The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-01-01
CITY COUNCIL
TAKES ACTION
To Get Grade Crossing Through
to North Side.
CITY ATTORNEY ON CASE
Oty Council Will Use Stringent Me-
thods to get Better Crossing Fa-
cilities for City.


Tuesday night the City Coucil helt
q special session, the meeting hav
ing been called by Mayor R. H. Freidl
Roll call found all aldermen present
A committee from the Commercial
Club consisting of Robt. NJ. Lewis
E. D. Coleman and DR.. A. N. Smith
waited upot the Council and asked
that something be done at once to
prevent, if possible, the Great North
ern Railway erecting another ice house
on their Right of Way. The Com
mittee stated their belief that the ice
house would he erected in such a po-
sition as to make it impossible for
the city to secure at any future time
a grade crossing through the right
Of way.
After thoroughly discussing the
matter, J. L. Slattery, City Attorney,
was instructed to take such legal ac-
ton as might be advisable to cause
the Great Northern Railway to aban-
don it's present plans with reference
to location of the new ice house.. It
'emed likely the city would find it
necessary to show that the ice house
would prove a public nuisance and
menace to the health of citizens of
Glasgow should it be placed in the
east end of the railway yards as plan
ned.
The question of securing grade
crossings through the right of way
connecting the city streets on the
north and south side of the railway
property was also taken up by the
council. After discussing this for
some time Mr.. Slattery was instruct
ed to also take legal steps to secure
a hearing of the cause of Glasgow
before the Montana Railroad and Pub
lie Service Commission. 1t will be
asked that hearing be held in Glas-
gov and that the City be granted a
crossing somewhere within the city
limits
The council is determined to make
every effort within it's power to &C.
cure all possible accommodation: for
the citizens of Glasgow to transact
their ordinary business with as little
inconvenience as possible. Under the
presence existing conditions the most
unsatisfactory state of affairs are in
evidence showing the business men
and citizens of Glasgow to be in a
unique position. Never before has a
city population been required to go
outside the city limits in order to pass
from one side of the city to the other.
Glasgow probably holds the worlds
record in this, and no doubt, every resi-
dent of the city realizes it, and Won
ders why there is nothing done to re-
lieve the situation. Unless one trav-
els over the viaduct at the west end
of the city it is impossible for any |
vehicle to reach the north side of the
CITY or visa versa without it being
necessary to leave the city limits to
cross the right of way at the ex-
treme east or west end of the rail-
road yards.
For more than fifteen years there
has been, at various times, dickering
between the city of Glasgow and Of
ficials of the Great Northern road to
the end that certain necessary rights
of the city be recognized by the road
but without any apparent success.
There are officers of the road who are
without doubt friends the city
and are willing to do whatever is
within their power for the city but it
appears from the lack of results, that
their hands are +ico or else they have
not the power to concede to the city
that which belongs to it. AS re-
suit Glasgow is suffering from cramp-
ed conditions and inconveniences which
would not be tolerated in any other
community. This has continued to be
the case year after year, simply ow-
ing to the citizens desire to adjust
matters with the Great Northern
peaceably if possible, it having always
been the belief here that the railroad
officials would recognize patience and
forbearance and return good deeds
with cornespondingly good acts.
The city has evidently been deceiv-
ed in the promises, however. Months
have passed into years, and years in
to decades with no progress having
been made. Many promises and pats
on the back have been handed citizens
by officials of the road, after which
our public spirited men have smiled
and waited, only to be disappointed !
repeatedly while the officials have