Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-03-26
ASr1.RAr1RoAD MEN.

low Ration Rouge, at last, to have an
outlet, by rail, to the haunts OF commerce
and civilization.
Arriving at the store of Mr.. Babin, we
met a number of gentlemen with whom
we desired to confer on the subject. We
wished to tell them, which we finally
did. that we were not representing Mr..
Jaw Gould, the millionaire, but the peo-
nile of their neighboring city, Baton
Rouge, who were trying to get rail-
road by facilitating the company as
much as they could. The enterprising
Capital City, was at this moment loaded
down to the guards in providing for the
payment of the bonds and interest issued
to aid the State in rebuilding the Capt.
toll. Now the citizens were going to
raise, by subscription, money enough to
buy depot grounds for the branch road.
They hoped that the planters of West
Baton Rouge, whose property would be
greatly increased in value thereby,
would willingly allow the little branch
road to Baton Rouge to run through
their places.
We were Jumped" at the very start,
by some gentlemen who magnanimously
told rs that they were looking out tor
number one, solely that railroads were
nuisance. This one, particularly,
would be of no use to them. They
wouldn't ship sugar on the cars because
it would be ''shaken before taken"
They could always haul conveniently
to the river, because such winters as the
last didn't come around oftener than
once in forty years. The 'niggers, y lord
bless their souls, would, every time the
train passed, drop the hoe, and stop the
pillow to look at it. Then the wagons
would have to stop, before the track, It'll
the Internal trains had gone by, even il
this event didn't occur more than three
or four times day. Then the tramps
would abandon the river road, prefer
ring to hop from cross tie to cross tie,
and, in season, devOur any quantity
of cane. Some of the speakers were con
stitutional fighters Of railroads. They
knew how injurious they We're and were
determined to oppose this one to the bit
ter end. Another gentleman complained
that the road would pass in a few yard
, of his sugar house. To our suggestion
that that was the very thing he needed
: so he might have platform leading
| from his purgery to the line, to roll hi
, produce on the cars and get in his treigh
/. in the same way. But this wouldn't dc
0 he Lreferred to give some employment
to his mules.
= We couldn't help laughing at thes
: remarks which brought Us back to tn
DAYS we have read of, those of aul
Lang Syne. in the year one, when I'll
-, OK team, the stage coach and tine t!f
:, boat. were the means OF tranSpOrtatlo
g for freight and travellers.
1t was novelty indeed. to tind me
-, planting in the alluvial lands, benin
- the levees of the Mississippi, Directing
I the construction of railways, which al
. not only an insurance against crevasse
6 from the fact that the companies a
- interested in keeping them up to sax
themselves, but furnish, sides,
avenue for the transportation OF pr
ed ducts to market, when bad roads rend
Sc hauling an impossibiity'
he When the auti-railroadists had sub
se ded. we saw those who have come
he life since Rip Van Wrinkle awoke fro
his long sleep. These were willing
help the cause along, and we made
rangements to have every man int
ny viewed through whose property
~ line will pass. In two or three ola
~ the list will be handed in showing tn
who don't want to obstruct the locol
tive. and those also, who are determll
lie to butt it off the bridge.
10 We earnestly pray that mature retl
Oh ton will cause the gentlemen who ";
10 to establish a blockade against Ba
'he Rouge. to abandon so ,unchristianlik
va purpose.
'ell THEY'LL be the first ones to find
nat road very convenient, when they '
t have to transact business at their co
az house, during bad weather. From p
on ent indications, the Mississippi is ali
lch TO show our hasty neighbors that
Jay railroad is just what they need.
Der
Hes OFFICIAL.
,di- PROCEEDINGS OF CITY COUNt
MAYORS OFFICE, CITY OF BATON Rot
,;nc Thursday, March Il, loo