The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-16
REACH AGREEMENT
REGARDING TRACKS
Glen Car Line Will Be Re-
moved Under Terms of
:. Company and Board.

Ratification by the city council OF
a. the agreement sig oed by the board OF
public works and the Terre Haute,
Indianapolis and Eastern Traction
company Is all that remains to be
done in order to secure the removal OF
street car tracks from Glen Miller
park The agreement that Mayor Zim-
norman and Fred Charles. of the
board of works, signed Monday, will
be presented at council meeting next
Monday evening. There is little
doubt but that coLnciI will approve OF
the agreement, although one or two
councilmen are expected to oppose It,
The company was ordered to place
the tracks in the Glen in June 1908,
at the instigation Of residents on East
! Main street. who asserted that freight
cars running on Main street and by
their homes tended to depreo.ate the
value of their property. They argued
that the tracks should be placed in
the Glen inasmuch as the park be-
longed to the city.
Can't Satisfy All.
In the words OF the city officials
no agreement can be reached which
! will satisfy every one. Since the
! freight line was laid through the park.
, from twenty-third and Main streets to
! North z street there has been nu-
merous complaints. Mass meetings
! have been held where public indigna-
f. ton and ire of the park lovers was
i.giyen vent to. They declared that
!, q blot was placed on the beauty of
rGlen Miller and that the tracks were
livery unsightly.
! The city officials have made numer-
! GUS efforts to remove the tracks from
! the park but up until a few months
| ago, no arrangement could be enter
red into with the traction company. At
tthat time the company submitted
kproposed agreement to the board OF
kworks and upon the suggestion OF
Hcity attorney Gardner the proposal
was sent back to the company in
cooperating clause specifying the
hours when freight cars would be
prohibited from operating on Main
tstreet from Fifth to Twentieth streets.
! Shortly afterward the proposal was
returned signed by Hugh J. Mellow
an, president OF the T. II. & E. and
attested by Joseph Fl. MCGOWAN. Sec
rotary OF the company. Monday the
board OF works signed the agreement
and II is now up to council for ap-
prevail.
BY the terms of the agreement thes
company Is given the privilege of op-
Grating it's freight or passenger cars
ON Main street or on North street.
This IL optional with the company
A curve will be placed at Twentieth
and Main streets as soon as possible
and the tracks in the park will be re-
moved Immediately thereafter.
Attorney GARDENERS provision which
was included in the agreement, Is that
the freight cars cannot operate on
Main street. between Twentieth and
Fifth streets, on Sunday or between
the hours Of II o'clock in the morning
and o'clock in the afternoon and 5
O'Clock In the afternoon and o'clock
in the evening on other days. Not
more than two freight cars will be per-
mitted to be connected and operated
as train on Main street.
The company Is to remove all rails,
ties, poles. wires and other appurten-
ances of its route in the Glen at its
own expense but the city is obliged to
repair the park, where the tracks are
and, II 1t deems necessary to restore
Ett to its formal condition. This
agreement will be In force as long as
applicable or as long as the company g
franchise 10 In force.