The gold leaf., 1900-03-08
KNOWS A GOOD THING.
GOLDSBORO WANTS CONNECTION
WITH SEABOARD AIR LINE.

GOLDSBORO WANTS CONNECTION
WITH SEABOARD AIR LINE.
Talk About Building a Road to Tap
the Seaboard at Henderson - A
Writer in the Headlight Gives Some
Reasons Why Such a Consumma-
tion Would be Good Thing for
That Progressive Town - Prompt
Action Urged, &c.
We have heretofore referred to the
fact that the people Of Goldsboro are
agitating the question of railroad
from there to Henderson or some
other point which will give them con-
nectiOn with the Seaboard Air Line.
In the Goldsborc Heddtight of recent
issue we find in the following commu-
nication on the subject which is not
without local Interest,":
Tn. Seaboard Air Line is operating
over its own rails double daily trains
from Atlanta to Norfolk, and by a traffic
arrangement from Weldon to Washing
ton City 1t is now completing its own
line from Ridgeway, y. C., to Richmond,
Va. and by the 1st Of March will run
over its own rails as far aS Richmond;
and there is u bill now pending i'll the
tirg Legislature, reported favorabll
by the commit tee to whom 1t wHS reirr
red, granting ii charter to the Richmond
| and Washington Railroad Company.
This is the Sraboard Air Line They
have acquired control of the Alabama 4
Georgia Railroad-from Savannah, Ga,
=. In, .,l, fpnft
| Columbus, Ga, to Albany, Ga.
They have secured control of the great
Florida Central & Peninsula Railroad
from Columbia, :, e.. to Jacksonville and
| Tampa, Fla. and from Fernandina to
| River junction., Fla, where traffic
rauyenent puts thrn into New Orleans
| from East to West across The Northern
| boundary of that State, while their
| through cars 20 South from Atlanta to
| the same city.
| This has all been acquired since Mr..
John SkeltOn Williams BECAME president
| OF the mother rond-the SeabOard and
| Roannke-and there j. n charter now be-
| ing asked for in TrnneSsee that will give
| them an entry into that State, and over
| lures are being made for depotS and fran-
| chise on the streets of Knoxville and
| Chattanooga, Tenn. Only last week they
secured from the city of Augusta, Ga.
such n franchise and are surveying and
| tixinga route to that city With all these
things pointing to the early completion
| of the missing links, it will not be many
| months, If now unseen obstacles should
not arise, till we will see in complete
systematic operation one of the largest
trade arteries yet completed, that will
pulsate the entire South.
Commencing at the Nations Capital
and then to Raleigh, passing Richmond
Wilmington on the East to Charlotte on
the West, passing by Monroe, n. c. To
| Atlanta, Ga =, from Monroe, n C., en route
South it passes the towns of Chester,
| Greenwood and Abbeville, :. C., Elber-
ton and Athens, Ga; from Hamlet to
| Cheraw and Columbia, s. e.: thence to
the state of Florida; from Savannah,
Ga, to Montgomery, Ala, taking in all
important towns in middle Georgia to
| the centr" of Alabama aud on the same
traffic arrangements with the most alert
| of its competitors into New Orleans-the
Crescent City and "Queen OF the Gulf
and the gateway of the South American
trade to the United States.
| Now to the point! What is GoldsbOrO
going to do about it? We are clsmoring
for trade, begging for help from outside
capital to come and utilize our resources,
but what of all earnest of our pleadIngs?
Have we freight rate that will guarantee
capitalists that they will not be perpet-
ually at the mercy of the very people that
have but recently through the Georgia
Legislature and in the Federal Court sit
ting in Georgia and Virginia endeavored
to Illustrate the plans OF consolidation
l . h.. II, h,,xy
family tried to outline, that will be
known as the Seaboard Air Line? Have
these people granted to Goldsboro any
favors? know that wherever the Sea
board Air Line reaches town of half the
Importance that GOldshOrO possesses the
freight rate is twenty per cent. less than
the same rate is on same class OF goods
to GoldsbOro from Eastern points. Can
the 4. 4 y. C.. r. r. be induced to build to
| Hamlet, y C.? or il not, won't GOldsbOrO
build from GOldsbOrO to some point on
the Seaboard Air Line?-say Henderson,
NC.
Now is the time to place our town on O
par with others in the way OF freight
rates. Let mass meeting OF its citizens
be held with this end in view, and ask
| MIR, Williams what Overtures are neces-
sary to induce the SeaboarJ Air Line to
come Southeast from their line, and to
GoIdsboro; thence by a traffic arrange
ment to the seashOre and tide-water sec
ton Of North Carolina-North of Will
mington, to which point they already
reach by the old Carolina Central rail-
road. Now is the time the proper over
lures will bring them and their immigra-
ton department, through Mr.. John 7.
Patrick, which is doing more to build up
the country tributary to its area than
any other agency. This is seen in our
own State in and around Southern Pines.
People are being brought in that have
means and that farm for profit.
The time is now propitious for the
greatest impetus that GoldsbOrO has ever
enjoyed and that the county of Wayne
has ever had offered to bring within our
midst a line OF railroad that has for its
object the upbuilding of farms and cities,
and that will give us perpetual protec-
ton from eXorbitant freight rates, and
a broad policy for our permanent good
Don't wait but embrace the opportunity
and factories and internal improvements
will come with the guarantee that they
are not to be forever handicapped by
ruinous freight rates. What say the peO
pler Concert of actor is all that is neces
sary.
Observation-Disclosures,
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