Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1905-09-28
WE GO FORWARD.

Tue ARGUS has ever maintained
that Goldsboro should have a Union
passenger depot commensurate with
our cfty's Importance as a commerce
ial centre and the convenience of thu
great tide of travel that daily trends:
through our gates. Aud as soon as
the ARGUS was assured that tbs
Railroads had at lengthy come
around to our way of thinking and
in earnest as to their avowed con-
viction on this point and in their
purpose to give Goldsboro and thu
travelling public this long needed
convenience, we virtually closed this
chapter and turned to advocacy OF
other things that are essential for
the achievement of GREATER Colds
boro.
Occasionally, however, We are
asked about the status of the Union
passenger depot. Well, here is the
Iatest-taken from the Raleigh
News & Observer of this morning:
"The people of G%oldsboro and the
travelling public-particuiarly that
public which has been in the habit
of focking to the eeashore in sum
mer and getting off the ear into q
street of white sand Of the tempera-
ture of liquid ire,-vill be glad TO
learn that Union Depot fer the
junction of the a. G. L., the South
ern and the A. & n. u, is at las,
something more than a Winters
tale or a marriage of heat hailucIna-
ton.
"NO place in the State has needed
a respectable Union depot more than
Goldsboro. The fates Of railroading
| have made the schedules mean a
| wait in the town almost invariable.
| When the wait is not provided for
In the printed time tables it general
lily happens that the train one is on is
delayed and the other train has gonf
| when one arrives. Thus the wait i
generally coming and in larger doses
| than expected. That under These
! circumstances N should suffer il
the glare of the heavens or spend I'm.
necessary coin for hotel accommoda
ii lns is an irritation that reverbarat
es according to human nature upou
the town. If one should state the
real fact that Goldsboro is not real
ly hot, that it has trees through
which the breezes blow and lawn:
on which the sprinkler plays it
Isummer monotones- if one should
Estate these true things in miKee
company he would get the boot
| Why?-Because of a train clustering
in the sun, of a patch Of white sane
| across which tourists scufis like fa'
| dIets Of the beach, and becausa
"there is one place hotter-and We
are ready for it nowt'
"But The depot is coming. CLERK
Brown of the Corporation Commits
lsion says sc. Rather, he states that
] the three railroads concerned have
all written to tbs Commission to say
! that they are at once going 20 confer
/ one with the other about the plans,
the cost and the several duties of the
several parties to the contract. This
pleasing Information is possible az
the result of the application Of Colds
boro people to the Commission ask
ing for the depot. First, of course,
the Commission took the matter up
with the roads and q gratifying fact,
they have neither made demur.
The plans will be carried out
promptly, it now appears, and the
neg depot will be built without
friction OF unnecessary delay. If it
is not, if the roads should disagree,
there would then have to be q hear
iny and the question would be
whether the Commission would or
would not PROCEED under the provis-
ions of the Fuller bill and order the
depot built.
aNo such action now seems prob
able, in view OF the acq%uiescence OF
the three railroads concerned.