The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-25
ABBOTT DECIDES
NOT To CONTEST
He Prefers Vandemere to
Raleigh.
QACcAcC DATE lMCREACE0
BAGGAGE RATE INCREASED
THE COMMISSION WILL MAKE
INVESTIGATION.
COMMISSION OFFICE TO BE ENLARGED
crossing Commission" Makes Report hfer
Long aad Arduous Toll. Survey Of
The Road from Marion 10
I nm, hor{on
lumberton.

DIR. Abbott has about decided TO aban-
den his purpose to contest the right of
Mr.. Beddingfield to the office of Rail
road Commissioner.
That is to say he will not contest I'M
less the decision of the Supreme Court
in the Day case is such as to make 1t
pretty certain that he will win the con-
test. DIR. Abbott is not the sort Of man
to chase rainbows or but his brain o1ll
against wall that he cannot scale.
He is now at his home in Nandemere
Pamlico county, and will hardly come
to Raleigh again on Railroad Commits
SIGN business He writes that he has
about decided to prefer Vandemere TO
Raleigh. Mr.. Beddingfeld will be sworn
in ON April 9th.
Contrast this action ON the part, of DIR.
Abbott with that of GRAND Gideon
Otho Wilson and his resignation razzle-
dazzle.
The Railroad Commission-soon to be
the Corporation COMMISSIONERS out
grown its present quarters. To get into
largjr ones it may take its choice of
two methods:
Move to the second floor of the Agri-
cultural Building
Or tear out the partitions in its present
rooms and thus make two large
instead of the four small ones.
Either of these changes will give all
the room needed: and the iast-named
si,,l. bo CHI INhiln 10
space given by tearing out the partitions
is not SO ample as that afforded ON the
second floor. it is all that is needed, and
it does not make it necessary TO move.
And besides il has the advantage OF
being on the first floor.
The special commissioners who have
been toiling so long and arduously over
the crossing contest between the Raleigh
and Cape Fear Railway Company and
the Cape Fear and Northern Railway
Company made the following report 10
clerk of the court yesterday:
I'VE. the undersigned commissioners.
appointed by the clerk of the Superior
court of Wake county TO assess the CON-
pensation to be paid by plaintiff to de-
PENDANT for crossing defendant ) right
of-way and track at the point described
In the position herein, which is proposed
to be condemned for use of the Raleigh
and Cape Fear Railway Company re-
So otfully report: That we met pursu-
ant the notice to rs from the clerk of
said Superior court of Wake county of
the 18th day of March, 1899, ut 8 O'Clock
a. M, and were duly sworn by said w.
NJ. Russ, clerk of the Superior Court in
accordance with law. After being so
sworn in pursuance of the notice afore-
said and the order herein we went on
the 18th day of March, 1899. upon the
premises described in the petition here
in and viewed the same; and after hear
ing the allegations and evidence offered
by plaintiff and defendant and consider
ing the matter, we ascertain and de-
termine the compensation to he paid by
The plaintiff to the defendant for cross
ing the DEFENDANTS rright-of-way and
track to be 5000. the defendant to fur
nsh at its own expense the material and
to put in at its own expense the necfs-
sary crossing. As to the future main
tenance of the crossing we make no
finding considering that TO be matter
of law not submitted TO us"
The commissioners were Il. G. Dunn.
j. ID. People and j. ID. Allen.
The railroads have announced a cent a
mile rate to the Confederate reunion at
Charleston. s. c., May 10th, but tn "
are net exactly living mp to the contract
Certainly so far as Raleigh is concerned
they are Judging 10 the extent of about
S1.35. The distance from here TO Char
lesion is exactly 261 miles. To Charlas-
ton and back lis sd miles; at / cent a
mile this would be S5.22. Yet the agent
instructions is to charge $3.50. Why
this. Mr.. Turk. after announcing ccnr
a mile rate-and giving it, too. at other
places:
The first matter touching railroads
that will come before the new Corpo-
ration Commission will be the new rate
en- excess baggage.
On March 18th the Southern Railway,
Seaboard Airline and Atlantic Coast
Line increased their rate on excess bag
gage as follows:
Books of face value so, formerly sold
at SO, advanced to $50.
Books Of face value $40. formerly
sold at 81. sale Withdrawn.
for SO.
This increase in rate was put into
effect by the roads without saying any
thing to the Commission. There are
those who claim that the increase was
made out of spite toward the drummers
for the part they took in securing the
passage of the Jim Crow Car Bill
However this may be the Commission
has never acquiesced in the rate and il
will investigate the matter at its first
meeting.
"A full set of reports of the Inter
Continental Railway Commission was
received yesterday by the North Carolina
Railroad Commission. 1t is a. very val
liable publication containing many inn
portant maps and handsome cngravings
The route for the Carolina and North,
ern Railway is now being surveyed
civil engineers have been at work on il
for two weeks. But the work has been