The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-10-21
Anderson and the Railroads.&c.. 2.

MR EDITOR: Siuce my article 10 lssi
weeks INTELLIaENGER was written, !
End upon inquiry Some additional cOrreo
pondence in the hands OF the officers Vi
the Board Of Trade touching the Matter OF
aHachedHle on the Savannah Valley Rsil
road. This correspondence is In response
{ 70 the formal letter oil cumplAipt submitted
20 the Rsiiroad Commission by Messrs.
Sullivan, Hill sno Lsdbetter. and published
with my communication, of last week, IL.
your pspsr, By consent I will here give
what the Commission and the Railroad
company have 10 say:
OFgIcE oE. R. r COMMISSIONERS,
Coiumbil, s. g., Oct 1896
u. IL. SuIziudn, Esq, anderson, s. @
MY DEAR SIR: Enclosed hand you
The communicAtion received from Presi
dent Cleveland, OF the 8 V. r. r. The
Commission will insist that the road must
run their mixed train on q schedule.
Please return me these papers.
Very truly,
D. P. DUNCAN, Sec
The following is President CIeveland's
communication, TO which Sec. Duncanre
G. &W. O. RI co-oFF1oB OF P-Es
spartsnburg 8 G, O.t, 1896
Hon. D. p. Duncan, Sec Columbia, s. c.
DEAR SIR: am in receipt " your fsv"i
! of Oct I'd, enclosing ghe complaint OF Mr..
j. III. Suilivan, Pres. Anderson Board vi
Trade, as to schedules on that part OF our
road known as the Savannah Valley
Branch. Although ic has been my desire
I have never yet been able to see no" it
was possible to put o passenger train on
chat road. For the ak months commeuc-
ing April and ending September, the pas
aepger earnings per mile Of trains on that
road have averaged III cents per mile.
Yon know how far this falls short Of pay
ing the expense Of train. We are rednc
Il ed to the necessity Of using mixed psssen
ger and freight trains on the V. Road
simply because 1t is necessity. We get
little passenger business from Anderson
TO points in South Carolina, except whaL
finds it to their advantage to go through
Augusta. You can well imagine how lit
tie this is. We cannot meet the competi
tion to Columbia, Charleston, Western
parts OF the State and the North. You
will readily see how there 10 no encourage
ment whatever, under the circumstance,
9 for us to compete for business where the
geographical position Is SO strongly against
Us.
q I have heretofore submitted to your
Board the figures, which show that the
QUGIHbIOA VI tl2t W 10 0hsboiJ odAS
mnnerative to rs. ] admit, tbstif il copld
be done consistently, passenger trsin
phould be put on that line. but can We be
expected to do 30 when its operation
would be at loss?
AS to the special matter complained OF,
I hope to submit to you schedule SHOW
ing the running time made by train No.
IS during the month Of September, 1893
OF course, you will readily understand
that the freight train IL subject TO delays
unavoidable, and dependent, not only
upon the weight of a train, but also condi
tions Of the weather. I promise the Com
mission and the people of Anderson that
we will do the best We can for them, aud
20 far as the passenger train is concerned,
If the Board of Trade will guarantee Us
against loss in its operation, not to say
anything about its proportion Of msinten
snce of Wsy-maintenance Of equipment.
etc.-We would be oniV too glad 70 give
them the train. We recognize the obliga-
ton Of railroads to the public as their ser-
wants, and II the public cannot give the
business necessary to sustain the service
expected, It seems TO me- unreasonable TO
expect that the service shoUld be rendered.
Yours truly,
JoHE B. CLEVELAND. Pres.
The ollowlngis copy OF Mr. Sdiiivan's
reply sent the Railrosd CDmmlsslon:
AEpERsoJ, s. u, Oct. 1910: 1885
Hon. D. p. Duncan, Secretary Railroad
Commission, Columbia, g. C-Dear Sir: