The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-04
PLANS MADE
TO IMP ROVE
CAR SERVICE

C. x. Jeffries, r. H. Warner and
ICharles Heren, Terre Haute, Indian
apolis and Eastern Traction company
officials, who were in the city yester-
day afternoon making an inspection of
the local street car lines, have ordered
Improvements which will remove
many objections against the local sys-
tenn and which will eliminate the fran
'chise violations set forth in the ordi-
nance revoking the company's fran
chise to be acted upon by council
Monday evening. The effect of this
visit on the councilmen who favored
frevoking the franchise is not known,
and the disposition of the ordinance is
"a matter of doubt. The franchise vio-
.latiOns cited in the ordinance are:
failure to keep the companys section
of the streets, between and on the out
side of the rails, in good condition;
failure to paint poles, and failure to
install modern improvements on the
lstreet cars. The officials yesterday
ordered plans drawn for repairing the
streets, the painting of poles, and have
promised to place new winter cars in
use next fall. The service schedule
has been slightly changed to meet the
popular demands.
Ii council revokes the franchise
Monday night, the street car company
Twill Immediately take steps to force
the matter into the courts and enioin
the city from compelling the company
Ito suspend it's service. City Attorney
Gardner this morning stated the car
company would not be compelled to
stop running it's cars if the franchise
lis revoked, without being given time
to remedy the existing violations pre-
tscribed in the ordinance revoking the
franchise. The franchise the traction
company holds gives them time, in
case it's franchise Is revoked, to RENE
dy conditions within a reasonable
time and to the satisfaction of the
council"
The street car company will at once
put force of men at work painting
the poles over the city.
All macadam streets in the city, on
which cars operate, with the exception
OF North Fifth street and West Fifth
street, will be repaired. The top layer
of dirt and gravel between the rails
and on each side of the rails, where
necessary, will be removed. New ties
will be laid under the joints in the
rails where the joints are loose. Crush
ed stone will be used as ballast, and
the space between the rails and on
each side, where needed, will be filled
with this crushed stone and rolled.
South West Third street will be
torn UP, the old rails removed and
new heavy steel rails will be placed to
accommodate the heavy interurbans
which use this street. The Main
street bridge, where the floor is occu-
pied by the tracks of the car company,
will be relaid with brick. The wood
en- blocks now used there are found
to be unsatisfactory.
The switch on North e street, near
Seventeenth street, will be removed
on North e street near the Union de-
pot was removed some time ago.
West Main street, west of the Main
street bridge, now has heavy rails,
and when the new brick street is plac.
ed there, which is conceded to be a
certainty, the car company will have
to lay its rails in cement and brick the
surface as other paved streets.
May will see the entire lot of win
ter cars on the dump pile, and the sum
mer cars will then be in use. Most of
the lines now have the summer cars
The extra Fairview car, which will
give that section of the city fifteen
minute service, will also be put on
May Z.