Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-05-14

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STATE CREDIT.
THE PASSENGER DEPOT LOCA-
TION.
EDITOR CHRONICLE:-This mat
ter is now the subject of much inter-
est to the people of GAINESVILLE, and
well it may be, for it affects in some
measure the trade and commerce of
the town. The railroad authorities
have shown a laudable desire to
carry out what would seem to be
the wishes of the majority of the
people, but this has been hard to
find out, rs petition and counter
petition, and petition again, has
been SEN them, until they have, no
doubt, a very confused idea of what
the majority want, and have very
good reason to believe that the peO-
pie themselves don't know what
they do want, though they may
know what they don't want.
These petitions have not always
been properly presented to the sign
ers. They have generally been pre-
scented with the question, "Where
would you prefer the depot to be, at
Bradley's brick-yard or the freight
depot ?' or vice-versa, and the in
terviewed making his choice be-
tween two evils, would sign for
what, in his opinion, was the lesser
evil. The matter has generally
been presented as if there was no
alternative. AS a matter of fact
there are four locations. LIST, The
present location, where the passen-
ger depot has been for over ten years.
ID, The freight depot location. 3D.,
The Bradley's brick-yard location.
18th, The location at foot of Second
street.
The objection to the first location
has been mainly from the railroad,
us it forced them to stop their trains
on a heavy grade, and it was incon-
venient to their officers at the freight
depot to attend 10 the passenger
business.
The objections to the second lOca-
ton were that it was rather incOn-
venient of access, that there was
I,nIr ,f nANun for fhn fVrn 6nnntS
since the freight depot has been st
much enlarged, and that hacks, bag
gage wagons and freight teams
would be much in each others way,
and that it was at one of the eX-
IRENE boundaries of the town.
The objections to the third lOca-
ton were that it was outside of cor
pOrate limits, Il full mile from the
Public Square, tobacco exchange
and warehouses, and near Il suburb
which has not been always a credit
to the city, and over which the city
police havenO jurisdiction +; and the
railroad may add the objection that
for the depot located there they
would be at the expense of a separ-
ate set of employees, it being too far
from the freight depot for the Off
GERS there to attend tothe passenger
business.
Against the fourth location at foot
of Second street there can no reason
able objection be made. When the
little hill on lower side of Second
street is cut away and thrown into
the hollow below to form site for
depot, about Il hundred feet of the
street near the depot graded, the
earth used for say a two Orthree foot
fill in front of Capt. Willis, there
will be the easiest grade for vehicles
to the center of the town that "a
be made from any location. The
route for vehicles would be up Sec
ond street to Union street, down
Union street to Third street Ca very
short square), down Third street to
Franklin. Foot passengers would
no doubt follow Second street to
Franklin, passing the Gracey ire
house and the new court house.
Planters for the river warehouses
would walk down the railroad to
Front street and follow that down,
a much shorter walk than they now
take. And the location is near
enough to the freight depot for the
officials there to attend to the pas
senger business.
1 take the liberty of presenting
this location on Second street as one
which would more nearly harmon
ize all conflicting opinions and per-
sonal interests than any other, and
the one decidedly the best for the
business interests of the town. The
railroad seems to have decided TO
abandon the present location, and l
feel sure that every advocate of the
brick-yard location would preferthe
Second street to the freight depot
location, and those urgingt the freight
depot location would prefer the Sec
Ond street to the brick-yard location.
And i'm addition the Second street
location has many advantages from
its own intrinsic merits, as being
the very best location on every ac-
count.
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