The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-09
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THEw.R. AND S. IS ALMOST
ASSURED.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING.
$1,000 Subscrib"d In IA Few Moments.
The Amount Now Raised is <36.50c.
New Committees Appointed Inter
csting Addresses by TrOut and Fries

cStinE !.HurcSScS Nv brVha uhV Hhi .
The people Of Roanoke intcnl to
have the Roanoke aud Southern
railroad here.
The meeting of business men ut the
Young Mems Christian Association
Hall yesterday afternoon was called
for the purpose of settling the ques-
ton ut once, and their is every reason
to believe that it will be settled before
the sun goes down this day. In the
the course of half II dozen minutes Us
MANY thousand dollars We're sub
scribed to the Guarantee Company
and IL committee was appointed to
solicit additional subscriptions. AL
ready S36, 800 has been secured, and
the $l3, 800 yet TO be subscribed will,
it is confidently expected, soon be
placed.
The meeting was called 10 order at
1 O'Clock, and Mr.. Il. f.. Scott WAS
made chairman, Hinton Helper act
ing as secretary The audience WAS
lrade up of representative business
men and they were determined TO
settle the matter ut once aud for
good There WAS an atmosphere of
business in the hall and the meeting
was strictly business.
at tie suggestion Of Mr.. Jas. 5.
Simmons the chairman invited Presi-
dent Trout of the road TO address the
meeting. Mr.. Trout did so at some
length and his speech was full of
sood and effective points. MIR. Trout
prefaced his remarks by saying that
he proposed to make Il plain state
ment of facts. He then gave concise
history of the road from its inception
up to the present time. Bullock and
Company first took the contract to
build it and spent several thousand
dollars in surveying.
They were to have completed the
line for the company, but failed, and
then the Virginia and North Carolina
Construction Company was organ
lied, and they undertook the work OF
building the road. They have,
said Mr.. Trout, under many diilicnl-
ties, done remarkably well, and by
the first of December it is expected
that trains will be Running into Mar
tinsvile from Winston The presi-
dent then went on 10 explain the
difficulty experienced by the road in
getting into the city Their efforts
had met with nothing but discourage
ment. They were willing TO pay
$50. 600 for n route into the city, but
they soon found that it would cost
them good deal over 100000 10 get
in, and they very properly refused 10
pay it.
The crisis had to be lnet.anl at this
iuncture the Guarantee Company was
suggested. Mr.. Trout explained the
object o:ethis company, and said that
for various reasons it had not been
successful in raising tie entire
He believed that if it w"r.
raised there WAS not n dou3t bat
what the road wonid come 10 hoa-
noKe.
Mr.. D. G. Moomaw slgges.ed tia;
Colonel Fries. the president OF the
company. address the
meeting Colonel Fries said that he
was called upon rather unexpectedly
He had had no idea that he would be
asked to participate III any meeting
when he came to the city. He then
went on ana briefly outlined the work
of the company as it has thus ial
been done and spoke inteilisently Of
the question of coming into The city
with the road. He said that thecom
panv had wrestled with the question
for a long time and rs yet did not seC
their way clear as 10 the route.
He admitted that Roanoke hae
done nobly in subscribing to so luucl
stock, but the company conld Ger
tainly not pay as much rs was asked
to come into the city. The pric,
.sked f5rr ,f fS> property over wh mel
he road was to pass .,@-a'--ls- q
Surely there was no business man
here who would not say that this
vas an exhorbitant price to pay. He
stated in this connection tliat Mr. H.
Il. Stewart had been unjustly criti-
lied. He had bought property along
lie proposed route of the road, bit
hat property had been turned over
% the company at cost price. 1t was
hen discovered that the price was too
much, and there the matter at pres,
INT stood.
He explained that the building of
5he road was a matter of business,
1othing more, nothing less, and it was
n that light alone that the construc-
ion company were obliged to rcga rd
It. They had to make every dollar
20 as far as it would and the strictest
economy had to be used But can
nd you in two ways" said Col. Fries.
Il understand that there is IL division
among the citizens regarding the
point at which the road shall enter
he town. can tell you this. The
western entrance into the city, has,
after mature consideration, been
The road if it comes at
Ill will come from the east. If this
will be of any assistance
TO you in coming to a conclusion you
Ire welcome to it,
1.-THE terminus at Winston" con-
.inued the colonel, did not cost us
out $4,000, and you may imagine
what the people OF that city think OF
paying fifteen times as much as was
paid there for terminus here. They
10 not feel inclined to go down into
their pockets to pay for building the
road and let Roanoke do little else
than pay for her own terminus. The
company has abandoned any such
idea, and unless something towards
securing a terminus here is done at
an early day the road will not come
here at all. | think ! have done my
duty in this matter and stated the
facts just as they are. | want to say
here, for the information Of the
people of Roanoke, that we don't ask
her for cent more than ste has
given III that we do want
is an entrance into the city at price
we can pay
Ibid or did not the construction
make a contract to build
the road to Roanoke asked Mr..