The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-09-16
Proceedings Of the City Council,
Council CHAMBER, Sept. 10, 1856.


Council met pursuant to adjournment
Present His Honor, the Mayor, and Council
men Orr, Rathbone, Venneman, Setchel,
Cook, Kinney and Satterlee.
Mr.. Carpenter made statement in relation
to condition of Straight Line Railroad, and
presented the following letter from 0. H.
Smith, Esq, and requested that It be spread
upon the minutes of the Council:
OFFICE OF THE E. I. 81 C. s. l. r. R. CoNPANY.1
ISDIASAPoLIs, Aug. 18th, 1886.
To the Mayor and Common Council Of the city
Of Evansville:
GENTLEMEN On the 18th day of Deem
Der and End day of January last, we drew an
order on this office, requesting you to deliver
for our use, to Willard Carpenter Il Co., Con-
tractors for building our railroad, the last one
hundred bonds, of one thousand dollars each,
subscribed by your city to the capital stock
of the Railroad Company, upon the terms and
conditions stated in the order, to which | re-
Ser you.
| did suppose that there could be no moral.
as l knew there was no legal objection, on
your part, to the delivery of these bonds up
on the presentation of the order, by Mr.. Car
penter, to the Board. But regret to learn
from him that objections were raised that
and that action has not yet been had by the
! Board upon the demand.
We have recently returned from New York,
. and the Contractors have sent out TO England,
by the steamer Atlantic, that sailed on the
10th inst an order to be there executed, for
the iron rails for the Division between Evans
vile and the crossing of the Chic & Mississip-
nj Railroad, with TWO miles of turn-outs, fifty
seven miles, and it now becomes absolutely
necessary, that the remaining 100000, of
your bonds should be issued, and delivered to
the Contractors, to enable them to meet the
duty on the iron | have therefore again, ear
,nestly to request you to issue and deliver
these bonds to Mr.. Carpenter, for our use,
upon the terms contained in the written
der. under the seal of the Company, of the
18th of December last
l cannot doubt that the Council will COM
7ply with this request, and shall regret exceed
ingly, if l shall be required, in dischargng
my duty, to seek by legal means, what should
be done amicably, and in good faith, to all
concerned. l mean by this nothing more
than, that I must do my duty to the Compa-
my and the Contractors, under the oath
have taken, so long as continue to hold my
place and part Of the duty is, to collect the
subscriptions to the stock of the Company, to
enable us to meet our contracts. l would that
an ungracious task but while ] remain the
official organ of the Company, l cannot
shrink from it.
The balance of the subscription Of the city
of Evansville, if not essential to our i'm
mediate progress with the work, is highly i'm
portant at this time, and can see no reason
why the city authorities should hesitate 10
pay their subscription. But, on the contrary,
/ can see many. why the city should pay
promptly why it should be the last to hold
back, or throw cold water on the enterprise.
In the first place, the city of Evansville is
. more deeply interested as to its growth, the
enhancement of the value Gifts real estate, and
the increase of business, than any other part
of the line, or any other subscriber. The fact
that there is a railroad running up the Wa
bash, in operation, does not in the slightest
degree affect the great importance of the
Straight Line. The one will give the city the
business of the Wabash Valley to Terre Haute
and ultimately to Charlottesville, (and l can
truly say, l wish that road great success, \
while our line will open direct communica-
ton between Evansville and indianapolis, and
throw upon your city the whole business, 60