Show NEW DEPOT FRANCHISE Committees Decide to Recommend Recom-mend it be Granted WITHOUT CLOSING STREETS All Other Bequests of the Railroads Acceded Additional Trackage Privileges Granted Question of Closing Third South and South Tomplo Streets Conditionally will bo Thrashed Out in the City Council Coun-cil the Committee Being Divided on the Proposition The City Council Committees on Municipal Mu-nicipal Laws and Streets mot last evening even-ing to further consider tho application of the Oregon Short Line and Rio Grande Western railroad companies for a union station franchise It was resolved re-solved to recommend to the City Council Coun-cil to rant the franchise but tho demands de-mands of the railroad companies in re yard to the closing oC South Temple r Btrcet between Third and Fourth West streets and of Third South street between be-tween Fifth and Seventh West atrcnts were not acceded to On that point tho fommltteo was divided Fornslrom RoldC 1 R Howe and Tuddcnham opposing op-posing It while Robertson Canning Thomas Whittomore and Hartensteln r semed to ravor It conditionally That matter will be fought out in the Coun v cilTho rIo members were unanimous In re jjard to closing Third South street at tho point where the depot will stand I but It was required that the companies build a footbridge over the depot building build-ing It was required that the companies I compa-nies accept the franchise within thirty I days commence work within 120 days I after the granting of the franchise and complete the building within two years and that the building cost not less than I v20000 The companies were granted i all the extra trackage privileges they asked for The City Attorney was Instructed I In-structed to draw up a franchise In accordance I ac-cordance with the conditions agreed upon by the committee and to report the same at the meeting of the Council a week from tonlgh OBJECTORS AGAIN HEARD Mrs Susan Butterworth John Reid and Attorney Jp H Moyle were present at the beginning of the session representing repre-senting the proiostauts while those In favor of the depot were represented by Attorney P L Williams Judge Howat George M Scott D C Adams S W Kcclca nnd J M Rlcketts Mrs Butterworth addressed the committee com-mittee urging that the station should be located a block and a half west oC the proposed site She said she owned a quarter block of property Immediate ly west of tho proponed site and half a block and four rods Immediately castor cast-or It I and had twentytwo tenants living liv-ing In houses on both propeitlcs The 4 rotation she said would close In her western property find damage her greatly Her property on tho cast side Hho admitted would he benefited by the proposed station She would much prefer pre-fer to have the station west of all her holdings and made a pathetic plea that 11 pier Interests be not aybjcctcf to those r of the corporations Mr Moylc had nothing to urge beyond l be-yond what he had put before the committee com-mittee on previous occasions and hoped the Council would hit on Home equitable pldn by which justice would he done to both the railroad companies and the propertyowners Those on the sldo of the railroad companies had no further statements to make The visitors withdrew and committee got down to business THREE FRANCHISES The application or the railroads was Segregated by them Into three separate y franchises one for the building of the depot one to the Short Line closing South Temple street nnd granting tho company extra trackage and one to the Rio Grande Western closing Third South street and granting them additional addi-tional trackage UNANIMOUS ON DEPOT In regard to the first the following conditions were unanimously agreed upon That all railroads coming to Salt Lake shall have equal privileges c to the depot on paying their proportion of the expenses new tracks shall not extend west of the center line OC Fourth West street between Second and Fourth South streets the station Mil not cost less l than a quarter of a million work to bo begun within 120 days from the grunting of the franchise c fran-chise and to be completed within two years the grantees to hold the city harmless In any damage suits which may arise from the building of the station sta-tion that the grantees shall construct u footbridge over the building k SHORT LINES GRANTS The Short Linos request for the closing of South Temple street be tween Third and Fourth West Btroets was refused A motion by Conning that that trcet bp closed and that lug company be required to build a via duct over UH tracks onNorth Temple Klreet which IM a SUitn road lending to a bridge over the Jgrdnn i was lost Mr Canning urged that North Temple street wus where many accidents took place and that South Temple street wao rca from accidents being practically practi-cally closed now on account of the frequency of trains and extensive railroad rail-road trnlllc over It The Short Line was ftlven permission to put down an additional addi-tional track on the eat side of Fourth West street to enable It to run trains Into the proposed new station and the company la 1 required to fence In the new track trlc WHAT WESTERN GETS On the Rio Grande Western wa for fishy conferred the franchise which Jt now holds aa assignee of the Salt Lake 4 Fort Douglas Railway com pany fiF Fourth West street nnd th < wc northwesterly to Ninth North street with Bide and switch tracks and connection con-nection and the company was allowed al-lowed to lay u single track from Ninth North street to connect with Its main line at May street In Klnney Couriers addition Ths company vras also allowed to lay a standardsrauge track on Fourth West street to Tenth touth street to connect with Its main track about Tnth South street The commute declined to recommend recom-mend that Third South strut b closed between Fifth and Sent West streets The rights nod franchise In all cases oro granted for fifty er WILL THEY ACCEPT Some dlscusRlon was hart HS to whether the companies would accept th > franchise without the closing of the turrets Tuddenham was vcrr positive In aanertln that they would awl his vlw vra l shimd by C R Howe Fern < ctrom and Held while the oilier mem Jwrs doubt of on the the commJtf expressed grave The mntfr of closing the streets will unloubtdh b the subject of r lht whn the franchise comee up 1 In d the Council |