The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-07-03
FROM THREE c's HEADoUARTE RS
Every Indication that the Road is Alive
Vigorous and Active.


Vigorous and Active
correspondence Greenville News.J
BLACKsBURG, June l9.-Notwith-
standing the sensational articles that
have appeared in some Of the State
papers, so far as your correspondent
can learn the Three Cs is' moving on
steadily. New work is being done at
this place and new machinery and
supplies are arriving daily. Track lay
ing is being pushed between Ruther-
fordton and Marion. The Augusta
division is being graded as fast as the
contractors can push the work. Work
on the Northern division is being
pushed ahead rapidly at Johnson City.
Taking all things together, 1 see no
reason for any one to doubt the ability
of the company to press the work to
completion. From the best lights | can
gather the Risley matter has more SEN
sationai gas about it than anything
else and it will no doubt explode from
spontaneous combustion without dam
aging anybody and only benetting the
LAWYERS who are conducting the suit.
TRUTH ABOUT THE RIsLEY SUIT.
The correspondent of The News and
Courier at Shelby, \. G., telegrapheu
yesterday the following statement
about the rumored suit against the
Three C's Railroad:
An official of the Charleston, Gin
cnnati and Chicago Railroad Com
pany, whose position is a confidential
one, was in Shelby to-day, and was
asked by your correspondent the truth
about the Risley suit against the
Massachusetts and Southern Construc-
ton Company, concerning which the
| Columbia Record has recently made
sensational statement.
The official said that the whole suit
was ridiculous and that the statement
in the Record was absurd on its face.
Mr.. Risley has instituted q suit for
Sl00,00 against the Massachusetts and
Southern Construction Company, and
recently moved to amend the suit so
rs to make the amount of damages
claimed 100000 or $4,000, 900, but the
motion was refused by the court one
day last week, and the suit stands for
500, ,000, which rests upon an exceed
ingly shadowy claim.
Mr.. Risley was, as matter OF fact,
one of the local promoters Of the George
town and North Carolina Narrow
Gauge Railroad, which was incorpo-
ated in 1878. This charter, by perhaps
4 half dozen successive amendments,
| finally became the charter Of the Char
| lesion, Cincinnati and Chicago Rail-
road Company in South Carolina, and
was so changed by these amendments
as to bear hardly any resemblance to
| the original charter. This was after
wards consolidated with the Ruther-
ford Railway Construction Company
and the Rutherfordton. Marion and
Tennessee Railroad Company ofNorth
Carolina, the Ohio, Kentucky and Nir-
ginia Railroad Company of Kentucky,
and the Charleston, Cincinnati and
Chicago Railroad Company Of Tennes-
see, and was especially authorized by
an Act Of the Kentucky Legislature,
which Act amounted practically to a
charter to construct the road through
| that State and to consolidate with any
roads in that State.
1t was only in the early days ofthe
enterprise and before the first consoli-
dation was made that Mr.. Risley had
anything to do with the project. TWAS
Col. Johnson who organized the Massa-
chusetts and Southern Construction
Company for the purpose of construct
ing the railroad, Mr.. Risley's duties
being confined to the South. His con-
nection with the road was severed
about six years ago, when he was COM
pensated for bis services. He has. how
ever, it appears, never been satisfied
with that compensation, and now sues
for what he claims would have been
profits to him in the development Of
the enterprise. But it must be apparent
that the very highest interests he could
have held in the charter and franchise
of the old Georgetown and North
Carolina Railroad Company could have
had but very small money value. Mr.
Risley never owned anything else in
connection with this road.