The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-03-19
COUNCIL VOTES
To SUSPEND THE
!. FREIGHT ORDINANCE
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| time he would have the franchise or
dinance prepared and ready to submit
| to council at a special meeting next
Monday night. IF we let down the
bars now and allow those people with
their freight cars on Main street. all
the ground we have won will be lost
and the fight will have to be started
all over again." said Mr.. Study.
| Mr.. Study stated that Mr.. MCGOWAN
was opposed to running the freight
car route down North Twenty-second
street as he wanted to use North
Twentieth street for this purpose. Mr..
Study favored the North Twenty-sec-
ond street route and said that council
should insist on this route and II 1t
did he is sure Mr.. MCGOWAN would
yield. A remonstrance by North
| Twenty-second street property own.
ers signed by about twenty, opposing
the running of freight cars on that
street on the ground that some day
a boulevard would be made there,
was presented. Mr.. Study stated
that there is bound to be opposition
on whatever street the freight car
line is run but he said that this Is
one of the questions council would
have to take by the horns and settle
once and for all. He said this could
be done at a special meeting next
Monday night, if council would con-
sent to delay action on suspending the
Main street freight car ordinance at
the present time. He favored the pro-
ject of having the property owners
on North Twenty-second and North
Twentieth street meet with council
at this special meeting, so that a de-
cision on the route to be taken could
be made.
CouneiImen Give Views.
Council was not to be moved by
the pleas of the city attorney and Mr..
Bartel entered the ring. He wanted
the suspension of the ordinance under
debate for at least a month. Mr.. En-
GILBERT also took a hand in the fight
He wanted to know why the company
had ever been forced off Main street
with it's cars. Why not let them run
the cars down the principal street
of town like they do in other cities
Mr.. Englebert had never heard bust
ness man kick on this. He suggested
that the company be allowed the use
of Main street, provided that it would
pay the city a small amount for each
freight car operated in the city. Mr..
Leftwich and Mr.. Deuker we're active
friends of the suspension ordinance
and the former moved that the rail-
road committee be added to the spec
ial committee to consider the fran
chise question and at a special meet
ing next Monday night this enlarged
committee report on recommends |
lions for a franchise. The motion
was carried. Mr.. Leftwich reminded
the city attorney that he had frequent |
ly stated council acted too hurriedly |
In granting franchises In the past and |
that council had now an opportunity |
to establish a new precedent. He
thought that the weeks time asked /
by the city attorney was too short and /
that three weeks or longer should be
occupied in preparing the franchise. /
In the mean time, Mr.. Leftwich stat
ed, 1t was unfair to deprive the ship
pers of their interurban freight ser
vice
Ordinance 10 Ordered.
Mr.. Study was then ordered to pre-
pare instanter an ordinance suspend
ing the enforcement of the Main
street freight car ordinance until
April 20. While Mr. Study was sup
posed to be engaged in this work
council took MP other mattex1 JUST