Show V PUBLIC publia BIGHTS RIGHTS VS STREET CAB CAR encroachments ENCROACH MENTS if anz STANDARD has his not ben saying I 1 much editorially on the local threet railway laign ay complication of late it I 1 la Is not because the interests of the public have been lost eight of bat but be cause in the very nature of things I 1 those interests have been required for the time being to take a ee condary I 1 place the situation is BO so anomalous and the preparations for an aggressive fight are BO so pretentious that deop people ae have done little more during the p past abt week than watch the operations of the rival companies with some excitement cit ement and put up with the inconveniences and annoyances resulting I 1 as beet beat they could 1 1 but in the council friday t night a suggestion was offered r which taic STANDARD as 98 the I 1 particular conservator of the general welfare feels called upon to endorse en doree it wa was with reference to the 1 I locating of one companas comp anys line on one side of the centre of tha the street and the other companas comp anys line on tho the 1 I 1 other side there is no longer need 1 forthe for the council to hesitate ai as to its duty in the premises promises the bitterly I 1 coo contested claims to street privileges ages I 1 11 prove it if proof were wanting th that at f the metropolitan era for this city has set not in the municipal authorities 1 must accordingly be vigilant and resolute in preserving and defending defend ine I 1 I 1 I 1 the rights of the community and clearly the first and greatest of these is the maintenance of the public highways the idea of three or four tracks on any one street is utterly unreasonable and roust must be promptly dispelled so also with the proposition to place poles poleg for carrying the trolley wires along the sides of the streets et lithe if the overhead system is to be adopted i public safety requires hat that the poles go in the center of the street where they will be less an obstruction than I 1 anywhere else and where all ex 11 peri enca ence proves that the system can be most successfully operated obviously sly more than one set of poles cannot be permitted but if it one side I 1 I 1 of the street ba be occupied by but one company there will bo be no necessity I 1 for double poles the citizens rejoice in the prospect of improved and increased streetcar street car service sery ice and are anxious that every proper inducement be offered the companies which propose to 0 o furnish it but there are certain rights which 0 must not be impaired and these come some of them briefly touched here I 1 the city council will be expected to maintain |