Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-04-13
Misfellaueuns &eading.
FERTILIZERS IN ROCK HILL.
4 CARD FROM TIE WARDENS ON THE ODOT
IFEROUS SUBJECT OF CONTENTION.
Rock HILL, S. c., April l

IFEROUS SUBJECT OF CON1EN1lON.
Rock HILL, S. c., April l.
EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER Will you al
low us the use of your columns to reply to ar
editorial in the Rock Hill Herald of March 80
1882, styled "Some Remarks on the Guanc
Question, {" in which the proprietor of the Her.
aid is trying very hard to make the people OF
the county believe that the Town Council Of
Rock Hill is forcing the railroad to remove
the depot away from the town, and that as q
natural consequence they (the CounciD are
retarding and injuring the material prosperity
of the town? There is not one word of truth
in such an assertion. There is no trouble be-
tween this Council and the authorities of the
G. G. & A. Railroad for the matter of guano,
or as to where the merchants of Rock Hill
shall store their guano, has never been men.
toned by the railroad to the Town Council.
On the 18th of February, on account of COM
plants made to them, the Council passed an
ordinance requiring the Railroad Company to
clear the crossing on the streets in town with
in five minutes after the arrival of the trains
and on account of which the Council received
the following letter from the President of the
Railroad
COLUMBIA, February 81, 1882.
J. r. ALLEN, Iote,,dant, Rock HILL, y. q.
DEAR SIR Your ordinance of February 18th,
'S2, forbidding the c. c. & A. R. R. to stop a
train across the street for longer time than
five minutes, has been received by me. While
doubt the power Of your town to enforce the
ordinance, do not desire to oppose your wish
es. But it is impossible to obey your orders
and retain the depot in your town, as the time
you allow is not sufficient to load or unload
freight If the ordinance is to remain in this
form, fixing so short a time, beg you to noti-
fy me at once, that may remove the depot and
all offices to point outside yourlimits. Very
respectfully and truly yours,
A. G. HASKELL.
Now this letter refers to the time, five min
utes) as being too short, and as to whether the
ordinance of the town, of February 18th, was
to remain in it's original form or not and not
one word is mentioned about guano, or as to
where it was to be stored whether in town or
out of it. The President had a right to COM
plain, if the Council, by it's ordinance, did not
allow the railroad time to transact it's business
and on the 9Th of March, at the regular meet
ing of the Council, the above letter was SUBJ
mitted by the Intendant, when the ordinance
referred to in Col. Haskell's letter was amend
ed by allowing the railroad to stop the trains
across the streets for ten minutes, and after
that time to keep one street open so that per-
sons and teams might pass: The Intendant
was instructed to notify Colonel Haskell, the
President of the road, as to the modification
of the ordinance, and to say to him if the time
now allowed was not sufficient, for him to in
form the Council what time, in his Judgment,
was necessary, and it should be granted.
This action of the Council was entirely sat-
isfactory to the Railroad authorities, and the
Town Council of Rock Hill have never heard
one word of complaint from the Railroad from
that time, March 9th, to the present. We
have no idea that the President of the Rail-
road has any intention now of removing the
depot from Rock Hill :; certainly not from
anything the Council has done, for Council
promptly removed his cause of complaint.
There is no trouble or unpleasantness between
the Town Council and the Railroad, the Herald
to the contrary notwithstanding.
At the election, in January of this year, for
Intendant and Wardens for Rock Hill, the is
sue was squarely and distinctly raised, and
there was no other, as to whether the glano
should be stored within the corporate limits of
Rock Hill or not, and the Herald knows it, for
it has been writing and commenting on the
Town Council and guano question in every is
sue since the election, and it is remarkably
strange that it never, before March Both, un-
dertook to say there was no such issue raised.
It was guano, or anti-guano, and this was
made the bone of contention at the election,
because many of the citizens had petitioned
the former Town Council, December II, 1881,
to pass an ordinance prohibiting the storage of
guano in town, and that Council passed an Or
dinance making it unlawful for any one to
store guano in town after the 1st Of May, 1882.
So at the election in January last, those di-
rectly interested in the sale Of guano put for
ward and supported ticket, which, if elected,
was to repeal the ordinance, and allow guano
to remain in town. Remember, citizens had
petitioned, December -, 1881, to have it re-
moved The anti-guano ticket was elected,
and the Rock Hill Herald is still not happy be-
cause it could not have things Just as it might
direct, and instead of it's acquiescing in the re-
suit of the election, like spoiled boy at school,
the Herald grumbles and keeps agitating an
issue that was settled by the vote of the peo-
pie, viz. that guano must 60 out of town.
And it is going after the first of May, and the
Herald might just as we'll accept the inevita-
BILE at once and be done with it; for this
Town Council will not repeal the guano ordi-
nance and establish the precedent of setting
aside the result of an election by petition.
The will of the majority, expressed by the bal
lot, is, and should be, decisive of any question,
and when so expressed, it should be obeyed by
all-at least until another election, which, in
our Judgment, is the only way to correct the
evil, if there be one.
1t is wrong in the Rock Hill Herald to ell
courage resistance to the law of the town by
continually writing in disappointed spirit,
and veXed because it cannot control every
one in it's very dctatorial way, by writing
to the railroad authorities and trying to get
them to cooperate with two or three cot
ton merchants to employ counsel and resist
the guano ordinance in the Courts. Nice pre-
cedent to be established by those claiming to
be the Solons of Rock Hill Three of our
cotton merchants say that they are satisfied
with the action of Council, especially as the
Council had extended the time to the 1st of
May.
BY refusing to erect or build large flour
ing mill and other huge enterprises, and for
pure spite trying to injure the Council by
publishing it abroad that the council was