The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-04
I.asntlon Of th. rearra. nnlldlng.


ON.,. rENAs, Feb. 81 ea'''r hE
Alp, l-Ap old babi'ne Of WASH. 's'oh 'i',
accustomed TO thror cling lobbyh = w'ol
have been forcibly aAd familiarly s'fue
with the crowd that pressed upon the se'
eral court commissioners si the Wina II
yesterday. The downtown crowd, TIA
gallant amy Of the old town properly own
ers, who regard with peonlia- d,siavor, the
advancement and improvement OF the city
IN any direction eas, of Lamar street, were
out in full force. They captured
the commissioners and rushed them
vi 81 armis into hacks, and out INTO the bit.
terest and keenest of cutting Snow-si orms
to see the Mccoy sand-lot. Not man in
any OF the hacks accompanying me com.
missisners favored any other locality.
While other lots may have been pointed out
aud damned with faint praise, the beauties,
the eligibility, the central and salusrious
character ot the McCoy lot were suggested,
and hinied at, and commented on aud
pushed upon the commissioners al aau.
seam.
Now, MIR. Editor | wonder
II he old'town crowd were to have intilaa.
ted to the commissioners that more than
iour minis OF this city's population lies
northeast entirely of the Mctoy lot, and
that every man, woman aud child there
would be forced to a remote, ut-ofthe.way
and isolated portion OF the city for every
stamped envelope, p0slal-card needed or
registered letter mailed them. wonder IL
they mentioned the sea of mud that aillicts
that part of Dallas lying in the
bottom of the Trinity IA the
winter or spring months | wonder
| If they intimated that this lot lay to the
windward of u graveyard; adjacent to two
| freight depots, and their changing, rattling
trains and earspiting whistles; near an
old compress, which, when running presses
cotton bale every ten minutes during
the day with irightful escape OF securing,
deaienlng steam at every pressureg | won.
der II they mentioned the fact that the post.
Office was carried east five years ago,
because the advance of the city in
that direction demanded il? Must 1t
now, when the city has nearly doubled In
ITS population eastward, he returned west
ward again and TO an Infinitely worse and
more incoAvenient locality than ever known
betortp
Did they advise the commission that the
Federal court has been holding its sessions
most accepably to all people and TO its
presiding judge long distance east OF the
.NNo'' w eAN hNtA AAA' AtAllIt VI lilt Guy
Did they intimate to the commission
that II would be prepoSterous folly
to place II stately judicial edihce on Hat
sand lot in the Trinity bottom, away from
fonrfiths Of our people, TO please certain
adjacent and selfish property owners. when
the most convenient, slightly and elevated
sites existed near the very heart of the city
elsewhereP We can hardly imagine that
the downtown crowd did this. Theirs was
a business ride in the interest of the McCoy
sand-ot, and it could not fairly be.expec,ed
that the citys interests would be cared for.
1t is to be hoped, Mr.. Editor, that the
gentlemen who modestly gave way on yes
terday to the old.town crowd, and who
really represent iour-iiths of Dallas and I'M
questionably represent its sentiment in re.
spect to the location Of this Federal build.
ing, will be accorded u hearing ON Monday
by the commissioners and that there will
be no iore.ta ling OF public opinion in the
matter. The people of Dallas regard the
commission rs an honorable body; they be.
levc that they will view this matter with
| the "cold neutrality of an impartial Judge,
and, so believing, they wish their spokes
men heard aud their cause fully and f5irv
aud deliberately laid before these ludgas.