The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-17
Traction Company Wants Per
manent on Jefferson
Board of Public Works Demands
Lowering Of Grade Regardless
of Future Plans.
MAY BE ANOTHER LAW SUIT

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Jefferson street will be the first ster
toward closing an open question OF
legal rights between the Paducah
Traction company and the city. The
board of public works yesterday af-
ternoon ordered City Engineer Wash
ington to establish the grade on JEFF
ferson street boulevard in order that
the Paducah Traction company may
lower its tracks to the street level.
Whether the city has the right to dc
anything more than request the trac-
ton company TO do this is the legal
question involved.
When the tracks were laid along
Jefferson street, the city limits ex-
tended only to Fountain avenue. and
the street railway company had to
buy right of way to the park.
Since the city limits have been ex-
tended to Twenty-fifth street, it is a
question whether the city has the
same jurisdiction over the tracks oil
that part of Jefferson street that it
has over the tracks on the streets
within the old city limits, the tracks
there having been laid according to
franchises.
Manager Blocker, of the Traction
company. said that his company did
not want to lower the tracks until 1t
was certain that the improvement
would be permanent. He said that
the ties under the rails are old and
that to over the bed, would neces-
state repairs at heavy expense for
a temporary Improvement. Contem-
plating the future improvement of
the street ne said it is probable that
all the Jefferson street and Broad
way line will be double-tracked in
the near future and for that reason
he does not want to lower the grade
now
City Engineer Washington had
been ordered several months ago to
stake off the grade for the traction
company to use in lowering its
tracks and in view of the question
of ownership and authority, the city
solicitor was asked to state the city's
case.
ID. A. II. Fountain.
How to erect a public drinking
fountain at the entrance to the mar
ket house without obstructing in
gress and egress to the building, or
traffic on Broadway, is the knottiest
problem presented to the city engi-
neer in months. The ordinance Civ
ing the d. A. R. privilege of erecting
a fountain there has been signed
The market house comes to the
street line and unless the front arch
is filled in, the fountain cannot be
erected without being considerably
more of an inconvenience than a
comfort to the public. The ordinance
mercifully leaves nothing to the
board of public works and the city
engineer but to see to it that the
streets are replaced in proper con-
dition.
Resurrected in all its former Wig
or. the sign regulations came in for
another ruling yesterday afternoon.
Realizing that conditions are such
that the board must treats eacn case
separately and not by rule. hereafter
no hard and set regulation will be
made covering these cases. 1t is i'm
possible to carry out the rule that
signs shall be no lower than the
ceiling of the first floor. The Column
bia will have sign which could not
be so erected without rising in front
of the bedroom windows in the Pal
mer House. The Nance sign will be
allowed to remain subject to investl-
cation and approval by the electrical
inspector.
Miscellaneous business.
City Engineer Washington will adj