The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-05-10
The linton Den0t.

dom and d-iscreetness, known as the
City Conseript Fathers, did on Mon
day evening last, surrender the future
hopes of VincennGs to the city of
Evansville, with q degree of ~alacrity
that was absolutely refreshing, by
giving to the Evansville and Craw-
louisville Railroad Company the
right Of way over all streets aud al
legs in the city. The object of this
action Of the Council was to give the
Ohio and Missississippi and the Ev-
a~nsville and Charlottesville Rail-
road Company an opportunity to
erect q union passenger depot, to be
followed as q matter ofcourse BY a un-
ion freight depot. The Evansville and
Charlottesville road is managed BY
Evansville men, and as is natural un-
der those circumstances, it is always
operated In the interest of that city
and against ViDeennes, and the facili-
ties granted them by the City Council,
will enable that road to build up the
business of Evansville at the expense
OF Vincennes, with that increased
success which the increased facilities
granted will afford it. The business
brought to this point on the y. & M.
road, can, as DOT as the proposed ar
engagements are completed, be trans
ferred with greater facility to the E.&
9. road to be passed on to Evansville.
The location of the passenger depot,
a half mile east of the head Of Second
Street, the nearest point to the bust
ness part of Vincennes, will be a
great Inconvenience to the people of
Illinois, who have been in the habit
of coming here 10 do their shopping,
and will be O fatal blow to the trade
from that direction. If the City
Council had premeditated the destruc-
iion of that trade, they could have
devised no better means of ceom
plishing that which will be the iDev-
table result of their stupidity, than
their action on Monday night. 1t is
urged, however, by some, that the in
convenience to the people from Illi-
nois, produced by the location of
the passenger depot on the 9TH
er side of town, will be remedied
by the business houses which will
| grow up in that locality; but in our
view of the probable result of the
unwise policy of the City Council,
the effect will be to eonfne the trade
which has heretofore come from Illi-
nois to that State, and that trade
will be forever lost to Yineennes.
Very slight causes often produce re-
markable effects, and the convenient
access which the people of Lawrence
County heretofore had from the sta
ton to the business portion of town
being taken from them, they will
cease to come here to trade. The
crowds that almost daily poured
down Second Street. viii very natur-
ally decline TO walk from the depot a
half mile further away, or
to pay tAe expense of a ride from
and to the depot. There ppear to
be a singular fatality that always at
taches to the action of the City Coun-
Gil; its measures are almost ~unyaria.
bly, destructive of the best interests
of the city, and in this instance the
effect is undeniably such. While the
town is seriously injured in her trade
from Illinois, her commerce is in
other re spects more completely placed.
In the power of a road that has al
ways been hostile to the growth and
prosperity of Vincennes, and has
sought by all Its power and influence
to make US tributary to the city of
Evansville. That object has now
been accomplished by the subservi-
ency Of those whom the people had
clothed with power to protect their
interests Nincennes 3anles.