Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-05
WANT RAPID TRANSIT
Mansfield People Anxious to Get at
the Head of the Procession.
ONE THING THAT Is IN THEIR WAY.
They'd Like to be Able to Reach the City
Whenever They Like.
AFTER MODERN MEANS OF L0COM0TION

Mansfield people are in the dumps. Fickle
fortune seems to have given them the shake
of late, and they are not conscious that they
have done anything to deserve her neglect.
Of late they realize that ."Hopc is a
curtailed dog" in some affairs, for it is said
that Mr.. Hammond has abandoned his In
tention to put up sheet iron mill and
make block tin at Mansfield. Negotiations
had gone so tar that the citizens had pur-
chased five acres of ground to donate to the
company, but now it will not be wanted for
that purpose.
AS Mr.. A. j. McQuittv says, Mansfield
property has not felt the thrill experienced
in many other places during the late exhila-
ration. Property is cheaper there than in
any other place of equal distance from
Pittsburg's business center-that is, possess
ing equal trade advantages and beauty Of
setting. This is imputed to the fact that the
section has no rapid transit facilities other
than the Panhandle Railway.
FREQUENT RUNS A NECESSITY.
This, of course, is rapid enough, but since
the days of electric and cable cars people
generally vote the steam railway. especially
where it has no competition, sort of survi-
val of the Connestoga wagon genus. They
want something that runs frequently, and
that can be boarded at frequent intervals,
so that if one car is missed they can take an
other.
The entente cordiale has been frequently
broken between two persons, one a good
natured poke and the other an alert busl-
ness man, or woman, who could not miss
train in order to say goodby in the dignified
manner of the olden school, when stage
coaches and steamboats, would wait,
and while, in the case of the
latter, there was time while the
yawl came to land to specifically remember
all the connection by name. A man, too,
who goes with his vile to church, or Tor any
other purpose several miles, prefers the
electric or cable car, as he can keep his
temper while she is fussing before the mir
roror looking for lost glove, fan or para
SOL as he knows that no matter how many
cars they may miss another Will follow in
two to seven minutes.
PROSPECTS OF ELECTRICITY.
1t is only seven miles to Mansfield, and
several times the story has gone out that
an electric railway was about to be built,
but the rumor so far has died away like a
Valley people are growing impatient.
'Why don't you build road yourselves"
asked the reporter of one of the grumblers.
what would be the use," he replied,
"when the West End Railway Company
would hog it as soon We reached the
mouth of CHARTERS creek?'
E1-Alderman Reilly was asked how this
would De. and whether it were really fact
that his quartet had its jaws distended
awaiting chance to gobble. The genial
Squire rather parried portion of the ques-
tions thrust at him, but said that his COM
pany had a charter for line to Mansfield,
and thought it possible the road might be
built within year, but that it was not ad-
visabIe, in all respects, at present.
The quality of the pudding Mansfield peo-
pie would enjoy in the event Of the building
OF the road may be estimated from the fact
that they could ride into the city and back
for Is to 20 cents, and start every few min
utes during business hours. They seem to
think that something like this is all that
will ever enable them to catch up with the
procession.