Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-03-08
q A. & VI. e. &c.

TO tie editor ofthe Alexandria Gazette
10 the several communications addressed t.
your paper over the 81 gnature OF M erchant,
III relation to the management OF this road,
have carefully refraued from the use OF langu
age at all calculated to excite or provoke per
Soua antipathy. My earnest purposes have
been, and are now to present ior the consldera
ton OF the officials OF the company, and the
people, citizens OF Virginia, who are so deep
~ Interested, my views in relation to the ques-
ions 0! discriminating rates, &C., adopted by
he present managers OF the road, based upon
data believed to bc true, hoping thereby to eff:
tect change, that would enure not only 10 the
business interest OF the city of Alexandria, but
to that OF the whole people, along and ada
cent ;" the Iiucs ol the road. Often indeed 10
tho va't.d rn'auIts OF life, we meet with per,
Su!> vino ar" ".un.r jealous III crdcav0rlnE
To impre'S !hrlT own Frequently sc'tiSh) ideas
upon Others, but | modestly submit alter due
cUn>l:it rrt Jon OF all that | have written about
the uiana.rmcnt y. this road, if have mani
Tested auy improper zeal 10 the matter. There
fore, Tot regarding myself as at all Vulnerable
10 the suggestion Of the president OF the road
10 this counexlon, propose to further anayZe
and discuss the subject of discriminating rates
as presented in the letter Of the General Freight
Agent, which you published at the request of
The president of the road, ever keeping in view
the salutary admontion that public questions
like edged tools have two sides, and should be
carefully handled Or the inexperienced pro-
FOUNDER may fare like the clumsy sportsma n,
VINO aimed his gun A. duck or plover,
But was, instead, himself kicked over"
Believing now, as we'll "a when this subject
of rates was first brought 10 the Alteration OF
the public through your paper, that great in.
Justice had been done, reitcratc the al!ega
tons heretofore made, and in support thereof
refer confidently to my former statements
showing that the managers Of the roaG had
been, and I now add) arc now discriminating
in their tariff Of rates. and in their classified
ton of tonnage SHIPPED over the road in favor OF
Baltimore and Lynchburg, and against Alex
andria and all intermediate stations on the road
and branches | have other evidence in sup
port thereof. | refer to the facts and figures
furnished in the said letter of the General
Freight Agent Now for his testimony: he
says that the tariff sheets of all railroads in
Virginia recognize the distinction between local
and through freight,as docs the Ian, and charge
accordingly. But so tar as rates between Alex
andria and Lynchburg are concerned the toll
lowing comparison OF charges will show that
there il no adverse discrimination made against
the trade
Baltimore to Lynchburg AMI Vice Versa
class lst, End, 3rd, 9TH.
10, S., d, IS.
Alexandria " " 90 go. IS, IS, %
Now let US analyse these figures in order
that We NAV moro fully comprehend their i'm
port and meaning. For that purpose we make
up the following statement thertlrom.
When goods are SHIPPED from Baltimore TO
Lynchburg the charges are anporlloned and
distributed by the schedule effected by the o.,
A. & NJ. r. r. az follows: