Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-09-07
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10 the Mayer and Couneil and Tax
Payers Of EV@ngFflles

10 the Mayer and Coancil and Tax
Payers OF Evansville;
I call your attention 10 o subject
which Immediately and deeply soaesrns
every one Of you. Petitions are bsiBg
signed By taxpayers, asking the City
CounciI 10 subscribe 20 stock and Issue
ito bonds 70 the unfortunass coaeern
known as the Straight Line Railroad.
Ialso observe in this mornings Jour-
nal nm article from Col Jones, whose
connectioa With the matter I do not an
dsrssand, which says: " A nsw Company
has been formed, for the purpose Of
completing the Straight Line Railroad
from Evansville TO the Ohio q Nissis-
sippi Railroad. in Dayisss eOanty, Q dis
tancs Of fifty-four miles, with : prospect
of having it in fall operation before the
close Of the year 1866" Col. Jones
then goss op TO speak in . vsry sensible
way about ether Evansville railroad en-.
tsrprisss, bat the above quoled para.
graph contains the pilh and point Of the
artiels5 This, then, IL What Evansville
10 asked to do--swbseTsbs and tax her
self for all time to come, i'm n bread
gauge braneh Of the o. a d. n. r
Nov, as an old railroad man. who las
made the sakjscs his study fer the past
fifteen years; and aa taxpayer Of
Evansvills Who has, without boAssing,
paid more money 10 proportion TO his
means for her public enterprises than
any other man in Evansville, / respect
fully AJAX 10 BE- heard on this subjeet.
What, Issk you, 10 the meaning Of This
6ftyfour miles Of rAilroadf Does ID
mean the Advancement Of Evansville
IL thought 90 would not say O word
against ii. Ny friend Jones psans
that, bul 60 does not the sntsFpsiss.
assert, without fear Of contradiction,
that this 10 not the Straight Line Rail-
road, nor . step towards l. This is
simply willard Carpenters psrvsrsiou
Of the narrow gauge StFaight Line
Il
Railroad to IndiAnapoiia, into q broad
gauge branch Of the Ohio q Mississippi
Railroad. Col. Jones says shis Com.
psny 10 formed TO build this 6fty.fouE
miles. The thing 10 out, though Col.
Jones himself does not see the import
of bis statement Any railFosd man
will clearly zee that IL the o. d N. r r.
gets branch built to Evansville, il viii
take good care that II shall never 90 any
further north; that would net be 70 its
interest The City may subscribe $500,
600 or e20O, 900 to this short enterprise,
but that would give the City no rsal
power over the msnsgemeut. Col
Jones himself tails as, further on, thai
IL this road 10 constructed to the 0. A M
railroad, IL will be built on the Six
foot gsugs," aud lie business be mainly
controlled BY the Atlantic and Grssi
Western Railroad. OF coarse 10 will
bat he goes on 10 give FsAsons Why Che
roads censsring ss Indlanapolis shoulC
help 70 extend the road on up to sha
: city, evidently forgetting that NE al
ready have the safest and surest road in
the West from Evansville to Indiana
polls, that 10 able 10 carry promptly
twice 90 nach freight and four iimsS A
y many passengers On ever Eyansvills o.
the Ohio River had 70 send North o
Mast By Land from this plscs. With onl!
ninety days notice 20 provide rolIini
stock, What under she ann doea Evans
wills want Of smother road even 10 In
> diaaapolis, when she has never furnish
Cd through passengers enough for ~
dAya together to pay for running nm On
press train, and never half 90 muel
through freight as the present road ca
! take, with q very short notice 10 In
IA crease isn rolling stock. II ia an made
niahle fact that Evansville and ths Obi
River here have never furnished, sp Q
the present writing, more than hal
business enough to dscsnsly sappogs on
narrow-gaRge Railroad, and 10 ID saaeel
tibls of proof that had iss one gsilroa
bsen Of the broad (or six fsssl insteA
of the marrow (Or four feet eight and
half inchss) gage, il would have bee
impossible, up 70 this time. TO make
pay running sxpensss. ! asssrt pOsi
n lively, it could not have been, NJ
broad gauge road, kept in running ordt
?. with all the business the present roa
has ever done. It 10 complained tAi
- our trains are SLOW, and fhsrefors do n,
attract passenger; but I tell Jon thi
- they have bsea for years past ~ fast /
\ :. those on the Ohio and Mississippi Raj
lis road, aud much more regular, Alshoua
% that road haa always earned more shu
- - twice as much per mile per annum
m our road has. Give the E. & C r. !
y. passengsrs enough to justify il, and '
sit will run shem from Evansville 10 L
!. q diAnApolis, every working day in d
ss year, ia six and 3 half hosra B
Evansville win nsvsF furnish sasssngs
Wy enough 60 justify IN axpresa train
her singls road, North and East, IN
q. road Is 6rss Hsils from Evsasvii
South Must tsll yos and Col jon
the whela truth in this casaf This
a. c. r w., vita neaopoly Of
EvsssviIls's ssilsosd sssisssss ssd OF
re eonpssisg With beats On tie Ohio Biv
f~v wasrm HaFssS fanm ;r v~osu IS