The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-19
WILL COST ABOUT $4,000
TIfE STREET CAR COMPANY
DON'T WANT TO PLAY.
REGULAR SOUTHERN LEASE PROPOSITION
But the Board Of Aldermen Were Too Smar
10 Be Caught by Such Came Took
Only Five Minutes 10
Refuse It.


At n Joint meeting of the street and
finance committees of the board OF al
dermen yesterday afternoon ut was de-
cided to build a tramway to the rock
quarry for bringing paving stone to the
city.
1t will be built from BlOunt street out
Hargett street, as originally proposed
by Mayor Russ in these columns. From
the intersection of BlOunt and Hargett
streets a mile of temporary track will be
laid TO any part of the city in which
stone Us needed in street work.
Work will begin Immediately. The
track-iron and other material will be
ordered to-day. 1t is estimated that
the material can be obtained for $4,000
and put down for $500, making total
cost of the road of 1900. Scarcely any
grading is needed.
To operate il will take eight or ten
good horses and three or four drivers.
The grade from the quarry to BlOunt
street is such that two horses can east
~ hiring in two loaded cars, the cars
holding 1900 pounds of paving material
each, or $4,000 pounds each trip. This
would mean not less than 100000 pounds
a day, taken from the quarry and put
down at the very spot where it lis need
ed by the street force. And this could
be done at cost of not more than $40
a day at the most liberal estimate. To
do the same amount of work by wagons
would cost not less than $40. To bring
the paving stone needed to the city i'll
wagons would cost from $4,000 to $780,
000 at the lowest calculation.
The fixtures at the quarry have been
put up especially with view to having
the material transported in cars. They
can be loaded easily and with very little
handling of the material. 1t is proposed
TO purchase cars from which the load
can be dumped wherever desired.
1t will be remembered by the readers
of this paper that the street commit
tee, onzbehalf of the board of aldermen.
abouta month ago made to the street
railway company the following PROPOSE
ti0n
."'rhe city to lay the track ont Har-
gett street to the rock quarry, track to
be laid in manner and condition like the
track now owned and operated by the
street car people
THE street car people to use this track
with their passenger coaches free of
cost, provided they will put up poles and
wire the line and will haul our stone
from the rock quarry along their line
into the city. The city is to furnish the
freight ears on which the stone is to he
loaded and to do the loading and I'M
loading and switching of cans, etc. I'm
consideration for this service the city is
to pave and macadamize the streets now
occupied by the car company without
charging any part Of this work to the
company. This contract to remain in
force for ten years, at the expiration of
which time the street car people are to
be given the track by the city and after
that time the city is TO pay a reasonable
freight rate for all stone hauled into the
city
Yesterday afternoon the directors OF
the street car company met in Col. An
drews' office and after refusing TO ac-
cept the above. made the following coun-
ter propositions:
The city TO pave and lower the track
Of the street. railway on the streets oc-
cupied by the line of the railway com
pany, free of charge. in consideration of
which .the street ear company will all
low the city to use lis track. free of
charge, for the transportation of stone
for use on the streets occupied by the
stree car line.
FOR the transportation over the tracks
of the street railway of stone to be
used on streets, other than those occli-
pied by the line of railway, or beyond
the present line Of railway, the city
TO pay per annum the same amount
which it costs the city to maintain it's
own track, and six per cent. per annum
interest on the cost of their track.
Provided, That the city in transport
ing its stone over the Street Railway
track, shall not interfere with the regu-
lar schedule of the street railway pas
senger cars, and must provide necessary
switches to prevent this"
1t took the two committees from the
board of aldermen just two minutes 10
reject this proposition and just the same
length of time TO decide to go to work
and build a car line for themselves.
THAT is not little bit of Il PROPOSE
tion," said one member of the commit
tee. ut looks like a proposition from
a man who has been milking the Chester
and Lenoir for these many years to the
tune of 6 per cent for third rail on its
track. j move we very respectfully de-
cline it with thanks"
The motion was carried unanimously.
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