Evening journal., 1915-06-22
Citizens WANT ALL
Trolley PRIVILEGES
Object 10 Curtailment of
Service and Hold Up
City'S OK
PUBLIC MEETING
TO DISCUSS PLAN

the Street and Sewer Department will
be held at $50 o'clock tonight Go dis
cuss the resolution recently adopted byl
City Council TO ask a number of conces
sions from the Wilmington and Phila.
dclphia Traction Company This was de-
cided at the regular meeting OF the
board this morning, wher the resolution
was TO be acted upon The delay was
caused by the absence of Commissioner
Matthew ID. Murphy, who was unable
TO attend because OF a death in his FAM
i lily. He will be present at tonights
meeting
The resolution, which it Is expected
will be adopted by the board tonight,
is relative To changes in the trolley
( service resulting from the merger of the
Wilmington and Philadelphia Traction
Company with the Peoples Railway
Company Il requires permanent issue
of transfers on payment of cash fares,
the guarantee of regular trolley schcd-
ule, the removal of wires and tracks
within ninety days. from streets no
longer used and transportation free of
charge to city officers.
William r. Wright and w. 4. Carr
appeared before the board TO ask con.
tinuance of the Pine street line, in.
cluding track ON Sixteenth and Twenty.
third streets which it has been proposed
TO discontinue. President Sparks told
both to appear at the meeting tonight.
/ Mr.. Wright and Mr.. Carr told the
board this morning that they repre-
sented from 1000 to 5000 taxpayers anC
that they were going to circulate petit
tions asking the board to have the Pine
street line maintained.
, President Sparks declared that thu
matter of lines already in operation
came under the jurisdiction of the trac
tion company. He advised both men L
confer with the company regarding the
subject. The board. he said only il
concerned with streets where new line
are to he run.
No action was taken at this morn
/ ing's meeting ON the pending resolution
for regulation Of iitney buses in vii
/ mington. The measure was given IL
third reading about three weeks ago.
L. p Johnson. secretary of the
Ninth Ward Civic Association. in q
letter asked the board to defer ac-
tion on granting the trolley company
concessions until next Tuesday A
, public hearing, the letter continued
was suggested at last nights meet
inc Of the association.
The contract for 100000 square
y yards Of citv paving. which was
p, awarded to the Topeka Paving Com
r. pany. of Brooklyn. ~ Y WAS formal
4 ~ presented to Frank d. Van Horn
y superintendent Of the company. a
VI this mornings meeting. II was sign
q en- by Mayor Howell and some della
r was caused in getting the signatur
e of Clerk of Council c. NJ Dillon. VIII
vas at the militia officers camp hC
e low New Castle this morning TIL
g. document however was sent 10 Nh
.e camp for MIR. Dillon's signature. an
lie on its return was presented to Nj
.r Van Horn.
r. Mr. Van Horn announced that wor
le will be begun on the contract ne'
: Monday. About 300 local lahorel
ID will he employed. and $4,000 wi
be spent for material with local firm
en II was announced today that offel
ali will be received by the departmel
NJ. for tearing down and removing huil'
Sc ings on the line of New street. The
ON were condemned some time ago.
ny Prices on 10000 feet of grant
mol curhing for street work were receiv,
be from the Central Contracting Con
10 pany. Salisbury. n. c.: Henry NJ. Po
is ter Company, Newark. n. j.; II.
,er Fletcher Company. West Chelmsfor
Mass. John l.. Malone and Compan
Wilmington: Booth Brothers al
Hurricane Isle granite Company.
New York
The city treasurer reported the 70
- lowing balances. Current fund. 81
ii 0s0S0; special fund. sS16,79s.7 Z
~ sewer extension fund. $16,635.9S.
George H. McGovern. former Sc
., retary of the Chamber OF Commero
~, submitted the following letter to Il
~ board but no action was taken r
no garding IL;
ae To the President and Directors
~ the Street and Sewer Departmer
l,o City.
l,s Sirs: As a citizen and taxpayer a
N fected bv the proposed changes in q
he franchise of the Peoples Railway {
an on what is known as the South Hari
oh son street line, I desire to enter
re protest against the proposed chang
~ Believing that your board is inte
ested in securing every concessi'
which will benefit the citizens al
create Improvements. II is hard
necessary to refer to the granting
= the franchise of this particular III
M and the advantageous conditio
n which we're secured at that time.
III Many concessions which were \
secured in previous franchises We
,tv secured from the Peoples Railw
ev Company. and the conditions impos
81 by your department have been m
,rs money expended in compliance the
,tb with all of which have tended to
ne improvement and betterment of I
EN- district affected by this line.
of At the expense of the Peoples Rs
he way Company streets have be
,k- graded, paving completed from ci
inn TO curb which has been paid for
/. the company and there are sufici
concessions of like character to W
/. rant the refusal of the changing
Try this franchise which is to all inte
md and purposes a concluded contract
of tween the city and the Railway CO
us pany.
OBJ. Acting upon the good faith of {
err contract imposed by your depa
,fi- ment and expecting the conditi'
in to be lived up to by the Raily
ged Company. or its successors. indiN
uals and regularly organized &C
panies have expended large sums
rY. money for the Improvement of
old entire district and are ready to c
FOR tinue such improvement and as
nry interested party. / respectfully u
asst the refusal of the granting of a
to lease from the obligations of this C
tract 10 anv SUCCESSORS or new q,