Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-01-22

ton Road For example, II we get sixty
five cents to carry the freight one hundred
and seventy five miles, the distance from
Charlotte to Raleigh. what shonld we get
to carry it forty eight miles ? We must,
according to contract. add on eighteen
cents. which is no discrimination against
the W. d W. Railroad"
If the individual who wrote this commu-
nication had been specially employed by
President Smith to prove that this contract
hampered the management of the North
Carolina Railroad, and prevented it from
taking advantage of its central position,
and making the most of it's advantages, he
could hardly have chosen more expressive
language.
The writer says that the North Carolina
Railroad Company, in direct and palpable
violation Of the contract, honestly and truly
gets 81 xty-iive cents per one hundred pounds
on first class goods for hauling one hum
bred and seventy-fve miles, while the Raj
eigh and CASTOR Railroad only receives
twenty cents for one hundred miles. AS
tute Smith Verdant HAWKINS !!
Even if this be true, if the Raleigh and
CASTOR Railroad is only to receive twenty
cents per one hundred pounds, and the
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad has pro-
posed, through President BRIDGERs, to di-
vide this twenty cents equally with the
North Carolina Railroad, giving that road
ten cents per one hundred pounds for run
ming cars already loaded to Goldsboro', at
q Uroft of nine and one-half cents accor-
ding to Superintendent ANDERsoN's ealcu-
lations, it is clear that a net income greater
by fourteen dollars per car load wonld ac-
crue to the North Carolina Railroad by
going to Goldsboro than by stopping at
Raleigh. This profit the Company is de-
MED by the terms Of the contract. Yer
dant Smith Astute HAWKINS
Thus We see that the North Carolina
Railroad Company has, by the action of
it's own officials. tied its ogn hands Tho
other contracting roads bind themselves to
nothing they were not performing tefore
the contract was made. President JOIN
SON, IF the Charlotte and South Carolina
Railroad, as matter Of common sense,
charged the same. for freight going from
Columbia to Charlotte as from Charlotte to
Columbus. The contract binds him to do
no mere or less. And the writer says the
Raleigh and CASTOR Road has to pay the
same bonus that it paid before" What,
then, has been gained by the contract to
the North Carolina Railroad ? What it has
lost can be estimated in dollars and cents,
as we have shown. It might have been as
we'll for this writer to have let the people
of North Carolina, and the Stockholders
of the North Carolina Railroad in particu-
lar, know that but for the persistent nego-
tiations Of President BRIDGERs and Super
intendent FREMONT, the bonus paid by the
Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad, which he
parades before the public with such mani
fest satisfaction, and assumes it to be the
result of President Smiths superior sagac-
ity and management, would never have
been received by the North Carolina Rail-
road Company, nor the forty-seven thou
sand dollars Of net increase in last years
Goldsboro' have been made. The compe-
tition created by these efficient officers,
which made these increased receipts last
year, and compels the payment of the large
bonus the present year, has been destroyed
by President Smiths stupidity and malig
nifty.
The writer, in few lines, tickles Presi-
dent Smiths egotistical ignorance, pre-
sents President HAWKINS in a new role,
and gratifies his own love of the ridicu-
lous. He says: "Now, this twenty cents,
recollect, does not come out of the ship
per, but out of the earnings of the Raleigh
and CASTOR Railroad Company. If that
was State Road would object to goug-
ing so deep but it belongs to individuals.
and / therefore, for the benefit of the
North Carolina Railroad Company and the
State, take ell l can get from them"
Patriotic Smith Sapieut Hawkins !!
Facetious writer !!