Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-08
FRANCHISE GRANTED.
Grncey, Kaiser and Moore Electric Rail-
way Ordinance Passed.

0rncey, hHiBer ana moore Eiectrlc itHu-
way Ordinance Passed.
Council met in regular session Tues
day evening, the following members
answering to roll call:
Meisenhelder, Rech, Weber, Hatha-
way, Peters, Davis, Steen, Bachman,
McCluer, Moore, Brennan.
| The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved.
A numerously signed petition pray
ing that the franchise for operating
elelectric street railway route No. 2, be
granted to Messrs Gracy, Kaiser, and
Moore, was read by the clerk.
Building permits were granted to
Emma Theis on Sixth street, Harmon
Becker on Front, and Henry Strecker
on Maple street.
An ordinance, granting the right to
construct, and operate an electric street
railway on the line oflroute No. 2. to
Gracy, Kaiser, and Moore, was read by
City Clerk Becker. Upon motion of
Hathaway the rules were suspended.
and the ordinance passed to second
and third reading by title. Upon mo-
tion of Rech, the ordinance was then
placed upon its passage.
/ w. B. Loomis appeared, representing
7. o. M. Davis and associates and
asked q postponement final action for
one week, as the gentlemen would
have almost completed arrangements
for the purchase of the "old route"
No. 2, and proposes to modify his bid,
and present one more advantageous to
the city than any yet submitted.
He stated that the bid of Gracy, Kai-
| ser and Moore was not in conformity
: with the ordinance esta ablishing route
! No. 2,and that the franchise, if granted
to them, would be invalid. Continuing
further, Judge Loomis expressed the
probability of Messers. Davis and associ-
, ates beginning within ten days the
: work of remodeling route no. l., "the
old line" into an electric road
Mr.. Hathaway said he thought coun-
: Gil, as servants of the people, should
act in accordance with the sentiment
of the general public. He claimed that
all necessary formalities had been OBJ.
served in every step of the matter.
Council was considering the BEST bid,
and that only, and that the bid o.
Davis and associates, as first made,
could mot be d octored' to meet the
generous terms of the other. AS q
= : lawyer, he considered the granting oi
: the Gracy franchise perfectly legal
Col. R. L. Nye, representing the ''old
line" and it's creditors, spoke, also urg-
: ing delay, and asserting that the Ora
cy, Kaiser, and Moore bid, as stated by
n Judge Loomis, was not in accordance
y with the advertisement, and that the
:. proposed ordinance would not, there
S fore, be valid. He asked if the 'old'
company, which had sunk it's money
# in route No. /, was entitled to no con
It sideration.
il Mr.. Nelson Moore addressed tn,
Is council in the interestsof route No. .
IS saying they had never in any way op
e posed the "old line" and would neye
is do so, and that if the ''old line' peopl
d constructed an electric line on From
5, street, Gracy, Kaiser and Moore, woul'
is stay off that street
The roll being called upon the adop
y. tion of the ordinance, every membe
It present voted AYE" and the franchis
A. was granted.
In view of the petition praying tha
no electric road franchise be granite
. 81 CT,
. dinance was submitted granting t
, Gracy, Kaiser, and Moore an extension
i on Putnam, Front, and Greene streets
:, Judge Loomis again advised delay i
), adopting the second ordinance. MI
Moore expressed himself as willing
let the matter go to a committee, an
y after being passed to second an
- third reading, the ordinance was ri
y ferred to Committee of Whole.
A building permit was granted to M
G. Knox e. Son, Harmar street
a. The Mayors report for the month G
March was submitted and ordere
10 placed on file. The report Shove
o, s117S 80 paid to city as net amount {
at fines and licenses
i'd A new lease for rent of q. e O.
ill ticket Office next year at a rental {
$3.50 was read before Council and al
SIS proved.
,o In pursuance TO statute the Mayo
ed submitted his annual report and rel
H. commended immediate increase of til
IS police force.
Accompanying the Mayors repo
81 was the report of the Chief of the FIJI
- Department, also the report of Jewe
-. Palmer, President of the Board {
, Health. Abstracts of these report
will be published later.
President Meisenhelder rendered h
'.a resignation, to take effect immediatel.