Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-03
DEPOT QUESTION
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general showing what great expense
those running into Hattiesburg would
be put to if union station was or
dered and begged that the commission
take this under consideration before
settling on union station. for this
CITY. He showed what tho present ar
rangements were, where each of the
railroads is now amply provided for
could hardly be bettered by a union
station and the concensus of the mat
ter to his mind was to leave well
enough alone-in other words if the
New Orleans and Northeastern wished
TO build a station for its own use let
that be done, but not to compel the
other roads to take part in the erec
ton of union station. Captain Jones
paid his respects to some of tn
states for the troubles railroads are
going through and at one time said
Socialism is running riot lin this
country and the states are assuming
authority they have no right to do and
are running the railroads with rulings
that are harmful and that destroy
the very effect that they wish thcil
rulings to have"
Mr. Owen, for the Mobile, Jackson
and Kansas City road, said that he
could add nothing to what Mr.. Jones
and Mr.. Curran had said.
Mr.. Smith. for the Mississippi Cen
1al was of the opinion that the matter
had been fully explained by the other
speakers but was of the opinion that
plenty of time should be taken in con-
sidering such an important step and
such an obstruse question as a union
depot and concluded by saying that
his road had done and would do its
pest to serve the best interests of the
people.
Mr.. Curran was asked some ques-
tons as to the location and he could
see no place so well suited to the
erection of either a union station or
depot to be erected by his own road
as the location ON the east side OF the
New Orleans and Northeastern for
which that road had contended ali
along.
About this time Mr.. T. NJ. Ferguson
brought into the room and placed in
good view the colored picture of the
new depot the New Orleans and
Northeastern road intends to build at
this place.
A number of other questions were
asked Mr. Curran as to the availability
for station purposes OF the presen: 10.
cation of the freight depot to all Of
which he gave the same reasons he
mas always used heretofore-that
there was lack of room and that the
yards would have to be torn up and
the roundhouse and turntables moved
from their present locations at great
expense.
After these questions Mr.. McNair
vas about to order an adjournment.
when Mr.. Curran took the floor to say
that before anything was done i'll
might be well for the commissioners
to go over the sites proposed with
him and other railroad men-and that
above all it would be best to have
the various railroads get their engi-
necrs to make tracings of the situation
before the matter was fully decided.
SO that an intelligent contamination
might he arrival at
After some deliberation the commits |
sion adjourned until 2:30 in the after
noon for the purpose of looking into
the proposed sites and for other rea-
sons and the meeting dissolved.
MORE TO COME
AT the meeting in the afternoon the
commissioners reported to the com- |
Gil, which had met in adjourned meet |
ing last night, that they had gone |
over the ground thoroughly and had |
decided to withhold any decision until
after their regular monthly meeting
October 8.
The. council Being in session de- |
cided to take up the matter then ana
there and the proceedings began with
clear, clean-cut statement from
Councilman Gillespie, who SHOVE
that, taking into consideration the
long time that had elapsed. since the
aepot question ll,fd first been taken
up, 1t yasfabout time to do something
Dc cisfve in the matter. He suggested
that the council rescind its former ac-
ton in passing the resolution turning
lne settlement of the station question
over to the commission rnlss said h,,
would put the matter just where it
was before it was referred to the COM
missioners and the council could then
take the question up and settle it.
There was some cross-firing about
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