Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-19
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD

Proceedings Of the Board Of Directors of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company IN
Relation to The Recent Message of the
Mayor Of Baltimore.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company took place at their
office, Camden Station, on Wednesday
| last.
After the regular business had been
gone through, J. w. Garrett, Esq, the
President OF the Company, addressed the
Board as follows:
It is the duty of the Chair to call the
attention of the Board to the Message, re-
Gently published, of the Mayor to the City
Councils of Baltimore. In that Message
there Is au elaborate assault upon the pol.
icy and management of the Baltimore and
ONO Railroad Company, apparently espe-
claIIy directed against the present admin
istration. This administration, however,
commenced 10 November, 1885, whilst the
attack, in connection with the alleged NAL
administration of the affairs of the Com
pany, goes so far back as the year 1853.
There Is SO extraordinary a reckessness
| OF assertion in this official document in
vol7ing the character and the policy and
the action Of this Board for this protracted
period, that sense of proprety will re-
quire full investigation of the allegations
presented. In examining these statements
ii is most satisfactory to find that those
which are calculated to prejudice our fell
loW-Citizens against the management of
| the Baltimore and Onio Railroad are alb.
solutely and unqualliedly contrary to
fact. 1t will be gratifying to the commu-
nifty to learn, as the community will learn,
that the history OF the events to which the
Mayor refers cannot D3 controlled or dam
aged by the reckless tssertions of any in
dividual, though clad in the robes OF high
! official station, but that i is based upon
/ facts readily susceptible OF clear and ir-
retutshle presentation.
The action of the Baltimore aud Ohio
rail road company hiss been continuously
before the public. 1t is d matter of fixed
record. The principles upon which the
company has been governed are principles
understood, appreciated and..approved gen
orally by the largest proportion and the
best interests of our community. The sue.
cessful conduct of the affairs of the COM
psny, under circumstances of the greatest
| Losses and difficulty, has Notwithstanding
| the assertions OF his Honor the Mayor,
commanded the approval of tue people. In
the midst of the terrible scenes through
which our region aud the road especially
have passed, the company has the proud
| satisfaction Of knowing, that regardless of
| the opinions or personal antagonism of the
Mayor of Baltimore, the highest officers of
the government of the United States have
repeatedly recognized, and with their most
marked approval, the energy, the success
and the faithfulness of its management un-
der circumstances aud embarrassments
which have been calculated constantly to
arrest their attention
The allegations of the Mayor are of a
character that must strike with amszement
those who understand the subject and
know the facts, yet as the charges have
been formally made, in q formal address to
the Councils, it is becoming and aPpro-
pirate that this Board through its proper
Committee Committee composed of gen
tlemen of the highest stahding, than whom
none have more the respect OF the people
of this city and OF this state and of the
country as far as they are knoWn-should
institute an investigation to present the
truth, and to hold to his deserved position
of odium him who unwarrautably assails
faithful men in the effective performance
of their duties. We ind the character of
the charges to be of the straugest descrIp-
ton for an official document, and most re-
msrksble, for the reason that they are 30
ulEeCNIS huu LodulIS Opcu W 'ho SlCoASe6
proof of their error. As trust the Board
will instruct the Committee of Finance to
examine and report upon each and all OF
the charges made to avoid OBTAINING the
Board, it will only be necessary at this
time to refer to few points to indicate
the extraordinary character and the ANA.
zing reckessuess of assertion in which
the Mayor of Baltimore has INDUCED in
regard to the Baltimore and Ohio rail road
company.
1t is alleged that:
The extravsgant freight extorIed from
"customers is compelling those interested
to look tor a remedy, and We must not be
surprised if the coal interests of Cumber-
land make connection with Pennsylvania
works if an independent route is not Sc
cured"
Will no. our fellow citizens be surprised
to learn that this very PenusylVanla Rail
road that is referred TO as the Road which
is to relieve the people of Western Mary
land in. connection with the coal trade
charges equivalent to one dollar and ter
cents per ton of two thousand two hundred
and forty pounds more at this very period
! for the same distance than the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company charges from
Piedmont TO Locust Point wharVesH Will
/ it not surprise the community to know tha
the Baltimore and Ohio tariff, that is al
legged to be extraVagant, and the result O.
monopoly" and Injustice, and oppressive
to the people, is a tariff at tho lowest rat
0 that can be found among the leading rail
. roads of the country2 Will it not surpris
,ho ,oooIa 80 Iaar1 tbat yhiIa the Balti,