The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-20
UP ITS TRACKS
Effort to Compel the Company
to Put Them Back Again.
LINE TO THE GARDENS
1t Was Abandoned because II Was On
profitable. But There Is a Demand That
the Citizens Shall Have Their Street
Car Facilities Restored.

A resolution will be introduced in the
city council meeting tonight, propos-
ing that the city make an effort TO
compel the street railway company to
reconstruct its tracks to Columbia
Gardens. Some weeks ago an account
of the street car company's intention
to abandon the Columbia Gardens line
was published in the Standard with the
reasons for doing so, principal among
which was the fact hat the line had
never paid and the company had come
to the conclusion II would no longer
maintain the Improbable line.
Since thai time the tracks from the
Columbia Gardens junction 10 the
gardens have been taken UP and sold
and the trolly wire taken down n
utilized in the construction of the South
Main street line. No cars were run at
all to the gardens this season.
As the abandonment of the garden
line leaves the city without any SUI
burban resort where people of moder-
ate means can get a little recreation
and air. Mayor Harrington has taken
the initiative in a movement to en-
deavor to have the gardens reopened.
The plan is to induce or compel the
street car company to reconstruct the
car line, and If this cannot be done by
the city alone, TO endeavor to bring IL
about by cooperation with the county;
and the county commissioners Will be
asked TO interest themselves In the
matter. IT is not decided what means
will be adopted. as the matter has not
progressed TO that stage as yet, but II
the movement succeeds ii is the inten-
ton TO try to extend police protection
to the end that the resort may be bet
ter governed than II has been in the
past.
The preliminary step will be taken
when a resolution prepared by Mayor
HARRINGTON yesterday is introduced in
the council at to-night's meeting. The
resolution reads:
whereas. The Butte Consolidated
Street Railway company has discon-
tinued their car service to Columbia
Gardens during the present season,
and
Whereas. This is the only suburban
resort available to the people of Butte
and vicinity for recreation and relief
from the fumes of sulphur smoke. in
which our city is almost continuously
enveloped. thereby making the neces-
sity for some such place absolutely in
dispensible to the community; there
fore be II
Resolved. That the city council take
some action looking TO the continuation
of street car service TO the Columbia
Gardens; and be it further
Resolved, That an effort be made by
| the city. either alone or I'm conjunction
with the county, to maintain this re-
sort as a public park so that the same
would he placed under police protec-
ton"
Just how the council will proceed In
the matter cannot be told at this time
nor can IL be seen how the company
can be compelled by the countil TO com
pei the reconstruction of the line II sucf
tactics should be adopted, first. as
Manager Wharton is supposed to have
n majority of the council. which would
be able to defeat such a move, and
second. for the reason that the part Of
the line affected is out of the city. II
is more likely. therefore, that il the
scheme is accomplished ii will b.
through negotiations with the com
pany. The general public will sincerely
hope the %reopenlng of the gardens may
be brought about. There will probabl,
be no opposition on the part of thu
company II II can be done in such
way as to make the a line pay III
WaV.