Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-07

EDITORS APPEAL: In an editorial OF
your Mondays issue yOn were pleased to
say that at a meeting ia Chelsea, on Sat
urday evening, one of the speakers in the
interest of a "Welch" railroad to Raleigh
declared that Colonel Tom Avery wasex-
pending money very uselessly in making
a costly turnpike to Germantown" do
not know who the railroad orator on Jhal
occasion was, nor can l see why he could
conceive any ~antagonism betWeen q
WEIGH railroad to Raleigh and the turn
pike" which, together with a few enter
prising gentlemen, 1 am en-deayor1ng TO
build. I am sure there is no gentleman
connected with the aforesaid turnpike
who does not wish we'll the Raleigh rail
road as well as every other enterprise o.
the sort.
A casual reader might conclude, from
the tenor of your article that you, your
selves, Messrs. Editors, as well as the
railroad orator you quote, were cham
piOning the cause of the Welcl
railroad to the prejudice OF oul
u~npretending turnpike; this surely, now
ever, cannot he, as there can be no con,
ceivable reason that your paper shOuId
not favor every work of a public charac'
ter that looks TO the benefit of Memphis
The fact is that there can be no conflict
ing interests between the Raleigh road
and the Poplar street turnpike-they arr
10Th laudasls enterprises; they shoulu
EOh be fostered and sustained by the press
fand the people.
Is there any public improvement more
needed than a good drive, or a good road
leading from Memphis2 When Oft the
Nicolson pavement, there is not a road OF
a drive that three miles an hour can be
made on, in ordinary weather.
A beautiful, useful and attractive drive
we propose to make; it is for the public
good. WI are labOring faithfully and
earnestly to the accomplishments OF this
purpose.
Some of the safest and most enter
prising men in Memphis and the sur
rounding country are interested in push
ing this work forward; nor do we Trims
it " USELESS"
We are sure that the two enterprises
are perfectly harmonious, and regret that
any other idea, either by the speaker al
luded to in the Chelsea meeting or by
yeur editorial, should be conveyed.
Let us go to work, and ask the aid OF
our people to build ali these roads. They
are laudabIe enterprises, and no word
should be spoken to their detriment.
". T. AVERY,
President Shelby Co. Turnpike Co.
ANSWER TO H ABOVE.
Referring to the Raleigh Springs Rail
road, we only quoted the substance, II
not the exact language, of a sentence ut
tered by a gentleman who addressed the
Welsh railway meeting in Chelsea. dc
did not mean to say that there was any
a-ntag0nism between the W rOads-one
10 Germantown, the other to Raleigh
On the contrary, he congratulated the
people that many excellent highways
would be built to Germantown and other
centers Of wealth and intelligence. The
idea was. which may be false, that cheap
railways will supplant turnplkes. That's
all. Turnpikes are not useless" save,
the speaker fancied, as compared with
railways. The two enterprises we're by
no means supposed to be ~antagonistic to
one another; on the contrary, each sub
served and promoted the purposes of the
other. Both will give density to popula-
tion, add to the value of lands, enable
working men to have homes in the coun-
try, cheaper the cost of living in the city,
and thu promote manufacturing enter
prises. The only question was whether
the one horse railroad or magnifi1
turnpike would most promote these 1ue-
sirabl6 communications. Colonel Avery
is testing the virtues of a certainty
Messrs. BabeOsk and others are making
an experiment. The facts, as far as
known, approve the conduct of both gem
tlemen. and surely both are great public
benefactors.