The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1891-11-19
RAILROAD MAGNATES CONFER
Prompt Delivery on the Roanoke and
Southern Connections.
THROUGH LINE NORTH AND SOUTH,
Also the Possibilities and Probabili
ties of Through Connections
with the West.

The shippers from this and other
points on the Boanoke and Southern
Road have for sometime been great
ly- troubled by shipments of tobacco
and manufactured products for
Southern points. Desiring to find
the cause of the trouble the officials
of the Roanoke & Southern, Cape
Fear & Yadkin Valley, Charleston
Sumpter & Northern and South Car
olina Road had a conference in
Charleston, S. c., last Thursday
which was very satisfactory in every
way. The principal cause for recent
delays was due largely to the very
heavy movement of cotton to the
Southern points; this, however, is
about over and we are glad to say
that the difficulties are SO far re-
moved that the parties in interest
promise that the freight from this
section will be promptly handled in
the future.
Speaking of this conference of rail-
road magnates, the Charleston News
and Courier says:
1.-THE chief purpose of the visit was
to make closer and better arrange
ments for the handling of freights
and passengers over system of
roads that will extend from Charles
ton to Roanoke Virginia, thence to
the Northwest. From Charleston
the route will be over the South Car
olina Railway to Pregnall's, where
connection will be made with the
Charleston, Sumpter and Northern
Road. At Bennettsville the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley Road is
reached, and then over the Roanoke
and Southern line Roanoke, Va, is
reached. The Roanoke and South
ern line will be opened for business
about the first of January. Then
Charleston will have an air line into
the rich coal fields of the Pocahontas
district and the tobacco regions of
Virginia and North Carolina.
"Then the new line will shorten the
distance between Charleston and the
coal fields about $50 miles. The
summer resorts, White Sulphur
Springs, the Natural Bridge and
those in the Shenandoah Valley lie
along the line, and the officials all
expect to work up big business for
their system to the summer resorts
of the Carolinas and Virginias.
"The first business of the visiting
officials was to have a conference
with the authorities of the South
Carolina Railway to discuss traffic
matters generally and see what ar
rangements could he made for future
business. The Charleston, Sumter
and Northern. Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley and Roanoke and Southern
line, besides expecting to do a heavy
freight business in tobacco, coal and
general Western products, intend
early in the spring to put on sleep
ing car service between Charleston
and points in Virginia. The officials
discussed matters very thoroughly
and came to some understanding by
| which the Pee-Dee cotton, the North
| Carolina tobacco and the Virginia
| tobacco business would be promptly
| handled.
"When the Roanoke and Southern
Road reaches Roanoke it will connect
with the Norfolk and Western Road
by which there will be given a con
| tinuous line as far west as Ironton
Ohio. From Roanoke north con
nection will be had with the valley o
Virginia and at Hagerstown the di
rect line to New York, Philadelphi;
and Baltimore is reached.
''The new line, when opened, will
practically open up another route t,
the North and West from Charles
ton. The entire road has not We
been completed, but it soon will be-
The officials participating in thi
conference were: DIR. w. A. Lash
president, Mr.. j. w. Fry, genera
manager, and Mr.. w. e. Kyle, geneI
| al freight and passenger agent of th
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley RoaG
Col. F. III. Fries, president; G. "
Maslin, general manager, and Mr..
P. Warrington, traffic manager {
the Roanoke and Southern Railway
and Mr. c. E. Kimball, president, F.
H. Averill, general manager, and
S. Nettles, general counsel, and E.
Kyle, general freight and passengt
agent of the Charleston, Sumter an
Northern Road