Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-30
ON TO WAXAHACHIEl
Are We Ready With Our Partp Is the
Pertinent Inquiry to People Of
Waxahaohie.
Waxahachie Pledges $4,000, Depot
Grounds and Right of Way Through
that County.
Messrs' Roche Bros. & Hurley Return
Yesterday from that CITY and
Are Interviewed.

Messrs. Thos. p. Roche, ]. ]. Roche
and M. G. Hurley, who went to Wax.
ahachie some days ago TO lay the rail-
road proposition before the people of
that city, returned yesterday morning,
and when found by our reporter were
In private conversation with
number Of other gentle.
men at the Pickwick hotel,
and, upon inquiry as TO the success of
their trip 10 Waxahachie In the inter-
est of the railroad between the two
cities, said that they arrived home this
morning at s o'clock from a very sue.
cessful and satisfactory trip to Waxa.
hachie; that they had arrived In that
city at about 8 o'clock YESTERDAY
(rhursday) morning, and, though UNI
expectedly, that a meeting OF the peo-
pie was called and took place at the
courthouse at 3 O'clock, and, though
only announced an hour or two before,
the courtroom was filed
to overlooking, and a more
enthusiastic meeting ives never wit
messed. Judge o. +. Dunlap called
the meeting to order, when Hon. j. w.
Ferris was called and stated the object
of the meeting, and in lengthy ad.
dresa expatiated upon the necessity OF
striking now-as he expressed it.
while the Fort was In the notion. "We
want the road" faid he, ''and have
wanted 1t all the time, and now Ia our
opportunity. We have admired Fort
Worth for her indomiiable pluck and
energy, and havealways looked to her
for relief In such trying hour as this:
we have now but to do our part, and
rest assured when this Is done the Fort
will not be found wanting.n
M. q. Hurley then followed, and In
a brief manner stated the object OF
their visit and read the proposition
they had to submit, viz: $25, 200 and
depot grounds, 20 per cent. OF the
amount TO be paid when one-fifth oil
the work was complete 4, and 80 on
until the road was finished--no two
payments to be made within thirty
days of each other-and the agree
ment TO become null and void unless
the work begins within fifteen days
from the day that the requisite
amount ia subscribed, the building as
ISOLATION to finish the road by March
/, 1886.
These remarks created much en-
thusiasm, and when Mt the close ]. M
| Wyatt, Esq, called for standing
vote on the question as TO who favored
an immediate railroad connection with
Fort Worth, all sprang up TO man
A committee was then appointed
by the chair for the purpose OF con.
ferring and arranging with the con
tractors, and, upon adjournment, the
committee, consisting OF n A. Nc
Millen, ]. w. Ferris, r.. NJ Wyatt, Is
G.. Conner, II. f. Pickett, ii. II. DunI
and A. Rainey, accompanied thei
guests TO their hotel, where consult
alton took place. The gentlemen LEFT
for home at G O'Clock, with the as
surance Of the committee that tn,
money would be forthcoming and tina
the success of the enterprise now de
volved upon Fort Worth.
The mass meeting called for at tn,
courthouse tonight Is for the purpos
OF discussing this matter and takinl
the necessary action looking to TIT
contamination OF this and other enter
prises In which every individual II
our city Is interested, and 10 is hope
that all will be there and inteTes
themselves in these matters.
Now Ia our time, and az there Is lea
than $40, 600 to be raised TO complet
the list 1t is to be hoped that the worl
will not be longer delayed, but that al
will come forward and by united &C
ton make up the small amount re
naming.