The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-05
TO MEET MR.. BARR
Raleigh Committee is 10
Portsmouth.
The Whole Business Was Tempest in {
Teapot is What Mr.. Barr Terms the
Raleigh Matter.

This morning at 1920 the committee
representing the business interests OF
Raleigh left for Portsmouth to confer
with General Manager Barr of the Sea-
board Air Line. which conference takes
place this morning.
On this committee the representatives
of the Chamber of Commerce are Messrs.
Josephus Daniels, president; c. G. Lat
ia, T. w. Dobbin, F. o. Moring and w
w Vass, while from the Merchants AS
ISOLATION the committee is Messrs. j. b.
Hill president; Jesse A. Jones and ].
S. Wynne.
The committee, in conference with Mr.
Barr as to the purposes of the Seaboard
with regard to Raleigh, will call his at
tention to the promises made by Presi.
dent John Shelton Williams on the oc-
casion of the banquet given in Raleigh
at the opening of the consolidated Sea-
board system, when he said that the
shops of the line would be rebuilt here.
They will endeavor to convince MI.
Barr that it is to the financial interest
OF the Seaboard that tais pc dcra ar,i
that the rebuilding be on the same scale
that was in Raleigh before the admins
tration of President Hoffman, when the
work of dismantling began. They will
urge that Raleigh be regarded as the
central point of the North Carolina di-
vision of the road, and that in it the
Seaboard place shops BETTING it's posi-
ton and the support it gives the road.
The committee will spend the day in
Portsmouth and will return to Raleigh
at o'clock tomorrow morning.
In this connection the remarks of Mr..
Barr to a Virginian-Pilot reporter in
Norfolk on Monday will be read with in
terest Mr.. Barr had just returned from
Georgia and the article reads as follows:
ITO Virginian- Pilot reporter, who
saw him as he left the train, he talked
at some length about the situation at
Raleigh growing out of what the Raj
eigh people considered discrimination
against their town in extending the
passenger division through to Hamlet.
Mr.. Barr said the agitation was due to
Misrepresentation of the facts.
1--WE changed the end of the division
from Raleigh to Hamlet because we
We're not getting out of our engines the
mileage they were capable of making.
The extension applies to passenger
trains only and we never contemplated
any extension of the runs the freight
trains are now making to Raleigh. Not
more than eight people at the outside,
the engineers and firemen of two pas
sen, trains, would have to remove
their homes from Raleigh. The whole
business was tempest In a teapot"
Mr.. Barr said the matter had been
satisfactorily adjusted and that pas
senger engines would continue to run
through to Hamlet according to the
new plan of operation.
When asked about Seaboard removal,
Mr.. Barr said he was not in a position
to talk. However, he made one remark
which may throw some light on a
situation upon which nothing has been
shed heretofore, but unlimited conjec-
ture. The statement had been made
that considerable unrest exists in the
clerical departments, because of the
persistent silence as to whether the
general offices will remain in Ports
mouth or be removed to Richmond.
81 don't know said Mr.. Barr as he
started towards his office.