The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-02
STREET CAR CONTEST
Campbell Threatens to Man.
damus the Company to
OPERATE PARAMOUNT LINE
Unique Scheme to Eyade the
Recent Injunction Suit.

The street railway company is fran
Paramount, taking in the two cemeteries
There are several proposed routes and
Manager Nelson is at present the busiest
man IN the universe He is in a quandry
to know what to do, as it is the intention
TO have the line completed by the time
Paramount college opens, which will be
on September L. This will necessitate
quick work, but the difficulty encountered
in deciding on the route is no small af-
fair. Manager Nelson is daily beseiged
with applications and petitions to build
the line on certain streets and he Is
quoted as saying that he would give Sl0,-
000 to be privileged to not erect the line.
The company is DESTROYS of building 10
Paramount on Hillside, from the Douglas
avenue line, but this does not meet the
will of the people on College Hill, who
insist that Clifton should be about the
proper avenue to lay the track. Hillside
Is two blocks west of Clifton, and in the
event that the line goes out on this ave-
nue. it will mark the eastern terminus
This the College Hill contingent believes
will work detrimental to the interests of
the young Pixies Peak. They argue that
many people go to College Hill on a
sightseeing and pleasure trip.
On the other hand the Murdoch avenue
people want the line to go their way by
connecting with the Main street line A
meeting was held a few nights ago and
the proposed route thoroughly discussed.
Petitions are now being circulated and
the promoters of the project have about
2,5Oo signers requesting the company to
build the line on Murdoch avenue The
petitioners claim that they do not see
how $500 names can be ignored in
matter of this kind and they have con-
fidence abundant that they will be sue
cessful. The College Hill crowd have not
circulated any petition but they are
using many earnest endeavors to land the
plum. The matter has assumed quite
lively proportions and before the result
is known many will no doubt sweat great
big drops of blood.
Manager Nelson, when approached on
the matter yesterday, refused to be inter
viewed by a reporter for the Eagle. How
ever, he said the company would not de-
eide on the new route until the propo-
sitions were submitted to the owners
The Campbell injunction is another
exigency that Manager Nelson is con-
fronted with. The decree of Judge Dale
Is to the effect that the track upon Mr..
CampbelFs land is not to be removed,
and from what can be learned it is the
Intention Of the company to take up the
remainder of the line on both sides of
the 1900 feet involved in litigation This.
II is believed, will not be in violation of
ths courts orders. as the decision saws
nothing about operating the line This
would appear to be a unique scheme and
one calculated to evade MIR CampbelPs
purpose, but D. B. Crewson, one of Mr..
Campbelfs attorneys, declares that in the
event that an attempt of this kind is
made he will make application for a writ
of mandamus compelling the company to
operate the line as the successors of the
OLD company. The new company claims
that they are neither successors or as
signs and that they have an entirely and
altogether different franchise, the old
franchise being revoked and a new one
granted.
While Mr.. Campbell and his supporters
are not choice about the present line to
Paramount. it is their intention to pur-
suade the company to make a belt line
from Douglas avenue east 10 Hillside
taking in the two cemeteries. Fairmount
and returning via Fifteenth street and
connecting with the Topeka avenue line
This line at present runs to Fourteenth
street and to make the connection will
only necessitate the building of a one
block extension The argument is that
the expense will not be large However.
the proposition has not as yet been pre-
scented to the management
The ordinance does not fix the route
and it is threatened that bonuses are to
be offered TO the company to build on
certain streets.