Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-21
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PARIS.
An Interview With President Wright
Sets Forth Whit The Frisco
Is Doing.
Tho Subsidy for tho Paris Branch oi
the Santa Te Railroad Nearly
Raised.

Special to tho Gazette.
PARIS, TEX, April 2O,Capt. S. j.
Wright, president OF the Paris & Great
Northern Railway company, having re.
turned from st. Louis, where he went a
few days ago in response TO n telegram
from the Frisco officials, your reporter
met the captain IN his Office this morning
and was greeted with hearty shake OF
the hand.
After few preliminary remarks THE
GAZETTE man asked;
"Captain, have you got any railroad
news that you would like to 90 before
the public through the columns Of TnE
GAZETTET" in answer to which he said:
"Yon may state that the Frisco and
the Paris & Great Northern are up and
acoming; they have all the arrangements
made for money enough to build
right through. The Frisco has all the
money it wants now in hand with which
to extend between Fort Smith and Paris.
They don't propose TO fool about it,
either they are confident that the bill
will pass congress, and are not going TO
wait for it, but are going TO work at once
through the Nation, having secured the
right to do so from McCurtin, the ohiel
OF the Choctaws.N
GLOW long before the road will be com
pleted to Paris, do you think, cartainln
"Well, there are 800 MEN at work in the
Nation now, and II men and money can
do it, 1t win be completed inside Of twelve
months. Grading is being done south of
Fort Smith In the direction OF the Nation,
and they are also at work on the big
tunnel at both ends, which they think
win be done within one hundred and
twenty days. Ties and other material Is
being placed all along the line"
"Well, now captain, what about our
end of the line, the Paris Great North
ern from here to Red river?"
"Oh, well that is to be graded and
ironed at once, so that we can have the
material to Red river with which TO build
the bridge across the river. The
plans and specifications Of the bridge are
in the hands OF contractors 80 that they
may inspect and bid on them"
Thinking this was enough, as the cap
tain was busy, THE GAZETTE thanked
him for the Information very kindly and
retired.
As has been announced by the daily pa
pers OF the city, meeting was held at the
opera-house tonight, A pretty good
crowd had gathered by O'clock, when,
on motion of Dr. Daily, Judge Moore was
elected chairman aud l.. =. Harrison Sec
rotary, aud Judge Moore stated that the
object OF the meeting was, MS told him,
the last call for us to make up the subsidy
for the Santa Ne, and that he hoped the
people would see the necessity Of imme
date action.
The meeting was now declared open
for business, and DR.. Daily, being re
quested, read the names and amounts Of
all who had subscribed TO the Santa Fe.
On motion the chair appointed com
mittee to canvass the house and see how
much more could be raised, in which
S3295 was subscribed. swelling the
amount TO nearly 5000, with the COM
mittee stlll at work.
few speeches were made urging the
people 10 do what they were going TO do.
A few comparisons were made with this
town and what other towns would have
been had they not sat stlll and let rail-
roads 90 around them.
All those who had subscribed and had
raised their subscriptions were requested
to call ut the Farmers and Merchants
back Ia the morniog and sign their obll-
cations for their respective amounts.
No further business before the house
the meeting adjourned.