The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-04
FRANCHISE TANGLES
ARE UnRAVELED FOR
CITY AUTHORITIES
Agreement Will Be Revised to
Meet the Local Require
ments and Copies Will Be
Sent to Traction Officials.
ARE SEVERAL POINTS
TO BE CONSIDERED.
Route for Freight Hauling in
The North End Is to Be a
Single Track Transfers
Will Be Insisted On.

The franchise agreement between
reference to freight hauling. will be
revised to meet the requirements of
the city and on it's completion copy
will be sent TO the general offices of
the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & East
ern at Indianapolis, and copy will
also be sent to the Dayton & West
ern offices at Dayton. All parties
concerned win then get together and
reach some basis of agreement.
The complicated franchise submit
ted to the board of works Monday by
the traction officials. has at last been
comprehended by the board and City
Attorney Study. The confusion arose
over the number of lines mentioned
in the franchise and the relations each
bore to the other. This tangle was
unravel led for the benefit of the city
officials Monday afternoon when they
met with General Manager Adams Of
the Dayton & Western and other rep
resentatives of that road.
Boiled down, the instrument submit
ted to the board is to this effect. The
Indiana, Columbus & Eastern, which
is the lessee of the Dayton e West
ern for a term of 999 years, asks for
a franchise to run passenger, combi-
nation passenger and baggage, ex-
press and baggage cars on Main street
from the east corporation line to
Eighth street and on South Eighth
street into the interurban station.
Provisions of Franchise.
The Terre Haute. Indianapolis e
Eastern, which line the Indiana. Co
lambus & Eastern is merged into,
asks the privilege of operating freight
cars on North Twenty-third street,
North + street, Ft. Wayne ave-, and
North Fifth street to Main street The
Indiana, Columbus & Eastern asks the
privilege of operating freight cars ov-
er this route to be built by the T. II. /.
C T..
The Terre Haute, Indianapolis &
Eastern. under the terms of the
franchise given to Lontz and Free
man and secured by the T. III. |. & E.
as assigns of the old Richmond Street
& Interurban company, has the fran
chise right of operating passenger and
freight traction cars from the west
corporation line to Fifth street. The
same road as the assigns of the old
Richmond Street Railway company,
maintains that it has the franchise
right to operate passenger traction
cars from Fifth street to Eighth street
so in the franchise agreement submit
ted to the board Monday the T. H.
I. & f. does not make application for
a franchise on Main street from Fifth
to Eighth street. The old Richmond
FRO, T,fcn
provides for the operation of street |
cars The officials of the T. II. I. & E.
maintain that the traction cars are OPP |
Grated as local cars. Just what stand !
the city will take on this question has
not been determined. City Attorney
Study states that the Indiana, Colum- |
bus & Eastern is an Ohio corporation. |
Route Single Track.
The franchise agreement provides |
that the freight car route in the north /
end of the city shall be single track. |
with one line of iron poles and there |
shall be no switches nor extensions
to this track on Twenty-third street.
1t also provides that the Dayton and
Western tracks on Main and on
Eighth streets and the tracks of the I
Terre Haute, Indianapolis e Eastern
in the Vorth end of the city shall be
concrete ties, half OF the work to
be dole within one year after the
adoption of the franchise agreement
and the remainder of the work to be
completed the succeeding year. This
is most satisfactory to the city Off
cials.
The board will insist on the substi-
tuition of a clause in the agreement
providing for transfers TO and from
passenger cars and local ears
and a clause providing that all local
passenger cars shall stop at
each street corner to take on and dis
charge passengers. The clause pro-
yiding for limited cars TO stop at
Sixteenth and Main, Eighth and Main
and Third and Main is satisfactory to
the city.
The freight franchise asked for by
the Terre Haute. Indianapolis and
Eastern is to expire March II, 1889. at
which time the old Richmond Street
Railway franchise expires.