The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-06-16
Point no Point.
The pompcus Wing, the organ OF General
" ,uoSe in its issue Of Yesterday, says:


There are thirty-one railroads either
wholly or in part in the safe OF ONO, nav
Jag an aggregate mileage OF 6,639 mics &C
cording TO the sworn reports OF tue man
ayers Of these CO. poiaions. but SIX OF them.
representing l,139 mites, have any contracts
with the Adams Company, and the southern
is not even mentioned. What STUPID.
pig-hcadcd,' arrogant 'Seit-~illcd, IN
competent pcoplc must the presidents, d.
rcctors. and stockholders II the other twen-
t, five corporations be-
This reminds us of the poor fellow who,
In critical situation, stuck his cane III The
sand and lodged behind it! Now, the
Wing says tina, " out xix of them (the thirty
one road) have any contracts with the
Adams Company" Well, what is the infer
cuce sought 10 be suggested: That the SIX
thousand miles do their own express buSi-
less like General MAHoSE? II anybody
draws such Inference, he is very greatly mis-.
taken. The express business over those SIX
thousand miles is conducted By other express
companies recognized by all as good and re-
| hsblc-not like the Malone Express, un.
| known and unreliable, which, in cases OF
! loss, has to be sued, which is not certainly
reliable in any case, aud which limits its
money packages TO 800.
| But Why Is it that the Richmond Wing
does not let TIE public know that there were
other express companies in Ohio? Did it
mean TO intimate that the six thousand miles
Of railway conducted its own express busi-
ness after the manner of General MALONE?
If it did, 1t meant to intimate what was not
true. For note Of the railroads of Ohio do
sny such thing, we believe. If they Go, the
| Wing may name them.
| We tell the pl.lic that there arc, besides
the Adams Company in The United States,
many more express companies. But they
are all express compnuics like ADAMS Com
pauy-aIl good, oil tluS cd by each other
and all reliable for whatever they undertake
10 carry from con>iguor to con>lgncc.
We will name. ii not all. at least nearly all
| Of th,m. There are the American Mcr-
chants Union; Eastern; liarnden; United
| SAFES; Uuion Pacific; and Wells, Fargo
Il Co. All of these great companies pro-
| rate and transfer, the companies becoming
responsible for Ill freight entrusted to them.
Then we add the smaller ones: the Atlantic
and Great Western Company; the United
States Express Company; the Dayton, Michi-
gan and United States Express Company
the Cincinnati, Sindu.ky and Cleveland
United State, Express Company; Cleveland
and CoiumDu>; Cincinnati and Columbus
Cincinnati aIG Indianapolis American Mcr-
chants Union; and Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Union Express Company.
But they are express companies. The
Adams Company does the express business
over the Baltimore and Ohio and the Penn
syivania Central lines, aud that is saying
pretty much everything for that line. The
great express lines are world.renowned. |
Wells, Fargo d Co. do the great business OF
The Pacific; the Adams Company that ofthc
Atlantic. Each knows the other to be en-
tire!y solvent and reliable, and they do Lusi-
ness together s smoothly as possible.
The Union Pacific is the great line of rail-
way connecting the two oceans. 1t has done |
lis own express business under very peculiar |
circumstances. But even that road is tired |
Of The express, and is about 10 pass it into |
the hands of Wells, Fargo ~ Co.
Now, then. this Ohio business over which |
the iu>sy Wing made yesterday so much to |
do is nothing more than the pebbles sat
upon by the old goose, who. SO sitting upon |
what would unQue.tionabIy produce moth
ing, h>scd at everybody who passed
The poor attempt Of General MALONE to !
run an express only appears the more ridicu- |
lous when bis mess of lieutenants attempt |
to defend it. They only make mess of it. |
An express is one oil the greatest benefits |
enjoyed by man. An imitation Of an cX
press one of the greatest aunoyances. Rich |
mond is now one of the scvereSt sufferers
from the imitation. May generous super
natural guardian protect every other COM
munity from similar curse.