The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-24
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RAILROAD MEErINa.-Mozart Hall
was we'll crowded on Saturday night
to hear what was to be said by Mr..
John. Ingle, Jr-, Col. Cheatam, and
others, respecting the subscription to
the E., II. & N. r. R.
The Crescent City Silver Band was
on hand and charmed the large audi
.dience with splendid music. II 4,
DR.. Bray was calleG to the chair
and DIR. III. W. Cloud chosen Secre-
tary. Mr.. John Ingle Jr-, President of
che E. &. G. r. r., was first called out,
and proceeded in his usual terse but
forcible manner to set forth the great
advantages to accrue to ithe city of
Evansville by the construction of the
proposed road. Evansville had here
tofcre been fenced in by the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad, and it was now
proposed by Louisville to fence us in
on the South by constructing road
from Elizabethtown to Paducah, as
a branch of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad. This proposed
road, the line of which had been re-
Gently surveyed. and declared highly
ly practical by the Engineer of the L.
Il N. r. r., accompanied by two of
the Directors, crossed the line of the
Il. I'll. & N. II. r., about forty miles
south of Evansville, cutting the, ex-
tensive coal fields ia Christian and
Hopkins Counties, and, its construc-
ton vas only a. Question of time
-of short time, if the E. III.
q N.itRoad was builtAof long
time, if the latter was not built.
He also set forth the necessity of
the proposed new road to the prosper
ity of the Evansville 4 Charlottesville
Railroad, illustrating it by the ,adyan-
tages that had resulted to the Jeffer-
sonvillc Railroad from the completion
of the Louisville a. Nashville road.
The Jeffersonvillea road had been
bankrupt; now its stock was above
par, and the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad ] was making more money
than any .ssethef in the coun-
try. and was rich, extending
its branches in all directions to con-
centrate business upon ats main trunk.
But he believed the E., II. & n. road
would prove a better paying road, as
it could be more cheaply constructed,
ran through more fertile and popu-
lous region of country, and would
open the mostextensive coal fields in
the state of Kentucky. He desired
to urge upon his hearers the i'm
portance of early! and prompt action.
This is Evansville's opportunity-the
tide in her affairs which if taken at its
food, will lead to prosperity. II we
do not occupy the ground, the Louis
vile & Nashville Railroad Company
will. sss sa38
Oae-third Of the road, the most
difficult and expensive part, lis already
built and running in direct line to-
wards Henderson. Tennessee has al.
ready spent 81. 000. 600 for this road and
had the policy Of Tennessee been the
policy of Kentucky, the road would
now be running, and If Indianapolis
had known Evansville, or If the State
of Indiana had known Us, except on
the occasion of an election, we should
have had the straight line road also
built, and the great bulk of shipments
from the East to the South ninety
nine one-huadredths of which now
found its way to Cincinnati, Louis
vile, and st. Louis. would pass
through Evansville. But when Smith
and Carpenter undertook to build the
straight line road, Indianapolis, who
never knew US until the war com
menced, stood with her hands in her
pockets and refused to aid the work.
The first conditions proposed were
uppalatable, and would have been
voted down, but to the present con-
dltions there could be no objections.
Commerce made its own way and its
own termini- 1t did not stop at
Columbus, because there was a fer
riage of twenty miles to Cairo;s OF at
Alton. because two or three roads had
been made to terminate there under
the State policy adopted by
illinois. but had forced itself through
to St. Louis and sAmboy, was still