The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-10-24
LOCAL MATTERS

Conference of Railway and Steamship
Men.
LIST OF DELEGATES PRESENT-FREIGHT-RATE
FOR THE SOUTH, &C.. &C.
The managers OF lines running between
New York and southern ports, forming Il
part of the Southern Railway and Steamship
Association, met in adjourned session yes
terday morning at the Exchange Hotel. The
objects OF the Association are the better pro-
lection OF the freight business embraced in
the territory between New York, Boston,
| Philadelphia, Baltimore, and southern
! ports; the readiustmcnt OF rates between
| the eastern lines from the four cities to
southern cities. competitive points en-
| braced in the territory OF the Southern Rail-
relations existing between these lines and
the system known as the Green Line.
The following delegates were present: A.
s. Buford, president, r. NJ. +. Talcott, en-
gineer and general uperintendent, and S.
Haas, general freight agent, and 2: ii. Ad-
ans. Of the Richmond and Danvile Rail
road Company; w. NJ. Wadley, president,
and George Yonge, New York agent. Cen
tral Railroad and Banking Company, CT
Georgia and Ocean Steamship Company !;
f. p. Alexander, president Georgia Rail-
road and Banking Company; r. n. Suly,
Superintendent of the Petersburg Railroad
Company; A. Pope, general freight agent,
and T. Nj. Emmerson, Of the Atlantic Coast
Line; S. S. Solomons, superintendent South
Carolina Railroad Company; W. G. Wick
ham, ice-president, w. NJ. s. Dunn, engl-
neer and general superintendent, and B. S.
Fitch. general freight agent, of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railway Company; {. a.
Roberts, general manager. +. ". Clarke,
general freight agent, l.. e. Duncan, New
York agent, Carolina Central Railway r.
n. Carpenter, general freight agent At
Ianta and Charlotte Airline railway I;
John u. Peck, general agent, and
Charles A. Sindall, secretary. South
ern Railway and Steamship Association ;
George W. Quintard, president OF New
York and Charleston Steampship Company ;
W. P. Clyde, It. &. Eyer, D.. D. G. Mink, OF
the New York and Wilmington Steamship
Company and Philadelphia and Charleston
Steamship Company; and J. w. McCarrick,
Norfolk and Richmond steamship Line; E
FITZGERALD, agent Baltimore and Charles
ton Steamship Company; Reuben Foster
general manager, George Il. Needham, gen
eral freight agent. Richmond, York River
and Baltimore Railroad and Steamship Com
pany; W. L. James; general agent Phil
adelphia and Southern Mail Steamship Com
pany; w. j. Woodward, of j. X. Roberts
Fernandina Steamship Company; and J.
+. McBec, Charlotte, n. c., agent; V. d.
Groner and William Plummer. agents Mer
chants and Mluers' Steamship Company
II. T. Douglass, engineer and supernten.
dent Richmond and York River Railroad
Company; F. W. Clarke, Carolina Central
Railroad Company; b. d. Hascll, New
Vnr,- (horlo~ fnr Cfao N,
w. II. Stanford, Old Dominion Steamship
Company; T. 7. Hawks, general freight
agent OF Washington City, Virginia Mid
land and Great Southern railroad; Z. R.
Scott, president Richmond and Petersburg
railroad; A. Shaw, superintendent Rich.
mord and Petersburg railroad.
The Convention was called to order by
General w. L. James, general agent OF The
Philadelphia and Savannah Steamship Com
pany, and on his motion Colonel 4. S. Bu
ford invited to preside.
Messrs. c. A. Sindali, of the Southern
Railway and Steamship Association, and Il
G. Eyer, OF the Clyde Line, were appointed
secretaries.
The printed proceedings OF meetings hell
in New York on the 10TH and 11th OF Octo
Der were read section by section, when
recess was taken in order to allow disagree
ing lines to adjust their views as to rates t
and from Augusta.
The committee to consider the local rate
of steamers submitted q proposed tariff, EN-
bracing all articles. and also comparativ
statement OF the combination OF locals t
Augusta, using for the local OF the railway
and the through rates the figures recon
mended by the committee at the convention
held in Atlanta in September, as per Gene
t raj Circular 102.
Recess until A p. NJ.
, AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Association resumed its deliberatlon
about 5 p. NJ, after having been most hos
pitably entertained by the representative
Of the railroads centring at Richmond, ant
,, in much better humor for compromise
After recess the Convention assembled
. and, after protracted discussion. the repor
Of the committee to the New York meetln!
! was partially adopted, and the following
! committee appointed to present the SAME t
the annual meeting OF the Southern Rail
way and Steamship Association and th
Convention Of the Green Line, South, bot
Of which convene in Atlanta on the 7th o
November: William Wadley, B. D. Hasell
w. H. Stanford, j. w. McCarrick, Y. D
Groner E. Fitzgerald, a. Pope, G. Il. Ro
ter1s, asd W. L. James.
Adjourned.