Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-10-24
WON'T PLAY.
Union Utility Company Stops
South Park Project.

South Park Project.
Don't Want to Buck Prejudices Which
Exist Over There-Plan Had Been
to Lay Short Line This Fall aud
Finish 1T Next Spring Sturgiss'
Statement.
There will be no extension of the
street car lines into South Park
this fall and the extension may new
er sent into that suburb This was
decided at meeting of the Union
Utility company last night.
Much opposition has been en-
countered by the company over their
plan Of extension which was pro-
posed by a committee recently app
pointed to look into the matter.
This committee was in favor OF
building some line this fall and
completing it next spring.
When the company finished It's
work this year they found that
enough material was left tolay about
one half mile OF track in that sec
ton of town. This was proposed
to be laid this fall and next spring
it was to be extended.
When the people of South Park
| discovered what was to be done they
were up in arms, as they thought
that short stretch of track was all
they were 70 get. They met and re-
solved over the matter.
The feeling against the. company
was so strong that they decided to
to stop all plans in that direction
and store the material they have on
! hand.
The completion of the Walnut
street bridge will witness the con
nection Of the lines in town with the
power plant and car barns and this
is all that is to be done by the COM
pany this year.
Mr.. Sturgiss this morning issued
the following statement:
1--WE think the opposition is un-
wise and based upon misapprehen--
sion of facts. If the South Park
people had met the company in the
spirit Of frankness, and secured or
granted the rights of way from the
east end of the bridge along the
proposed new street running south
ward and parallel with Klnggood
street to Euclid avenue, and out Eu-
cid avenue, the road would have
been put under contract at once
and completed before bad weather
for the distance of at least half
mile, and in the spring, or at the
earliest favorable opportunity, the
company would have been glad to
extend the fine from the western
end at Euclid avenue by the short
est and easiest grade to intersect
the Kingwood pike near the north
east corner, and thence up the King
wood pike to the southeastern cor
ner of Oak Grove cemetery, and
thence by one branch extending to
the pump station, and by another
out the Kingwood pike to East Oak
Grove cemetery; further than this
no plans had been discussed or Sc
riously considered.
"The company cannot but consid
err it remarkable, when other sections
OF the town and other communities
are begging for railway facilities,
that this unexpected and unaccount-
able opposition should have arisen.
The explanation, namely, that 5the
South Park community, don't want
the car line to come onto Euclid
avenue, except upon condition that
the company will agree to extend it
over the hill in the direction of the
Kingwood pike, and the old Wells
farm, thereby greatly benefitting
their real estate holdings, is sell
fish one, and in, view of the fact that
the grade is too steep and it would
be impracticable and highly danger
Gus from an engineering standpoint,
the company declines to CONT it
self to any such proposition.
"We hope the representatives of
these apparently adverse interests
will get together and upon theory
that half loaf IS better than no
bread, that the half mile may be
nuiltNyet this fall. and the further
extension put through as early as
possible next year. 1t may be re-
membered that while all The great
corporations are exercising econo
my, cutting salaries, laying off work
men and abandoning many of their
plans involving the expenditure of
large sums of money, it ought not
to be expected that the Union Util-
ity company would undertake any
new enterprises except uTon the
ground of urgent necessity"