The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-10-16
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To the Daily Light:

| Waxahachie, Texas. Oct, 10
Some time since President Strick-
land of the Southern Traction com.
pany submitted proposition to the
citizens of Waxahachie that | feaf
we hardly appreciate or the terms or
are all so well acquainted with the
terms of the Southern Traction
company's proposition that | Will
not ask space to go over these de-
tails ! do want, however, to con-
slider the worth to Waxahachie of
the three miles of street railway
guaranteed under this contract, for
| believe ii is our only hope, at least
for the present of securing this
much needed improvement. think
about the street car problem pref
ty much as did the old darby who
was mortgaging his crop back in
Alabama for meat to pitch said
crop, when he WAS asked about
bread, why, boss said the old
darby, Il Amt -Nworrytn' about de
braid, If can get the meat business
settled, de braid hits got to come.
If we can solve the street car prob
lem our other needs can, for th'
present, take care of themselves OF
be postponed
! AS most of US know, our present
car line has for a long time been
maintained, not for profit but for
the common good and at the expense
of few of the public spirited men
of Waxahachie The hour has ar
rived for us to relieve them of this
burden and at the same time pro-
vide facilities in keeping with this
age and with our needs. Trinity
University has made a new record
this year, the enrolment at this date
being largely in excess of all former
years With the completion of the
woman $ hall, which is believed viii
be accomplished by Jan. /, 1872,
it is expected the enrolment will
reach four hundred How is this stu
dent body to be handled without
street car facilities9 There is not
q thinking man in the city but
knows it is a physical impossibility
| to maintain, creditably, this insti-
| tuition unless adequate transporta-
| ton facilities are furnished Our
! young people will not come to us
unless we provide way for them
| go when the occasion arises. Az
| the matter now stands the student
| body cannot, with any degree OF
| comfort, come to any entertainment
| IN the city, neither can the town
| people attend the functions of the
| University The present system is
| the impossible gulf between the
| University and the city
| ! again say our young people VIII
| go elsewhere to college unless we
take care OF them creditably We
| are able to do 1t, the question is
| WILL we do it? A large per cent
of our people depend on the street
| cars as means for attending
| church. How often we have all
heard it remarked that because of
| the unstable car service church at
| tendance in Waxahachie is not what
II would be otherwise, There is not
citizen in Waxahachie but that will
| be benefited by this enterprise and
| not one but that will be inconveni-
enced, to say the least of 1t, If we
| allow the enterprise to fall through.
| Our schools, our churches, Chautau-
Qua, all social or business affairs of
| the city are seriously hampered by
| lack of street car facilities.
Securing this interurban solves
| the problem of street car facilities
| for Waxahachie.
From every point of view, as | see
it. the need is urgent, the opportu-
nifty great What are we going to
| do about TT
j. r. MAYHEM.