Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-02-13
The Southern Mail.


timore iD the South was held with Postmaster
General Key yesterday afternoon.
There ware present Messrs. A. s. Abel and
Geo. ". Abel, of the Baltimore SUP; Q. g.
Fulton, of the Baltimore American; General
E. B. Tyler, postmaster of Baltimore; T. 3.
Boyd, chief clerk Baltimore postofice; j. b.
Work, assistant postmaster at Lynchbure; Frank
Thomson, general manager Pennsylvania Rail.
road: A, S. Buford, president Of Richmond and
DanvilIe Railroad; q. W. Kennedy, superio.
teodent Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltl,
more Railroad; j. 8. Barbour. receiver; Peyton
Randolph. engineer of the Virginia Midland
Railroad; Henry Fink. receiver of the Atlantic,
Mississippi aud Ohio Railroad, and Mr. Bailey,
of the Postofioe Department..
Dir. Bailey, of the Postofice Department,
said that, With the present schedule, there vas
general dissatisfaction.
Mr.. Barbour thought thatit was very unfair, as
had sometimes been done, LAY the blame of this
trouble 10 the mails upon the Virginia Midland
Road. That road is compelled to run accord.
| road would be willing to make any schedule 10
which the others would unite, but certainly it
| is not fair to ask the Midland Road to run q
|
MIR. Work said that the present schedule
worked very iujuriously to the interests of
Lyncbburg.
| Mr.. Barbour said that the former schedule,
which the Baltimore gentlemen desired, would
suit the Midland Road, if all the competing
roads concurred.
Mr.. Bailey said that $50 p. u. aud a.
10. train would suit everybody.
Mr.. Barbour-That is the schedue which
the Virginia Midland Road prefers. Certainly
Washington, the capital of the nation, ought to
be entitled to some day line South out OF the
city All the other cities North have trains
going cut morning, noon and night, while
Washington has no day train at ALL The Mid
land Road had, for the convenience OF local
travel, been running "bobtail' train to Cor
donsvilIe, and that without compensation.
And upon this very muoh of the Richmond
mail was carried, which would otherwise be
delayed eight hours 10 Washington. But for
this Richmond would not cow have day line.
! As it is, the Northern roads dominate the stu.
alton. We do not, he said, make schedules.
We only drop 10 line. We cannot do other.
wise.
MIR. Bailey said that by the present schedule
there was 20 local service 90 the Midland road.
The postmssters will not stay up ell night to wait
for the mail. He had noticed that the COM
plants which came to the department were far
oftencr on account of the delay of the news.
paper mail than the delay Of letters.
MIR. Work said the business of Lynehburg
was largely dependent on Baltimore. Baltimore
was the nearest and cheapest market, and its
reports we're of essential Importance there.
Mr.. Thomson-Why not telegraph them?
MIR. Work responded that country people
cannot be reached by telegraphs as they can by
newspapers.
Mr.. A. s. Abell-They will get not only the
Baltimore markets, but the markets OF New
York and Philadelphia, eight hours sooner by
the schedule which We ask to have established
than by the present one.
Mr.. Randolph, 10 Justice to the Midland
Road, said that it had maintained an early liue
out of Washington for two years 10 tina hope
that the other roads would cooperate With
them.
AS az evidence of the need Of an early morn.
Jog train, MIR. Barbour noted that the most val
liable mail which goes to Richmond and the
South passes on local train on the Midland
Road because it is day train. This carried
one third of the whole mail of the twenty four
hours. The present schedule suits New York
very we'll, but not Washington. Washington
was his centre. You gentlemen look at one
place, New York; | look at Washington, and
as an adjunct. to Baltimore also. All the cities
North have sueh trains.
MIR. Thomson-You must do Us the justice
10 say that this schedule was made south of
Richmond.
Mr.. Barbour did not know that.
Mr.. Thomson-The Pennsylvania Road will
run train whenever it is wanted
Mr.. Barbour-We are obliged to adopt your
hours.
MIR. Thonsou-That's the milk 10 the CO.
c0aDut.
At this point temporary adjournment of
the conference took place.
The interview vas resumed at $50 o'clock,
all the parties Interested being present.
Mr. Thomson, of the Pennsylvania Road said
his road was COW running almost on the identi-
cal schedule that it had been working on for
the past two years. There had, however, been
O change between Gordonsvie and Lynchburg,
distance of eighty miles, on the Virginia Mid.
land Road, represented by Mr.. Barbour, and
that seemed to being about the difficulty COM
planned of.
Mr. Barbour said bis road had been running
of late two through trains but it appeared that
The facilities thus afforded we're not sufficient.
| If a third between Gordonsve and Lynchburg
was wanted, as it seemed it was, Of course
| he would run It,, but he thought that bis road
should receive compensation for it from some
SOURCE He did not know why his road should
extend the additional facility without being
paid for it. At present he was giving the same
number of mails to Lynohburg from here that
the Fredericksburg route, represented by
Messrs. Robinson, and the Pennsylvania Road,
represented by Mr.. Thomson, we're giving to
Richmond. In answer to question OF Post.
master Tyler, of Baltimore, Mr.. Barbour said
his road did not receive all of its business from
Baltimore and Lyucbburg but Baltimore was
only one of it's accessories.
| Mr.. Barbour.-I am willing to run any train
| that our Southern connections will take up.
| Mr.. Abel suggested that if an Arrangement
could be made as suggested by Mr.. Thomson.
it would be satisfactory to the Baltimore 10.
| terests.
MIR. Barbour.-I am willing to do anything
to expedite the mails, and will break connec.
| ton to do it, but must nave some compensa.
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