The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-17
MR.. BAhBERGER HAS PROOF
Produces Official Documents to Dis
prove Charges Made in
City Council.

President Simon Bamberger of the Salt
Lake x Ogden railway was in Ogden yes
-terday and in discussing the Lincoln ave
nue. situation said he was no scOundrel.
as some Of his opponents had attempted
TO paint him; also that he was prepared
to prove false some OF the statements
made before the city council at its last
session, a week ago, by those who spoke
against the granting of permission to Mr..
Hamburger TO temporarily use steam on
Lincoln avenue. In addition TO this Mr..
Hamburger insists that ne does not intend
10 give up yet and that he will make an
effort to run his line to the corner of
Thirty-third street and Washington ave
nue. where connections may be made with
the lines of the Ogden Rapid Transit COM
pany. This program, if carried out, will
WOFk out as well as the plan to deliver
the passengers from the south at Twenty
fifth street and>Lincoln avenue, as orig
inally proposed.
In support of the above statement Mr..
Bamberger produced letters from both the
mayor of Kaysville and from City Re
eorder j. b. MOreton of Salt Lake. 1t
was claimed by those opposing Mr.. Bam-
berger that he had forfeited his bond
in kaysville; also that his franchise in
Salt Lake called for his operating his
line but six months by steam. and that
he was still operating despite the pro-
visions of his franchise.
The letter of Mayor Phillips of Kays-
vile concludes with this paragraph
The statement made in Ogden TO the
effect that the city council of KaysVille
City had declared your bond forfeited
has no foundation i'm fact and undoubted-
ly was made to prejudice the city council
of Ogden City. Kaysyille City does not
anticipate any trouble with you and eX-
poets that you will keep the promise to
electrify the road at the time you agreed
without the fOrmality of having to sue
you upon the bond given"
Recorder j. B. Moreton of Salt Lake
wrote a lengthy letter to Mr. Bamberger
in which quotations from the franchise
IL Nl-raM
no time stipulation was made and that
the franchise to operate by steam was
granted without reference to period of
six months.
The letter concludes with the follow
4 will state that the records of this
office show that your company has kept
its pledges and that whatever complaints
have been made by property owners along
said route have been met with spirit
of fairness and have been settled with
satisfaction TO all parties concerned
Mr.. Bamberger is apparently greatly
grieVed by the charges made against him
in the council meeting and he emphati-
cally asserts that he has always been
willing to arbitrate any difficulties.
Operations on the line of the Salt Lake
& Ogden railway line will continue said
MIR. Bamberger yesterday. Il am going
to make good my statement that / will
bring $1,000 people into Ogden during the
next three months, if / have to haul them
free of charge and give them an auto
mobile ride thrown in. We Will have our
line in operation as quickly as possible
and l have arranged with the sightsee-
ing car company of Salt Lake 10 allow
US one man on the cars, who will boost
for ogden canyon and sell tickets over
the road TO Ogden. Tourists from all
parts of the country will in this way be
reached and Salt Lake statistics show
that fully 1900 tourists visit the capital
annually. / hope to bring the greater
number of these people to Ogden.
1--WE shall change the route and run
UP TO the Washington avenue car line.
and start as soon as possible electrify-
ing the Lincoln avenue line. This will
take time. We have no fear that threats
to tear UP these tracks will be carried
out as this is a nation with laws and
we are not living in the days of the
French revolution.