Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-10-14
WAUWATOSA AVENUE.

! RumorS have been current in Wan
watosa during the past ten days to the
] effect that the street railway company
is now about to construct line of
street railway tracks on Wauwatosa
avenue in the city of Wauwatosa, and
these rumors have apparently been
given considerable impetus 10y some
of our citizens whose opportunity dur
ing the past two years to familiarize
themselves with the conditions inn
posed by street railway franchise
grants in this city, has probably not
been so carefully improved as has their
disposition to investigate imaginary
possibilities.
One estimable gentleman, who is
sometimes disposed to be fair, and
whose ability to investigate. if the
spirit moves him, is unquestioned,
recently remarked to another citizen
that the street railway could not build
franchise of August 4 1903, until two
years after the date of the passage of
that ordinance, and that the right to
build thereby became absolute on Aug
ust 4, 1905; that the street railway
company had remained quiet during
the two years just passed, and that
now the time had gone by, the street
railway company was about to build
whether the Wauwatosa avenue prop
erty owners desired it or not. The
gentleman in question even went furth-
ei and remarked that the former city
attorney of Wauwatosa had also been,
during all of the time, in possession of
knowledge of the street railway com
pany's purpose, and that he too had
kept the matter entirely quiet for the
purpose of aiding in the building of
the line on Wauwatosa avenue in this
city at the present time.
There are, however, good many
people in Wauwatosa, who go to the
franchise of August A. 1908, itself to
find out what it provides. They know
that "a copy of it is recorded in the office
of the city clerk, and some of them
have preserved printed copy for their
own convenience. Experiences with
imaginary statements made during the
heated compaigns" of the past, have
taught some of them that perusal of
the ordinance itself is more apt to be
correct than the Interpretation of some
of its alleged expositors.
The franchise in fact does not permit
the street railway company to extend
any of its lines on any street in Wau-
watosa, excepting Greenfield avenue,
until after the Greefeld avenue, West
Allis, line is constructed.
1t does not, even then, permit the
street railway company to construct
line on Wauwatosa avenue in this city
until the expiration of two years after
the service of u written notice upon the
city clerk of its election to lay tracks
south from North avenue either,
over Wisconsin avenue or Wauwatossf
avenue, and never over Wauwatosm
avenue, if, within the said two weak
period, Wisconsin avenue shall have
been opened as public highway, and
no such writteR notice of election to
build has been delivered by the street
railway company or by any one for it
thus far to the city clerk of Wau-
watoSa.
The street railway company has al
ready secured the West Allis portion of
the connecting franchise and now has
an application pending for the town of
Wauwatosa connecting portion from
the town board of Wauwatosa. If it is
secured, it is possible that one OF our
citizens, who sometimes expresses his
desire of riding to Milwaukee by way
of West Allis, will be given an oppor-
tunity to make good.
Who is training the next DOGGY man
with which to alarm our not now seri- /
ously disturbed people?