The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-01-28
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which the Lynchburg & Durham rail
road, under the management of the
Norfolk 6 Western, has seen fit to in
fict the people who have the misfortune
to live along its line.
Thus far no action has been taken
towards r~emedying the evil, and a gen
eral howl has gone up from those who
are compelled to travel over it against
the road which has shown such wanton
disregard of tie interests of the peo-
ple from whom it derives so large a part
of its %revenue
1t is all right for the Norfolk and Yves
tern railroad to talk about there being
no profit in passengers and intimate that
it is a concession on their part to run a
passenger train at all. But they should
not fail to remember what everybody
here knows, that they are now and have
been for months receiving large ship
ments of manufactured tobacco and other
articles from Durham's numerous large
factories, and that they have made wads
of money on the freight shipped from
this city to all points west.
But like the vampire that it is, the only
idea of the Norfolk and Western, which
is growing rich at the expense OF its
patrons, seems to be to get all the money
it can and let the people whistle for the
rest.
AS an illustration of the inconvenience
aad annoyance occasioned passengers
with the present schedule, one instance
will suffice:
A citizen of Durham went to Halifax
county, Virginia, a few days ago to a
point on the Lynchburg and Durham
road. After remaining there a day he
desired to reach a point in Caswell
county. He went to the station to find
that he could not connect at L%ynchburg
on the outgoing train. He waited sevaral
hours and took the next hoping to con
meet at South Boston, which place he
reached, only to find that the train for
Danville hud left an hour and a half pre-
viOus. He her came on to the A. & D.
junction, (Denniston) reaching there
two hours after the train had left for
Danville. 1t was then 6 o'clock in the
evening and as there was no other train
till 4 o'clock in the morning, this patient
and long suffering man was forced to
sit up all night in the dingy and cheer
less all-around, office of the depot, there
being no hotel facilities whatever, not
even a private dwelling in the place.
If the passenger train could leave here
an hour and a half earlier in the morning
and connect with the train at Denniston,
South Boston and also at Lynchburg, in
stead of compelling people to get up an
hour before day in order to catch it, life
would be better worth living for the un-
happy wretch whose point of destination
happens to be along the line of that
abOminably accommodating railroad.
Returning, they could leave Lynchburg
two hours earlier and connect with the
r. & d. at South Boston, the A. e D. at
Denniston, and also connect with the
west-bound train for Greensboro at this
place.
This would make a good schedule and
please everybody.
There is a feeling of general indigna-
ton on the part of Durham people espe-
cially, who, in consideration of the very
patronage given the road by our
manufacturing institutions, feel hat they
are entitled to some accommodation and
are loud in declaring the present schedule
an outrage and an imposition.
THE WEALTHY TAN SHIRXER.
The complaint of favoritism in the as
sessment of property is every year sent
up by the tax payers of Durham, yet
Durham is not the only place by anv