The Cairo bulletin., 1908-02-05
| ITERURBAN R. R. men


" freight. In all reason and folowin
:" IA the line of other intcrurban cri
y Eances, the grantee ought to be salts
= fled with one place IL may itself as
y tablish along the streets fer receivin
Q tend discharging freight, and sucl
/ other palces as 1t may select with tn,
J. approval OF the street committee. TIL,
:, city. during the course OF fifty year,
t this ordinance is to run--a period o
, time during which the question o.
| passenger traffic upon these public
! streets may become = vial one FOL
2 the city and its inhabitants, should al
least have voice in determining tho
number and location CT these stop,
ping places upon sucn indispensable
streets to the city al Cairo as are the
avenue and streets in question.
. Fifth: The so-called twenty-ycar
Irterurban ordinance, tsecticn 81 re-
quires the Interurban Company to
maintain electric lights and one sec.
ton Of the bulkhead at Sycamore
lstreet subway; also (section 100 to
furnish a funeral car, and pay an an
lnual tax of one s(Sl.00l) dollar for
each of its cars. + object 20 the fifiy
year Terminal Company ordinance
because of the absence from 1t of any
requirements whatever TO do any or
the above things; and by reason
! thereof this company could build the
road as 1t is authorized to do under
| this ordinance and claim exemption
| from doing any CT such things which
| the Tnterurban Company would have
to do during the twenty years its or
/ dinance had to run III it built the road
under its ordinance. and even If ii did
there would be thirty years beyond
that time that the Terminal Company
| could operate the road and be ex
empt from doing any or said things
There should have been suitable
provision in this ordinance com
pelling the Terminal Company to dol
these things during the life of its
fifty year ordinance In case the
Terminal Company neglected to do so
otherwise it is plain to be seen thaj
the city may not get what it is eyi-
IDENTIFY intended it should get as a
consideration for allowing this Inter
urban railroad the right Of passage
through this subway; and for this
reason alone, If there were none
other. 7 would be recreant to my duty
as MAYOR to approve OF this fifty
wear Terminal Company ordinance
The most charitable view to be taken |
OF the matter is that the above defect |
in the ordinance was a mere over
sight due to the haste with which it |
was passed after it had been laid |
upon the table for want of the re
CURED number of signers authorizing |
passage of the ordinance.
Sixth: | object to section 10 of the |
city year ordinance now under con
sideration for two substantial rea
sons, viz:
LIST. The omission from said sec
ton of the requirements of section
II of the twenty year Interurban
Company ordinance. that the railroad
shall be constructed and completed
on Washington avenue from Fourth
street to Sixth street aud from TWEEN
tieth street TO Sycamore street by the
first day of October, A. ID. 1908. and
on Sycamore street within two years
from the date of the passage of this
ordinance. The only requirement in
this fifty year ordinance is that the
railroad shall be completed from Ohio
40 he, 7
fore three years. and TO villa Ridge
before ten years from date of passage /
of the ordinance II is thus plain
that under this fifty year ordinance
the railroad company is not required !
to build any part of it's railroad Wit
Ia any specified time and can deias
its work until the avenue and all the ,
streets have been paved and owners I
assessed therefor. and then tear M r
the paving and commence and finish .
up the railroad within the required f,
three years. But this Is not the 8
worst feature of II.
End The language OF the section r
excluding from the three years limit :
delays caused by accidents. occur :
rences or proceedings" is so genera p
as to put It in the power of the raj; !
road company to seize upon any and d
all accidents. occurrences or pre- :
ccedings' II which il may he secretly y
and willingly part. as a mere pre- g
text for delay In either commencing +
,r finishing the railroad; and. NOT
only can no one have any assurance =
as to how many years may elapse he a
fore the railroad authorized by this r.
ordinance will be built. but In the a
Meanwhile the city Of Cairo Is pre- (
ented by the existence Of this or Il
finance from granting franchise to r
'ther parties who will build the road. n
rhe very least that this railroad com y
,any can reasonably ask for is that Il
he delays TO be excluded should only h
,e such as were not attributed to its 4
'wn fault and beyond it's control. v
Seventh: | object to section Is OF o
his fifty year ordinance. II gives to C
ne grantees therein. in case OF y
abandonment or termination Of the
granted to Interurban