The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-15
1. an, Favorable, VIII
Remove Depot.
DEAL c0NSUMMATED
AFTER YEARS EFFORT
Property Owners Offer $4,000 as
Bonus.
Alderman Virgin, Not DESTROYS Of
Blocking MouIten Instead Of
Lee. Casts Vote Against
Ordinance.

Within few months. visitors 10
Montgomery will stand a the Union
Station and observe, from the depot
door to the residence district. the vista
of q public street, where heretofore
the sight of freight cars and the drab
expanse of a freight depot met the
gaze.
Lee Street is to be opened.
Last night, at the Council meeting.
an ordinance was passed, with one dis
senting vote, providing that the por-
ton Of the Louisville and Nashville
freight depot which blocks the street,
be removed. To compensate for the
space thus taken up by the street, the
depot will be extended In the rear of
the present structure. across the foot
of Moulton Street.
George w. Jones. District Attorney
for the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road, announced last night that. as
soon as the ordinance is approved by
the Mayor, steps will be taken to re-
move the obstructing tracks and build
ings of the railroad. The approval
will probably come this week. and the
work OF reconstructing the depot will
begin at once.
The opening of the street is made
possible by a deal between Frank Stol-
lenwerck and the Louisville and Nash
Vile tkdllIuhQe WnCEcDy tuG ldnu uPUh
which the fore part of the freight de-
pot Is situated, Is exchanged for prop
erty of Mr.. Stollenwerck along Moul-
ton Street. BY the deal. the railroad
acquires SUFFICIENT land to extend its
depot in the rear. and to relinquish
that portion of the depot which blocks
the street.
Owners of property along Lee Street,
prompted by the prospect of an en-
HANGED value of their holdings. have
urged the railroad, by a cash sub
scription of $4,000, to consummate
the deal, by which the street can be
opened. as was brought out in the
Council last night.
Alderman Virgin cast the single vote
against the proposition.
81 do not oppose the opening Of Lee
Street, he said. in explaining his po-
sition. ION the other hand. I heart
lily endorse 1t. But / do not think one
street should be blocked in opening
another. Twenty years hence some
subsequent Council will have the same
squabbfe over Moulton Street which
we are now having over Lee"
President Gunter. who was endors-
ing the opening OF Lee street. declared
that Moulton Street was already closed.
at water Street, by an act OF the Coun-
Gil and an act of the Legislature. Al
derman Virgin requested weeks
time IN WHICH u pcTuSc tIlc TcCotuh
and discover II the statement that
Moulton Street Is elosd. was correct.
He did not desire. he declared. TO vote
to close Moultop Street. unless he was
sure II was closed already.
The majority of the Council, how
ever. overruled his objections. and
voted for the ordinance by which Lee
Street Is to be opened, and the Louis
VILE and NashvilleA depot extended
across the foot of Moulton.
The project is one which has been
favored. from the first. by CASTOR Gun
ter, President of the Council. and he
took the floor in defense Of the meas
IRE last night. He declared that II
would be an Improvement to the city
equal to or SURPRISING any public i'm
proyement of wears. He declared that
it would be. by no construction, det-
riment, because. as he said. the right
TO build across Moulton Street. at Wa