The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-02

FRANCHISE
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shipping of this valley, but from my
experience I know that we need more
sidetrack facilities and we do not
want to have to make the warehouse
section of the city way down towards
the bridge. It should be in the CEN
ter of the city and / think that Col
umbia street is the place for tor
l am willing to agree to the PROPOSE
ton of Mr. Scheble and put it in the
alley. Either way suits me. Person
ally it makes no difference to our
company because we have sidetrack
privileges, but I know people that
have none and should have them.
This is not going to be any little
one-track town. We need more and
better railroad facilities, and believe
that it is a good bunch to let the
railroad company in hereof course,
safeguarding the town in doing it.
We fellows that have had occasion to
have cars set out for unloading can
appreciate some of the disadvantages
of not having more track. Time and
again we have had lumber cars set
out, people standing waiting for the
| lumber, and our cars would have to
be run ahead to allow of fruit cars
to be run onto the main line or cars
spotted into some of the warehouses.
If, as Mr.. Snapp says, the Great
Northern railway wants to spend
100000 in this city during the COM
ing year, for gracious sakes, let them
come in and spend it,
John A. Gellatly said when asked
his opinion of the franchise sought
on Columbia street: 81 have no
property interests on Columbia stree
nor none that will be effected by 4
franchise, one way or the other; but
as citizen and a city officer | have
an opinion | think that a franchise
should be granted if the propert3
owners on the westerly side of the
street want II, providing the neces-
sary provisions are inserted in the
grant or permit.
"To begin with, Columbia street
is lit for nothing but a wholesale o.
warehouse street, and if We are to
make a wholesale and jobbing center
of Wenatchee, I can see no better
place for it.
81 do not favor doing anything
that will hurt the property owners
on the easterly side of the street, as
they certainly are entitled to con-
sideration. They, however, are not
entitled to occupy the public street
with platforms and sheds for the con-
venience of themselves and their
business. as is now being done, some
of which are ten or twelve feet wide,
/ and then complain of the street be-
| ing too narrow for the owners of
property on the easterly side of the
street to get some accommodation or
use of the street, by way of a side
track. The street is public property,
under the supervision of the city, for
the general good of the people as a
whole, with special privileges to
none
eff the franchise is granted the
railroad should be required to do all
switching between the hours of 10
D. m. and a. m, as they are willing
to do, and should be required to
build their track level with the street
and plank it Tin the district in which
the franchise is opposed) so that the
entire width of the street could be
used for general traffic. With these
pr DIVISIONS the business men now on
the other side of the street would
! not be hurt, and in fact would be
benefited by reason of that district
being made the wholesale part of the
city. The franchise should be guard
ed as to the use of the track by
other railroads. I figure that every
lot on the westerly side of the street
would be worth twice what it now
is. the minute the sidetrack is IL.
and l also figure that the property
on the easterly side of the street
would advance proportionately and
their business would not be injured,
as these regulations would remove
all legitimate objection"
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