Arizona republican., 1914-03-26

peal for her home. F. H. Blackburn. a resident of the same neighborhood. injected a good deal of bitterness into his remarks and for the moment. it appeared that railroads were a nuisance and should be guarded against as the plague.
 i c. M. Sturgis spoke at considerable ! length against the granting of the Madison Street right of way. He said that there was no reason why it should be granted. General Man ager Drake of the Santa Fe had sent written statement offering the Tucson, Phoenix ;& Tidewater the same rights on Jackson that it en- joyed MT. Sturgis produced a sec tion from the law defining the pow CTS of the corporation commission showing that that body could compel the Santa F'e or any road to grant the use of it's tracks to any company that might need them.
 l Frank Smithline living in the southwestern part of the city added his protest to the others that had been offered against the proposed franchise. There was the more req son to believe that the company could use Jackson street. he said. since the Santa Fe was there without right, for he remembered that it had been compelled to lay it's tracks along Jackson in the night time and at a time too, when every magistrate who might issue a temporary injunc- tion had been spirited out of the city. Other allusions had been made to the surreptitious laying of the Santa Fe tracks. But President Den nett of the board of trade, said that the gentlemen had been misinformed He produced ordinance 16O granting to the Santa Fe a right of way along Jackson street from Seventh lavenue to Seventh Street. It was true that the tracks had been laid in the night time over a part of the it was suspected a rival company would place in it's way
 One of the earlier speakers had said that while persons living along Ma dison street might bring suit for damages to their property by reason of the occupation of that street, the amounts they received would be inadequate after paying the expenses of litigation. c. H. Pratt of the Pratt Gilbert company stated that there could be no recovery except in the case of special damage and that there could be no special dam = age He had ascertained that from legal counsel. His firm which has recently completed a concrete build
 ing on Center between Madison and Jackson, would probably be the larg est individual sufferer. MT. Pratt
 estimated the damage at as much as
 fifty per cent. He said that if there
 had seemed probability of the con
 struction of a railroad along Madi-
 son Street his firm would never
 have undertaken the construction ot
 that building. It was stated on be-
 half of the residence owners in the
 western part of the town that il
 there had seemed such a probability
 there would not be one house ther,
 now where there are fifty.
 Thomas Armstrong appeared for
 large number of West Madison prop erty owners. He described in detai the consequences of the occupation
 of that street by the railroad. ! was not intended, he said, to built merely one track but it had beei stated by one of the incorporation that the company would need tn
 {,.D I+I. 4lz [ MT. Armstrong alluded at greate length to one thing which several o . the speakers had touched upon, tn need of union depot and the i'm . probability that that one would eve