The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-22
RAILWAY co.
GIVEN ORDERS
Must Call in the Summer
om Cars.
AN}tI4D SelWNG iVs ~ iU Al
C0IlNcII MrANS RIlSINESS
Mayor Instructed to see Or
ders are Obeyed.
If the Winter Cars are not Forth.
coming Arrests will Follow
Council Holds Session.

should be compelled to pay their
good money to ride in open sum
mer street ears when the win d is
blowing sixty miles an hour and
the weather bordering upon zero"
was the arncst remark of member
William Gorton at the meeting of
the city council last night when he
righteously attacked the Marion
Railway company for its abomin-
able service in this city.
~ dent believe that there is an
other city in the state of Ohio
where street railway runs omen
ears as late in the season as did
this local company last year. re-
marked member. City Solicitor
Donithen informed the body that
according to a state law. the rail-
way company could be compelled to
take off its summer ears any time
after October |. After some very
lincomplimenthay things had been
said about the company. council
passed motion authorizing the
clerk to have Mayor Salrerff noti-
fy the officials to trot ont the win
ter ears and to do it quick. If
the company does not immediately
comply with the request arrests will
follow.
Another complaint was registered
against the CD. & NJ. by residents
of David street. the latter claiming
that the company blocked the side
walk and street in using the Erie
dead track which leads to the
Steam Shovel yards. O,.e of the
David street residents was present
,and explained that despite the fact
that the company has several hun
dred feet of room to switch on,
they run the ears in on the switch
just far enough to block the side
walk and partially block the street.
Member Mason declared that the
company had torn up several rods
of sidewalk when laying tie switch
at uliis point and had never re-
paired it. The body authorized the
clerk TO notify the company TO
discontinue blocking the sidewalk
also to rc~air the city property dam
aged
Not few petitions and ordn-
ances were brought to the council 3
attention last night. For two
hours there was nothing else doing.
The first was IA petition calling for
the widening of Nile street from
Kenton Avenue to Silver street. II
was referred to the street and al
ley committee.
! j. w. Thibaut of South State
street petitioned the council. asking
1 that 53 feet OF the rear end Of the
I0lley terminating near his house he
vacated. II was turned over TO the
street and alley committee.
| a petition calling for street gas
lights at the intersection of Neil
Wilson and Boon Avenue, was re-
ferlcd TO the committee.
| Council received a communication
from the supervisors of elections
disclosing the location Of election
Iprecincts. AN ordinance was passed
providing a voting place in the
new precinct d which was formed
by the division of precinct C of the
lirst ward. Ii was determined that
the voting place be located in the
Martin grocery at the corner Of
Grand Avenue and Center street.
An ordinance was passed calling
Ton special Assessments TO build
sandstone sidewalks as follows
South Side of Garden City pike. 61
cents; Scf1ner Avenue, west side.
90 7-l0 cents; Medlam street. east
side, 81 cents; Garfield street, south
side. 62cts.
"a petition was accepted and
paeed on file calling for a sanitary
sewer and cellar drain on the prop
erty abutting puon Mary street
from south side of the Lincoln
park addition and Garden City
rike, in the first alley east Of
Morys street and the first and Sec
end alleys south of the Garden
CITY pike. Council adopted reso-
lution AUTHORIZING the in provement !.
| A petition calling for a, sanitary
sewer and cellar drain on Sugar
street, Uncapher Avenue, Sharp and
;Bennett stree. and Cuyauga from a
|point in center OF Sugar street and
l20 feet west of Davis street and
terminating in Center at its inter-
section with HAYES street sewer,
was referred 10 the committee.
| A petition fcr storm water
lsewer ON Bennett street and Fies
Avenue, beginning at south side OF
Bennett at railroads. then west Of
Fies and south TO Columbia street
|sewer, was referred ~ the commit
ltee.