Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-06-27

Park drive on the Bots de Boulngne; visit 10 the
galleries of the Louvre glance at the shop-"indo~
| OF the kohl-market of Vienna, glimpse nj Tue
mountain grandeur of Savoy and visit TO the Spas OF
the Rhine will DC far more agreeable and edliying
than a sojourn among enemies AT the North, aud
amid the efiusia of It's snobbish watering places
Notwithstanding its great length, we give
space very cheerfully to the following communi.
cation, received fro n Lewis +. Haryie, Esq.
President of the Richmond and Danvile Rail
road Ii was not intention, in the article
referred to, TO reflect nvidiously upon the South
Side companies-nor fully satisfied that
our structures were unjust" For want OF
space, however, what we may have further 10
say upon .hs subject mast be reserved for
future issue -
Fer the virgninn.
The leading editorial of the Lyncbbnrg Nrginan
of the goth OF June, comments the supposed
fusnl OF the Richmond and Danyille and south Side
Railroad companies 10 run an extra train Tor night
service, thereby failing as it s alleged, to expedite
the mail and passengers. The article concludes
with declaration that whatever may be the re-
suit, are authorized To say that the Virginia and
Tennessee Company will strive to bring order out OF
coniasion and protect the interests OF the travelling
public Project them against the Richmond and
DansIlla and South Side Railroad companies OF
course. No complaint is made or intended to be
made OF any structures the part of the press, baY-
ing for its object the protection OF the public against
the action OF these any other Railroad companies.
II IL should appear thai the public interest has been
disregardcd, and that any portion OF the travelling
public, however small has been subjected TO delay
inconvenience, which could have been avoided with
out great loss or greater inconvenience TO n larger
number then should the companies be censured aud
not otherwise
The proportion of through passengers brought
upon the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, to be
transported the South Side roads, exclusive of
the Springs travel heretofore has been very small
Yielding in rornd numbers for three mouths OF the
present year, to the Richmond and Danvile Railroad
Company, only the sum Of 1921.
The amount OF Springs travel from Lynchburg and
the way travel these lines is large, say more than
sixty times greater than the through travel During
the last summer the schedule run by tho south Side
roads was the same as that now run by them. Then,
now, the train of the South Side Railroad reached
Iynehburg at - o'clock noon, and that Of the Nir-
GINA and Tennessee road left Lynchburg for the west
at O'Clock, L. NJ, and deve.ed the passengers ut
Bonsaek's at 8 O'Clock, T. NJ. and at the various
Montgomery Springs in the evening of the same day
making the trip by daylight. The Virginia and
Tennessee train returned to lyuchbnrg at II clock
noon and the South Side train started ut o'clock,
+ NJ, from that place, and reached Richmond by tho
Danfiie road aud Petersburg by the South Side road
al Is o'clock +. M-making the down trip also by
Weight without delay. The mail arriving from the
North IN the morning and the passengers leaving
Richmond and Petersburg at O'Clock, A NJ, reach
ed Lynehburg at noon, Bonsack at d clock, + NJ,
aud the Montgomery Springs that evening, and were
carrird on without delay to the terminus OF the Viz
Rna and Tennessee ltailrond Now they lie over Mt
Lynchburg until next morning at o'clock Is tins
the fault of the south Side Railroads Again, the
Lynehburg travel the Springs travel, aud the way
travel ON the uc constitute the bulk OF travel ON the
South Side roads, all OF which was accommodated
without delay ia the day time. 1t Is the duty Of
these roads % protect that travel and IT Is also
their duty If it can be done without an utter sacii-
flee OF their interests, 10 accommodate the through
trayel-although may continue To pay only eleven
hundred dollars for the six summer months OF this
year rs it did last year to the Danslle road which
carried much the greater pnrt of H. aud that nclu-
ding the portion OF il that left the Virginia aud Ten
nessee road at Bonsack's.
With the view of accommodating the through
travel small "a it is aud cNpcdtng the New York
morning Mail, which arrives IN Richmond in the
es enng the South side companies together with
the Virginia md Tennessee Company proposed 10 the
Post Once Department to run extra trains for night
service at 70 dollars per mile, being about
Que third of the cost of running the trans which WIS
"dcclincd" by the Department Since then the new
schedule much more difficult than the one proposed
by the Railroad compnnics) now proposed to he n
dopted was sent to the two South side Railroad COM
panies with nm allowance of one third less remit
neration than that formerly declined" The sum
paid To both roads for the present day scrvi ice on the
ordinary assenger trains along the whole of the
lines is 90 Dollars per mile That now proposed To
be "aowcd" by the new schedule IS fifty dollars per
mile on "A portion only of the lines for night service
with larger mail and an extra train nut on cSpe-
eially for that purpose The cost of running these
extra trains would he about three times rs much M
the compensation offered exclusive of the cost of out
lay in rolling stock &c The Va x Tenn. company
has been allowed fifty dollars pea mile through its
whole line for the additional service aud if the sche-
dule oflast summer was continued on that road the
mil and passengers delivered to them Mt noon might