The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-23
have A KICK COMING
There 10 More Trouble in Store
for Manager Wharton.
THE LINE ON PARK STREET
Merchants Object to the Double Track
Being Laid as Mr.. Wharton Pro-
Poses : It Leaves Them No
Room for Their Wagons.

There Is more trouble for Manager
pany. East Park street merchants are
kicking now i'm regard to the double
track on East Park street between Ohio
avenue n Oklahoma aveune. Mr..
wharton has started To make a double
rack along here i'm order hat he can
put one extra car on To the Meaderville
line. The people are very glad Ia have
fhe Increased service. but the kick from
the business men comes about in this
way. The original single track was
laid in the center OF the street. The
second track is now being laid at the
south side of the street. The conse-
quence is that the business men on the
south side of the street will have very
little room left for their teams. drays
and delivery wagons There will be
only IA feet left between the second
track N the edge of the sidewalk.
Messrs. +. X. Giard. San Ayotte. j.
Nadeau and other business men waited
on the mayor yesterday and protested
Vigorously against the track being laid
ut this point. II was claimed hat most
Of the business houses in this locality
are on the south side OF the street. and
that the south side should therefore be
left open for traffic.
The mayo told the business men to
lay their grievance before the council
at its next meeting. In the meantime
he notified Mr.. Wharton only to lay the
track temporarily. pending the action
Of the council in the matter.
Meanwhile the Upper Main street
people are keeping up a hard fight to
get the South Main street line to run
w to Quartz street instead of stopping
at Park street. They are laboring not
only with Manager Wharton. but with
the aldermen also. n are trying to re-
quire that IL be a condition of the fran
chise that the cars of this line shall go
mp Main street as far as Quartz. Mr..
Wharton lis not yet convinced that the
plan is a good one, and unless the ma
5ority of the aldermen can be ON
WINGED. the fight of the Upper Main
street people is likely to be a losing
one. The business men are preparing
a statement showing that the Main
street property above Park IL rather
higher in the tax list than any other
property in the town. showing the
licenses they pay. etc. They claim that
if the people from the southern part of
the city are unloaded at Park. they
will do their trading there. and not
walk up he hill to the Upper Main
street stores. On the other hand. IL the
al run w W QudiNL SlIttt, the pas
enger a still get off at Park
street. OF any other corner they
choose.
The main argument given by Mr..
Wharton against his plan is that he
only has n single track on Main street
and that he cannot therefore run his
cars up and down Main on the time
Schedule desired without their interfer-
Ing with each other. But the business
argue that he can run the ears up
Main street and around the loop. as he
IS 10 do with the Walkerville cars. The
cars of both the Walkerville and South
Main street ines can run up Main
street. turn into Quartz street at
the Walkerville cars will
turn north To Walkerville. while the
South Main cars will run south on
to Broadway. go west IN
to Main and thence down
Main. Some of the aldermen this
plan.