The Progress., 1894-02-10
The Development Club and Fair Grounds

matter and the people and members
are getting tired Of it,, ~%. 80.
The enter prising citizens of Shreve-
port are anxious to secure this
ground for park, provided this will
insure an annual fair, and on this
basis the majority of the men bers OF
the club, set out to secure them for
the city. A number of meetings have
been held, committees appointed and
still up TO the Tuesday evening meet
ing, no understanding, definite qlnd
complete, had been come to between
the club and the gentlemen who con
'trolled the mortgage and owned the
majority at the stock. @ e
This condition of things made
many memssrs of the club tired and
they 6egan to grow confused and
cast about for reason for all this.
Al first everything was confusion,
but the microscope reveals many
things not seen by the naked eye, and
having applied this instrument to the
matter at issue, The PRoGREss is i'm
Eelled to PROFOUND the query: Who
is concealing the bug under the chip,
the Far Grounds people or some
members of the club? To the hcGest,
falr-minded observer it begins to
look like a scheme of diamond cut
diamond" between the mortgagors of
the Fair Grounds an1 certain mem
bers of the cub, most interested, the
latter of whom hayo been parading
their public spirit and attempting to
browbeat the members of the club
into taking certain stands on the
question at issue, by such bulldozing
declarations as that is just the way
with Shreveport; no ono is willing to
do anything for fear that it will bene-
fit someone else"
This declaration is base calumny,
except as applied to very Few. But
we are free to say that the enterpris-
ingGitizens of Shreveport are hard to
be herded into allowing their han Is
to be used to pull chestnuts Out of
the fire, for the personal advantage of
others, and we are also free to con.
TESS that we believe this has been at
tempted by some members of the
club. F..
After spending the time in useless
discussion and old woman's gossip, the
club on Tuesday evening adopted the
following introduced by Mr.. H. H
Wheless:
Resolved, That committee of
three be appointed to ascertain if the
gen jlemen who hold the mortgage
and majority of the stock, will
agree not to take any steps toward
foreclosure, until the matter be pre-
sented to the citizens to learn wheth-
or or not they will vote chat the city
own the Fair Grounds as a park, and
also ascertain if they will agree to
give a written assurance that they
will take 50 cents on the dollar for
this stock should the city desire to buy
it.; OR in the event the proposal does
not meet their approval that they ad-
wise the committee upon what terms
the city can acquire the grounds, and
that said proposition be made in
writing. G
President Garter named Messrs. e.
B.Herndon, [. Barron and N. B Mnrff
as the committee.
Now. gentlemen, perform the Nc
Keller act, and let us rid the public
Of this tiresome Far Grounds bust
ness. The owners of the mortgage
and stock have rights as Well as any
of us, which should be as readily re-
spected.
Our people do not propose to be
used as catpaws for sny one, whether
the requestors are members of the
club or otherwise, and the sooner We
dispose of the Fair Grounds ques-
ton, the better the club will be pre-
pared to perform other necessary
public service.
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