Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-03-18
FIGHT is ENDED.
Wauwatosa Street Railway Fran
chise Controversy.
The Decision of the Supreme Court sus'
tains the Action of Ex-MayOr Emer-
son ID. Hoyt and the Common
Council OF 1903.

decision on Tuesday OF tins week II Tue
action brought by Henry Leisl<, w.
c. Wendell and Imre Boos against TX
Mayor IIoyt, VIM. Won Baumbach,
James Lefeber, VIM Menninger. John
Hamme, c. A. Gum, Charles Bleed, Ira
w. Kennedy and D. P. Jones as alder
men of the city of Wauwatosa, TO com
pei the common council to submit the
street railway franchise extension or
dinance, passed August 4, 1904, to vote,
in which the decision Of Judge George
W. Burnell sustaining the action Of
the above named gentlemen in their
construction of the law is affirmed
Most Of our people still recall the inter-
esting details of the controversy which
ragged during the otherwise quiet sum
mer of 1908 in Wauwatosa, and to some,
especially to those who have or must
yet pay for the music, the memory is
not of the most enchanting kind. Two
thousand dollars is goodly sum to
expend for nothing, and while we do
not vouch for it, at least one gentle
manly contributor has remarked with
anote that approaches the tremolo, that
"It has cost us nearly that much all
ready" But there are some who have not
been permitted and who, in fact, have
never appreciated the opportunity to
contribute to principle which has only
existed in the minds of the ones in
whose pockets the sheckels have found
a resting place. What was the contro-
versy anyway? In the early summer
of 1903, Henry b. Hunter, in this affair
of blessed (?) memory and vigorous ac
ton, conceived the idea of persuading
the street railway company to extend
its street railway lines in various direc-
ton in and about the city of Wauwa
tosa Gathering with him a number Of
other Wauwatosa people, a call was
made on the president of the street
railway company Henry became the
Spokesman and the needs Of Wauwa-
tosa in lines to be constructed in the
various corners of the city and beyond
its borders were eloqucntly portrayed.
We were then receiving as favor from
the street railway company a ~ cent
Communication rate to Milwaukee, with
q car service every IS minutes. The
desrablity of five cent fare was sug-
gested, but the committee was promptly
informed that the question Of fve
cent fare could not be considered at
that time and various reasons given
therefor Henry and his committee
discussed other details and came away.
apparently satisfied at least, SO far as
the five cent fare question was con
cerned, for upon his arrival at WauWa-
tosa, Henry 3. Hunter boldly and
vigorously proclaimed that the street
railway company could not and should
not be expected to give to Wauwatosa
people a five cent fare at that time;
indeed, he went farther. and suggested
that Wauwatosa people were too shift
less or too impecuuious to avail them
selves of the ceuttare by the purchase
OF tickets and that they ought to pay ten
cents for their fare-and so the fran
ehjse was applied for as urged by the
committee Wauwatosa arenue was
included, Objections to that thorough
fare were made, and Wisconsin avenue
was then discussed. examinations made