Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-14
I~NToLERAsLE EVILS.


The necessity for the immediate sdop-
tion Of means for the speedier and cheap
or transfer of freights between this city
and ,Hopeield becomes an imperative
public necessity. The complaints that
come to us from Little Rock and other
towns in Arkansas burden the newspa-
pers Of that State, and we receive letters
enough denouncing tina present condition
OF affairs to furnish banking capital for q
irst-class lunatic asylum. Everybody In
Arkansas - made to pray for immediate
connection with st. Louis, and either
Memphis or the Memphis and Little Rock
railroad company should remedy glaring
evils that ofer q premium for the de-
struction Of our trade by rival cities. The
difficulty consists in the enormous cost
OF handling freights here, on the river
and in Hopefeld. Each box and package
from the Louisville roads handled twelve
times before 1t leaves Hopefield for Little
Rock. b Is ruinous to Memphis and
TO Little Rock, and cannot be endured.
When will wisdom in local legislation
enable the railroads to establish central
depots, and when may the Little Rock
road transfer its trains bodily on q steam
er to and from Memphis7 This end must
be accomplished, and at ones
COLONEL W. B aREENLAw's LETTER.
Present public cslamities arise from no
want of energy on the part Of the mana
gers Of the Little Rock road. The people
OF Little Rock demand, and, properly, d.
rect unbroken connection with Louis
Vile, Norfolk, Charleston and New Or
leans. They are not content to pay charges
Incident to these endless transfers of
freight at Memphis. They properly ask
that goods and passengers shall not be
subjected to sl sorts of exactions to the
profit of lmiddlf-men and the ruin of mer-
chants and cities. Mr.. GneenlsW has
bought ten locomotives, nine passenger,
and one hundred freight cars OF the gauge
Of the roads on the eastern side Of the
Mississippi. These will be here within
thirty days. Within the same period
b0sts will be provided on which whole
trains from Louisville or Charleston, or
New Orleans can be transferred, without
breaking bulk, to Hopeield and Little
Rock. Meanwhile a massive body Is to
be moved; a Mont Cents tunnel Is to be
dug; the Mississippi Is to be damned
up and turned backward; in
other words the city councils require q
month for laborious cogitation. At the
end of thst month Mr.. Greenlsw will have
the guage OF his road changed, his rail-
way ferry WILDE perfected his road will be
supplied Withallneedful rolling stock, and
will the laborious city councils sEen then
have reached q conclusion? M4st these
insufierable exadiOns imposed on Little
Rock, and Memphis, and the country
intervening, still be borne? They have
cost Memphis and Arkansas perhaps one
hundred thousand dollars, and before the
vexed question is adjusted, winter and
spring may come and go, and the
paralysis of trade may still affilet States
and cities, because ~forsooth, men can't
make up their minds. Il does not signify
so much what conclusion is adopted; but
this should be defnitively settled and an
nouneed at once. II the Little Rock road
may not have
THE Nav YARD,
there Is territory enough In Fort Picker
ing or Overton tract. Let the several
roads, wherever the point Of c~oncsntra-
ton may be fixed, hsvea common central
depot, or better than that, let the pros
perity Of
NORTH MEMPHIS AND CHELsEA
be maintained by a Capitalization of three
railways in the navy ysrd, and of the
other three at the foot of Beale on Clinton
street. Sectional municipal isalouaias
will thus be sllayed, and north and south
Memphis viii have in the two great de-
pots, to be connected by an elevated
trackwsy, fixed c%enters, about which, i'm
mutable prosperity Will rear workshops,
storehouses and palaces.
TIME IS THE ESSENCE
Of success. Memphis and Little Rock are,
commercially, an unit. This prosperity of
the n city promotes that Of the other.
Whatever initiates agsinst the fortunes
Of Littio Rock, as does this insufferable
tax, involved in eleven landings Of each
package transferred from Memphis to
Hopeteld, is also ruinous to Memphis. It
therefore becomes our city fathers to &C.
sept OF reject, as once, propositions sub
by the Little Rock railroad COM
psny. 1t is hardness of action rather than |
unwise action that Is to be dreaded. AR
kansas and Memphis have suffered
enough. II the navy yard cannot be sp-
proprisLed to purposes defined, let the
fact be known, thst other measures of
relief nay 90 adopted at the very moment
hat the new rolling stock Of the road
reaches Memphis.