The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-08-17
Council Grants
Trolley Ordinance.
Bloomsbury = MillviIle Trolley
Given Rights to Use
Streets of Town.
Will Build Fifth Street Sewer

The Town Council held a special
meeting Saturday night, President
c. c. Yetter presided and the fol-
owing members were present: Giger,
belly, Rhodes, Mifflin and Runyon.
The matter of granting the right
to use certain streets of town to the
Bloomsbury Millville Trolley Co. =,
was taken up and Mr. Yetter stated
the committee appointed at the pre-
vious meeting to 60 over the pro-
posed route had done SO, but that
the ordinance was not prepared.
c. w. Miller Esq, representing
the company, urged council to settle
the matter as the delay he said was
affecting the company's financial
standing. The Council and the
Company he said were at variance
only in the matter of the number of
streets to be used. That is Council
did not like granting the rights on
streets that would not be actually
used. This, he said was perfectly
right and would be satisfactory to
the Trolley Company.
The agreement under which the
Trolley Company is given the right
of way through the town provides
for the paving of the inside Of the
tracks as we'll as for two feet on
either side, and for the placing of a
pipe in the cutters, by the Com
pany. In this connection Mr..
Miller said that the Company would
macadamize the required distance
with limestone spawls, but that to
lay the pipe would be impossible, as
it would be necessary every time
the pipe clogged to tear up the
tracks.
When the matter had been dis.
cussed for some time the following
streets were placed in the ordinance:
Iron, Second, from Iron to East,
East from Second to Seventh, Fifth
from East to Market, Market from
Fifth to Market Square, Seventh
from East to Market, Market to
Fifteenth, Fifteenth from Market to
River Bridge, Sixth from Market
to West, West from Sixth to Fifth,
Jefferson from Fifth to Eighth,
Eighth from Jefferson to Market,
Fifth from Leonard to Scott town
ship line, but no additional tracks
to be laid on streets already occu-
pied and the track on Iron street to
be laid on the eastern side of the
| same.
Mr.. Rhcades held that the space
between and on the sides of the
trolley tracks should be paved in
stead of macadamized, contending
that it would not only make much
better job. but that it would render
the eastern side of the street more
accessible for wagons.
Mr.. Miller stated that inasmuch
as it would be impossible for the
Company to make immediate use of
all the streets for which franchises
were asked, they were willing that
whatever streets not occupied by
April 1907, should be declared null
and void. To this too Rhodes ex-
cepted, believing that the tracks
should be laid at once on all the
streets. Expression of views how
ever, revealed division, the other
members thinking that the COM
pany should be given a reasonable
length of time.
After considerable discussion it
was decided that no more should be
asked of this company than had
been required OF the other COM
panies, and the ordinance was pass
ed. Mr.. Rhodes did not vote on any
of the sections.
In reference to the complaint
made that the American Car &
Foundry Co., is using more of the