Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-09

- they were represented at the meeting are
heartily and unreservedly in favor Of the Nor
FOLK and Western railroad being given an en-
trance into this city. Il was further demon
strated that there a decided difference Of
opinion a. to the wisdom OF charging that en-
ployss of the Pennsylvania railrosd are on the
floor Of the House and that that corporation
controls legislation. No one at the meeting
Questioned the truth OF such statements except
TO intimate tina, legal evidence could not be
produced in support of these charges. How
ever. 10 was maintained. whether the statements
were true or false. il was necessary to go to
Congress and ask that this bill be passed.
and i; was said that one could hardly expect n
member OF Congress TO vote for bill after Its
friends had called him personally all manner of
names
The other policy denominsted as the
"molssses' policy. and ii was urged that the
people II the District had been indulging in
soft speeche- long enough Now was the time
To arouse the attention OF Congress and by the
use OF strong language let the members under
stand exactly how the people OF the District
felt. These divergent views as TO the policy to
bepursGed eventually split the meeting. although
there j. no question that every one who attended
the public mass meeting saturday evening was
heartily IN favor Of the proposed new railroad
.REPEEsrST.TIyE GATHERING or CITIZENS.
Tho call for the meeting. signed by the req
resen;atives OF leading organizations, brought
together representative gathering of citi-
zens OF coarse. Georgetown was well rep
resented bat so were other sections of the city.
Among those preseu; were Geo W. Cochran.
VI. ". Biurt. L. ii. WIllett, Matthew Trimbe,
J. '. Y. Huyck. George W. Dunlop. Thomas
]. Luttrei. John l.. Galloway. Thomas W.
Smith. 4. T.. Paris. 5. T.. Wheatley. John III.
Nagruder l.. 7. Berry. Joseph Farming. Geo.
HILL Louis Sckade ". IL ManoSue \ A. LIP
sco-nb l. A. Littlefeld Il. W. TYLER Thomas
J. King. J. Harrison johnson. o. q. Staples,
u. W. Pilling. +. l. Moore. ". ii. Moses. Mills
Dean. John Paret. Ross A. Fish. Frank Hume.
fred ". Pi.ling called the meeting to order
aud read the call which was signed by VI. NJ.
Parker. president board of trade; Frederick W.
Pi.ling. president builders exchange; ". b.
Gnrisy. president brokers' exchange; L. W.
TYLER. president board Of underwriters. J. Har-
risou Johnson. president South Washington
Citizens Association; J. ". Babson. president
East Washington Citizens Association, and l..
W. Richie. president West Washington Citi-
zen- Association.
Mr. u. NJ. Parker was elected chairman. with
Me--rs. John Joy Edison. William A. Gordon.
J. l. Barbour, Frank Hume and T. II. Warner.
vice presidents. and Nessrs. I. J. King and W.
II. Monogue. secretaries
MR- PARKER's REMARKS
The meeting went along smoothly enough
Mr.. Parker in taking the chair said that the
object Of the meeting vas to take action in
favor o. increased railroad facilities for
the city. II not. he understood
10. 20 favor any one road or 20 injure any one
road. but To- advance the interests of the CITY.
He could not understand how the coming into
the city Of any great railroad would be an
injury. The Pennsylvania railroad was a great
road. one Of the greatest and the best in the
country. aud % looks after its own interests.
That was all ve-y vel. bu: the fact is that this
city has OutgrOwn two railroads.
There a time whsn one was enough.
The1 the Pennsylvania rail DAD came and now
We ueed more. in fact. al we can get. He spoke
az the opposition displayed against the entrance
Of additional roads into the city OF Buffalo a
few wears ago. and he told Of the triumph Of the
new roads a1dthe great prosperity tbs incressed
rsilroad facilities gave the city. He had often
wondered what this CITY wonli have done with
the worlds fair II II had been located here.
There were. he said. thirty-two lines of railroad
running into Chicago. and vet there is some
question OF the sIffc-eEcy of these facilities
What would have been the situation here with
,nly two railroads? All great gatherings show
the inlcequacv % our facilities, the roads be-
come blocked up with freight for weeks after
the event;
COMMITTEE on RESOLUTIONS.
Upon the conclusion Of this brie. opening
speech the chairman raid the meeting was
ready for business. On motion of Mr.. Thos
W. Smith a committee was appointed 20 draft
reso lutiuns for presentation to Congress. This
committee. named BY the chair was as fol-
lows. Thomas ". smith, :. T.. Whsatley. Louis
schade. Nils Dean and o. q. Staples. The
committee Withdrew and for a few moments
Their was a general hum Of conversation in the
bal. which was finally broken by some one
Suggesting shat pcrhaps Nr. Frank Hume
could say something Of interest Mr. Hume
mosle-tly thought be had nothing 10 contrib
ute. and seemed 20 be OF the opir io. that Mr.
Eo- ftsh could entertain the audience. Mr.
fi-h. however. -aid shat ne had nothing to saw
He was aware hat that there vas opposition 70
the railroad bill and while everybody was
pretty vel! aware where IL came frori vet il
would be vel 20 throw some light on the con-
nectlOn Of the Pennsylvania road with the op-
position 10 this bill
Tho char said that the object OF the meeting
was not 10 attack any ore. but to ad yocate the
interests Of this city Mr.. Fish retorted that
necessary 10 handle the Pennsylyania road
withcrt gloves. lie would call on his friend
M Hume 20 relate something that he had lust
told ham.
THE PovER OF RAILROAD PASSES
Thi- brought Mr.. Hume to his feet and he
sid that friend OF his had seen a member Of
Congress relative TO this bill The member
Of Congress said that he had no objection 10
this road coming into the city or 10 any road
but the Penn-ylvauia road was opposed 10 the bill
and that corporation gave him passes and his
wife passes and MS children passes ard so Cnder
the circumstances he did not care whether
Warrington got a new road nos.
NE cocHRASs EARSEsr WORDS.
The relation % this incident created quite
ssn-s.ton- Thea Mr.. George ". Cochran
spoke u his lifelong residence in this city. OF
the growth Of the railroad necessities Itne
nghi made by the d. and v. against the en-
trance into the city of the PENNSYLVANIA
road ard nov the union % both roads against
this proposed ruad. He said that the present
eoncliion - Affairs IN tins city from the stand
point of railroad facilities was dl-grHeeiGL lie
bsieNei that there not a member of Con-
0re-- who would dare to vote against such
D~ssure II the interests OF their own states or
eiti~s vas al stake. But the poten. influence
alluded 30 controls the votes % men lie was
Of the opinion that II the people OF Washington
ssks the bull by the horns and let the people
e the country know what the member. of
Congress were doing and how they wer. voting
y would do the citizens here no harm. He
snlt that there erroneous impression
sbroad Ina; the general government supported
fhts Distric. any way and he believed that more
srssrtion ON the part of the residents would be
bssseE.
TIE RESOLUTIONS EEPoETrD.
AT this point the committee on resolutions
sssnrne4 and reported as follows;
TIA; every community derives great benefit
frum easy communication with other eommuni-