The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-03-31
Stone & Webster Submit Deli
mite Proposition to Waxa-
hachie Citizens.
COMMERCIAL BLUB ACTS
Accepts thefProposihon and Appoints
Committee to Continue. Negotia-
tionsI--To Provide
Right Of Way.

At a meeting of the Commercial
! Club Friday morning it was unani
mously decided to accept PROPOSE
ton from stone & Webster to con
struct an interurban railway from
Dallas to Waxahachie. This proposi
tion was accepted upon the adoption
of recommendation as embodied il
a report submitted by the committee
appointed at a recent meeting of the
directors of the Commercial club t
confer with the various interests
| concerned in the building of propos
ed interurban lines between Dallas
and Waxahachie.
After the club was called to order
| by President Coleman, who stated
| the object of the meeting, T. A. Fer
| ris, chairman of the committee, sub
mitted a written proposition from
| Stone & Webster This proposition
| was prepared by E. T. Moore, acting
for Stone G Webster and was as fol-
lows:
In behalf Of Stone & Webster ! am
authorized to say that they will
build, or cause to be built an inter
urban electric line of railway, for
the carrying of passengers. between
the city of Dallas and the city of
Waxahachie; provided the citizens
of Waxahachie will procure at their
expense and donate to Stone & Web
ster or their assigns a right-of-way
one hundred feet in width from the
south line of Dallas county to the
city limits of WaXahachie, said
right-of-way to be procured along
route to be selected. located and sur
veyed by engineers Of stone & Web
| ster. or their assigns; and provided
| further the city council of the cllN
of Waxahachie viii grant to Stone 4
| Webster and their assigns salts
factory franchise into, over. upon
iaIong and across certain streets of
| the city of WaXahachie to be selected
| by the engineers Of Stone & Web
ster or their assigns,
The work of construction of said
interurban electric line to begin
within thirty DAYS after the granting
of said franchise and within thirty
days after the citizens of WaXahachie
have procured and rendered to~Stone
& Webster or their assigns satisfac-
tory deeds conveying the right-of-
way above mentioned and TO be COM
pleted on or before twelve month
next thereafter.
After satisfactory deeds to the
right-of-way have been procured and
rendered by the citizens of WaXaha-
chic to Stone & Webster or their
assigns, and after a satisfactory ordi-
| nance has been passed granting to
| Stone & Webster or their assigns {
| satisfactory franchise as proposed
lthen stone & Webster or their as
signs, will place on deposit with thu
Citizens National Bank of WaXaha
chic the sum of five Thousand dollar
TO reimburse the grantors of tn
right-of-way and the city of WaXa
hachie for any damages which sal
guarantors of the city OF WaXaha
chic may sustain by the failure 0
Stone & Webster to construct sat
interurban electric line as proposed
If stone & Webster or their as
signs construct said interurban cleo
| trio line as herein proposed the
said sum of five thousand dollar
shall be returned to them or thei
assigns by the Citizens Nations
| Bank of WaXahachie.
| The recommendation of the con
mittee, signed by Mr.. Ferris a
chairman, was as follows:
We, your committee, recommen
that the above proposition be az
cepted subject to the execution of
contract to be ratified by the clu
properly safe guarding the citizen
Of Waxahachie
4 J. r MAYHEM moved that the rt
port of the committee be adopted
. The chair asked if there was an
I discussion OF the question and NJ
p | Mayhem said he believed the pros
q poets were good for WaXahachie
secure two interurbans, with a POI
sbility of others building lines int
the city. He believed the committe
$ should accept the first definite proI
@ osition submitted.
T. Mr. Cannon explained that III
V amount which would be deposited =
I a guarantee to the grantors woul
% be separate from the forfeit to J.
4 deposited with the city when an al
plication was made for franchis
The report Of the committee va