The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-07
A NEW DA=pO.
IT MAY BE CONSTRUCTED AT
AN EARLY DATE
For the Vicksburg, Shreveport and
Pacific Railroads. Difference Over
Scoop by Rival Papers.

lhe Caucasian will admit that it ha
no inclination to intermeddle in or tt
lnterJect its views i'll any controversy O
difference arising between its contem
porarles, the Times and the Journal
but it can not restrain an expression oi
its enjoyment from the perusal of local
newsy articles, in which the journal
announced that the Vicksburg, Shreyc-
port and Pacific had acquired from the
shreveport Compress and Warehouse
| Company valuable property in the two
blocks bounded by Market, Lake and
Marshall streets, and the tracks of the
Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific, in
clud1ng the warehouse, property of the
company, etc, excepting the machinery,
which is to be removed, and which
statement led the Times, in a fgurative
sense, to jump on the Journal with both
teet The Times not only challenged the
allegations but de6ed the alligator, who
has met the issue with fa.ts, to which
the Times agrees by the publication of
about the same matter which it an
nounced was incorrect and which led it
to an attempt to paralyze the Journal.
In this controversy there is a central
feature, around which the elements of
d1scord gravitated, and that element is
MIR. Ford, superintendent of the Vicks-
burg, Shreveport and Pacific, who when
approached on the subject not only de-
MED defiantly the allegations but was
about to sit down on the alligator. And
now for the sequence which is of gen.
eral interest to the public. The facts are
that the Shreveport Warehouse and
Compress Company sold on Friday to
the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific
Railroad Company the unexpired lease
on the property and all the lots owned |
by the compress company in the two
blocks bounded by Market, Lake, Mar
shall streets and the tracks of the Vicks-
burg. Shreveport and Pacific. Included |
n the sale is also the warehouse prop
erty Of the compress on the east side of
Market street and adjoining the railroad
racks. The amount paid by the railroad
.or this property and for the lease re-
erred to was $o7.5oo The money was
aid in cash, all the popers transferring
he title were signed up, and it is in
ended that the deed will be offered for
ecord at the istrict ce1rk's Office this
fternoon'
Which transaction is of record.
The next proposition is speculative
If course it could not be expected that
dr. Ford, who dehed the alligator and
enied the allegations, in this case would
dnnit anything or give the n1inutest in
orn1ation or even an inkling of the
uture, but any man possessing the ;
rains of a pea fowl will readily con- ;
1ude that the Vickburg, Shreveport and /
'acifc investment is more significant ;
ian a man full of prunes.s The last ;
ian on earth to whom the Caucasian ]
teu1d ever apply for information is a
snow nothing or a know all'' con- :
ected with a railroad or express COM :
any or corporation, who, standing on !,
le dignity of their position, would, if J
ley could, sit down on the newspaper , !;
an except when he would have "a bou- j
let, and who as rule soar, in their :,
Nn esteem, SO far above the common :
erd that a man possessing less than a 4
illion or diked out in tinseled tog- :
,ry' should feel hattered in any CON i,
sscension which these self-inaated dig
taries would concede in their recog-
ton and sometimes circumscribed y
Witty. But it is unfortunate that some
en- can not be purchased at their self
tin1ated valuation and resold at their
al worth. Indeed there would be a
arked difference such as astounded3 I
d made speeehless IIunpty Dumpty !
hen he tunabled from the wall. But to
Z proposition speculative. AS alleged,
ere may be a depot, a regular passen-
i .dapo which may cost S., but
ing speculative NE would hesitate to
me or even intimate the amount.
oWever. from orr point of view we
We enjoyed innn1easurablF the little
feIenee in the statements Of the two
Wspapers, but fact is a fact and
thing on earth can distort. a fact when
Piled to logical reasoring and positive
nelusions. The Journal in this in-
nee is entitled to the cake, the bou-
It and the chrome
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