The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-05
STREET RAILWAYS BIG GRAB.
Continued from Eighth Page.)


49, Ear consideration said Alderman
III, Il do not care to discuss the mat
ter further. -,-.-,..,.-.. - -. -.
rbatio in expressing his disapproval of the
lion Of council. The report had been
rr,sbed over the minority, he said. and all
+beir REQUESTS for time for further consid-
orotIon we're unheeded, although the rep
Sassntatiyes of the railway company stat
"a that they were willing to postpone
ment.
.rack BAY street in front of Guckenheimer
e. Sons said Mr.. Guckenheimer, II will
oct out an injunction against 1t. Bay street
1arrows at that point, causing a curve in
,ba rack Two tracks cannot be put
there and leave a sufficiently wide space
IN front of the store for our teams to
turn
the concessions which the city had OBJ
tanned from the railway company in the
way OF opening streets that he did not
seem TO attach much importance to the
rest of the contract. AS to whether the re-
,noval of the track from Price street was
"a concession on the part of the city or of
the railway company made very little diff
ference he said
'.Tbere ought never to have been rail-
wav rack on Price street. he said, land
A. Is 10 be hoped that there will never be
one there again. sit is a good thing that
the city is bound by an agreement to re-
ouire a certain sum of money of any COM
pany using that street as otherwise 1t
might be tempted at some time to grant
the use of this street to some company.
Price street being paralelled by East
Broad and Habersham streets was Of lit
tie value for street railway purposes.
The concessions made py the street rail-
Way company in the way of opening
streets, Alderman Charlton thought fully
compensates the city. In fact, he prided
himself that he had gotten little the
better Of the company on the deal, having
obtained rights of way through property
owned by the City and Suburban which
were not included by the company in It's
first proposition. On Barnard street the
city has arranged to buy the Rober prop
erty at Whitaker and Second street for
S1.750 In payment of $500 of this Mr..
Rober takes a slip of land owned by the
city in front of his property on Bull street:
The city is to be reimbursed by the rail-
way company for the remaining $3.50.
The other piece of property obtained by
the city is the right of way for about one
block through the City and Suburban sta
bles property. On Whitaker street con-
veyance Is obtained from the company of
the right of way owned by it for about
two blocks, but which has been open to
the public for some time On Tenth
street the company is to bear half the
cost with the city of opening up the UNI
opened portions of the two blocks on that
street between Whitaker and Abercorn
streets. On Bolton street the city gets
conveyance of the right of way east of
the Savannah, Florida and Western rail-
way, owned by the Savannah, Thunder
bolt and Isle of Hope Company.
When asked about the matter of sched-
ules. Alderman Charlton said that coun-
Gil had the right to adopt ordinances reg
ulating this and other matters pertaining
to the services of the company If the pres
emf ordinances are found to be insufficient.
Alderman Davis said that he is satisfied
that the street railway company Will i've
no TO It's contract and that the service
rendered by 1t under the new system will
be better than any the Savannah public
has ever had, -
AS to Price street, Alderman Davis held
that the removal of the track there is a
great concession on the part of the railway
people Anyway, he said, the city attor-
ney had stated that this contract would
not be legally binding upon the members
of a succeeding council, though they
might consider themselves morally bound
by it.
Alderman Davis held that the matter of
street railway revision had been intrusted
by council to the street and lane COM
mittee and had received very thorough
consideration al its hands. This being the
case and the report representing the con-
illusions of the members of that commit
tee he held that there was no reason why
council should have given the matter any
further considera ton beyond the eXplana-
ton Of the plans made in caucus.