| Show HAVE AMERICAN l AN TO THANK Council Committee on Streets Playing a Blocking Game Ganie GameOn On Improvements CRABTREE HEADS OPPOSITION OPP Street Lines l hIi by y Dilatory I h i i of ot h Members People Coplo residing ill itt several outlying districts of ot th tho city who have been be ll clamoring for tor extensions of ot the tho street streetcar car Cal system to their locality anti and for tor hot bet better botter ter tar service titAn haVe only tho dilatory tao tac tactics tics of or tho the American thou to blame bIonic tar for not getting gettin thu tho needed Im ha Improvements For Tor l or several months representatives of ot the Utah Light Railway Hallway company COlli PO 11 have havo urged the committees on streets and anel municipal laws lairs of or the tho city pity council to tl take somo action on oi tIlt the franchise granting thu company to make exten extensions abut to bf its Ita lines and to tomake malta make certain Improvements In Iii tile the syn sy tern tem but bUI ns liS yu tho the committees havet taken no 10 definite notion on the matter maHer matterA maHerA A week ago tho committee requested Atty Att P PL L 14 Williams for tor tho the company t to draw up a franchise covering the th extensions desired nOd and It H would be he b re ro reported ported orto i upon favorably to tho the council Tho The franchise was drawn up liP In a 11 form which wits was considered satisfactory to tho ho American anti was ready read to be to the tho committees last 1181 night but hut when Mr Williams aChed that the tho franchise bo ho considered he ho was Inform Informed ed by hI b Chairman that the corn com haul had other Important matters to t consider before It could tako up liP th the t franchise n HINDERS lENDERS IMPROVEMENTS Mr Williams tried to o Impress upon the man the tIme Importance of ot the Im irn Improvements Improvements proposed and deClared ed that ho tho failure ot of tIme the council to ait on tit ih the franchise was Ins hindering tho tIm com corn panI U In spending several millions millIon of ot dollars In Improving the system and tho the public a n first clas streetcar service Ho lie stated that tho the company wanted to t know inow what was going to bo ho done lono In the matter matler and urged that t n a date be sent Bent for tor tho the members of ot the committee to hI t be bo taken over thin the pro extensions and nn improvements Crabtree still insisted that the com coln had other Important matters to consider hut but finally consented to call Coll tho the committee together to accompany anY tho the representative of at the tho company com finny over the titO system next Thursday afternoon A BLOCKING GAME Another illustration of ot UK the slow move movement ment m nt of ot tho tInt committee camo caine to light when A M lit Wrench cund several oth others othera ors ers Interested In tho the new lIe Federal heights addition asked that tome some action be je taken on the tho ordinance which makes water scrip negotiable Mr Wrench explained to tho the committee that Ills hula company was spending about in III puttIng Hitting In In tho the now nd ad and th that t under the tho present or ordinance the was of no value to tho the company If It It should be bo made mado negotiable as ns he asked nate then It coull be sold sohl olti to advantage The Th waterworks committee considered the matter last week weak and decided to recommend the passage of the tho ordinance hut hu Crab Crabtree tree reo succeeded I In having the report referred to fun enn municipal laws law s commit committee tee tea where It is Js being lucId hold up Crabtree promised last night that his committee would make moko a u favorable re report report report port on the tho ordinance Monday night but jut that ho lie wanted to see soe It II first It Its ItIs Is ht s very probable rol that ho he will not be ba beable able ablo to 10 find time to look Ilo over the or before the tho next council meet meetInG meetIng InG ng which may mn mean another delay dolny |
