The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-13
TRAVELLERs' REGISTER.
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| j SOUTH-Travellers going South are cautioned
ganst giving credence TO the handbls and placards is
sIed by the Bay Company between Baltimore and Nor
folk all ofdevces to deceive the pub
lie and induce travellers to take their line, publishing
mOng other things statements purporngtOb be from
eers that by the mail routes passengers going South
24 hours later than by the Bay ne and that they sub
eced to personal superintendent oftheir luggage
the risk Of losing il, and that they compelled at the
North Anna River 10 walk considerable distance down
a steep hill and up another in the middle of The night,
involving both exposure and risk.
All of those statements entirely false. Passengers
by the mail route are, stated in the bills OF the Mail
ROUTE soften "a hours ia dduaHce Of those b the Boy
boats in reaching Charleston, and ueveT (ess in some
extremely rare contingency behind them. So far from
having any trouble with baggage this ficketed board
the Potomac STEAMBOATS, the companies on the route thus
becoming respons bile for it, and is delivered on board
the Wilmington cars ard the passengers have only al
points where changes occur, TO transfer themselves from
one conveyance to another. Al the North Anna, il is
true they obliged for few days 10 walk short dis
lance temporary but perfectly bridge from
set of cars TO anoer but ths IS at half past eight
O'Clock in the evening, instead ofat midnight stale
in ofthe ibels the Mail route. In the course OF
week At iarthes this difficulty will cease TO exist, as al
the expiration OF that time the rail road bridge now
pdly demonstrating across the Nerth Anna will be pas
sable.
1t will be obvious to all rejecting persons that grea
Mail being the shortest by % miles, ana heing
y all rail road must be the most certain and eSpediuous
that would nos be employed for Tie conveyance Of The
great mail unless il and that there must be more
risk board bay steamboats, out OF sight OF land urged
to the top of their spee 10 compete with the rail road
line, in which tho bursting of a boiler would probably
destroy all nearly all board, than there be in
rail road where in the event even of an engine be-
ing thrown off the track the engineer and fireman only
would be injured
As proof the great safety of the great mail route
il may be mentioned that more than 200 goo travellers
conveyed on il within the last five years, single
passenger has been seriously inJuFed
In conclusion the companies on the great mail route
would respectfully ask the attention of travellers TO the
wording of the libel on thei line EurperS tsLe sgusS
by certain persons rem the south t,lsy WI seq once
from It's narzan character that not forgery, the per
sons signing have from some motive hss2 i1GSced l.
become paItizans Of the SeysoGs, AID th1 fiEcreuE
lance and not the nIeres t9fsTstesE SKI sizsS dAs1
Office of Richmond & Fredericksburg R. K. Co
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E1AUTION no TRAVELLERS COIN c
" SOUTH-HALIFAx, IN. C.l October ION, 1870
We the undersigned, passengers from Baltimore SOUTH
here by caution the public against the misrepresentation
made b the Bay Line OF STEAMBOATS, and the Ports
mouth and Roanoke rail road from BALTIMORE via Nor
folk, TO Weldon, N c., in favor of their unrlvaed exPe
ditiOn.
by which passengers could reach the Wilmington
road at Weden thereby leaving the impression that this
the only by which passengers could reach the
wilmington rail- road; and also that we would be twenty
four hours in advance Of the passengers by the Great
Mail Line. But 10 our great establishment, arriving
at Weldon we were too late for e cars for Wilmington
aud Charleston; and instead OF being "tweniy-four
hours in advance of the mail, - thrown back
twenty four hours behind it.
Ii is true the Bay Line via Portsmouth. is the only
line now running to Weldon, but passengers by the
Great Mail Line landed by steamboat Halifax,
point equally pleasant the Wilmington rail road,
several miles below Weldon.
If there had been any unavoidable accident to prevent
our getting through in time would willingly eX-
cusc the detehton but nothing of the kind occurred
the night on the bay calm and pleasant we
ever witnessed, and nothing TO prevent the steamboat
gliding the smooth .urace of the water as fast as
| steam could drive
Itseems US, therefore, that, they have failed in
complying with their promises under the most ia
vtTable circumstances, the traveller place but little
reliance on their fair promises or their flaming hand
bills.
(Signed) JAMES w. BAILEY, Macon, Ga.
CLEMENT EARL, Geneva. N. Y.
w. H. SMITH, Montgomery, Ala.
c. TAFT, Hawkinsville, Ga.
r. ROBERTS, do do
JAS. F. FARRIOR, ApalachicOla, Fa.
G. w. GLENN, Columbia, 5. C.
JAMES w. BURKE, Mobile, Ala.
ID. w. TOMIINSON, do do
The original OF the above card be the Of
fee of STOCKTON, FALLS s. CO., Baltimore, next
door above the Baltimore and Philadelphia rail road
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