Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-04-10
AND STILL THEY COME.
But as Yet the Depot Itself is as
Much a NTH as Ever.
Wilmington, N. G.
April 4,S1902.

wilmington, n. Z.
April 4 ,1so2.
EDITOR OF THE ARGUS. 2
Goldsboro, N. G.
DEAR sIR:-I have not been re-
quested by anyone as a railroad man
to give my opinion as to the charac-
ter and location Of the proposed new
union passenger depot or, o
properlys peaking- shed-if it is to bea
shetland maythe Good Lord grant
that Goldsboro may never be dis
graced by a train shed being erected
in its midst, and what car be made
one of the most beautiful streets in
the world, it better a thousand times
rain and sunshine than bituminous
smoke and cinders.
1t is related of two deceased COM
mercial travellers who were So
Ijourning in hades, that one remarked
that cit was the worst place he had
ever got off at" The other one ask
ed him if he had ever stopped under.
the shed at Weldon, N. G.. $
Let Goldsboro not initiate We'll
don.
Weldon, with the greatest water
i power in America, second only to
niagara, remains practically unde-
veloped, thanks to hercar shed more
than any one thing.
1 ~z1IzIa.a 49, L. =
cooperate and build a union depot
worthy of the name-onet that would
be an ornament to the city and a
comfort to the travelling public.
Goldsboro is the gateway to the
East, and from a local standpoint we
would be glad to have n equal to
that one at Greensboro. Build it on
the outskirts Of the town. Don't
ruin the looks of your town indefi-
nitely by making a freight and pas
Isenger yard of it.
No lady can now drive a horse on
Centre street, and but few men, on
account of the trains. There is no
reason why a depot shonld be built
in the city, and it should not.
Railroad men know how hard it
is to keep off the public when they
run through town, but three or four
times stopping and starting almost
together, it is worse. Out Of town
would be much better for the hotels,
no man sleeps in a train yard unless
he is compelled to, and then he es-
capes as soon as he can, the ding
dong bells and the exhaust steam.
The few meals the hotels would lose
by the depot being out oftown would
be more compensated for by the
travelling public remaining longer
at the hotels when out of the train
yards.
With the depot in town it would
be a nuisance to try to pass from
East to West Centre street, and in a
few years almost impossible. Yes it
would cost the drummers and trav-
cling public hack-fare and baggage
u dIISlCI11IIS3 UuU WudU OO yOu WALL
them to stop for if you cannot get
anything out of them. And every
penny left in a town helps it. Yes, it
would help the livery stables and
incidently, the feed store
Make your town attractive and
"skin" the public. Mr.. Flagler is
+, making Florida, and, incidently mil
I. lions for himself by doing it, but his
train yard is always well away from
his hotels.
What a beautiful street Centre
street could be made with rows of
trees on each side, with grass planted
and fountains in the center, but that
; is another story for another genera
ton perhaps, to deal with. Sad but
true, I am afraid, but what a con-
trast to think of it so, and then to
think of a whitened, smutty, dirty
car shed with smoked glass in the
top, for no power or earth can keep
it from being smoked.
With best wishes always for Colds
boro, and also for the railroads, fol
what benefits both.
Very truly,
), J. r. KENNEDY.
Hirh proSSTrrn nauC