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Show v CITY COUNCIL DEL AYS THE I REMOVAL pF DEATH-TRAP . Street Railway Company Ready to Construct Double -Track on the First Street Hill. the immense crowds at the Tabernacle can be handled -with ease and distributed distrib-uted expeditiously. While Superintendent ReaM was In the East he purchased a pair of portable porta-ble switches which will do away with the possibility of having a line tied up by an obstruction. By means of this switch a car can be run from one track to another, where a double track I laid, and on the second track, past the obstruction, and then back to the regular reg-ular track. This new switch has recently re-cently been adopted on all metropolitan roads. , The management of the Consolidated Railway and Power company Is anx iously awaiting- the action of the City Council on its request for permission to double track the veritable deathtrap death-trap on the First street hill. . " The Committee on Streets recommended recom-mended at . last Monday's meeting of the. city fathers that the permission be granted, but the matter was overlooked In the excitement of the discussion of u . the question of paying the police payroll. pay-roll. As soon as permission is granted, one line of the interlaced track will be removed re-moved and the double track' laid. Orders for construction and track steel to be used in the compound curves under Eagle Gate have been placed with a firm of local founders. These orders, tco, are being held up pending the Council's action. ' f As soon as the double tracks are laid J.J they v. Ill be connected with the tracks 1 running east and west on South Temple street, and will also go directly south V on State. street. By this system of curves and switches |