The Cairo bulletin., 1906-03-17
Ill Il N At j N BY
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in order to get business II It's plans
wore carried Ont it must have room
for large trains; ii must have track
age one thousand feet long. Ii it is
not permitted 20 come to Washington
avenue, the company will be crowded
/ for room The company wished to
build a terminal line for other com
panies to use and the traffic would be
great Tho public and individuals
should be willing to put up with some
inconvenience in order to secure so
great an Improvement as was pro
posed to be made and so important an
enterprise
Mr.. Smith said he had taken an
iopti0n on ~ acres Of ground some
time ago which he had Turned over
10 the company at cost on condition
THAT II would be improved. The esti-
mated cost OF improving it by dirt
trains was $350.000 while the price
paid to the Trust company was $780,
coo The company holds 500 acres in
I the Drainage District, extending from
/ river to river, where it could build its
terminals. doing mere with 100000
than ii could do IN the city with
$500 0oo 1t could establish it's ter.
minals there and run a bob tail into
Cairo as other roads were doing. The
road would he built and could get into
Cairo without coming down the levee
or it could go down on the west side
of the city outside the levee where t.
also controlled ground But if il de-
citel TO stop In the Ora mage Disr!c
it would put mp its main buildings
thcre and erect a small building on It's
ground in the vicinity Of Thirty-seeond
street, and they would arrange Tor
handling fifty trains per day outside
the city. This was no biuf-all the
substantial improvements would he
put in the Drainage District
The mayor stated that the story
about the Illinois Central being In
duced TO change it's bridge approach
because of the refusal to grant It Ger
tain privileges was rot true as the
Cairo Trust Property company had
held open for TWO years an offer to the
company for a large tract Of ground
at its own price. 10 be used for a
bridge approach, and that the railroad
company had never awaited itself of
it.
Mr. Aisthorpe said he had no doubt
The Coiro & Thebes project was a
matter of vast Importance to the city
and that there was a great deal be
hind il Citizens did not want the
company to so outside the city and
there would also be erious obstacles
to carry Gu, The plans proposed, main. /
ly in the objection to tracks on Wash. /
iugton avenue. Let us get together /
and compromise said he If you
can't get all you ask for take what you
can get You can get the businecs at /
Walnut street just as we'll as at Wash 1
ington avenue. and if that can be
agreed to there will be no trouble I
There is no occasion for getting sore .
know from experience that there Z
is going 10 be much objection to oc-
cupying Washington avenue with I
tracks,
Mr. Smith replied that there was
nothing 10 consider but Washington
avenue. He had great difficulty in in
ducing the men who furnish tho
money to consider coming down IN
the city because Of the enormous cost,
and they would not be content with
any location for the depots at any
other point Ii the company could
not get in to Washington avenue
within a reasonable limo other pluns
would be considered and that big hole
viii face the Library for a century to (
come
Alderman MagueU said if the rail-
road company can come 10 an arrange
ment with the Traction company and \,
get the consent Of owners nf property
where Il Is proposed 10 locate The
trect car tacks. 1t viii be time for
the council TO take up the matter.
Alderman Ned was not favorab,y
Impressed with The proposition OF the /
railroad company He agreed with
senator Green. and if the stop at
walnut street would mean too great
q congestion o. traE C.. making f. |,
necessary for ~ company 10 move
back from ibe street io make room 10.
baggage trucks. hacks. wagons. etc,
which would obsruct the street would
il not De the anne on Washington r
avenue? The long trains would ex- l.
tend over walnut street and com 5
lletciy block ranic as was often done h
by the Illinois Central at Fourth and 81
second streets. The committee
hould look over the plans carefully
lef1re acting on ihe ordinance
Dr. Wing. representing the Traction
mpauy said there was an under f.
Standing between his company and ia
IT, smith and ilcr. vas no necc O.
Try Of the fw5 railroad companies "a
e'firg together any more than they o
.ad already done for the present
M m any event. the railroad com
aay could cross the Traction COM
anys tracks wlth as many tracks
5 he Council gave the permission o. a.
iv across them he thought. how Ui