The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1909-1924, 1913-09-25
THAT GRADE CROSSING
The TroIly-Line Still Held in
Check by the Northeast
ern. Our People Indignant

ern. Our People INDIGNANT
The good people Of Ellisville are
boiling over with indignation about
the action of the North Eastern Rail
way authorities in their refusal to
grant Ellisville the same privileges
accorded Hattiesburg and Laurel in
giving the trolly-line a grade crossing
over its tracks. The electric cars
must now stop at Nj. Packs corner,
which not only Inconvenience the
public, but loses the business houses
of our town considerable trade. 1t is
estimated that this costs our drug
stores alone from $40 to $50 day.
AT Hattiesburg the electric railwa v
crosses five tracts, and the cars run
every few minutes. In Ellisville, the
crossing would only be each half an
hour. Our people don't understand
why is this discrimination against
their town.
At Laurel, we understand that the
right of crossing at the depot was
given without delay or litigation; but
at Hattiesburg the NorthEastern at
tempted the same game that road is
playing in Ellisville, but the road got
whipped out, as will be the case in
Ellisville.
The citizens of Hattiesburg grew
tired of such vexatious DELAYS, and
so one night they went and built the
electric line across the track, nolens
volens The road then appealed to
the courts to prevent the electric cars
crossing their track, and Hon. J. NJ.
Arnold, of Ellisville, was appointed
a special Judge to pass upon the in
junction. Mr.. Arnold denied the in
junction, and the electric car line
confined to use the crossing. The
case was then appealed to the State
Supreme Court and one Of its Judg s
sustained the ruling of Mr.. Arnold.
and said the NORTHEASTERN could not
prevent the electric line using the
crossing since the rails were laid The
case is still pending FOR final bear
ing, but the highest court will doubt
less sustain the just and righteous de-
cisions already rendered by two able
and learned jurists.
1t is claimed thai the streets around
the Northeastern depot IN Ellisyille
are the private property of the N. ..
& N. e. Railroad. This is not true.
For more than thirty Years they have
been used as public thorodghfares,
and under the laws o, Mississippi any
strip of land used as highway for
ten years becomes public property.
These ST -ceos a today as much
the property of the town of Ellisville
as any other streets. The town au-
thorities can order that depot moved
from the middle of the strickland this
should be done-and the State Rail
road Commission say where it shall
be placed.
II is shame and outrage the way
the NORTHEASTERN is treating Ellis
vile and its people about that troliy-
line crossing. Just because our May
or weighs considerably less than
ton is no reason tnooe railroad au-
thorities can ride rorg h-shod over his
town. Gen. Manore, wien taunied
with his sire, replied it was trle that
be didn't weigh but 81 pc lnds, but 80
pounds of that was backbone.
And this is the case with Mayor
Tom Taylor. Those NORTHEASTERN
authorities will find HIN made up of
backbone and grit when they begin
any fight on Ellisville. Jrst let them
keep up taeir spite work, and our
Mayor and his Board of Aldermen
will meet them st Pnilippi. President
Currin, of the North jastern, seems
to 1--we got a solar plexus blow in
that let.5r or Mayor writ him the
othez day, for be has rot as yet an
swered same. Our town don't intend
to be Disseminated against, for our
Mayor, Aldermen and people know
their rights and dare maintain them