The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-28

JonN A. scorr, city ticket agent Of tho
| Louisville a Nashville Railroad, Ia In New
| Orleans.
TRAvriiNo PAssrsuER A0ENr RAY, Of the
Memphis 4 Charleston Railroad, arrived 10
the city yesterday.
G. W. FoRnrrrn, general Southern agent
| ~ the Star Union Line with headquarters
az Louisville, 4 In the city.
CnAnLrs JoNrs, travelling passenger agent
" the Kansas city, Memphis a birmingham
Railroad, is back from trip.
H. w. WREVN, general passenger agent of
the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Rail-
rnad, was In the city yesterday and left last
night for Atlanta.
rMAI r. r. WusoN and party, nccompan-
led by Mai. James NJ Edwards, leave today
In u special ear for tour of inspection u
the Louisville, New Orleans a TcXa, Rail-
/ rund.
| DlyiuoS SurFnlNrENpENr KENr has issued
a circular discontinuing daily local freight
| trains over the Illinois Central Railroad, aud
running samc tri. weekly from aud 10 Mem.
phis. south on Mondays, Wednesdays and
| Fridays, north on Tuesdays, Thursdays aud
| Saturdays No other changes In trains will
be- made for the present
| Tnr contracting agent of railroad com.
pany l. the "hOomcr' of the organization,
ior on him dcyolycs the securing of business
IN which other operatives ART 10 be contin-
ued in the service aud get their monthly sti-
pend. There arr different kinds OF "boom-
en- among which are the aiIablc, grum,
easy, hustler etc lie who works faithfully
| and continuously for the line lac represents
has all lac eau attend to.
1Hr rcccni decision OF the Interstate Com
mcrro Commission, in the case Of the Little
Rock A Memphis Railroad Company against
| the ~ Louis Iron Mountain q Southern
aud the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad Companies. u the subject for much
| discussion in local railroad Cirlcs. The
! history " ihc ease l. briefly as follows The
! Little Ruck a Memphis, Railroad Company
| h engaged in operating a railroad between
the cities of Memphis Tcnns and Little
Rock, Ark formerly known u- the Memphis
| A Little Rock Railroad. The 81 Louis, Iron
Mountain a Southern runs TO Texarkana,
ON the boundary line between Arkansas and
| Texas. with numerous branches. aud II con-
| truls every railroad running north, south or
west from Little Rock The East Tennessee.
! Virginia n Georgia Operates ana extensive
system east of the Mississippi, with its west
crn terminus at Memphis. Recently tho
Iron Mountain built branch line,
running from Bald Knob, Ark, 10
Memphis, called the Bald Knob Branch.
This is parnllo. tO the line Of the complains
ant, and was built expressly for the purpose
~ competition. IT, facilities for imnaaciing
the business nt Memphis II was tontcndcd.
were Inferior a. those of the complainant.
Its depot Il two miles distant from that of
the East Tennessee. Virginia q Georgia Rail-
way Company, and the transfer Il made In
omnihuscs. The trains oi the two roads are
run without much regard for one another.
so that passengers transferring between them
are subjected 10 annoying cclays. between
| tho depot Of the complainant and that OF
the East Tennessee, Virginia \ Georgia Rail-
road Company there isa track, over which
the passengers are transferred in railway
coach. aud frequently without change OF
cars. L. trains are run with a view 10 meet
ing those ~ the East Tennessee road, 20 that
passengers arr subjected TO no delays. In
conscatenco of these superior facilities tho
opening Of the Bald Knob branch produced,
ID was sniT no sensible effect upon the pas
senger traffic Of the complainant, the trav-
cling public ordinarily prcierring 10 20
by n foad. The Iron Mountain Company
therefore rcsorted 10 the device ~ directing
Mi its connections 10 take ofl'all tickets read
Ing over the Little Rock 4 Memphis Rail-
rod In conjunction with its own, and TO sell
through tickets 10 southern aud Wcstc,n
points only over the bald Knob branch, TO
which the East Tennessee road has made
itself an artive party. The principal traffic
Of the complainant is through tmiiic, con.
sistina OF the transportation OF passengers
and freight from points In the East 20 South.
west Arkansas and Texas, and the Iron
Mountain road controlling all the western
, aud southern exits from Little Rock, II was
, contended that the success Of the proposed
scheme involved the absolute destruction "
lhe complalnanL