The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-06-08

l. u 10, cruel satire 10 cali Two usdte
lire: and these pooled with others and
practically under the control Of the
Plant system Col. Baya admits. in
his interview in the Morning News, that
the change Of schedule Of his line must
follow the changes Of The j., I. < X. v.
railroad. II this dos no, break up the
independent and separate operation
Of the IeIiary-Baya line. what can DO it:
The gIeater portion u the boats Of the
liEe. AZ one time all employed on the s.
John, river. are scattered along the At
lantic c,3s; from Jacksonville tn New
York. gum. north 10 L. sold or char
tered "a opportunity may present itself.
What difference Is it 10 US where these
boats may be il no, operated in Florida:
We are glal 10 L. informed tina, the
new ''arrans-ment" l. "a l., ''frser"
one for the present management Of the
line. This means. no doubt. that ,oi.
Bita Will have more tim. in future a.
att.n.l 10 his legitimate business II sell.
Ing grcerh :. while the general traffic
marag.r"f the : =. * W. railroad runs
hi, line" Col. Raya will L.. permitted
Ia smu>e himself with the shadow b. re.
after. while somebody else exercises the
real authority.
IL also interesting To have the News
admonish u that the DeBAry Baya line
is a -eful institution 10 Florida. aud un.
becoming IN u, Ia 'sssail' il. This, it
must h. admitted, comes with delecta.
bic propriety from Il paper tina, was
started AMI now conducted for the ex.
press purpose Of breaking down a very
useful enterprise IN the State-one mot
public en- my, bu, a friend" one that
isa "help Ia Pa,atka and all the PENN.
sula.-th. Tunes. Union, l. not d..
Times Union n useful 10 the State As
"tobtailed' Steamboat linz: The
I,.Bary line, a. result If III. present
management, has already been dis.
i-rse'i aud sbpri--l; but. We notice,
that III. Times Union s,ill goes on. Why
should the Morning News desire to de.
stroy it: We have not sought 10 10
harm 10 the neBary line. notwitlstand.
ing il devoted it, best energies all last
winter Ia run OF the only boat on the
river in the interest Of Pala,ka, a wholly
wrong and malicious" undertaking. but
simply Ia advise the rsa,leis Of 1HR
News. from time to time. the condition
OF its affairs AMI name the wh.reabouts
of its numerous boats. Nothing mean
chou, this: ". have found the Morn.
Ing News quite useful in this respect;
but Il il is going Ia get mad because We
copy literally its statements. we shall
have to look elsewhere for information.
The Morning News is Or ON another
matter. II says that We chad once Il
retract" some assertion about Maj. Fen.
wick, the so-called general passenger
agen, ~ the bob tailed" line. Nothing
j. farther from the truth. Mr. +. wa.
given the benefit Of hi own statement
bu, not a word of retraction from us
Til. Maj,r IL 80 very ''artfuf' in his con
vcrsation that when he makes q state
nent down this way it is quite the Gus
tom to ask for his references.
Certainly we have no malice toward
the Dietary line. We stated some tim,
since that. if q management was no,
able 10 successfully compete on FIRE,
highway with a parallel railroad tina,
cost thousands Of dollars to build pcl
mile, il was for lack Of brains. Thi,
caused a rumpus. II the Dietary. Baya
line thinks it can still 20 on without the
aid Vt that essential article, We shall mo-
quarrel with its officers about it. The
third pool" of which il now compose
small part, will last only ~ long AS Ia,
"rlant system requires Il, then the boat,
remaining upsold will be swallowed up
In the meantime the public i'll have tn
benefit Of tn. "gougr' that always fol
lows puol.