Show THE FRANCHISE JOBBERY it is not often that we are in accord with the anti mormon organ but when it does get into a legitimate channel we are not afraid to say so 80 it strikes a well deserved blow when it speaks as it does in the annexed article which it publishes u under uder the significant title of the game works workum A few weeks since the tribune lao rifled the people that four members of the city council were directly interested te in certain pending franceis es for the assertion we were roil roundly dd abused and the men in the council who knew they were guilty were especially indignant but two franchises were granted the rapid tran sit company under one device or another this was waa not complained of because it was understood that the streets to be occupied had no noser ser vice and that tran transfers fers would save patrons paying double fares in the meantime the old company hal had asked for certain extensions which the council considered favorably and they were reported on for passage but on friday may ad at a meeting called ostensibly for the purpose of considering the pending sanitary bill a secret bill giving this rapid transit company a blanket franchise to cover half or all the city with a limit for fare fixed at double the rates of the old company was secretly introduced rushed to a second reading and on tuesday may ath carried through it covers ground which the council had agreed should be given the old company it parallels the old companas company comp anys 8 lilies through street after street where the present service is perfect it makes the third franchise that has been given this company though it has not a car has nut even so much as decided on what system it will adopt A motion to change the ten cent to a fl fi ve cent fare wab voted down the bill was gotten up in secret and railroaded through with the deliberate purpose of keeping the property owners of the city in ignorance of what was going on four tracks on principal streets four lines of poles besides the telegraph anti and telephone poles will follow and the possibility of either company making any money will be taken away naturally the old company thinks it is a tough place through which men of means are to receive encouragement to make investments in i n the great objection is 18 that we have some dishonest men in the council and there is no estimate to be made of what they will do the tribune does not like to have to say bay this but it is true and as may be necessary it will keep the people so well posted that there will be no trouble in having matters perfectly understood 2 |