The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-06-05
A New Court House.

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oualitie ed to do 50 should make the
following suggestions to the county
commissioners regarding the loca'
ton and building new court house.
1t is taken for granted that no SEN
sible man will deny the present ab'
solute necessity for a new court
house and better location.
/. The old early Texas idea of
locating a court house in the center
of or near to business thorough
fare or square, should no longer OBJ
tain in city the size of Waco. The
idea is obsolete, antiquated, and out
of harmony with the conditions and
necessities of large and growing
city.
9. 1t should be away from all un,
usual noises, Influences and environ
ment, such as would interfere with
the lawyers and officers of the court
in the discharge of the important
business of the court and the proper
administration of justice, where the
lawyers would not be disturbed in
the discharge of their delicate and
complex relations and duties to their
clients. And, in order to this end
it should be removed from near any
railroad, noisy thoroughfare, or
noisy street car line, or any noisy
steam mill or manufacturing estab-
lishment.
3. 1t should be removed ont of
the dusty or sandy part of town, in
order to the better preservation of
the court records, books and papers
and so to conduce more to the
health and comfort of those who
must labor in the building.
4. 1t should be- located not too
far from the business centres and
with reference to the convenience
Of those whose business and labors
calls them there oftenest, the law
yers and officers of the courts.
). 1t should be located in a large
block of ground, and the building
placed we'll back in its centre, as
far as possible from the noise Of the
sidewalk and street. Ornamental
Yards and shades should be provid.
ed and it be made the duty of the
sheriff aud county Judge to keep
them in az decent ana aes .hetic or
der as possible.
6. these are the leading points
that should guide the commission
ers' court in the location of a new
court house. The location of our
present court house violates every
one of these cor ditiops, except,
prehaps, as to the one only, as to
distance from the business centres.
In the first place it is loca.ed in
such a hideous and morally de-
PRAYED and deformed part of our
city, that | scarcely venture on a
description of the location, lest |
may offend against common de-
cency aud propriety.
1t is surrounded on all sides by
noisy railroads and switches. The
Arkansas Pass on one side, the Mis-.
souri,, Kansas and Texas and Cotton
Belt on the other, the Citizsns'
Street railway on Bridge street, on
another, with the Hobson Street
railway bringing up in front.
Added to this babel of noisy rail.
ways, railway whistles, etc., is the
conglomeIate square and busy thor.
oughfare, with it's buzzard roost &C.
compartment. And to this are
steam mills, gins, and oil mills in
close proximity, with their numer.
Gus ard insuppressible whistles,
gauges, and exhaust pipes, each
furnishing it's respective quota to
the babel of noises, interfering with
the business and administration of
justice.
To cap the climax, the whole con.
Germ IS nestled down in the midst of
or in direct proximity to the negro
quarters and the reservation, the
most corrupt and immoral part of
tie city. AT times to Judge by tie
number of buns and loafers hang
ing around, it looks more like part
and parcel of the reservation than
like sacred and respectable temple
of Justice Such, in brief, is the
location aud situation of McLennan
county's temple of justice.
The necessity Of new court
house and different location has