Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-05
Other Companies Besides the Southern
and Seaboard May Be Involved.
RUM0R As TO ATLANTIC COAST Line
Mr. BaIdwin's Change to the Long
Island Company.
HIS SUCCES SOR HERE

IL IS reported in inside railway circles
that the management of the Atlantic Coast
Line has determined to join with the South
ern IN its fight against the Seaboard, and
VIII Ill day or two file notice OF its inten-
| ton to meet the Seaboards rates to COM
petitive points.
Inquiry at the Offices of the Atlantic
Coast Line here disclosed that no instruc-
lions looking to this have been received by
the officials in Washington, and it was
stated that the company has not in the
past been much of a rate cutter
Outside of the officials of the Atlantic
coast Line the impression prevails among
railroad men that the report is true, and
that not only will the Coast Line have to
TALL in line in order to protect its interests
very shortly, but that all the other rail-
ways represented in the Southern States
eight Association will have to take ad-
vantage of tie permission accorded them
by the executive board of the association
at its meeting Wednesday, and reduce their
tariffs to the schedule to be prepared by
Commissioner Haines.
The Atlantic Coast Line is one of the
most influential members of the Southern
Association, and has a total mileage Of L.
fhi miles. 1t operates roads as follows:
itlchmohd and Petersburg; Petersburg.
Wilmington and Weldon; Norfolk and Car
olina: Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta:
flerencc; Northeastern OF South Carol ma;
Manchester and Augusta: Cheraw and Oar
lrSton and Central of South Carolina apd
aitho'iSn It's main line begins at Richmond
va, IL has d very large northern and cast
ern traffic. 1t touches almost all the i'm
ptitaht c!tles and towns in North Carolina
Georgia and South Carolina and al
Charleston connects with the Plant system
iof points II Florida and Alabama
The Long and Short Haul Question.
The question as to whether the new
lreight schedule of the Southern which
as ALREADY announced, provides only for
ieoIctoh or rates to points that are COM
P'ttFe with those on the Seaboard AR
Line does not conflict with the long and
SNORT maui clause OF the interstate COM
merce law, which was brought to the Al
teAt-on OF the Interstate Commerce COM
MISSION by the oincldis the Scaboari Air
Line has not yet been Scltle. and unless
me roads at war make an ARA cement in
TINS respect with Ines with wn.cn they
connect 10 reach points further south The
COMMISSIONERS VIII be asked by the nler-
chants IN many OF the southern cites 10
compel them TO do So
Already meetings 10 discuss the question
nave been called IN many places in the
south"ln states, and the CONSENSUS of op.n-
ION as gathered from some vi those who
nave arrived in Washing TON from the sou,n
To-Day IS tE2t II d passenger can be carrie.
ny q Iaiifoau company ItoH Washington
10 Atlanta for -, as the sea board ms an
hoGnced its intentlon 20 do On and alter
MCnuay EeXt, the SeaDoart can ar,nrd I;
IS believed TO look with cumplaccncy upon
any tnhS the people of the south below
atlanta might say IN refele enc. TO IN. mai
Ter. But II is quite d different matter with
tfe Southern, because they have a direct
line through TO New Orleans and :, cut
III rates between Atlanta and New Orleans
which Is outside OF the present conpetitIy,.
teiritcr!, Would III ali probability bring the
southern INTO collision WITH the vast sys-
TEN of lines to the north, northeast and
" orleans
en- It's amlcdbie relations with the Mobile
ah'' tnio, and many Others including tax.
hlos' important lines to the north ot the
ONO dnG west OF the .nIssissip,)i rivers
AS IL present understood, there is an in
tense opposition ON the part OF the Ines
south OF Atlanta TO having the Southern
Seaooard war spread beyond its pr,.san,
limits and every effort VIII be made by
those interested TO keep il confined 40 1h,.
territory at present involved.
IL Is understood that another meeting of
me executive board OF the Southern SAFES
frelght Association VIII be held il NV
YORK early next Week. The meeting if
heiu' VIII be OF the most important mar
acter. and the result OF the deliberations
Will, 1t is expected, have d large influence
ia determining whether there shall ne :,
woe ana disastrous war or peace restored.
II Is feared in some usually WeIl-luIormed
quarters that if long war of rates eusu,.d
more tnan twenty railway lines of the
south Will be thrown into the hands of the
receiver.
Mr.. Baldwin's Change of Position.
Much surprise was occasioned last even
ing in railroad circles here by the an.
| nouncement in The Star that Second Vice
president Baldwin of the Southern had re-
signed to accept the presidency OF the
Long Island Railroad Company, to succeed
the late Austin Corbin.
Mr. Baldwin is regarded by railway men
as one OF the most promising railroad men
i'll the United States. Although he is but
tnrty-three years old, lie possesses the
confidence of the railway nagnates and
bankers of New York and other eastern
cities to remarkable degree. He has
never had the advantage of family
wealth, and his promotions, rapid as they
have been, have been due entirely to mer;t
In leaving the Southern to accept the pres-
idency OF the Long Island he goes to the
same road where Mr.. Samuel Spencer. now
the president Of the Southern, first widely
attracted attention to his great railway
abilities.
His Successor.
The severance of the official relations of
Mr.. Baldwin is regretted by all the en-
ployes Of the Southern who are ACQUAINTED