Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-03-02


EaMN TACT that the New Line Citi-
| 8SEs,E$iM.H zens' Coach, at fare Of s., has
les.-.kzss-a-e=ssnme with encouragement over the
One Dollar Accommodation Lines, equal to the ex-
pectation had formed off, liberal and cpnsideate pub
ic and would be wanting respect to myself and to
those who have gwen me their so decided courtenance
did not express to them my thanks for the
enlargement they have afforded
Along address from the propretors of the would be
"Jonopotb" published in the Baltimore Gazette ofthe
Oath inst. will have been read by such of my fellow
townsmen, and others may have had sufficient spare
time to give it perusa to which in all probability, a
short matter OF fact notice to the public signed Jno H.
Barney, may have drawn their attention. Feeling my
selfalse attacked by the gentlemen in question: think
it incumbent on me to make the following statement,
! by way of answer, and crave the indulgence of my
friends and the public, for the trespass upon their time
and patience; viz under date of the 10th Feb Messrs.
Barnum, Davis, Smith, & Co gave notice that the fare
in their Accommodation Lines of Stages to Washing
ton and Georgetown Except the maiD would, on the
next day, be reduced to one dollar.
IL order that the public may be fully able to appre-
cate the generous motives liberal disposition and
tereS'edResS that mpes the conduct of the firm above
mentioned, feel myself iustifable in communicating
facts which, howeverit may not please those gen
tlemen, it may be well to siew the comparative preten-
sons of the adverse Lines, that they should be known
viz: the first and second days of the present month";
Mr.. David Barnum, President of the Old Washington
Stage Company, called at my office, and after some
predatory remarks complained of the reduced price at
which they were then carrying passengers to and from
Washington and Georgetown and asked me what |
thought of raising the fare to the old prce-the next
evening he made another call, when he proposed con-
sodation ofourrespectve Lines, with an advance in the
fare to IS SOTO this consolidation obected he then
stated that no arrangement made by us that they
(the Old Company would reduce their price to dol
larnow the inference is plain; you must Join us, and
nearly double the fare, we, Barnum, Davis Smith
Co. will so reduce the price as to you off the road
| and we will resume our usual monopoly. Such are
the men, and such the disposition of those am in
collision with, and it remains for me to make remark
that cannot be contradcted BY those gentlemen II is
well known, and unfortunately too true that unless
stage filed to and from Washington and Georgetown
every day, the fare exceeding 50 each passenger
proves losing business, notwithstanding which, am
willing to contin the Citizens Coach that rate and
take my chance for full load; and attered in the
belief, that vast proportion of the travelling comml-
nifty would rather has already been evinced accede
to my charge than tolerate mammoth rnonopoly and
subject themselves, by the extpaton of the New Line
Citizens Coach 20 future. and very probably great
er imposition than has heretofore been practised.
The Citizens Coach usual, leaving tile Foun-
tain Inn, Light street, at o'clock, A. NJ and arrives
Washington to dine-retunng, leaves Mr. Joseph
Semmes Hotel, Georgetown, at 8o'clOck, and the Of
flee between Messrs- Williamson and Tennison's Ho-
tells, Washington, at O'Clock, A. NJ. and arrives at
Baltimore to dine Fare 50
ST.. THOMPSON, Agent for
March At ~. THOMPSON.