Show HillS GOOD FAil DOUBTED J President n of Great Northern Makes Offer to Let Harriman Hal Timan Line Into Seattle Seattle Sept 12 Just as the corpora corporations corporations t ions committee of ot the tho city council council was win j prepared to grant a franchise Into Seattle j for f or the HarrIman extension to Puget L Lound sound s James J Hill Hm president of the Great Northern has offered to open a railroad right of or way through 2000 feet of o u j l land and nd he owns If It other property owners owner I T will donate a similar strip through j feet f of their holdings Ho He proposes this right ight r of way shall be used jointly by his lilt i lint line 1 and the Harriman system stem Twice Hill HUl has refused to make similar 1 concessions When he was here last July Jul i he told the council committee flatly Clatl that thai hu ho would not permit his property to be hi cut in two by railroad lines and a month ago he reiterated this statement in a aletter I Ietter letter Jetter l to his local counsel Both the coun council council cil and the property owners attempted to t open up Fifth FIrth avenue south to allow the tb Harriman line to enter the tho city In that manner anti and upon Hills refusal to con consider sider aider the plan the corporations committee agreed to give Harriman a franchise on oi Fourth avenue south All AU details delaUs of ot the tb e Harriman franchise had been agreed agree f upon when the Hill offer came It is re regarded regarded regarded locally as aa a part of the man railroad war and a move on ou Hills Hill part to delay deJay action on the Harriman 5 franchise Cra here Harriman officials regard the Hill Inn offer offe r l as ns a request for a franchise of his own His road has been asking for tor a ft switching j privilege on Sixth avenue south and the offer to lay tracks on oh a line of a If Fifth Firth avenue shifts the route he had pro pra proposed posed for his own tracks and if success successful successful ful would compel com el the Harriman H line Une to t move also atso Property owners in the past pan have havo opposed a plan similar to the tile one Hill now suggests |