The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-18
MANY NEW ORDINANCES
Traction Company Authorized
to Widen Montgomery st.
Car Line to Be Constructed on Elk
tension of Perry Street and Loop
viii Be Constructed
Near Depot.

Street railway men hung upon the ses-
sion of the Montgomery City Council last
night and the meeting was almost ex-
ciusively a street railway session. More
sdtnerent street railway matters came be-
fore the Council perhaps than at any
other session In its history.
As result of the session the Franchise
Committee OF the Council has enough
matter before It to keep 1t busy for sew
sral meetings.
Both the Montgomery Street Railway
Company and the Montgomery Traction
Company furnished grist for the mill OF
the Franchise Committee and both COM
panies were well represented IN the gath-
er4nx which outside the railing In the
Council Chamber watched the proceed
angs Of the Council.
From the Traction Company both Pres
adent w. H. Ragland and Col. Barrie Holt
were present and the interests OF
the Montromery Street Roadway Com
nany were looked after by General Man
arer Raphael Semmes. The attorneys for
both companies were IN the crowd and
CITY Attorney Bib Graves was there To
G1ve information to the Council II any
was needed
The most important matter. perhaps,
witla which the Council dealt was the
massage Of an ordinance authorizing the
Montgomery Traction Company to run
its tracks up Montgomery street from
catoma Street to the intersection OF
Montgomery, Mobile, Goldthwaite ana
Clayton Streets. The ordinance was In
froduced at q previous meeting of the
Council. II provided for the widening Of
MONTGOMERY Street SO that the tracks OF
che traction Company could be run along
It without interfering with travel.
Under the provisions of the the ordt-
nance the Traction Company agreed to
nay all costs for the widening and grad
ing of the street.. It agreed to pay all
damages that might accrue to abutttrg
property owners, in the widening OF the
street and 10 pay all cost OF condemna.
ton proceedings. The agreement OF the
Traetion Company was to hold the city
harmless for all damages. The ordinance
further provides that all payment should
be made direct to the property owner. 50
that the city would have no part In the
settlement.
When the ordinance was up for final
massage. Alderman Gunter introduced an
amendment providing that should the
Traction Company violate any part Of Its
agreement with the city. contained in the
ordinance, that the franchise would be-
come mum ana VOiu. fSOtn inc dhtiCtiuhloh'
and the ordinance were adopted. n
Tr1 desire OF the Montgomery Traction
Company to extend ITS line out upon the
extension of South Perry Street was ex-
pressed In an ordinance introduced which
asked for franchise for the company to
extend its line from South Lawrence
Street out South Street and from South
Street out Perry to the city limits.
The company. 1t is understood, will ask
the Board Of Revenue for a franchise so
that the tracks of the company may be
run to the end Of the South Perry Street
extension.
The ordinance introduced last night was
referred to the Committee ON Franchises.
The Committee on Franchises. which is
composed of Alderman J. H. Hartley.
President D. Fleming and Alderman w.
u. Haysood, TO which had been referred
the question of locating a track for the
Street Railway Companies, which would
hiring them to the Union depot, presented
ats report to the Council last night The
COMMITTEES laid out the location OF one
track, which 1t declared should be used
5ointly by both the Montgomery Street
Railway Company and the Montgomery
Traction Company. This track, as pres
crfoed by the FRANCHISE Committee. is TO
he In the form OF q loop which will en-
close the subway on lower Commerce
Street. The cars on this track are to 50
down on the west side Of the subway on
which is to be the stopping point and
Ahey will make the return trip on the, east
side of the subway.
The action OF the Franchise Committee
WAS sustained by the Council
In an ordinance the Montgomery Street
Railway Company sought q franchise
which would permit 1t to connect Its track