The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-15
RATE WAR IS ON AGAIN
The SsabOard Ar Line Adopts a DIfferen.
slal Passenger Rate.
HOT MUCH DANGER OF INTERFERENCE
seRbOnrd ~ Proceeding AIong:L0gtcnI
Grounds aud the War VIII Pr0bn.
bly, be uninterrupted by InjIunc.
tions-GencrnI Passenger Agent
Anderson Tolls AboutIt

Once more the Se1board Air Line and
| the combination of It's big rivals, headed
by the Southern Railway, are engaged
| In battle royal. open war has again
been declared and rthe fight will prob
ably be one to the death. The appar-
emily innocent circular just issued by
| the ScaboardS passenger department,
announcing differental passenger tar
iff and through and local business, Is
simply declaration of war. and the re-
ducuon OF 33 l-3 per cent, in fares con-
tained therein. is the first shot in what
may terminate in q long continued
Gle bC1wccn the associated rail-
ways, which have refused to haul the
SeabonlI's through cars, and that line.
The rates are Subject to CHANGE" and
uhis phrase. as defined by General Agent
Anderson. might mean uhut the Sea-
board will cut as often rs liz lower
| rates are met 10y Its competitors, In Or
der to preserve the differential feature.
FOSSIBEL1 OF INJUNCTION.
When questioned concerning the pos
stbil.ty of Interference by the United
States Court, as has been the case in
former wars, Mr.. Anderson snid that his
road Is proceeding upon different lines
| from those adopted previously, when
cuts were merely made without any rca-
son being given. I'VE are he said.
| proceeding upon logical grounds and
have adopted the diffcrential rate as our
weapon. az the Northern and Western
roads have done long since. THE new
rates go into effect October % ,nnd have
already been filed with the Interstate
Commerce Commission"
| 1--WE are establishing no precedent
and doing nothing to dcnoallze traffic,
but are simply giving the travelling
public In rates what we cannot give in
through car service owing TO the combi-
| nation against US. Our connections
| North and South do not place The same
| facilities at our disposal as are given
other roads even In the. case of the AT
| iantic Special, which runs over foreign
tracks between Weldon and Wishing
ton. Compare the time made by 1t over
cur tracks and theirs and then observe
| the dispatch with which the same con-
nection handles the Atlantic Coast
Lines mo. 35.'
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
The following official statement has
been issued by MIR. Anderson:
During the past three or four years
the tSeabCard Air Line has made many
and frequent efforts to secure for itself
and the public the same through sleep
| ing car service enjoyed by It's competi-
| loFS NGO say nOlnliE I'll llclT Sollu
| Service) between New York and At
lanta. Ga, and New York and New
| Orleans, Ln., but request for such equal
| facilities between these points has, In
| every instance, been met with de-
cllnation by connections, VINO have given
as a cause for such refusal first che
reason and then another. n majority of
| which has been to an extent unsatiS-
! factory. One Of the representatives to
whom our application was addressed
may be assumed to have given an
honest reason for his declination, whedl
he stated, as he did, us follows: I have
| frequently told you, both over my Sig
nature md in personal conference, that
did net think It policy for this line
| to disturb the relations which now ex-
list between its l!Cle and the Southern
! railway. by hauling a car Tor your line,
! etc, etc.
I'm another communication, we plead
| cd with this same official n second
tine, endeavoring to show the injustice
Of the position occupied by his COM
pEny. Snd In reply he states that he
| is rot tn Il position to recommend the
| operation Of through cars that Will dis
turb the relationship ,Tow existing be-
tween his line and the Southern rail-
way
"OLher letters containing extracts of
| similar purport are on file, indicating
the helplessneSs of our connections to
accord the Seaboald Air Line and It's
| patrons that consideration to which It's
| Importance AIS n through line would
justly entitle IT. G{cra follows A. COM
| parlson table,. 'FThe Scaboard Ar
Line. therefore. and IN view of such
continued discrimination aga inst it's In
! tsrests.7 and the interests Of It's patrons.
has determined, for the purpose Of
equaliz!nS. to an extent. the disadvant-
| ages under which it operates its fast
mail and express trains to adopt SINH
| lar action to that taken by trurlk lines
! between New York and Chicago ST.
Louis. Cincinnati and other cities, which
| action Is recognized by the Trunk Line
Association as being proper and right,
where disadvantages exist" The fare
| under The rlew rate Will be $40 from
here to Atlanta, and "a reduction on all
intermediate points.
| YELLOW FEVER DISINFECTANTS
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