The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-20
PREPARE TO HAND
OUT FRANCHISES
Interested Citizens in Favor of
Freight Line Through Brig
ham Street.
QUESTIONS UP TO COUNCIL
MAYORS VETO OF FREE LIGHTS
ALSO CONSIDERED.

AS a result Of a joint meeting OK the
streets and gdunicIpal laws committee THIS
afternoon at o'clock, the city councu
tonight viii probably take acton on lHS
resolution granting the Ian Ian ISL - ba9i
freight to and from Fort DouBldS ~
tween a. m. and p. m. over the resi-
dence and business streets OF tne cry,
The resolution VIII ttODaD.y 80, e., =
street car company this privilege Iol
The committees will also talk over the
proposed franchise 70 the 5altalf inter
ests, granting them the right 10 run el5c-
trio cars over the streets or Satt Lake
for the Saitair business There are
good many points which nave noL yet
been settled on this matter, but IL may
be that the committees viii report up
a skeleton franchise TO be fought out
in the council and then made into real
agreement between the city ana the salt
Lake & Los Angeles Railroad company.
COuucilmen W. Mont Ferry, l.. u. Han
and l. D. Martin have been named as
special committee to draw up the reSo-
luton giving the freight-haultng priv
ilege to the Utah Light q Railway com
pany. 1t is expected they viii have this
resolution ready for the joint committee
meeting this afternoon, when It VIII be
discussed ana reported up 10 the cOun-
ell. 1t is understood that ten members
of the council viii vote to give the street
railway company The right 70 carry
freight To and from the fort Tor at least
a year, as test OF the system. AFTER
that time. If it appears that there was
no damage done and the protests are not
TOO many, a franchise VIII likely De
granted for number of years.
Mayor Takes Stand.
Mayor John S. Bransford has taken a
stand against granting franchise TO the
street car company for this privilege, but
il is said he will stand Tor the resolution
placing a limit Of time on the carrying
nf been
filed against this, and 10 is understood
several more viii be before the council
tonight on the same matter. Many of
the property owners along Brigham street
have taken stand against it,. and there
may be a lively fight on the floor Of the
council tonight.
1t is pointed out by the protestants that
only those interested in the street rail-
way company and allied interests are in
favor of the scheme, OF others who have
personal reasons Tor fighting for it, They
point TO the fact that A. NJ. Wrench and
f F. COlbOrn are interested in proper
ties through which the freight to the fort
IS hauled by teams; that George Y Wal
lace is connected financially with the
Hartman interests-and so on down the
list
While asking for this franchise, the
Utah Light a Railway company is fight
ing the granting of a franchise to the
salt Lake * Is1s Angeles Railroad com
pauy for electric cars to Saltair. The
cars viii pass over North Temple street,
Main street to South Temple South Tenn
pie TO First West and then west on North
Temple street The chief protest is
against allowing the cars of the Saltair
company to so over the North Temple
street viaduct. 1t is claimed this would
greatly interfere with traffic over the
bridge. II Is asserted by the Saltair
interests, however that the tracks could
be interlaced easily, and that there would
be no trouble in cars blocking other traf-
Both matters are expected to come
before the council tonight when the ora
tors will have a chance to extend them
selves.
Figures on Lights.
Mayor Bransford's veto of the twelve
lights for the NewhOuse district will also
come before the council and win likely
De sustained. though some of the Dleu1
beFs say they will still make an effort
TO pass the matter over the mayors
veto. It is asserted that the MAYOR is
wrong In his stand that TO grant twelve
new lights 10 the NeWhOuse Realty. com
pany would mean that other business
blocks in the city would have to be
treated alike, meaning that instead of
two and half lights to the block the
city would have twenty lights TO the
block, or an annual expenditure for
lights Of at least $4,000 more than at
present.
The councilmen who take this stand
say they are willing 70 grant as MANY
rs twenty lights to the block for men of
wealth who have the courage and en-
terprlse 10 put up skyscra pers and i'm
prove property at the expense Of a mill
lion dollars or more. They declare that
every time sl1yscraper is erected they
are willing 20 give two or three lights
1ree FOR the purpose OF lighting those
buildings, and thus lighting up the citv.
and at the same time showing off the
big buildings TO the visitors.
These three matters are the most i'm
pOftant 70 come before the council
though the report OF the city engineers
office on the protests on sewer extension
No. go may be ready, and win HlreIv
be accepted by the council il presented.
calling upon the board of public works
10 order the work done