The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-06-28

The FLoRIDIAN imagines that the Union is
wilfuly blind to the fact that the Northern mails
intended for Middle Florida are detained in
Jacksonville twelve hours. The Union is not
only not blind to the inconvenience OF its con-
temporary but is willing 10 assist 1t in obtaining
the best mail facilities possible under the changed
condition in our railroad schedules made neces-
sary by the completion of the Waycross road.
There are two daily trains between Savannah
and this city. The one which arrives here at
| 8.40P. M. brings the Northern mail for Middle
| Florida. This cannot go forward until next
morning unless the Central road and the j. L.
| g. NJ road would consent 10 run night instead Of
day trains or run two instead of one train daily.
| This is Obvious and for mentioning II our con-
| temporary seems to think that we are somehow
| unfair to Middle Florida. We can't see it In
that light and therefore think the criticism of
our neighbor was, to say the least, not very fra
! ternal. - Union, June %.
The FLoRIDIAN meant nothing unfiaternal to-
wards the Union when it said, in response to the
following remark OF the Union The present
schedule is the best one for this portion of the
| State we have ever had, and as soon as our Mid.
die Florida friends get used to the change they
will like it as well" that it seems unaccounta-
l,I~ - -xSvr OtfI ~ Oh hairless anu
impartialiy, should not be able to see, or if see
ing, should not be willing TO admit, that the de-
tention at Jacksonville for ~ or 13 hours of all
Northern mails intended for erery other section of
the State save the one mentioned, is piece of
rank injustice to every business man in the State
outside of the favored region and east of the
| Apalachicola."
The Unions remark seemed to justify the in
ference that if Jacksonville was So isfied with
the present ARA Igement the Middle Florida
1,1uc rot cd tn he heat a..
could. We do not now believe, however, that
the Union meant quite that.
1t is true that a change from day to night
trains on the Central and ]. p & M. roads would
bring our mails from Jacksonville several hours
earlier; but the FLoRIDIAN was not discussing
that question at all 1t was insisting upon the
absurdity Of sending Middle Florida mails TO
Jacksonville when there was q shorter and more
direct route for them 10 come. They never
should have been sent TO Jacksonville at all :;
and if they had not, the necessity of a direct,
through schedule from Savannah to Middle
Florida, such as had always existed before the
Waycross Short Line was built would have been
at once apparent, and would doubtless have been
at once provided for.
The Jacksonville Dispatch, of last week occu-
pics considerable space in the discussion of this
question, all Of which when boiled down
amounts 10 this: Ifthe FLoRIDIAN's suggestion
was adopted, and a train sent from Waycross to
Live Oak, on the arrival of the Fast Mai"
train at Waycross, from Savannah, it would
reach Live Oak with the mails, several hours
before the ]. p. & NJ. train passes there going
west according to lie present scsedule, which sim
pie fact the FLoRIpIAN cheerfully admits The
Dispatch further says The present time tables
from Waycross are In accordance, as we are in
formed, with the instructions OF the officers of
the ]. P. en- r r. II would be just as con-
venient for the g., F. & w. Ry. to make that
schedule in connection with the fast mail but
they were informed that connection with that
train could not be made at Live Oak on account
Of the day schedule on the J. p. & NJ. r. r."
From interviews with several OF the officers
Of the J. P. & M. road, we learn that the present
arrangement was made as 0 mutually conve-
nient one for both roads. The Receivers were
asked if such schedule would suit them, and,
as they desired TO try the experiment Of day
train, they responded that Il wonld, and the
thing was DONE II has now been In operation
nearly month, at time of year when the ].
r. & N. road rarely If ever pays expenses The
result of the change on the business OF the road,
has been, Il Is said, very favorable The local
travel has increased very much, and the actual
running expense of Q day train is stated to be
less than that Of night train. The consequence
has been, that for the first time In many years,
the June business Of the road has exceeded the
expenses These facts should have been made
public when the complaints Of the present sched-
ule first arose. II the public h not 10 be accom-
modated, Il has q right to know why II ls not
If the road cannot make expenses by running q
night train In summer and can do 80 by running
day train. we see no grounds for Withholding
such fact, while the people for whose accom-.
mediation railroads are supposed 70 be construct
ed and operated, are suffering aggravating In
convenicDces, In Ignorance Of the reasons.
The whole matter receives itself into this IF |
the J., 2. q n. road cannot pay expenses except |
BY running . day train instead Of night train,
the Receives must BE- len 10 decide for themselves
whethes they win sacrihce the interests Of the |
road 10 order that the whole people OF he Sless
west Of Jacksonville may receive their northern