The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-16
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hack out to East Lake again the same

hack out to East Lake again the same
way.
To Connect Lines
Both the Avondale and Avenue G
lines will be connected to the present
Tidewater rails at Avenue D and For
ty-first street (Avondale) and win ex-
tend their trips to Fifty-fourth street
on that present line The Avenue G
present line, east of Forty-first street,
will be discontinued.
The Tidewater trackage from the
junction of Avenue C and Forty-first
street, along Forty-first street crossing
the main railroad lines, and coming into
the city on Fifth avenue under the
Terminal station. will be discontinued.
| The western division of the Tidewater
line will come into Birmingham as
now, on Fifth avenue, turn south into
Nineteenth street, proceed to First
avenue, back on First avenue to Seven
teenth street, on Seventeenth street back
into Fifth avenue and westward to the
Ensley district again.
The eastern and western divisions of
the Tidewater line win touch on Nine
tenth street, First and Second avenue
for connections.
At suitable hours in the morning and
evening, yet to be worked out, the Tide
water line will conduct through serv-
ice from East Lake to the Ensley ter
ritory.
In regard to the First avenue having,
it had already been agreed to pave
First avenue from Forty first street to
Forty-seventh street, and to pave and
park First avenue from Forty-seventh
street to Fifty-seventh street. The new
arrangement provides for the doing
away with the parking idea and to lay
continuous paving from Forty-first
street to Fifty-seventh street.
Meet Tuesday Morning
The commission, which had met to
discuss the matter Monday morning,
and held conferences with MessIs. Pc
year, Smith and White Monday after
noon, met again with these gentlemen
Tuesday morning. Seeing a settlement
near. the commissioners left the con-
ference only long enough to transact
few items of business at the regular
meeting Of the commission, and then
adjourned the commission meeting to
Wednesday morning at 10 O'Clock, re-
joining the representatives of the utili-
ties. Shortly thereafter, the commits
sion and the utility men held separate
meetings, then Joined in dual discussion
again, and at about 1 o'clock the meet
ing broke up with the announcement
that an agreement had ben reached.
AT 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon Mr..
Pevear, as special master for the federal
court, offered the Tidewater line for
sale. The National Power and Light
company had qualified to bid with
fnd oh FOR. n
lum, representing L. B. Hatch, offered
the only bid, $4,000, which included
assuming the obligations of the Tide
water property and making the bid in
reality one of So, 425, 900. The property
was offered the regulation three times,
and then Mr.. Peavear announced it sold
to Mr.. Hatch, subject to the city carry
ing out the agreements, before Satur-
day, that had been decided on.
1t was explained by the commission
that the added $4,000 was for the
granting of permission by the city for
the arrangements and removal of
trackage and the franchise change.
Mrs. Ech0ls Ill
Present at the Tuesday conference on
the Tidewater sale were President ID.
e. McIlendon and Commissioners w. L.
Harrison, w. f. Dickson,> w. B.
Cloe and City Attorney w. ]. Wynn.
Commissioner Mary Echols was at home
i'll and did not attend the meeting. Rep
resentatives of the utility were r. II.
Smith of the National Power and Light
company, w. B. White, attorney of
Tillman, Bradley and Baldwin. and j.
S. Pevear, receiver of the Tidewater
property for the federal court.
The sale of the Tidewater, it was
stated at the conference, had not been
considered possible until the announce
ments by Messrs. McLendon, Cloe and
Dickson that they were willing for the
franchise to be changed. Commissioner
Harrison had held cut against the city
accepting the franchise change as had
been proposed, stating it as his belief
the Birmingham Electric company really
wanted the property. Representatives
of the utilities said they had not even
made financial plans to take over the
Tidewater until it became known that
members of the commission were willing
to negotiate. 1t was Commissioner
Harrison, it is said, who insisted on the
$4,000 payment and other features Of
what amounted to a compromise, bring
ing about agreements on the partial
through service and the paving of First
avenue.
The general impression at the city
hall Tuesday was that nearly all par