The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-03-12
SPECIAL BOARD MEETING
MAYOR AND ALDERMEN
With Reference to Location Of Depot
and Bootlegging.

Aldermen of Union City to act on a
compromise of the depot proposition
a bootlegging ordinance and hear
ing before the Interstate Commerce
Commission with reference to raise
in coal rates, the following proceed
ings were had:
At a meeting in Nashville, in
which ]. C. Burdick, of this city,
was present with President J. HI.
Peyton, Judge Claude Waller and
H. Mcdonald, of the ~, G. & st. L.
Railway Co., overtures were made
by Mr.. Burdick on a basis of com
promise whereby the people of Union
City might have a new passenger
station built and located outside of
the Church street lines without re-
sort to an act of the Legislature
forcing the opening of said street
over the railroad tracks, and the fol-
flowing is memorandum authorized
by Mr.. Peyton and signed by him:
At conference in my office in
| Nashville this afternoon, at which
Judge Claude Waller, Mr.. Hunter
Mcdonald and Mr.. j. c. Burdick
were present, there was a discussion
with view to reaching some basis
for an agreement to which the town
| of Union City, the Mobile & Ohio
and Nashville, Chattanooga & st.
Louis Railroad Companies might be-
come parties, that would make it
unnecessary to further contend
about the location of a passenger
station at Union City.
Conclusion was reached that the
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
Railway would be willing to agree
to the construction of a station
in accordance with plans hith-
erto shown to the Railroad Commits
sion and to the citizens of Union
City, including radical improvement
in existing station and moving il di-
rectly backward so as to give a plat
form twenty feet wide between the |
tracks of the Mobile & Ohio and the
Nashville, Chattanooga & st. Louis
Railroads and the station.
Mr.. Peyton asked Judge Waller if
an agreement could be prepared
that would be legally binding, under
the terms of which the town of
Union City could be prevented from
in the future attempting to force a
grade crossing over the tracks of the
two railroads, if the railroad COM
panies agreed to build the station
entirely clear of Church street.
Judge Waller was not prepared to
express final judgment on this point, {
but expressed the opinion very
strongly that if the people of the
own of Union City, through their i,
accredited representatives, agreed
hat no such demand would be made
hat in his judgment the railroad c
might count with GER t
ainty on immunity from further eff i
orts to force a grade crossing for at r
east twenty-five years; whereupon
indicated my willingness to agree
o build the station outside of the
treet, provided the Mobile G Ohio ii
railroad Company would agree to "
he same, but expressed the opinion is
hat the disadvantages to the Mobile i,
Ohio Railroad Company were ct
lanifestlJ so great that l did not G,
elieve that they would become par II
les to such an agreement. h,
Both Judge Waller and Mr.. Nc &,
'onald expressed the opinion, in p,
-hich Mr.. Peyton was in accord, that fl
OF only were the disadvantages to d;
he Mobile & Ohio Company so great r.
) to forbid their accepting this or
roposition, but that should the sta Q;
on be SO built the people of Union be
ity would find that the travel of in
lie public would be so greatly in tb
by reason of the i'm of
'oper l ocation of the depot, that an
ley would regret the action taken re
r all time to come. no
Mr.. Peyton, in previous CONVEX tb
tion with Mr.. Burdick, to-day in fin
Gated his willingness to stand by tv
e proposition he made last summer 81
r the building of an underpass, St,
divided the city of Union City and bo
e Mobile & Ohio and Nashville, fo,
lattanooga 6 st. Louis Railroad We,
mpanies could enter into an agree "a,
snt each to bear one-third of the ov,
st of such construction. mo
j. H. PEYTON. mr.,
March 8, 1915.
discussion of the sub
It was had, but the vote was final out
taken on an amended proposition mn
at the railroad companies should sul
hn,.nd fo On orroov,a~4 e.. .z1o..- ~,