Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-11
SATURDAY.. MARCH il. 1885,
DISSEMINATING SCHEDULES.

Richmond is a victim of time tables-of
schedules that discriminate against our
drummers and our business houses and
our morning newspapers.
We attribute this not TO design upon
the part Of railway officials, but to too
much yielding on their part to connecting
lines. But he the latter as it may, il is
condition, not theory. which con-
fronts us.
Excepting one train reaching COM
paratively small territory. the outgoing
morning trains carrying mails and pas
senge-s are kept here until passengers
and mails come in from Washington and
beyond. Thus our commercial travellers
are delayed. Thus our newspapers are
prevented from being the pioneers in
trade they should be. Thus the largest
city in Virginia--a State that is unsur-
passed in liberal dealing with railway
corporations-is Disseminated against.
Thus our farmers and country merchants
are forced TO wait till late in the day
for market quotations, letters. and news
papers from Richmond, wilhelm some
instances-those from 'ho North are
furnished them at an early hour!
Thus the thoughts Of our people
are more than ever turned towards
northern business communities. rather
than towards our own Virginia cities
The situation Is summed up in the fol-
lowing paragraphs, which we republish
from our issue of yesterday:
l. On the Fredericksburg road the first
mail leaving Richmond Saving and ex-
cepting the $50 train. which is too early
for the morning papers, starts at S45.
This train reaches Washington too late
for the noon delivery of It's mail by the
letter-carrers, and the consequence is
our papers are not delivered until late in
the afternoon-so late. indeed. that news
dealers do not care to handle them.
Members OF Congress from Virginia, en-
ployees from this State in the various de-
partments, and those Of our people who
may be visiting the national capital, find
papers there from several times the dis
lance that Richmond is from Washington
before ours make an appearance But, on
the other hand. it Is CONSIDERABLY pro
vided that the northern papers shall
reach Richmond by $40 a. M!
We have 20 complain further against
The schedules Of the Fredericksburg road,
notably at boswell Penola, and Milford,
that the Richmond mail arrives just too
late 10 be taken into the country on the
star routes. Thus the circulation OF north
ern papers. and the advancement of
northern business, is pushed not only in
our cities. but into the heart Of rural
Virginia itself AT Penola the Richmond
mail arrives just seven minutes after the
mail-carrier has left with the northern
mali III nus bstSf NhuS iNiNAi''Ht - ''"''
Disseminated against in favor of her
northern business competitors.
Nothing could Illustrate the injustice
OF this schedule better than the mere
statement of the fact that northern
papers are sold at Boutwell,. Ruther
Glen. Penoia, Milford. Guineas. Summit.
Fredericksburg. Brooke. Wide Wafer,
Potomac. Neabosco. Woodbridge, and
sprlngman before the train with Rich
mond papers on board leaves here!
2 The Chesapeake and Ohio roads first
morning mail out OF Richmond is at 1920
daily. except Sundays. Here we
are confronted by New York. Baltimore
and Washington papers going out to the
country coincidently with the morning
papers OF this cityl On Sunday no mail
train leaves Richmond on this road until
.I5 T.. NJ. Thus our stanton sub
scribers. for instance. are furnished with
the northern papers on Sunday, while the
Richmond papers do not reach them until
late at night. by this schedule all
places on the southern railroad between
''"rd"nsville and Washington are served,