The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-15

'hdN tHt NOINnWeSteTn really owes
Norfolk decent treatment-the people
OF Norfolk believe that il will mean
dollars and cents to the railroad. Nor.
folk believes that the good will of this
city and of its citizens, including It's
freight shippers, is worth a good many
thousands of dollars every year to the
Northwestern railroad. The people of
Norfolk likewise believe that the
Northwestern railroad is not entitled
to Norfolks good will so long as IL
refuses to lift hand toward giving
Norfolk a train service to which the
city is justly entitled, and toward re.
lieving the people of this city and the
travelling public of the entire half Of
two states, from perhaps as wretched
and Indifferent train service as ever
was endured by city and territory
of this class.
They Seem to Court ~ viii.
The Northwestern local business
men say, is merely counting this city's
i'll will when it goes on dumping off
Norfolk passengers a mile and half
out in the country, and forcing people
who want to take trains to journey
that distance from where the depot
ought to be, before they can get
aboard the cars. BY showing a dispo-
sition to do the fair thing, Norfolk be-
lieves the Northwestern would earn
the city's good will. And the people
of this town believe that their good
will is worth good many dollars to
that line every month in the year.
There's that at least to be said re.
garding the railroads self interest in
treating Norfolk better than it is. And
the second point which the railroad
will bring up-"Why didn't you think
of that years ago?"-is equally lack
ing as a reasonable excuse for not
treating the Norfolk of today as it
ought to be treated
A Little Ancient History.
The Northwestern will probably dig
up the ANCIENT history that when the
f.. E. & NJ. V. railroad was built. Nor
folk was asked for bonds as an in.
ducement to bring the road uptown,
and that the people then living in Nor.
folk voted down the bonds. So the
f., e. d NJ. V. railroad, in spirit of
revenge, built its depot a mile and a
half out in the country, threatening
to kill the town of Norfolk and move
it down to the depot.
And Norfolk might have been killed
and moved away but for the fact that
two other railroads came to town,
built depots in the heart of the city
been running their trains uptown ever
since.
The Norfolk people of today con-
tend that the quarrels of the founders |!
Of the town, a half century ago, with |
the directors of now extinct railroad |
company, have no business to be Wis |
ted upon the present generation.
A New City to Deal With.
The Norfolk village of that far gone
1ay-a mill and blacksmith shop and !
4 store, perchance-has disappeared in
he distance along with the F., f. &
Dany has taken over the old F. E. |
property and new city of Norfolk
.oday the metropolis and commercial |
center of the entire half of two states
has succeeded the old Norfolk ham
ct which refused to vote bonds. And
here is no reason why the Northwest
ern railroad of today, if it is looking
after its own interest, should be will.
ng to perpetuate quarrel that eX-
sted between two now extinct corpo.
'ations and which has been buried
With the principals in the fight.
AS matter of fact, the Northwest
ern can very much less afford to fan
hat old spark than can the present
lay Norfolk, though Norfolk contends
hat the present is the time that con-
,erns the affairs of this city and of
he Northwestern in its relations to
Norfolk-and not the past.
Norfolk Worth Cultivatine.
And even if it were not business for
he F., f. & NJ. V. to build into Nor
ok half century ago when Norfolk
vas no bigger than Hadar, the people
" the Norfolk of today contend that
NiIy mas SloN up mere III Ine tracks
If the one-time village which has a
light to attract the eye of the new
abroad arrival in this territory, and
hat the Norfolk of today, with it's
hundreds of thousands of dollars of
reight business annually, is justly en-
tiled little counting at the hands of
he Northwestern.
Did II for Omaha.
The Northwestern has gone out of
is way fifteen miles to reach the
'nion depot in Omaha, and Norfolk
'eople believe they are entitled to
ne-tifteenth the consideration given
o that city.
Local business men point out that
he Union Pacific runs trains uptown
nd that it renders an excellent
reight service from Omaha, and there
growing sentiment that Norfolk
ught to practice reciprocity in it's
hipping and favor the road that
hows some disposition to do the right
hing by Norfolk.
Walters Not to Blame.