The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-27
A PARTIAL AGREEMENT
Main Street Railway Petitions
Will Go to the Council.
AN ULTIMATUM is GIVEN
Manager Wharton Will Not Run Both
the South Main and the walkerville
Cars Down Main Street-But
He Max ee a Concession.

The business men OF upper Main street
and the street railroad company will
present their respective cases to the
council at to-night's meeting. A par
tia agreement has been reached by the
contending forces. Mr.. Wharton of the
street railroad company has given his
ultimatum, and that is hat he will mo-
In any event run both the South Main
and the Walkerville car lines down
Main street. II any endeavor is made
to force him to do this he Will instant
ly sever all diplomatic relations with he
city of Butte and ask for his passports.
While utterly refusing to agree to this
proposition. Mr.. Wharton has. however.
generously consented to give the busi-
ness men their choice Of two evils, n
he proposes to leave the choice of the
evils entirely In their hands. He states
that he Is equally well satisfied what
ever the decision may be, and he does
not propose to interfere or to express
any preference. He will. as desired, run
his South Main street cars up Main
street to Quartz M then run them
around the loop, entering Main street
again at Broadway or Park, and he
viii run the Walkerville cars up Main
street the same way and around the
loop. n acceptance of this offer in
wolves no cars running down Main street
at all at any season of the year. The
other proposition is that he will halt the
South Main street line permanently at
Park street, and will run the Walker
Wills cars both up and down Main street.
This will give the business men of upper
Main street their preference as to hav-
ing both the South Main and Walker
Vile cars run up Main to Quartz, AMI
not down Main at all; or have the
Walkerville cars go both up and down
Main, while the South Main cars go on
Main not at all above Park street.
MI. Wharton figures that it Is numeri-
cally impossible to run the cars of both
lines up and down Main street on a
single rack and on the schedule he pro-
poses. He figures that IT will require
seven minutes at "A moderate estimate
to run a car from Park to Quartz and
back again without any stops at all.
The Main street business men contend
that Mr.. Wharton can run up and down
Main street IL he wants to, and they
| point to the fact that when the Main
street franchise was granted him last
fall he absolutely refused to run his
VAUDEVILLE cars down Main street nj
all, on account Of the danger from a wet
rail. while now he agrees to run the
Walkerville cars down Main street. but
refuses to run the South Main cars down
iaii GO "a 'fth' 'oo
sl!pperiness Of car wheels. To this Mr.
Wharton replies that he does not even
now agree to run the Walkerville cars
down Main street at all times. but vii
do so when the street Is not slippery
which will be nine times out of ten
probably. and that. he maintains, h
agreed to do last fall.
The business men are confident tina
no sufficient reason can be assigned for
MIR. Wharton's refusal to run the Sou
Main cars up TO the principal business
blocks, and they will endeavor to-nigh'
to have the running of the cars e
Quartz street made a condition OF th'
granting of the franchise. Meanwhil'
the people of the Eighth ward, through
which the line is to run, are much ex
ercised over the matter. Naturally
hey would prefer to have the cars rur
up to Quartz street than stop at Park
but rather than risk having no line a
all. they are anxious that the compan,
should be permitted to make its termin
us at Park street.