Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-06-15
SOUTHERN DEPOT.

There Is in circulation another in
teresting rumor to the effect that the
Southern railroad has under considera-
ton the idea of building freight house
at Yorkville, and although the story
comes pretty straight, we are not WILL
ing to vouch for the truth Of 1t, be-
cause we have already fooled our read
ers about the matter until we can
hardly hope to be able to fool them any
more.
When the depot was originally de-
stroyed by fire, so long ago, that 1t Is
difficult to place the exact date, the
public was informed that 1t would be
replaced at once and nobody doubted
the story very much, because 1t was
difficult to see how the railroad people
would be able to do business at this
place without some kind Of a shelter
in which to store perishable freight.
The matter rocked along from day
to day, week to week and month to
month, until at last the years began
to pile up before the people of York
vile, long accustomed to all kinds of
impositions, began to even take notice.
Various business men, moved by loss
of freight or damages to the same,
wrote from time to time to the proper
authorities, and got promises OF imme-
date attention.; but beyond a little
temporary encouragement to hope,
there was nothing doing.
Somebody wrote a few months ago
and got the ra.nNad commission to
come up to Yorkville, or rather two
members of that honorable body who
are nearest to the dates when they will
have to ask for the continuation of
their salaries. The commissioners
came along with an air of seriousness,
looked over the situation, agreed that
the Yorkville people had been very
much abused and promised to have a
depot erected without any more delay,
or to begin proceedings in the court
within the next thirty days.
Judging by what the commissioners
said. some people really thought that
there would be something doing short
ly; but others who, from previous OBJ
servation and experience, had long
since come to regard the office of rail-
road commissioner as a sinecure for
surplus politicians, serving principally
the purpose of giving the railroads a
pretext for not doing the fair thing by
their patrons, but smiled a hopeless
smile and continued to put up with the
imposition to which they had grown
accustomed.
In the meantime it is not much ex-
aggeration to say that the claims that
have risen against the Southern rail-
road at this station on account of loss
of goods, breakage, deterioration, etc,
have amounted in the aggregate to
something like 20 per cent of the
amount earned i'm freights. Indeed, so
numerous and frequent have these
claims become that it has been impos-
sible for the railroad company to get
an agent who could keep up with the
business at this place, and still there
is no depot.
During the past few days, since Mr..
Long succeeded Mr.. Davis as agent,
The Enquirer has again been informed
that the railroad has let contract for
a depot. The information comes di-
rectly from Supervisor of Track Max
well, and is to the effect that it Is to
be a $4,000 brick structure, and 1t Is
to be completed at an early day" just
as soon as the contractor can complete
a certain indefinite number Of other
Jobs that are ahead of 1t.