The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-07-08
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| ed the DlrectOrs. HnuueuAoISiy PAoP
make a double daily line on both roads
Mr.. Fisher declined because he thought IL
would not pay. Subsequently the Board
of Directors requested me to renew this
nronosition to the President and Directors
of the n. c. Road being unanimously con-
WINGED that it would pay If it would pay
over road of ITO miles, it ought to pay
better on one 223 miles. This arrangement
would have accommodated both the through
and local travel. Nor will the roads ever
be able to get the amount of through travel
thew are entitled to until this full connec-
t;on is made with other roads at Goldsboro'
| and Columbia.
/ do not recollect that the President on
| that occasion or any other ever proposed
! to me that the Charlotte train should return
in the evening upon the arrival OF his. L
never understood him to make any such
proposition either before or since he has
broken off the connection. L certainly had
never even submitted it to the Directors.
and therefore they could not have declined
it as stated.
Had l understood the President to have
submitted this proposition | could have
readily answered him. Surely could not
have been 50 discourteous or insincere to
one who had been uniformly courteous to
me as to have delayed answering him for
several months when l knew his desire
was to promote the common interests of our
Roads. have greatly misunderstood him
or he is entirely mistaken in relation to
this subject. I was elected President of
the Charlotte & S. c. r. r. Company on
the 9TH of February last was much engaged
for fortnight or more on the Road-could
not have seen him before the Goth or last
of February, and could not have delayed
answering his proposition for several
months" when his latest change of schedule
went into operation April 2lst-less than
two months after my first official interview.
1t being his mail train he must have deter
mined upon it week or more before the
2lst to have obtained the consent of the
Post Office Department-as the mail was
thereby delayed IL hours.
1t is needless for me to say of Mr.. Fisher,
with whom my intercourse has always been
so agreeable, that he is gentleman of I'M
questioned integrity, and | cannot conceive
how this misunderstanding could have orig
mated. 1t would seem that SO important a
proposition submitted even in the harrass-
ing and varied duties of his or my position
would have met with prompt consideration.
Rather than have had the connection bro
ken off I should have acceded to the ar
rangement he now says he proposed, al
though it might have much deranged the
we'll known and established connections of
the Charlotte Road in its correspondence
with every alternate train ON the S. G.. Rail
Road.
Surely the President of the n. G.. Road
is mistaken in saying with the Whining
ton Road there is no detention to passen-
gers going or coming All passengers
coming from the North via. Goldsboro' are
detained there hours and 40 minutes
going North l hour and SIS minutes, and
this is the nearest the n. c.. Road comes to
making a connection with any Road run
ming to it.
In respect to through tickets, have only
to say have for months endeavored to
make a through ticket from Augusta or
to Weldon, over the n. G.. |
Road, in connection with both the Whining
ton ard Raleigh Roads at an uniform rate |
per mile, with all connecting roads. This
has been invariably declined by the n. C.
Road. Nor would the intelligent Boards
Of the Charlotte and Raleigh Roads'' expect
less of the intelligent Board of Directors
of the n. c. Road, than that they would
readily accede to $50 unreasonable thing
as to add. ten passengers daily where they
now only get one over the entire lne-even
if they should all only travel l73 miles over
their road which would give S51 90 per
day while the other would pay So 90 per
day. Is not the effort to save the so miles
Of travel, actually sacrificing the l73 miles,
by driving off the through travel. This
object is to run road without reference
to the profits. Connecting roads of shorter
engths think they will be well paid by the
increased travel under this arrangement,
and l cannot see why the N. C. Roads
profits would not be increased by it. In
regard to the through travel, the Charlotte
and n. C. Roads can have but a common
interest, and to get it we must make connec-
lions and offer inducements to the public.
W. may invite but we cannot force the
public travel.
The Directors of the C. & S. c.. Road
nave ever desired to cooperate with the
Directors of the n. G.. Road in promoting
and granting facilities to the
through travel, and feel that their interests
n this matter are identical.
VIM. JOHNSTON.
DIRECTORS IN THE n. G. RoAD.-At a
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