The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-05
THE SOUTHERN RATE WAR
The Seaboard Airline Still Fight
ing.
THE EFFECT OF THE BOYCOTT
Efforts Now Being Made 10 Stop the
Fight Against the Saaboard
Recently Instituted by
the Southern AS
ISOLATION

lie war DetWeeu tu6 oehOOeru h1r
Limo aud Southern Railway Association
Is attracting very great attention.
The Baltimore News OF Saturday has
| the following article on the rate wnr:
The prospects arc that If the differ.
| ences between the Seaboard Air Limo
| md tho Southern Railway and Steam
| ship Association are not soou adjusted
the most bitter rate war ever wngod be,
| tween Southern lines will ensue. Sou
thern railroad officials who have watch.
ed tue course of events are anxious to
| avert this, and to that end arc endea.
| voring to form new agreement for the
maintenance of rates which will be &C.
ceptable to the Seaboard and its com
peiitors.
All recognize in the Seaboard an az.
gressive competitor, amply hble to take
care of itself in fight. Not being
hampered by any Association restrio,
tions, it could make things very inter.
| esting for its rivals.
THE SEADoARD's GRIEVANCE,
The particular grievance of the Sea-
board against the association ie Mr.. f..
b. Stahlman's connection with the
latter IA commissioner. 1t is claimed
that Mr.. Stahlman is prejudiced
against the Seaboard and never misses
an opportunity to show his amnesty.
What grounds there are for this charge
ls not known, but 1t ia certain that
President Hoffman, Of the Seaboard,
has repeatedly declined invitations to
JOIN the association while that gentle
man continued in office.
Mr.. Stahlman's circular. charging
the Senboard with secretly cutting
| rates, Ihas tended to still further widen
tue breach. The boycott declared by
the Association against the Seaboard
for alleged rate irregularities went into
effect yesterday and the struggle from
now on will be watched with the
greatest interest iii Baltimore, where
some of the principal lines involved
nre largely owned.
As already suited in Tho News, tho
Seaboard has obtained an injunction
restraining the Western and Atlantic
and tho Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
LOUIS from joining IN tho boyoott, on
the grounds that traffic Arrangement,
entered into between the three lines
several years ago. is still IN force. Tnis
IL very important move on tue pnrt
OF the Seaboard, and while the injuuc
ton holds, the boycott cannot be con-
sldered effective in all respects.
TROUBLE FORCED on IT.
President Hoffman, of the Seaboard,
told the News reporter that the trouble
was forced upon his line, and that he
would fight 1t ont to the bitter end,
MIR. Hoffman still believes that the
Southern hallway Company instigated
the boycott, aud when that company
makes definite move the Seaboard Is
prepared to make it warm for all con-
cerned. The Seaboard parallels the
Southern for nearly the entire distance
between City Point, Va, and Atlanta,
Ga. and is 10 n position to worry that
system more than any other.
The Atlantic Coast Line, which is
principally owned III Baltimore, and of
which Mr.. Harry Walters, of this city,
Is president, will not, 1t is said, ioiu IN
the boycott against the Seaboard, as
there Is u traffic arrangement between
tho two companies similar to the one
between the Seaboard and Western end
western aud Atlantic and Nashville,
Chattanooga and st. Louis.
Local railroad men express the opn.
ion that up to the present time the
Seaboard has decidedly the best of the
| present fight, and predict tho with.
drawal OF the boycott in tho event that
the injunction obtained against the
Western and Atlantic and Nashville,
Chattanooga ind st. Louis is made
permanent, as without their co.opera
ton the boycott would foil OF itself.
The officers of the SeaboArd Air Line
in Norfolk feel that they will be able
to hold their own in any contingency
that may arise.
The Young iIcn's Chri,tiuu A..0clu-
non.