The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-06-08
J Ii From the Charlotte Obseryer.l laif..
Through Tickets again-Letterl from the
President of the North Carolina Rail
Road.
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..ta COMPANY SnoPs, May 25, 1870.
EDITOR OBSERVER Dear Sir: An arti-
Gle in your paper of the oath, signed g Mer.
chants" complains that through tickets can
not be procured at Charlotte ola Danvile
to points North. My Object in disseminating
the sale of through tickets by that rouIe
was that through tickets gio Raleigh were
on sale at the same prices, and at the same
time made to all Northern cities as piu the
Richmond and Danville rail road, our pro-
portions being 81, so and SIS, II or 1921 more
for each passenger oin Raleigh than cia Dan
vile. 1t is almost Il universal rule of all
rail roads TO receive local fare for their pro-
portions on through business frsm their
local stations. This has always been the
case and is no new thing upon this road.
Accorning to the same rule, the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Rail road Company,
Col. VIM. Johnston, President, charges the
patrons of his road, 81 so per bale on cation
from Chester to Charlotte, while he only
charges 65 cents per bale from Columbia to
Charlotte. faR W. 81 fta-
AS to the prices at which through tickets
arc sold at Charlotte, "Merchant" is either
ignorant of the true prices or otherwise in
tentionally misrepresents them, and for his
information we would inform him that our
agent at Charlotte was instructed on the
2nd Of May to sell through. tickets at the
s1ollowing prices: To, New York. $24, Phil
tidsaphia, Sss. BALTIMORE, $40. Washingt gtou,
$l9.25, and Richmond, SIS. The prices of
through tickets arc arranged by commit
tee of general ticket agents appointed by
convention OF the managers of the whole
line. and this company has no more control
over this matter than any other road COM
posing the through Inc. This system has
existed from the first origination of through
tickets and cannot be changed by any one
road. 1t is strange that Merchant has
Just discovered it. AS to "Merclant's'
statement that the r. & d. r. II was .le,c
mined to sell through tickets from Char
lotte, l simply say the r. g. d. r. T. could
not sell tickets over the N. e. II. r. without
the consent of this company.
This communication think is more nf an
advertisement than anything clsc inr the
G. G. & A. and r. & d. Railroads; as eve
rything complained of has always existed
except the tickets being taken off ria X. 81
d. Il. r. which was dine as our proportion
would be greater for 175 miles than 92
miles, while the price uf the ticket through
and the time would iir exactly the same
Before our schedule was changed and while
we were running twelve hours behind the
II. & D. R. II. VIC sall tickets ri1 that road
But after the last change when We made The
same time cia R.lcgh it was our duty to
do the best we could for our Road, and
therefore actci We dill. .r..
Col Bufor,l, President al he L. Il ID. r.
r., was at my office yesterday rn business
connected with bntl, through Passengers
and Freights. We compromised and set
tied all our difficulties to each others entire
sati faction, and hereafter our business will
not and cannot be disturbed even by "Strap.
Iron Railroads.
As to Merchants" remark that cm
Charleston is as cheap and expeditions for
ircights as uia Portsmouth, it is simply
ridiculous. We deliver frcights in Char
lotte on an average about twenty four hours
sooner, and frequently three days sooner,
than cm Charleston. The through rates
have heretofore been the same ioith iRsu
rance less ola Portsmouth, and am inform
ed by the Charlotte merchants that goods
shipped cia Portsmouth were delivered gen.
crafty in much better order than Uia Charles.
ton.
4 If this communication had not been
signed Merchant" would have thought it
WAS from the pen of "O!d Billie" himself.
Respectfully,
W. A. SMITH, Pres't.