Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-02
RAILROAD NEWS.
The Recent Cut in Rates by the Louis
VILE and Nashville.

Every indication, says the Memphis Ap-
peal, of Friday, points to the liveliest kind
a of war between the various railroads
centering at Memphis, Louisville and
Nashville and the Memphis and Charles
ton especially.
AT noon yesterday thousands of saffron
| hued bills were distributed on the streets,
which read as follows: "FOr 81 the Louis
willie and Nashville Railroad will sell you
a drst-class ticket from Memphis to Chat
tanO0ga. For full particulars call at Of
tice. No. 2S7 Main street"
An Appeal reporter called at the place
designated-nOt for 81 ticket. but for
the full particulars"
Il don't know a thing in the world
about it." SAID Mr.. Finley, the ticket
agent. We received notice at noon to
put out the bills you have seen, but have
no idea why it was done, or how long the
rate Will continue in force. l suppose we
will know all about it little later, but at
present l am unable to enlighten you"
From the freight department of the same
office it was learned that rates. which
were cut down cents a week ago. have
/ been partially restored, the cut to Caro-
lima in grain being but cents at present.
| The office of the Memphis and Charleston
| Railroad, which, it was inferred was
| the antagonist of the Louisville and
| Nashville. was next visited. Col. Barney
/ Hughes was like Moses when the
! light went Out-in the dark. The news
/ that a cut had been made by the Louis
Vile and Nashville had a paralyzing
effect upon him, so sudden did it come,
and he had no idea whether the rate
would be met by his road or not. but
/ thought he would know this morning"
| An outsider was found, however, who
! was a little better posted. "They are
honest in what they have told you at both
| Offices" he said. Even Davant, the
| General Passenger Agent, is ignorant
as yet of the cause of the cut. The
Kansas City Road is indirectly the
cause, though the trouble is more direct
| " traceable to recent vigorous measures
| on the part Of b. w. Wrenn, the General
/ Passen ger Agent of the East Tennessee,
| Virginia aud Georgia. He is a hustler
| and is not content to let things rock along
| as they did under his pra2yeessOr, who
was content to let bushh9ss from Vir-
| yinia, the CarOlinas, Georgia and Florida
| pass on to the West by way of JellicO.
/ But Wrenn wants the long haul, and at
! the same time plays into the hands of the
! Kansas City line, which gives the Mem
! phis and Charleston an immense amount
/ of business. This is the proper channel
/ anyway. All Of that business ought 10
| come through Memphis instead Of going
/ around by st. Louis. When Wrenn made
| up MS uluu " luAo uc at OuOG toOh u y
! all the passes of the agents Of the Louis
/ Vile and Nashville, the Ohio and Missis-
! sippi and the St.LOuls and Evansville Rail-
roads. The Chesapeake and Ohio is about
/ to be involved in the embrOgliO too. Not
! long since the Kansas CITY Road made
an unlimited rate Of SIS 50 to Chicago.
/ and the Chesapeake and Ohio, claiming
/ that it had no right to do so, in retaliation
cut the fare 10 Kansas City. by way Of
! Chicago, to $1j. This made very little
/ difference. but when that line sold a tick
! ct to Chicago via St. Louis for $15 50, the
/ regular rate being 800 -, there was Wig
oroIs kick by the Louisville and Nash
! Vile" Speaking of the cut in freights,
! apOtber prominent railroad man said {:
! THE whole of the freight trouble arose
! from the unlOOked-fOr increase in the
/ Southern business of the Kansas City line.
AS Memphis is not backed up by a
grain or meat-raising country, and has
not engaged to any great extent in grind
/ ing or packing. while Cincinnati has, it
mas always been concluded that even with
higher rate of freight Cincinnati would
take the precedence as a distributing
/ point. For this reason rates from that
| city nave always been three cents higher
than from Memphis, and no objection was
made until last November, when it was
discovered that the Kansas City Road
| was bringing a vast amount of grain
direct to this city. Since then Cincinnati
has been bowling for rate exactly the
same as that which Memphis pays. Hence
| the war which broke out week ago.