The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-19

Roanoke will soon have another
Southern outlet by rail, reaching two
Important Southern ports. Early in the
spring through trains will run from
Roanoke to Charleston, and tho two
cities will be only days journey
apart.
This important matter was consum-
ated at meeting of railroad officials
in Charleston last Thursday. At that
meeting there were present: President
f. ii. Fries, General Manager G.. w.
Maslin and Traffic Manager A. p.
Warning ton, of the Roanoke and. South
ern; President w. A. Lash, General
Manager j. w. Fry, General
Freight Agent w. f. Kyle, of the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad;
President c. e. Klmball, General Man
ager Avarell, General Freight Agent e.
ID. Kyle, of tho Charleston, Sumter and
Northern Railroad; Ex-Governor Cham
berlain, receiver; General Manager
Ward and Traffic Manager Warren, of
the South Carolina road.
The object of this meeting was to
arrange for through trains from Roam
oko to Charleston over tho roads of the
respective companies represented at tho
meeting.
Trains on the new route will leave
Charleston on the South Carolina road.
going to Pregnells, S. c., distance of
about forty miles, where they will take
tho Charleston, Sumter ana Northern
to Benettsville, S. c., thence OH the
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley to Madi-
son, n c., via. the Fayetteville and
Greensboro, where they will take the
Roanoke and Southern for this city.
The sixteen miles Of the Roanoke and
Southern, now incompleted, will supply
the connecting link in the chain.
All the necessary arrangements for
running through freight and passenger
trains between this city and Charles
ton have been completed, and Presi-
dent Fries, of the Roanoke and South
ern, said to 4 TINES reporter last night,
that he expected to see tho through
trains running early in the spring.
This opens up to Roanoke a much
larger territory and makes the compile
ton of the Roanoke and Southern of o
vast deal more Importance than the
general public had anticipated. Besides
giving the city short route to the
South for the transportation of it's
manufacture products to q market that
Is growing in Importance, it will bring
the raw material that is needed in the
building of the city much nearer. The
new route traverses the finest lumber
section in the South, the region from
which most of Roanoke's supply now
comes.
In the mean time the work on the un-
completed part of tho Roanoke and
Southern is being pushed with all posi-
BILE vigor. AS soon as this is completed
trains will be put on between this city
and Winston A passenger train will
be put on each way, one leaving here in
the morning after tho arrival of tho
Norfolk and Western trains from the
North and East, and one arriving here
in time to make the Norfolk and West
ern connections going North and East.
Through and local freights will be
run from the start and a number of side
tracks will be put in all along the line
to accommodate the local traffic.
There is every indication that the
road will have plenty Of business from
the beginning The coal supply for
Winston and other manufacturing towns
will go over this line, and the reduced
price on account of shorter transporta-
ton will cause coal to take the place of
wood in many of the manufacturing
establishments in Winston and along
the line. When the through trains to
Charleston arc put on it is expected
to make the transportation of coal to
the South and lumber North an i'm
portant part of the through traffic of the
line. President Fries told TINES re-
porter last night THAT he could take him
to Winston over his road Christmas.
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