The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-06
COMPANYS PROPOSITION
is FIRMLY REJECTED
Broad Ripple Town Board Has
Street-Car Service Under
Consideration.
FUEL ADDED TO FLAMES
Car Breaks Down in the City and
Broad Ripple Passengers
Have to Walk.

A proposition made to the town board of
Broad Ripple by the Indiana Union Trac-
ton Company, at a meeting of the board
held last evening, was Internationally re-
jected by the board, so that the last stage
of the fight of Broad4 Ripple residents for
what they consider adequate street car
service is worse than the first. ID
Since the actual taekihg-over of The lines
of the Broad Ripple Traction Company by
the Union Traction Company, the people
of the northern suburb have been objecting
in the strongest terms they could command
to the service given them, which has con-
sisted simply of the regular interurban serv-
ice Of the indianapolis Northern. The
proposition made by the street car
company last evening was TO give BrOa {,
Ripple nineteen cars a day, to consist of
the regular interurban cars, running on an
hourly schedule. This was speedily re-
jected by the board, which demands an
hourly service of local cars, running only
between this city and Broad Ripple. Broad
Ripple residents claim that the cars of the
interurban line run hourly only on the COM
pany's paper schedule, and that they will
not be satisfied with that service but will
fight the thing out for VI local service.
BrOad Ripple intends 10 use the restrain
ing order which it holds against the trac-
tion company as a lever to secure from If
the kind OF a schedule and service il wants.
When getting right of way for its line
through Broad Ripple the traction COM
pany had TO obtain permission of the In
dianapOliS Water Company to cross the
canal by agreeing to do IT at a certain
height To reach this height with its tracks
1t would be necessary for the company TO
raise the grade about three feet above Cen
tral avenue for some distance near the
crossing. The restraining order secured by
the town to prevent the companv's s
raising its tracks TO this height SO that
the traction company found il necessary to
obtain the consent of the water company
TO put bridge across the canal at a lower
level than demanded for the permanent
bridge. If tn. traction company does not
come to time IN the matter of giving Broad
Ripple the kind of service IT demands the
Town Board threatens to hold TO the re-
straining order now in effect. so that be-
tween the water company and the board
dilemma. What the next move in the con-
trOverSy will be is not known.
Fresh fuel was added to the fire of indig-
nation that is burning in the northern sub
urb by the breakdown Of a wheel on one of
the 1nterurban cars last evening at Alabama
street and Fort Wayne avenue, which kept
nearly twenty Broad Ripple passengers
waiting for nearly two hours, far away from
theirscozy homes and firesides.
Just as the was making the turn at
the corner a wheel broke 1t was stated last
evening that there was no heat in the car
and no fuel to put in the stove, and there
was nothing for the passengers TO do but sit
in the cold or walk through the snow 10
10 have done this. The harsh things that
were said by the Broad Ripple passengers
who thought Of their dinners awaiting them
were vigorous and quite unprintable.