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Show Thirty-third street, without charge. City Attorney DeYine attended tho meeting and he was Instructed to dm ft a franchise resolution In keeping with the decision of the committee, to be presented at the meeting of the j council next Monday. The committee commit-tee at the next meeting of the council j will ask that the franchise be granted. The proposed franchise will eliminate the exaction that the Rapid Transit company haul gravel from the canyon J to the city free of charge for the lm- ! provement of the streets or for any I other purpose. I FRANCHISE QUESTION THE TOPIC MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL COUN-CIL IN SESSION.. Representatives of Rapid Transit Company Com-pany Present City Attorrfey Instructed In-structed to Draw Franchise ' Resolution. Mayor Brewer and the committee of the whole of the city council were In .session yesterday afternoon In the major's office, for the purpose of considering con-sidering the matter of granting a franchise to the Rapid Transit company com-pany of Ogden, to operate their street ! railway system over Wall avenue from Twenty-filth to Thirty-third I streets. It was a matter of long stand-j stand-j ing, the application for tho franchise j having been made some time ago. I Tho city council and the mayor have i heretofore expressed their willingness I to grant the franchise under certain considerations and restrictions. The j city administration has been desirous of furnishing every possible inducement induce-ment for the extension of street rall-; rall-; way facilities, but It has entertained j the Idea that the right of way for tho j ftreet car system should not bo given giv-en without some remunerative consideration. I Mayor Brewer, at the beginning of his administration, expressed the thought that it would be an excellent plan to grant tho Rapid Transit company com-pany the right of way over streets that have no. street car accommodations, accommoda-tions, If the company would agree to haul gravel from the canyon and place it along the streets that need Improvement, Im-provement, free of charge. The Rapid Transit company hesitated to comply with this demand on the ground that if It were complied with It would keep the company busy hauling gravel for the building of the streets of the city for an indefinite length of time. The question was thoroughly threshed out yesterday afternoon, a representative of the Rapid Transit company being present to champion the interests of the company. -After fully considering both sides of the question the mayor and the councilman council-man present decided to recommend at the next meeting of the city council that the Rapid Transit company be ; grunted a franchise for the construction construc-tion and operation of a street railway on Wall avenue from Twenty-fifth to I Thirty-second streets, and that as noon as the uaduct of the Bamberger rail vay over that street be completed that the street car system have the prlvllt.Tje of extendlns the line to |