Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-08-02
DETAILING DEVICE
FOR TUERAS IS
PLANNED
THOMAS CALLED MATTER
UP AGAIN LAST NIGHT
Alderman Reidy FIatIy Refuses
Proposition Declaring It Gave
Pedestrians No Projections
Ordinance Not Ready.

The indications last night were that
the usual placid meetings of the city
council would give way to a stormy
session on at least just one occasion,
when Alderman Thomas asked the
city attorney if he had prepared the
ordinance requiring a derailing de-
vice to be installed wherever a street
car line crossed a railway in this
city.
A committee. of which Alderman
Reidy is chairman, some weeks ago,
reported to the city council hat a de-
railing device was useless at Tijeras
avenue and that a flagman was abb
solutely necessary for the protection
OF the public. At a meeting last
month, when Alderman Reidy was
absent, the council amended the re-
port to provide for a derailing de-
vice instead of a flagman. city At
torney Collins was instructed to pre-
pare such an ordinance covering all
such crossings, but last night he told
the council thai as there were two
conflicting reports on the subject ne
had done nothing further.
Il can't see where q derailing de-
vice is going to do any good, sara
Alderman Reidy last night. 1T would
protect the people in the street car
perhaps, and likewise those on n pas
senger train, but I can't see wher the
man. woman or little child, WALKING
across such a place as Tijeras ave-
me-. would have any protection az
all. The buildings at that crossihg'
make it impossible TO see a tram uh-
til it is almost upon YOU ana the
committee of which l was chairman
that a flagman was needed
there. | do not know anything ABOUT
any action for a derailing device
Mayor Lester said that he agreed
with Alderman Reidy and mat me
council should give the matter seri-
Gus consideration. Alderman Wroth
however. moved that the couneli
adopt the proposed amendment OF Al
herman sherwood, for a deralIng
device instead Of a flagman on snch
crossings. Mayor Lester SAID ne pe-
lieved hat at the time the Coal ave-
mo viaduct was built, an agreement
had with the Santa re
whereby other crossings were 10 pc
protected by a flagman. me CITY ~
forney said he also had a clear fecoi-
lection of seeing such an agreement
~ the minutes of the council, at the
ti,ne in question. A search was then
of the minutes but 1t tailed 10
such an agreement, the aloer-
either being unable to IN II, Or
II having mysteriously disappeared y
ever existed.
on the motion of Alderman Wroth'
To adopt the sherwood
for a derailing device, all members
Of the council voted in oil IT,
with the exception of Alderman
Reidv who voted NO"
"I am opposed to any device for
hat crossing that does not protect
avery one said Alderman Reldy-
The man who walks across there at
,ipht or in the early hours of the
morning en- route to work, is emitted
"a the same protection as the man
who rides in a street car or a passen-
ger train
BY the use OF a derailing device al
street car would be stopped until the
conductor or motorman walked
across the Santa Fe tracks and threw
|, switch, thereby giving him an OPP
oortunity to see if any trains were APP
preaching from either direction. 1t IL
likely to precipitate a lively row IN
council before such an ordinance
$ passed.
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