The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-09-21
Its Advocates for the Bridge
Site Talk.
OPEN THROUGH THE BUSINESS CENTER
II This Street is not Selected Another
Bridge Will be Demanded.

favored the location of the new
county bndge south Of Austin
street, met at the city hall last
night.
Col. r. B. Parrot was chairman
of the meeting and M. B. Davis
secretary
Mai r. NJ Chamberlin read reg.
olutions favoring the location at
Franklin stree, and condemning
Elm street. These resolutions we're
adopted and Col. Parrot said that
he would name committee TO pre-
sent copies to the city council to.
night and to the county commits.
sioners' court.
The r, solutions declared that the
Elm street site, recommend ed by
the locating committee, was incon
venient, Ineligible and detrimental
to the interests of a majority Of the
citizens who would have occasion 20
use the bridge. n nety per cent of
the business houses of Waco are
located on Austin, avenue and on
streets south of that thoroughfare
and the location of the bridge al
Elm street would force neariy all
the travel across the bridge to pass
the public square. The public
square already had the suspension
bridge and if the new hrid 4e should
be located in that -eighborhood it
would force people to pass around
the square up or down one of the
side streets, az the square is now
rendered almost impossible by
street cars and tracks and from
September to May the square is
jammed and packed with wagons
and other vehicles, horses, horse
traders, produce vendors.
Railroad depots, " holesale houses,
the posto flee, court house, lumber
yards, factories and nearly all other
business enterprises are located on
or in the neighborhood of Franklin
street or streets south of Austin.
The heavy business of Waco ii
drifting southwark, and the city il
growing in that direction.
When the alley into which the
proposed Elm street bridge would
be open, if it ever should be, on to
the square, it would require al
extra police force to keep an oyer
passage way through the square.
Country people who sold produc'
on the square had already protested
against the intrusion on the marke,
place, where they transacted bust
ness.
Franklin is a paved street, open
ing into the heart of the business
part of the city, and is the proper
place to loos,e the bridge. City
bridges should be built with an eyt
to the future and not with an eye tt
the pr sent interests of few indi
viduals. Ten years from TODAY
Franklin street would be built VI
with mammoth brick business
blocks from the court house tt
Tenth street.
1t is understood that the objec
in building a new bridge is to re
lieve the suspension bridge of the
heavy strain upon account of pas
senger and vehcular traffic. Tn,
placing of the new bridge above tn,
suspension bridge, the resolution.
declared, would not accommodate.
this object, as the heavy western
trade comes from sections opposite
to ard south of the present bridge
Heavy transferring would continue
across the suspension bridge, be-
cause it would not go by one bridge
to reach another, bue would cross
the first bridge reached. If the
new bridge is located at franklin
street it would relieve the suspen.
sion bridge Of rs per cent. Of the
pressure Of tr3fio.
A few thousand dollars saved in
construction should not be allowed
TO stand in the way of locating the
bridge where the best interests of
almost a.! the citizens would be
best subserved.
If the bridge should not be locat.
ed at Franklin street, as it shou d
ha than tho hnainesa intarasts Of