The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1903-01-17
INCONSISTENT ALDERMEN.

feet, or to the rear of the Lake
Building, 60 feet from Washington
avenue, was an act on their part
which should not have been con,
sidered since the same board and
the same members by voting nay
refused to grant to the Cudahy
Packing Company last February
petition to simply cross Alexander
street with track to reach their
property, which, if done, they pro-
posed to buy.
The stand taken by Messrs. Watt,
Blum Tilford and Taylor, was that
the crossing of this street by trains
would hinder traffic and endanger
the life of the people who traverse
it. especially school children, and
they would vote against it, which
they did, and all the eloquence of
Mr.. Bell, the Cudahy Company's
attorney, could not change their
! opinion or their vote.
Again, Mr.. Watt, member OF
the council circulated and secured
signers to the petition given below
which he filed with the council at
the time ard was still on file in the
clerks off when he, Mr.. Taylor
and Mr.. Tilford voted to grant this
so year franchise to the Delta Man
ufacturing Company on the night
of December 29th.
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council of the City of Green
vile Mississippi Greeting:
We, your petitioners, are advised
that an application is before your
honorable body asking on the part
of the Cudahy Packing Company,
authority to place a railway track
on or across Blanton street for its
use and benefit.
| Your petitioners believe that
your chief desire and purpose il
| to safeguard the interests of all the
citizens of our city. Your petition.
ers assert it to be true that the
granting of the proposed permits
sion would be hazardous to the
| lives of such citizens as are accus-
toned to use said Blanton street
and, furthermore, 1t would be
constant and increasing menace te
the traffic on said street, for whicf
purpose it was opened and has
been maintinled by the city. YOU
petitioners feel sure that you mus
be aware of the Importance of sale
street as thoroughfare. 1t is usec
most exclusively by those citizen
living in the northeastern section
of our city in reaching the bust
ness section; the numerous larg
industries located north Of Wash
ington avenue are constantly upol
it with their drays and the farmers
, that class upon whom prosperity
depends, find it convenient anc
natural route to the mills and com
presses. It is also in constant us'
by the teams of our merchants aE'
others in transferring their freigh
to and from the Yazoo and Missis
sippi Valley Railroad.
In view Of this volume of trafi'
and the exceptional narrowness Q
said Blanton street you must real.
ize that congestion of traffic from
any impeachment, however small
For these reasons, and the pub
| lie welfare requiring it, your peti
TONERS pray that permission b
| not granted for the placing o
track on or across said Blanol
: steet.
(Signed)
J Standard Oil Co., by J.B. Watt
PLanTrs Oil Mill, by G.B. sAlexande
Mgr, .Giaradina, G. Halter, inc
Cannon, and others.
The petition, as every one vii
, see, sets forth that the placing Q
the track there not only endanger
, life, but it would be menace t
, traffic for which it was opened ;tha
the street is narrow and congestion
of traffic would be the result. Stil
in the face of these strong objec
} tions these gentlemen who refuse,
r to all ow the Cudahy Packing @
to simply cross the street to reacI
/ their property, now grant to tn
} Delta Manufacturing Company tn
/ right to cross two streets and ru
, along the south side of Blanton
this narrow street, for 600 feet wit
a side track.
Such assumption of power WI
bring the condemnation of the pee
= pie down upon any Official or off
Gals, and especially when thos
t ofiials are the benefciaries of thei
l own legislation, as Messrs. Taylc
and Watt are in this case, they b
: ing among the incorporators {
g this Delta Manufacturing Con
| paly.
0 The Times holds this view; tbs
e if it was wrong to grant the Cudt
S hay Co., the franchise six month
ago, and the same reasons exist t.
day against it as then, it is wron
o to grant the Delta Manufacture
Co. the same and more privilege
, at special meeting.
We now hand the question ovt
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