Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-07-26
PROSPERITY SMILES 4
ON FAIR MELROSE
prmOr That This Progressive Town
Will Soon Have Railroad.
GEORGIA SOUTHERN WILL BUILD


..... IN. Assistance Of Citizens Of Mel
-. District q Spur will be Con-
..,,e,.d to Ns~burg--NAeIrOse's Old
Railroad Days
r,s r.ilroad fever has again. struck
..,ovn of Melrose and 10 10 rumored
-, that progressive little town will
'son he in direct connection with the
.a,,ide world by . railroad and the
UA;.,le Of the locomotive will awake
=. "deniEens Of the forest" in early
earning and evening late.
The people Of MelroOe are 4 progress
,,s set, They are not content with
ing located OF . line Of regular and
roderp communication and have been
liking with considerable enterprise
d, the past few years in an effort to
,.,nye a railroad connection with either
waldo on the SeAboard Air Line, or
N.uburg on the Georgia Southern and
ylorids. A long time ago Aelrose and
Green Cove Springs we're connected by
, little nArroW-guage railroad known
=, the Green Cove Springs and West.
an. but for some reason the operation
q, The road did not pay and il was
,,sptually abandoned and went Ito
The bad" in a great deal less time than
"a, required to construct it. The iron
"a, cold and removed, the tracks torn
% and the road was no more.
Among the promoters Of this road
Vas pr. Vogelbseh Of Pennsylvania, an
,p,erprising citizen who came to Flor
ID, for his health and settled at Mel
p,e. Being q shTewd business man.
he felt that the venture would pay, re-
Airing that Melrose was the geograph-
ka center Of the State and at that
time, az now, a most progressive viii
hge DR.. Nogelbsch possibly was en-
iAused by imaginary buzzing Of saws,
ringing OF the blacksmith's hammer.
visions OF volumes OF smoke from the
stacks OF various factories. etc, be-
eaute he felt in HE heart that Melrose
ui a coming town. The Doctor him
Rli planted" nearly fifty thousand
dollars in the venture Of the Green
Core Springs and Western and induced
other friends, capitalists, to invest
Sith hun
The construction OF the road and all
in Affairs were left entirely Co the
Management Of DR.. Vogelbach, and it
must be said to his credit that be per-
iOrned his work we'll and faithfully.
After considerable time the road was
completed, and was operated for sew
en- years but apparently without
profit, as the iron and the locomotives
V're eventually Sold for scrap iron
But this has no bearing on the pres
hl time. This was q long time ago,
SAsh there was really no assured reR-
HnibIe connection out Of Green Cove
springs, aud passengers preferred to
Ma The little steamer aud the Waldo
sanction Of the then F. @. 4 P. Rail-
mad The Georgia Southern and
fonda Railroad has since been con-
hfa'ted from PalAtkA 70 Macon, and
separating a hrst-class aud reliable
Nree When q passenger leaves
A'I'o'e by rail for Newburg, TO which
lae' It q intended TO build, he has q
As' reasonable assurance, unless some
@'aehi occurs, that he 10 going to get
On time This will be q great in-
s'esnsni Tor him to take the all.rail
'''N especially since the boat con-
''"oh = now uncertain, owing to the
@shaari .ow water
As'por''ble parties state that the
80 southern aud Florida Rail-
- 10 con junction with the citizens
A''''e will sOon build Q spur into
"'n which IL only three miles
- Ne main line Of the Georgia
49, This will give Melrose eI-
-" e'nnectlons, and We hlay look
=" Trogressive town TO grow and
" the green bay tree when