The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-03

tai Trust Company of Baltimore, and
the first mayor of the city of Warleld;
n. Winslow Williams, lawyer; George
Maccubbin broker; w. T. Tongue and
A. L. Gorter, real estate; George K.
McGaw, merchant; James Y. Bratton, of
the Baltimore American: F.. d. MADEIRA,
of the Associated Press N. f. Foard and
0. Harry Smith, of the Baltimore Her
aid; H, A. Darby. of the Baltimore News;
Thornton Rollins, coffee importer; H. c.
5. A. L.-THR&E
Brown, banker; F. r. Keiser, capitalist
j. W. Stewart, lawyer; c. ID. Fenhagen,
treasurer of the International Trust Com
pany, of Baltimore; II. R. Duval former
president of the Florida Central and Pen
insular Railway; G. Schumacher and j. S.
Farlee, New York bankers; Col. B. Came
ron and l.. A. Carr, of North Carolina,
directors of the S A. L.. A. 5. Elliott,
banker Of Wilmington, Del; Robert M.
Larner, of the Charleston News and Cou-
rier; Frank Weldon, of the Atlanta Con-
stitution; C. Chauncey, of Philadelphia;
]. V. :, -on, president of the Augusta
Southern; H. T. Ellyson, former president
of the S. A. L.; T. C. Williams, DR.. G. B.
Johnston, w. r. Triggers, of the Richmond
Locomotive Works; Samuel r. Crowder,
-. L. ". y.
Buck, A. B. Williams, of Richmond; Cap
tain Baker, of Virginia; Frank C. Gill
reath, Atlanta Journal.
THE NEW THROUGH ROUTE.
The new route of consolidated lines
of the Seaboard is from Richmond to
Rdgeway. over 105 miles of new road.
Thence to Hamlet. from which point
to Columbia los miles of new road has.
Just been opened. The consolidation
and construction work has been ac-
complished in eighteen months. The
consolidated lines include the Sea-
board Air Line, embracing the Sea-
board and Roanoke, Raleigh and Gas
ton. Carolina Central, Carolina and
Northern. Florida Central and PENN
sular. including the Southbound. and
the Georgia and Alabama System,
docks, water fronts etc.
In pamphlet, Just issued. the Sea-
board Air Line Railway makes this
statement:
1.-The new system constitutes the short
est connection between Washington,
Richmond, Savannah, Jacksonville and
Tampa: reaches Norfolk, Atlanta, Mont
gomery and other cities connecting with
all Western trunk systems. Traffic ar
rangements with the Louisville and Nash
Vile and Mobile and Ohio, at various
points, enable the SeabOard Air Line Sys
ten TO interchange traffic with points on
the Mississippi river and lakes. From
Richmond TO Washington the Seaboard
Air Line trains are handled over the
Richmond. Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railway, and the Pennsylvania Railroad,
on precisely the same terms as the trains
of the Atlantic Coast Line. and arrange
ments have been completed with the
Pennsylvania Railroad System by which
the Seaboard Air Line solid trains are
run to New York on precisely the same
, terms as those on which the trains of
the Southern Railway, the Atlantic Coast
Line and the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
way are now operated"
MEANING TO THE SOUTH.
The meaning to. and effect upon,
the South, of this coming of the
! Greater Seaboard system cannot be
better set forth tLan in the follow
ing from the Jacksonville, (Fla..)
Times-U nion
The consolidation of many lines of
. road into one grand system is an item
| of great significance to the people along
the route. however wen we Inlay nave
been served and befriended in the past.
the coming of the new impetus should
bind us in closer bonds to our sister
States and cities, should help to bring
nearer the industrial parts of the great
whole. and must aid us in the tasks OF
the future and the development that
must await all under the protecting shad-
ow Of our flag.
at is much that one line under one
management shall hereafter connect
Tampa and Jacksonville with Richmond
it is more that the Southern shipper Will
hereafter find a voice potential to state
his wrongs of omission or commission TO
the great Northern systems which have
heretofore ignored the complaints of the
smaller roads among us because each Of
these could speak only with the still,
small voice of reason and right, when
pleading for justice begging consil r
alton.
"No longer shall we be at the mercy
of foreign stockholders, who demand the
interest and maintain the charges when
local managers insist on doing all that is
possible in a time of stress as meas
ure of policy as we'll as kindness to a
struggling ommunity-henceforth the in
terests of the road and of the cOmmuni-
ties it serves will be one, and therefore
they must work together-the strong can
be wise and all be the better for it, or
all win and lose together