Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-08-25
GRANTED AND
DISSOLVED

DIbbOA LII
Our citizens are immensely inter
ested in the improvements which are
on foot The action of Council and
the various activities relating to the
Borough which grow out of it are
closely watched Our people Fri
day, however, were treated to a de-
veIopment which did not seem to be
on the program
Up town residents who meandered
down to Mill street about O'Clock
in the morning were surprised to see
force Of trolley employees, some
sixty in number, under W. f. Pascoe
busilv at work on the lower end of
Mil. street near the entrance to the
bridge. In ver5 short time an ex-
cavatiou for the track as required by
the grade was completed neatly half
a square and gang followed placing
the ties in position and spkung down
the rails. Thus the work progressed
and by noon the trolley road was com
pleted as far as the Heddens House.
1t was generally expected that the
DanviIle and Bloomsbury Electric
Railroad Company would begin yes
terday to lay its tracks on Mill street !;
but almost every one had the portion
of the street in mind where paving
was in progress. The movements of
the large crew so busily at work held
the interest of the populace and quite
as many loobers-on lined each side
walk as were at work on the street.
Mill street from the Montour House
nearly down to the bridge was black
with people.
At one O'Clock the trolley builders
resumed their work and the big
crowd of spectators lined up in their
accustomed places on the sidewalk
Along about , O'Clock all injunction
was served OH the Danville and
Bloomsburg Electric Railway Com
pany by the DHvilla and Sunbury
Electric r il Company praying
that the f. - c mpany be restrained
from lav iY- $ rs upon gronnd to
which ia ,'t.r claimed it alone had
the lega "osnn.aIe rights.
The inj as siI was in force just
fifteen minIt when it was dissolved
by Associate Judge Thompson, who
had granted it. a moment later the
immense crew, by this time nearly a
hundred in number, leapad back into
the trench and the mingled sounds of
picks shovcls aud sledges driving
home the spikes, made merry music
until six O'Clock and oven after that
hour until darkness settled over the
town By that time the rails were
firmly spiked down to point slightly
north of Market street
President Judge r. II. Little being
absent in Boston the duty of granting
the injunction devolved upon Asso-
ciate Judge DR.. S. T. Thompson who
was the only Associate in town. Sher-
in Maiers was also absent and Horace
Blue, Commissioners clerk, was ap-
pointed by Judge Thompson to serve
the injunction.
During an interview FIJI lay af-
ternoon Judge Thompson explained to
a representative of the AMERICAN
his reasons for dissolving the injunc-
tiou so quickly after granting it. When
he discovered that the injunction COW
cred the trolley work throughout the
Borough, he said, he did not consider
! the bail-one thousand dollars -SutfiC-
| lent. He also discovered that due and
legal notice had not been given to the
defendants
During an interview with W. +.
! Pascoe it was learned that the Dan
Vile and Bloomsbury Electric Rail
way Company feels perfectly secure
III the possession of legal corporate
rights. As Mr. Pascoe explained il
! his company has a charter for an cleo
trio railroad over the thoroughfares
on which his track is laid In addi-
tion to this the Borough OF Danvillt
has enacted an ordinance granting his
company a right of way over the same
streets and he declared that he
would proceed to complete the road
until stopped by some procedure that
was strictly legal in its character.