Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-13
IN THE RAILWAY WORLD.
THE OUTLOOK FOR A GENERAEI
RATE WAX.

Imminent Danger of All Southern Road.
Becoming Involyed-.rhe AI'eee cd ORR
gin of the Trouble Between the West
ern and Atlantic aad the East Tonnes
see, Virginia and Georgia.
The rate war begun by the Western and
Atlantic threatens TO involve other roads
besides the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, and the situation is DecOmi g Sc
Tious. General Passenger Agent Wrenn,
OF the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, said day or two ago that his
road was very averse to entering into a
war OF rates, fuzzy realizing that such
methods were very DISASTROUS and could
accomplish nothing, but If he was forced
to act, it would be with energy and in
way that would b. seriously felt. He said
the roads did not propose to meet the cuts
OF the Western anC Atlantic railroad out
OF Knoxville, nor did it intend to meet the
cuts to Eastern PORTS, but should the
cuts TO Southern points be persisted in,
then the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia would begin to cut on North
bound business from the same points.
The Western and Atlantic is cutting on
S0uth-bOund business, but the East Ten
nessee. Virginia and Georgia will not cut
lions on rates In the opposite direction.
Another official OF the road is quoted as
saying that should the Western and At
lantic make the threatened cut TO any
W estern points then the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia would put on its
fighting clothes. The first step in this di-
rection by the Western and Atlantic
would be the signal, and would necessarI-
ly involve the Louisville and Nashville
dapnnrulfVn
throughout the South.
The officials of the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia railroad have given the
following version ofthe origin Of this war:
The East Tennessee road claims that
the Western and Atlantic road, led by
it's President, Hon. Joseph 4. Brown, re-
fused the East Tennessee admission to
the Union depot at Atlanta and induced
other Georgia railroads to Join in the re-
tusal, saying that the depot was already
taxed to its utmost capacity.
The Union depot at Indianapolis, which
is only one-third larger than the Atlanta
| depot, and with but two more tracks,
! does three times the passenger train bust
ness than the Union depot at Atlanta
| does. The East Tennessee claims that
this excuse for not allowing their admis-
sion is not made in good faith; that the
! Georgia railroads have joined against the
they are trying to shut it up in its present
local station in Atlanta, and that, owing
to its lack of terminal facilities there, the
! East Tennessee road is entitled To differ
/ entails in passenger rates at Atlanta.
This is denied by the other roads, and
| they call the making of such ditferentlals
| by the East Tennessee cutting rates. The
presence of the Western and Atlantic
agent in Knoxville is a retaliation for
these so-called cut rates.
The East Tennessee road claims that
the Western ana Atlantic acted unjustly
some months ago in shutting the East
Tennessee freight cars of from it's side
tracks at Atlanta; in attempting to put
| runners under line of steamers to run
up the Tennessee river to Knoxville, in
order to Gu freight rates; in melting and
bringing about the attempt to create
second receiVership OF the East Tonnes
see road; in attempting to amend the
charter of the Cincinnati and Georgia
railroad under which the East Tennessee
road has run in Georgia; by introducing
a bill in the Legislature to amend such
charter. the bill being drawn by the son
of the President of the Western and At
lantic road, whose services as attorney
for the East Tennessee road in Georgia
had been dispensed With; in complaining
/ when the East Tennessee road shortened
| the time Of the Kennesaw sleeper to and
| from New Orleans, by hauling it straight
! through by Calera, instead OF delivering
! it to the Western and Atlantic at Dalton.
The principal cause Of the rate war, in
Inmates the East Tennessee, is the policy
of the Western and Atlantic road in re-
/ fusIng the East Tennessee road admission
/ to the Union depot at Atlanta, and the
exception TO the differentials made by the
East Tennessee accordingly, such differ
entails being warranted by general GUS
! tom.