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Show GIVE NO MORE THAN ASKED! T.he franchise- granted to tho inter-urban inter-urban Hue running south from this city raiils entrance up l-'irst West street lo North To in pin street, with a loop from youth Temple street east! lo West Tomplo street, south on West Temple street to Fourth South, thenco back to First; West street. The desire of the company from the first was to coma in on First West street. It-did uofc insist on tho loop to West Temple, but instead asked lo go lo First North street. Tho loop cast to West Temple was a gratuity offer, and not asked. Wo still insist that a corporation seeking a franchise ought not to be given more than it asks; and we .lo not believe that it ought to bo allowed lo go on First West stroct at all. That street was well paved at a considerable oxpeneo to the taxpayers, and the putting put-ting in of car tracks there will entirely en-tirely destroy the symmetry of the improvement. im-provement. It will almost necossarily require the inclusion in the street ot tho ground that was loft for parking purposes on each side, in order that sufficient wagon way may thereupon bo obtained on each side of the tracks. Bosidea, there is no question but that tho putting of tracks on that street would be a damago to the property owners, and would, to a largo extent, nullify the benefits which thoy obtained ob-tained by the large expenditure made in paving that street. J lio line should bo compelled to ubc West Temple street on terms which may be agreed upon under tho franchise fran-chise which the street railway company com-pany has for allowiug the use of its tracks by iDter.urbnn lines. Thoro ought to bo some streets in tho city froe from needless car linos, aud tho policy of granting to corporations more than they ask should certainly be dropped. Tho policy of exacting a goneral payment by way of percentage on the gross earnings is the correct policy, and we are glad to soo that tho commission lias adopted it. Wo should be glad to see it adopt also the advantageous advan-tageous policy of confining the use of the stroetB so far as .ear tracks aro concerned to those tracks already in, so far as thiB may be possible; and since tho general street car franchise aljowa of tho nso of tracks already laid, the incoming transportation propositions prop-ositions should bo confined accordingly. It is damaging to tho property owners to compel them to pay largo sums for the paving of streets, and then, without with-out any necessity, have that paving torn up and the improvement system involved entirely disarranged for the convenience of some corporation that might just as well be accommodated otherwise, on tracks already laid. |