Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-04-24
The Railroad Meeting.


was a meeting OF delegates from
Brennan, Navasota, LAGRANGE and
Huntsville held at Eldridge hall yes
terday afternoon at 2 o'clock for the
purpose of considering proposition
to build a railroad from Huntsville
to LaGrange via Navasota and Bren-
ham. All of the towns were re-
presented, the contingent from Nav
asota arriving on the late midnight
train night before last, and those
from Huntsville yesterday at noon.
The meeting was organized by
electing Col. l. NJ. Camp, of Nava-
sofa, chairman; W. S. Robson, of
LAGRANGE, secretary; and ]. n.
Brown, of Brennan, assistant secre-
tary. Col. Camp asked to be relieved
and asked Col. Giddings to take his
place.
Stirring addresses were then
made on railroad building in general
and in favor of building the pro.
posed road in particular by Col.
Giddings, T. H. Ball, of Huntsville,
Major Hannibal 81. Boone, of Nava-
sofa, ". S. Robson, of LAGRANGE,
and Harry Haynes.
After the question had been fully,
exhaustively and enthusiastically dis
cussed until the sense of the meet
ing had been determined, Col. Gid
dings introduced the following re-
solution, which was adopted, after a
slight amendment as to the repre-
sentation of the different counties on
the committee:
Resolved: That a committee of
three from Walker, three from
Grimes, five from Washington and
three from Fayette, who shall be
authorized to solicit subscriptions
to the capital stock of a rail
road from Huntsville to LAGRANGE,
aud that when one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars shall
have been subscribed that a meeting
shall be called to organize a com
pany to construct railroad from
Huntsville to LAGRANGE.
The complexion of the committee
appointed is as follows: Walker
county, Messrs. W. S. Gibbs, T. II.
Ball, J. B. Jones, e. F. Adickes,
E. L. Parish Grimes county, F.
W. Brosig, Sam Cooke, Lock Nc
Daniel, W. W. Meechum and J. H.
Freeman; Washington county, D. G.
Giddings, 7. A. Low, Albert Wer-
ner, Heber Stone and Fred Fisher;
Fayette county, A Bradshaw, A. J.
Rosenthal, John Schumacher, j. G..
Brown and 81. B. Haulbach.
An executive committee composed
of Col. Giddings, president, W. q.
Ledbetter, 1. NJ. Camp, and T. Il.
Ball, was elected, and the meeting
adjourned at 5 o'clock subject to the
call of this committee.
After adjournment the visitors
were invited to seats in hacks and
carriages and were shown the chief
points around the city. 1t was a
very imposing procession and fine
turnout of Brenham's leading citi-
zens. The first place visited was
Fisher & Weis' sausage factory,
then the Central school building,
the congresses, the pulp factory,
the Brennan cigar factory, Col.
Giddings' new residence, the FIRE
mems park, and several other points.
At the pavilion key of Lemp's
beer was set up by Mr.. Fritz Krentz-
liu and was much enjoyed. Late in
the evening the fremen turned out
in honor of the visitors and gave an
exhibition of their thorough train
ing. A false fire alarm was sounded
and the fremen we're kept in the
dark, SO that when they turned out
they thought they were going to a
fire in earnest. Everybody seemed
to extend to the visitors a cordial
welcome. At night they were
entertained by the citizens
of Brennan at banquet
at Eldridge hall. The impress
sion seems to exist that something
will result from the meeting. The
people of Brennan are certainly
more aroused to the necessity Of do
ing something than they ever were
before.