The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-10
Several Councilmen Are Said
to Be Ready to Fight
Against Transferring Line
to 10th Street.
MAYOR REFUSES TO
MAKE ANY COMMENT
However He Intimates That
He Will Use All His Influ-
ence to Have the Line TAX
en- From the Glen.

The offensive interurban tracks in
the Glen Miller park may be allowed
to remain following the action of the
city council next Monday night. Three
councilmen have openly stated they
would vote against removing them
from the Glen. One of these men
says he knows of three more coun-
cilmen besides the three referred to
who will vote against removing the
tracks, and another stated seven
would oppose taking up the Glen
tracks and allowing the freight cars
to run down North Twentieth street.
Mayor Zimmerman this morning,
when informed that the agreement
providing for the removal of the
tracks from the Glen might not be
approved by council Monday night,
stated he would be very sorry if this
action was taken; that he had fought
hard to have the tracks taken from
the park He said the people wanted
them out of the Glen and that they
would have to go.
Asked if he would advise drastic
action if the council failed to order
track removal, the mayor stated he
would not make a statement at the
present time. Let them take action
at the council meeting, and then if
they do not order the tracks taken
out, it will be time to act he said.
Mayor Made Threat.
Some months ago when the matter
was taken up, the mayor stated he
had had an interview with the COVER
nor of Indiana who advised him that
the tracks could not be legally allow
ed to remain in the park. At this time
the mayor stated that if council would
not remove the tracks he would get
gang of men and take the tracks up
He said he could easily get five hun
.dred men to help him do the work.
A prominent resident of the east
end, and who was one of the first to
sign the remonstrance protesting
against allowing freight cars to run
on Twentieth street, was asked to
give his real objection to having the
tracks removed from the Glen. He
finally admitted he was afraid that
in event the freight cars were allowed
to run on Twentieth street, the board
of works would force brick street on
the residents. He said the expense
was too great, and that this was his
real reason for his open antagonism to
removing the tracks from the gully in
the Glen.
The ordinance for track removal
will come up for third reading at the
session Monday evening At this time
the remonstrance will be read.
A Big Remonstrance.
The remonstrance, opposing the re-
moval of the tracks from the Glen and
allowing the interurban freight cars
to run down Main and Twentieth
streets, has been signed by practical
ly every owner of property along the
line of the proposed route Feeling
runs high among the residents of the
east end who regard this as an affront
of their rights" and large dele
cation will be present at the council
meeting to protest against passage of
the ordinance.
The agreement for removing the
park line has been signed by the head
officials of the T. H. /. g. f. traction
company, and the board of works 1t
provides for the removal of the tracks
in the Glen at the expense of the
company, and the filling of the gulch
occupied by the tracks at the expense
of the city. The interurban freight
cars are to be allowed to run west on
Main street to Twentieth street, to E
street, thence west on E street to FIT
Wayne avenue, up the avenue to D
street, down ID street west to Fifth
street, thence south on Fifth street
TO Main, and from Main street west
to the corporation line.