Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-04-10
OUR RAILROAD LETTER.
SHALL MONOPOLY WIN?
They Gamble on our Cotton.
Will They Control Our Rail-
Roads.
BUREAU SOUTHERN News,
PINEBLUFF, N. c.,

There is great Railroad war
fare being waged in the South, one
that will decide whether or not
Wall Street Gamblers will force a
line of Railroad to dc their bid
ding and thereby kill the only
movement of independent action
shown by any large system in the
South.
The Seaboard Air Line owning
its one Road from Wilmington,
N. C. to the Blue Ridge Noun
tains, via Charlotte, N. c., and
from Atlanta Ca, 10 Norfolk, Va,
via Raleigh, N. c., from which
point it reaches Baltimore over
the magnificent Bay Line Steam
ers, as fine boats as are found in
the United States.
At Norfolk the Seaboard Air
Line connects with the Old Do
minion Steamers into New York !;
the Merchants into New York; the
Merchants and Miners into Bos-
ton, and the Norfolk and Wash
ington into Washington, D. G.
Each of these lines run the fast
est passenger steamers, fitted up
in the most elegant style, and pas
sengers are putlnto the principal
points named on quick time and
by pleasant and safe route. In
fact, there has been no accident
on either of these iiues during the
long years of their service. They
now have fine new steamers from
Norfolk. The Seaboard Air Line
feeling that it had q good route
North by al rail and water, and
that with the extra water facilities
could afford to carry passengers
cheaper than other lines, and have
been insisting on doing so, there
by showing d liberal disposition
toward the travelling people. Com
peting lines saw this disposition
ON the part of the Scaboard Air
! ne to favor he people, and they
also saw that if the Seaboard
should succeed in maintaining its
indeDendent position outside of
the big Rail Road Combination
the probability would be that ,he
Railroad Trust and Combinations
would be largely, if not utterly
broken up. The Seaboard Air
Line some weeks since withdrew
from all Combinations and Trusts,
thereby saying it was going to act
independent. A claim was made
that the Seabord Air Line was cut
ting freight rates and the Rail
Road Combine ordered boycott
that is, ali roads that belonged to
the Rail Road Combine were no.
titled by the chief official of the
Combine not to receive any goo is
from. or deliver any goods s'to The
SeahGaHlL Air ire At A tlant.a,Gr-
Or any points where they connec...
This order went into effect on the
first day of March last, and on the
sixth day Of March the Seaboard
Air Line issued an order to it's
agents to sell tickets to Richmond,
Va, Norfolk, Va, Washington, b.
c., Baltimore, Nd, New York
Citv, aud Boston, and from these
points to points on its line as far
as Atlanta, Ca, at greatly reduced
rates. The other lines said: "Phis
cut don't amount TO anything, peo-
pie won't travel over the line; they
have been going our route and will
continue to do so." But this pre-
diction did not prove true. Peo-
pie from all sections were anxious
to stand by the Seaboard Air Line
in the fight, and this has been
proven by the fact that the freight
receipts have almost doubled, and
the passenger business is five times
greater than heretofore.
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The people are pleased and the
fun continues, and the Seaboard
Air Line has the best of the fight,
with the people "n her side to ap-
plaud at her success against the
big Railroad Monopoly.
Another Liverpool Letter on Cot