Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-10
THE sOUTHERN EXPRESS COM
PANY.


A private correspondent asks us if we do
not think the Southern express company needs as
much "stirring up" as the Pullman car company, OF
any ,' 0sn 81, trSnspSSrat T etc
We are glad to record our answer TO the above, TOT
while It is pleasure TO us 10 pitch INTO mean ana
tation OF being ndscrimlnate ed toral bulldozers;
to our friends inquiry we empnatic ss5 m s:
10 compete with the United States mail service on
small packages. and with all the various teign.
again, the express company iHSttreS against and
promptly pays all losses; whereas, goods lost or
owner Our experience as extensive shippers
and patrons of the Southern express company en-
our honest conviction is that the Southern express
company is as honestly and ably managed, and do
eo1ntry As any organization in the United States.
What their profits may be, or what salaries they
may pay their employees, we DO not care 10 know but
this We do know: positions in the company are
sought for, and when obtained are Kept by as hne
lot Of men as can be found In the country. AND,
when GOOD services have been rendered. and msfoT
tune, accident. sickness or old age oVertake ser
want his treatment at the hands or this company, as
a rule Is an honor to humanity and crown OF glory
in the eyes Of all who love their race.
The above, from the Atlanta Southern
Blade, will be Endorsed by every merchant
and business man in the south who values
dispatch and safety in the transmission OF
merchandise or money. The Southern ex-
American business men. 1t Is as much an
evidence of growth in place that there is
an express office as a telegraph or postoffice.
When the facilities that are afforded are
taken into consideration, the fact that small
way stations, as well as large cities, are
promptly served by the express company,
and that the poorest as well as the richest
L. IF Faithful
or reimbursement in case of loss, without
cavil or delay few who are intelligent
enough to appreciate will gainsay the fact
that the Southern express company is
worthy the confidence which tho pub
lie have in it. For ourselves, we cannot
think of the epidemic of 1873 without
recalling the generosity Of this corporation,
which through all those dreadful days carried
to all the stricken towns and cities of the
south, without money and without price,
food. money, clothing and medicines. To
say that in this work ii lost more than the
profits of year is putting it mildly. The
Charleston railroad sunk one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars during those dark days
of horror. The Southern express company,
running on all the roads of the stricken
States, must have lost even more. 1t kept
all its employees under pay, ran its messen-
gers every day, and maintained all the ma
chinery usual in the most prosperous days,
and all to succor and save the commune
ties that were the helpless victims Of a
dreadful plague We have heard of
soulless corporations, but the Southern
express company is not one of them. We feel
that we owe it debt of gratitude, and do not
propose to pay by undermining and levelIng
it to the earth. 1t is, as we have said, pub
lie necessity, as much so as the postofice de-
partment, and we hope it will long continue
an example of what honest and properly con-
Quoted corporations ought to be.