The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1902-08-07
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
We Give Below SOme Clippings
Showing What DanVille
Is Doing.


way soliciting committees for the city
of Danville was held last night at the
court house, at which plans were for
mulated for house to house canvass
for subscriptions for the Southern
right Of way. A committee was also
appointed and assigned to work on the
fair grounds next week. The county
committees are meeting this after
noon and organizing for systematic
work in the county. A meeting of the
town committee will be held next
Tuesday evening in the court house,
at which a report will be made. So
far, voluntary subscriptions have been
made amounting to about 300. All
the committees assigned last night
are actively canvaSSing the town to-
day.
1t is stated on good authority that
some important work is being done by
Lancaster and Burgin parties to
change the order Of things, and de-
prlve Danville of the extension. 1t
seems that delegation from Lancas-
ter, headed by Gov. w. O. Bradley,
went to New York last week in the
interest of that town, but it is not
known what they accomplished. The
Lancaster Record, however, oStensi-
bly, gives up the fight. However, it is
not quite safe to presume too much
upon Lancaster inactivity. 1t is un-
derStOOd that about twO-thirdS of the
right of way from Burgin to LancaS-
ter has already been secured, and it
seems that the people of that county,
even those who are most injured by
the passage of a road through their
property, are wide awake to the adj
vantages and necessity of road for
Garrard county. One man, whose
farm was split in two by the road, of
fered without solicitation to donate
the right of way. Moreover, every
day that passes brings nearer the hour
when Boyle county, unless she does her
share, will be notified that the most
magnificent opportunity for growth
and increase in wealth in quarter of
century has gone by. Truly, we
have come to parting of the ways.
We can either take stock i'm this rail- |
road extension and get on a Chicago !
seaboard trunk line with division end
and all its advantages, or we can freeze |
our hands on our pocket books for a |
few days longer and purchase tick
ct, cheap now, costly in the future, on
the Great Hog Train, Unlimited. This
road runs only one way, however, and
that is down hill, because it is easier to
20 tqat way. 1t runs swiftly. 1t
won't take us long, if we choose that
line, to reach that peaceful state of
1nnOccuOus desuetude where all indi
viduals and communities that haven't
enterprise enough to take advantage
of opportunities finally land. Then
think, oh think, of the expense it will
be to purchase sufficient cows to keep
the grass eaten down on the streets,
and the effort it will be to her citizens
to keep the flOuriShing moss swept off
their backs.
Danville Courier. The Southern
is considering the pro
posed extension of the road. Confer
ence after conference has been held,
and Danville last week felt quite sure
of securing the coveted prize. On the
other hand our plucky neighbOr, Bur-
gin, heartily seconded by Lancaster
and other towns to the east, are in
earnest in the effort to have the ex- s
tension follow the route that the {
Southern surveyed from Burgin to Jel- {
licO two or three years ago at the same {
time the route through Boyle to Dan I
Vile was marked off.
Danville NewS:-It was rumOred Y
here yesterday that Lancaster had for I
some time been making great efforts i
in the way of securing the right of way Q
along the route surveyed from Burgin !