Arizona republican., 1914-09-10
AN ATTEMPT AT
DEVELOPMENT
UNDER DURESS
Two Street Car Companies
Baptized with Water I'm
der Stern Eyes Of Ada
mantine City Manager
No Dust on Monroe st.

Hard times in Phoenix? Nothing like
that, else why should corporations
struggle to lay two street car lines
where no lines lay before? incidentally
the struggle furnished the inhabitants
of Monroe and First streets with a fine
young vaudeville show that was quite
different from anything they had ever
seen before
Fire engines and hose carts, red
lights and flash lanterns, torn up roads
and pools of water a sweating gang of
record breaking track layers; long
lines of steel rails and piles of wooden
ties. as busy corporation lawyers, squad
of firemen and a platoon of police,
mobs of interested citizens and City
Manager Parish formed the ensemble.
Mr. Parish says that he was there for
a double purpose; it was not with the
idea of forming a swimming pool that
would rival the famous Phoenix Ocean
at Riverside Park in the middle of
Monroe street; but to test some new
hose and prevent the citizens of the
district from suffering the inconveni
ence and distress of a frightful sand
storm, that he ordered out the fire de-
partment and soused the roadway until
it became a young Salton Sea. If
there is one thing the city manager
hates it is dust, and when a parched
and suffering public calls on him for
help he gives it, OF course if it so hap
pen that some ver-enthusiastic track
layers happen to get in line with the
fire hose and have their ardOr damp
! ened, it is no fault of his
That shy and modest thing, the White
Line. which has reposed in violet like
seclusiOn for 10 these many months
past, suddenly decided that in these
piping times of loose and abundant
! money, they would unloosen just a wee
bit more for the good of the community
and lay few rods of track on Monroe
street, incidentally cinching the fran
chise it held before it died of inocuous
desuetude. They sent a gang of men
to that vicinity yesterday afternoon
and ploughed up a few tons of per-
fectly good Salt River valley dirt
| Now the Phoenix Street Railway Co.
| is a law abiding corporation whose
| first thought is of the peoples pocket
| books, and when they heard that the
White Line had started on an uplift
| movement, they remembered that the
| corporation commission had ordered
| them to build the Monroe street loop
some months ago; but, unfortunately.
| they had been unable to obtain the
| grade and the men and the time and a
whole lot of other things. However
| far be it from them to let the White
| Line do anything that they could not
| better, so, the ground having been
| nicely ploughed up by their dear friend
| they decided that they would imme-
| diately lay at least fifty feet of the
| loop line. j. l.. Gould the chief en-
! gineer of the line quickly modified his
| TRUSTEES and in less time than it takes
| to tell it they decided to proceed i'm
mediately with the work, so immedi-
| ately in fact that they did not wait
for daylight but proceeded to work in
the dark, although of course that was
| not so much from a desire to get the
| track down with rush as because
night work would not be such a menace
and detriment to the tremendously
heavy traffic that cutters up Monroe
street throughout all the daylight
hours.
Everything was going along finely
and track enough was assembled ir
the roadway to cinch any franchise
when along came that man Parish
and poured cold water on the whole
proceeding. If only he had chosen
some other spot to test those hose; but
he didn't, and now, before any further
work can be done, either one or both Of
the interested corporations must &c
through the altogether useless formal
ity Of procuring permit from the city
OF course they will both be at the city
hall before it's doors open this morn
ing and unquestionably with money 81
plentiful as it is everywhere just now
both lines will be completed in a iR
conceivably short space of time ant
cars will be running next week. OF
yes.