Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-02-04
.DUNDEEITES FEEL
PEEVED AT COUNCIL
Don't Like Way City Council i
Treating Them on Dodge Street
Viaduct Question.
SIX YEARS EFFoRT-NO RESULT

Members OF the Dundee Improve
ment club do not feel altogether
elated over the manner in which their
recent communication TO the city
council anent the Dodge street via
duct was disposed of. At their regu-
lar meeting last week they resolved
to address letter to the city COM
missioners, asking that the Missouri
Pacific officials be asked in and that
the delay in starting the viaduct be
given consideration, just as any public
matter would be considered. The sec
rotary Of the club was advised by the
city clerk to direct the improvers to
attend the meeting of the city coun-
ell committee of the whole last Mon
day morning, which the Dundee peo-
Pile did.
There were about forty members Of the
club on hand, expecting the matter would
be called up for discussion. No repre-
sentative of the Missouri Pacific was
present. Mayor Dahlman announced
that Attorney Kennedy, for the receivers
OF the Missouri Pacific. had three days
before asked for weeks postponement,
that officials of the company might be
here from st. Louis.
Leave Their Business.
What ruffles us was the indication
that the Missouri Pacific local repre-
! sentatives seemingly had been notified
in advance OF the postponement. while
we were not notified. About forty Of
us left our business to attend this meet
ing and then to learn the matter had
been deferred. Why couldn't the city
clerk have notified us as we'll as the
railroad people?" asked one Of the Dun
dee Improvement club members.
! Interest in the Dodge street vladuct
matter grows apace. and Dundee people,
who now regard themselves as full
/ Pledged citizens of Greater Omaha, in
tend to keep up on their toes until this
dangerous crossing on West Dodge street
shall have been improved.
MOtOrmRn Killed.
Attention has been called to a collision
/ between street car and freight train al
/ this crossing on the night of May a.
1910 when Motorman A. H. Hansen LOST
his life and four others were injured
An Omaha-bound street car was struck
by an incoming freight train. the latter
moving at speed of only six miles an
hour. This accident happened just about
the time when the council was first con-
sidering the necessity of a viaduct on
West Dodge street. The necessary
ordinance had been passed few weeks
before this accident and the ordinance
ordering the railroad company TO proceed
was passed two months later.
Need increases.
Increasing automobile traffic to and
from Omaha along this important thor
oughfare has increased the needs OF a
viaduct during the las six years. In
1910 the city council declared the viaduct
to be pressing necessity and the city
won its contentious all, the way to and
through the United States supreme court.
1t is nearly year since the supreme
court decision was received and the peo-
pie on the west end of the city are be-
ginning to feel II is time for the city
officials TO move unless the railroad
company makes a move.
GentIemen's Agreement.
An agreement. which has no legal
status, was made last year between the
city council and the Missouri Pacific,
complete the Locust street viaduct and
then proceed with the Dodge street via
duct, or submit its proposition to raise
its tracks from point near Cunning
street to point near I,eavenworth
street. and thus avoid grade crossings
without being required to build viaducts