The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-21
Mr., CONES EXPERIENCE
TURNED DOWN BY RAILROADS
WHEN HE SOUGHT RELIEF.
EXPERT STANARD IN NOW EMPLOYED
ComuIaints Will be Looked Into and Legal
Adjustment Sought--A Negro Fugitive
Caught--New Regulations For
Street-Cars and Bicycles.

Winston. \. c.. Aug. 20.-(Special)-
The Winston-Salem meeting OF the WIN
ston-Salem members of the North caro-
lima Shippers Association was held IN
Winston yesterday afternoon. Presl-
don't Caesar Cone and General Manager
S+anard. of the association, were pre-
sent and made talks. The first named
smoke first. He said he had been inter
ested in North Carolina, in hnanclal
way. for more than two years and tnaC
one of the discoveries he made was that
the shippers of the State were at a great
disadvantage in the matter of freight
rates He went to the railroad men and
asked for concessions on certain lines,
hut was unable to get them. lie finally
found an official high up in the company
who told him no one else was kicking
ahout rates and he could see no reason
for making reduction because one man
asked for it. He then went to work to
get the cotton manufacturers of the
State interested and got half dozen OF
them to go before the Southern Traffic
Mana gers Convention at Old Point, Va,
a wear ago, and while they were given an
audience the managers told them no one
but cotton men were complaining about
went TO work to organize all the ship
pers of this State into an ASSOCIATION
He said it was his belief that North Car
DINA pays a higher average rate, all
things considered. than any other State
in the union. and that it was TO ascer-
tain the exact facts that an expert raul
road man, in the person of Manager
Stanard, was employed to make lnves-
LEGATIONS upon which the association could
base request for relief. Manager Stan
ard quoted freight rates to amy firm in
the North on tobacco and other goods
showing that North Carolina was not
being treated fairly. He said he pro-
posed to take the matter before the Inter
State Commerce Commission at Wash
ington and ask that the matter be in
vestigated and acted upon. He said he
expected the railroads to fight the assO-
citation in it's efforts to get fair rates.
President Cone requested the Winston
Salem members of the association to no.
tify manager Stanard when they wished
TO have rate matters looked after. Said
he was employed for that purpose; that
he had already settled some claims that
had been hanging fire for a long ZINE
and had some rates adjusted to the ad-
vantage of shippers.
The negro who shot and killed a white
brakeman on the G.. f. and Y. V. road.
some time ago, between Greensboro and
Fayetteville, has been caught. He was
sitting by the side of the track when
a train hit him, injuring him some
what. When told he would be taken to
Fayetteville he begged not to be taken
there. But he was carried there when
his identity was established. At the
time it was not known he was the same
man. He will recover in time to be hung.
Ordinances regarding street cars and
bicycle riders have just been passed by
the Salem commissioners. They are in
substance that the speed of the cars
in Salem shall not exceed eight miles an
hour, with $40 penalty for violation.
That signals shall be given at street
crossings, with SO penalty; that ma
chinery shall be kept in condition so as
not to make unnecessary noise and be-
come a nuisance: penalty, S15; that par
ties riding bicycles on the side or in the
rear of car shall not catch hold or impel
themselves while cars are in motion;
penalty S..
Mr.. Samuel Fogie, one of the county's
oldest citizens, died yesterday afternoon
at his home near Freidland. The de-
ceased was IS years old in January.
The funeral services were conducted
from the Home Moravian church at 10
o'clock this morning.