Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-12-17
PROPOSITION MADE.
IN EVENT OF GENERAL AGREE
MENr THE TEXAS AND PACIFIC
Is READY TO BUILD.
Only Trouble Now Is Location, and
Indications Are GOOD for An
Adjustment.

Colonel L. s. Thorne, vice president
and general manager OF the Texas and
Pacific, has just addressed letter to
the general managers of all the lines
entering Fort Worth on the subject of
the proposed new union station.
Colonel Thorne states that In com
pany with Treasurer c. l.. Satterlee,
OF the Texas and Pacific he has gone
over the entire situation very care
fully, and believes he is ready to give
the order for the building to begin as
soon as all lines interested signify
their willingness to cooperate by en-
tcring into an agreement to pay their
pro rata OF the fixed charges OF MAIN
tenancc when the building Is COM
pleted and occupied.
In other words the Texas and Pacific
is ready to begin work On a new Texas
and Pacific depot, provided the other
lines using that depot Will agree to
each pay such a proportion of the
charges necessary to maintain the
building.
II Is understood that the proportion
Of charges will involve n considerable
increase over the amount paid by each
line now using the present depot, but
they are all willing to the increase,
as 1t viii be justified by the better &c.
oommodations and service.
The main drawback or difficulty In
the way ut this time seems to be the
question OF location. The Texas and
Pacific people are contendlng for the
present location, which some of the
other interests are opposed to. The
present location has been characterized
on some hands as nothing but a hole
In the ground--and u dangerous hole
at that" and this question II seems
has operated as the influence lettering
progress for some time.
1t Is now known. however. that the
Texas and Pacific people are welded to
the present spot, and the other lines
Will probably acquiesce. and the order
to go ahead Will soon be given.
There Will be meeting OF general
managers in this city Wednesday, and
1t IL understood that the matter will
be canvassed in all its bearings at that
time. and something of a definite an
swer given to the Texas and Pacific
people
In the meantime Fort Worth requests
that these gentlemen adjust their diff
ferences agreeably to all interests, and
proceed with an enterprise she has
long and patiently waited for. An en-
terprise, too, which no fair minded
and progressive railway man can say
In his heart she Is not entitled to.
No other city in Texas has done as
much for the railway interests of Tex
"a as has the city OF Fort Worth. No
railway line has ever knocked at her
door and been denied admittance. She
has elmost paved the entrance OF some
of her great trunk lines with dollars,
but has demanded nothing at their
hands except that they come, and
through natural and legitimate chan
nels contribute to her prosperity and
greatness. And Fort Worth was wise
in that. Every line that reaped OF her
bounty has proved strong factor in
her growth and development.
But these strong allies OF Fort Worth
themselves feel they have done the
fair city an injustice In the matter OF
depot accommodations. The railway
center of Texas has enjoyed the poorest
accommodation In that respect of any
city In the state. The railways admit
this by the practical unanimlty with
which they recognize the necessity for
the new building.
And Fort Worth has been patient
IL patient even yet-reversing the old
adage that hope deferred maheth the
heart sick, for II shes had given way In
that respect she would now be too far
gone for recovery.
Fort Worth has had confidence in
tho ability and Willingness OF her great
rallwiy Interests to do her Justice and
now q at the time IL SO ripe for action.
she expects and asks that each line
do what II honestly oonceives to be its
duty in the premises.