The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-06

It'll the Terminal company with In
tracts { any other railway tracks Gr
switches. n one section IL appears
that the members of the committee
have had III mind the handling cf thu
ordinary freight cars over the ira aEs
and desired to limit the ether ears
which should pass over those tracks
Ito 1ntefnrbaH and street railways cars
|hy the insertion Of the words Inter
urban or Street railway but the oddi
ton Of those words in the way they
appear. in no way limits the right Of
the. company given in another sec
tions to. carry and move freight cars
generally over the tracks The trains
which are run over these tracks are
limited TO four cars and bulk freight
in cas-. leads Is to be transported ove r
tho line If the road between 10 mi /
night and a. M II Ii also provided
that 4he cars shall not be loaded or
uplpaded, or left standing in the
streets, Just how d law court would
harmonic that with provision at
another place In the ordinance that
such cars should stop TO receive aud
deliver freight at such regular stop
ping places as may be established
along the line we cannot say. There
is aageneral right given to this cGm
panyto do whatever Is done by inter
Urban roads In this state. 1t is fact
that. some Interurban roads make Al
speciality of handling freight cars oil
ether lines, and delivering them at
various points for customers being
connected with the larger railroads by
switches. Granting the franchise In
that way is giving very large and in
definite powers.
1t would seem that this Terminal
read to succeed TO whatever rights
THAT have been given or may be given
IN the Interurban line provides that
il shall have the right to lay its tracks
on any part Of the right way given
To the Interurban line and abandoned
By It, aud as the Interurban calls
for = 20-year franchise it is probable
That the road will be built under the
Terminal ordinance
The council should have some posi-
tive provision in regard t. the time
Ion the completion OF this road. Any |
to use the streets OF Cairo |
has become valuable and parties |
should give them positive assurances
hat no unnecessary time will be
wasted in doing the work In this |
5rdinaucc three years is given to
complete aud have IN operation ? road |
rom Cairo to Mounds and Mound |
City and II it fails. IT forfeits its
rights "as TO such portions of said /
-ailway as are not then in complete
operation" II Is easy to see that un
Ter the provision in quotation TIE
company can build whatever it
1leases and stop and then only fer
'eit a right to build any more which
probably it docs not care 10 build
Former ordinances granting this
Kind Of right makes the line forfeit
VERIFYING II il does not build the
'ntire line.
This ordinance provides for a 50
scar franchise No other railway has
T. Do the people want to surrender
H. two principal highways into All
pit II Cairo under the conditions in
bis or any other ordinance to this or
any cthar company and tic its hands
'or fits years. Fifty years is a long
line That is one serious question to
consider
There T. nothing in this ordina9c,
provided for this company to do its
har' - the street Improvement,
'othing about paving. filling Or other
u is entirely silent on
hat q6Hstion. Why is that EVER
lther ordinance granting a franchise
- a railroad 10 lay its tracks on our
.treets is complete in its provisions
Or forcing II 10 do its share Il g
-treet Improvement II looks as If
10 cxccrtioB should be made in tbs
-ase wifhrrt some very unusually
soCd reason.
The foregoing are some n the 4
eiuts which need attention IN that
srdiaaucc. The people along Sy-a-
more aud along Washington shsu j
study these ordinances. should know