in adj burned session at PM,
President Cox in the chair and Trustees
Washburn, Weed and Lukens present.
The board Immediately retired for pri-
vate conference and were absent from the
council chamber nearly an hour. When
they returned Attorney Gibbon addressed
the board, saying he would like to make 4
statement for the Terminal company be-
fore any action was taken. He said the
company was willing to make the 25-cent
rate for the round trip, to apply from any
station in Pasadena to any station in Los
Angeles.
Trustee Weed then read the resolution
which had been considered by the board
and moved its adoption, the motion be-
ing seconded by Trustee Washburn. This
resolution recited the act that the board
of trustees has heretofore adopted an or
dinance. No. 195. granting franchise to
the Pasadena, Los Angeles and Glendale
Railroad company, to which the Ter
minal company is the successor, provid
ing that no less than twelve trains should
be run each way oetwe en- Los Angelesa
and Pasadena, providing tnat the number
of such trains may be reduced to such
consider right and proper. The resolu-
tion then goes on 60 say:
Whereas, 1t is by the board OF trustees
of said city deemed to be at present nm
necessary. in order to meet the require
ments and demands OF the public. for
more than four passenger trains to tc
run each way per day on said road be-
tween the cities CT Pasadena and Los An
geles; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the board OF trustees of
the city of Pasadena, that said Los An
geles Terminal Railway company may,
until further order of said board, reduce
the mum ber OF its passenger trans so run
between said cities of Pasadena and Los
Angeles to four trains each way per day,
but 1t is expressly understood that this
resolution shall not be construed as an
amendment to said ordinance or as waiv-
ing any rights secured to said city by
said ordinance, but simply as a tempo
rary relief. revocabe ut any time at the
will of this board of trustees or other
legislative body of said city.
The rate of % cents for the round trip
is expressly stipulated.
Attorney Gibbon then addressed the
board. He said that the provision allow
ing the board the right to demand the
restoration of the twelve trains per day
each way at any time would not afford
the company the relief it must have if it
is to continue in business. For it would
plainly not be a business proposition
for the company to undertake TO do
business with the liability of being forced
to run empty trains at a great loss to
them, at any time that the council might
see fit TO require it. He did not think
the council would be so unreasonable as
to ask it, but what man would be willing
to conduct his business under similar
cond itions? When the Terminal COM
pany came into Pasadena it made a re-
due ton of 10 cents IN the rate of fare at
once. Since that time it has been of
some service in helping to build up the
community, and now, when by reason OF
this building up, competition has come
i'll they only ask to be placed on an equal
footing with the other roads. AS every
one knows, the cream of the business
is carried on by the morning ami even
ing trains and our rivals can secure this
by running trains only at those times.
while il the Terminal IS to be required
to run twelve trains per day. for there is
"A POSSIBILITY of il at anv moment. 1t is
plain that the road cannot run at all All
the company asks is simple justice-that
it be allowed to do business on the same
terms as the other roads.
Trustee Lukens said he was in favor of
eliminating from the franchise the num-
ber of trains. as he thought the company
would naturally run as many trains as
there is business for, and he thought
it only right and fair that all the roads
should be IN an equal footing.
Trus tee Weed said he was III favor of
the coming of the Southern Pacific for
the same reason that he favored anything
and everything that was benefit to Pas
adena, and any other road that wanted
to come would find him ready to help,
and for the same reason he now favored
putting the Terminal on an equal footing
with the other roads and giving them all
a far and equal chance. He thouht this
was only just
Trustee Lukens expressed the same
views, saying he thought it only fair to