Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-25
MORE STREET RAILWAY ROWS
New and Old Motor Companies Fight with
Legal Weapons Again,
ANOTHER BATCH OF lNJUNC1IoNs OUT
Both Companies Lay Lot of New
Track and Each Secures Re-
straininE order Against
the other.

Another clash occurred yesterday between
the old and new street railway companies
and fresh batch of restraining orders was
issued on both sides by the courts.
The Omaha, Council Bluffs Suburban
Railway company about o'clock In the
, morning set large force of men under En-
gineer Moran at work laying double track
on Sixteenth avenue. Work was COM
menced at the south of the Jog where Sixth
street intereects Sixteenth avenue The
work OF laying the double track was pushed
rapidly. and shortly after noon Engineer
Moran had the steel all down as far as the
tracks. Then the work OF laying double
track between the numerous rails OF the
different railroad companies was commenced
This led Manager Dimmock of the Omaha.
Council Bluffs C Bridge company to become
alarmed, he fearing that the new company
contemplated building up Main street, and
he at cnce started to make a checkmate
move.
At about 1 o'clock the old company put a
large force of men to work on South Main
street and it was not long before they had
a second track laid each side Of the Burling-
ton crossing and at the end Of Main street
next the Rock Island tracks. This was
done to forestall the new company in any
attempt 1t might make to lay track on
that thoroughfare.
Fearing that the new company might in
terfere with the work the attorneys for the
old company went before Judge Green of the
district court aud secured a temporary in
junction restraining the new company from
interfering with or obstructing the old COM
pany in its laying Of a second track on Main
street between Tenth avenue and the end
OF the thoroughfare. The injunction was
directed against the Omaha, Council Bluffs
& Suburban Railway company, the Lake
Manawa & East Omaha Construction COM
pany, George Townsend, w. s. Reed and
Charles r. Hannah. In its application for
the temporary injunction the old company
set up that ii proposed to lay upon Main
street an additional track from Tenth av-
enue south to the end Of the street, which
it claimed 1t had a perfect right to do
under it's franchise.
No eooner had the old company secured
this restraining order from the district court
than the attorneys for the new company
hastened before Judge Aylesworth Of the
superior court and secured a temporary in
junction restraining the old company from
laying track on Main street between Tenth
and Sixteenth avenue and from interfering
with the new company in laying its double
tracks on Sixteenth avenue from Third
street to Sixth street and from tearing up
or removing the track already laid. The new
company set forth in its application for the
injunction that 1t had a franchise to build
double or single track on Main street
throughout it's entire length, but that the
old company under it's franchise had simply
the right to build single track, which IL
had already done and was at the present
time maintaining.
The serving of the restraining order on
the old company put stop to any further
track laying on South Main street, but
Manager Dimmock kept his force of men
until dark to protect what had been laid.
Engineer Moran of the new company kept
his men at work until the usual hour for
quitting. by which time he had double
tracks laid between all the rails of the sew
eral railroads on Sixteenth avenue. w. S.
Reed is in Chicago and Cashier Hannah of
the First National bank superintended the
operations OF the new company in his place.
The new companys haste in laying its
tracks where 1t did yesterday was due to the
fact that II was afraid the old company was
about to ask from the council right-of-way
along Sixteenth avenue at this point and
might get in ahead with its tracks.
G. r. Hannah said yesterday that the OBJ
ject of his company laying its tracks along
Sixteenth avenue to reach Fairmount
park. The company will run it's line on Six
teenth avenue to High street and from High
street to Graham avenue into the park. This
line, with an extension on Fourth street.
will give the new company access to the
Rock Island, Milwaukee and Burlington sta