The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-10-19
woRN ron rna lNrsnuauAN,
There is Time For All Things and
the Time IL Now

NUt lI'lt - NoWt
The following letter about the In.
terut ban is from H. A. Barsuu, who ~
one OF the pushing business mon Of
our city. He is constant attendant
OF the Booster club and when he IS
on a committee he works, His Ideas
Of the situation are good and unans.
werable, Read what he says:
There was time once, though
long years ago when yoke of oxen
vas thought of as good enough as a
means OF locomotion, and stage
coach was thought OF as fast enough
or transporting passengers from point
o point That was in the good old
days when towns grew just because
here had to be towns somewhere for
leople to do their t.ading. but soon
he railroads cane and now the inter.
irbans. and great big change has
,ome over the whole country and the
whole people teXcept the mossbacks)
Time is money nowadays, Railroad
trains are usually too few and far
between for people whose time Is
worth something, and the people are
therefore turning their thoughts to In,
terurbans who give hourly, or there
/ tNlNuNHt HtlNlNts us u iltUHS Ot l'ONRi
for convenience sake.
"Snce the advent of railroads and
lGterurbans towns and cities do not
Iust happen somewhere, but are made
dy the people living in them, By CIV.
viybody working as a unit aud going
alter all useful public and private on,
,erpilses. Just watch one town or
city trying to Guido the other In get,
ling enterprises, competition for land.
ing enterprises is getting to be as
Keen between cities as it is In bust
ness, and the city that is always
awake and ready TO do her part us.
uaily wins And If you have noticed
railroads and intelurbans count
great deal in city building. If Ger.
lain town has only one railroad. it is
just a town and that is ALI some 9th.
~ town has two railroads. it means
Il might Ue something more than a
own some day, hut if town has
three or four railroads, it is sure
sign that ii the proper effort is put
torth by its citizens at the proper
time, ii is bound to make city.
Take our own Greenville for in
stance. don't you think that with the
facilities and enterpi ises which We
already have, that if we put forth the
proper effort at the proper time.
which is when a proposition is pre-
Sented to us, that we can and will
make city, just like Dallas and Fort
Worth were made. There Is absolute.
lc nothing to prevent us fronN doing
H. Ii we Just so ahead and do IL. W.
now have the proposition Of an inter
urban line before us, what are we 20.
ing to do about It, will we keen IN
with the times and secure the inter
urban now, or shall we let some 9th.
er town get in ahead of us? Good
many people are lamenting over tho
fact that we lost the Santa Fe by a
very small margin a few years ago.
but do not stop to think that we have
\ proposition before us now thar
means more than the Santa Fe. II
means whether GreenVille wants to
continue to be a railroad and inter.
lrban center, or will il let some small.
Ter place close to us develop itself 10
an interurban center and take Green.
H!le's place on the map. DO not
laugh AT the suggestion, for the time
Of the interurban is here, and il
Farmersville or Commerce or Sulphur
Springs or any other place close to us
should put forth the proper effo
and make itself an interurban center
before Greenyille would wake ~.
what would become of Greenville. ltI
certainly would be worse than losing
the Santa Fe
Let therefore every citizen OF
Greenville not only subscribe Literally
toward the bonus for the interurban,
each one according to his or her
means, but work and talk the lntetur-
ban now, right now, while we can
get it. tomorrow might he too late.
There is a time for all things, and In
my Judgment now is the time to Sc.
cure the interurban"
IL. A. BARSUN.