The gold leaf., 1895-06-13
THE RAILROAD WAR Is OVER.

The Seab0ard Air Line and the South
ern Railway and Steamship Associa-
ton Agree Upon Terms of Peace.
The following taken from late issue
ofthe Atlanta Constitution, will be read
with interest by our people, who have
been more or less concerned about the
war made upon the Seaboard Air Line,
growing out of the boycott Of that
road by the Southern Railway and
Steamship Association
The railroad giants have compro-
missed!
There will be no more war between
the Seaboard Air Line and the assocla-
ted roads of the South.
An agreement was signed yesterday
morning. The terms Of the
truce are confidential, sworn not to be
given out to the laymen of this worky-
day world, but here they are just the
same:
withdraw its litigation against the
other roads on the condition that the
associated roads shall withdraw the
boycott against the Seaboard.
2. The association agrees to with
draw the boycott on condition that the
Seaboard shall restore passenger rates
between Atlanta and Eastern points.
3. The Seaboard agrees to restore
the rates and to preserve the associa-
tion's rates in the future, abiding the
rules and orders of the organization.
4. There shall be full examination
of the accounts involved in the past
litigation and settlement shall be
made in equity for the wrongs that
have been committed on one side or
the other, the Seaboard settling for the
injuries it has inflicted by its regular
practices and the association coming
to taw wherever it is shown that injury
has been done the Seaboard.
5. The Seaboard is not held under
obligation to join the association by
the terms Of the contract, but is bound
| to respect its rules and obey its
regulations.
6. The passenger rates which were
cut Just half between Atlanta and the
East by the Seaboard must be restored
at once and kept at the old standard
rates fixed by the legitimate adjustment
of the association for years past.
7. The boycott must be lifted from
the Seaboard by the associated roads
at the time fixed for the contract tc
take effect, and the roads that form
the association are held under agree
ment to grant to the Seaboard all the
advantages of pro-rating in the manipu
lation of through business as is allowed
all other lines with which these roads
connect.
The passenger rates between Atlanta
and New York and other Eastern
points will be raised to the former
notch by the Seaboard Air Line.
When the association lines declared
the boycott the Seaboard announced
that it would cut the passenger rate:
from Atlanta to Eastern points just
half 1t put the cheap tickets on sale
with suddenness frightful to contem
plate, and since that time it has beer
war to the knife between the com
peting lines to the East, though the
Southern has never yet met the cu'
rates of the Seaboard by any published
schedule of reduced fares.
Nothing has come up in the railroad
world for the past five or six years sc
important as this line of litigation the
Seaboard has been forcing against the
association of railroads that cover thi:
entire section of country. The suit
affected the interests of all the roads
for it was stab at the very heart and
life of the association and left with the
Federal Court to decide whether such
organizations are legal or not.
In this light it is easy to see how
important was the harmonious adjust.
ment of the case.