The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-26
To CONNECT RALEIGH
WITH WASH|NGTO ON
Active Efforts viii be Made
to Build the Proposed
Railroad.
HAS A LIBERAL CHARTER
Cities. Towns and Townships May Vote
Subscription to Second Mort
gage Bonds.
HAS A LIBERAL CHARTER
SOME WAYS INDEPENDENT LINE WILL AID
interview With Philosophical Citizen Who
Points Out the Many Benefits That
Would be Derived from Build
ing The Railroad.

on to Washington! That is now the
watchword. On to Washington via VIII
son and Greenville! The charter has been
granted TO the Raleigh and Eastern
North Carolina Railroad and it is very
liberal one.
was talking last night with leading
. citizen of Raleigh about the outlook for
the new road. its benefits, etc, and he
said:
Now that the General Assembly of
North Carolina has granted very liper-
al charter u the Raleigh and Eastern
North Carolina Railroad, through lis III
corporators, Cap.. j. } Thomas presi-
dent of the Commercial and Farmers
Bank; C. e Barbee, cotton factor and
broker and Capt. ]. NJ Turner. lately
Superintendent of the Seaboard All ] inc
and man OF large IN efficient railroad
experience. looking over this charter
very carefully and he natural route of
this road there is no good reason why
this very important and feasible line
should not be built and at once, putting
Wilson, Raleigh and Durham, eensboro
and other middle sections of our State
nearer to tide water by about 100 miles
than by any other existing line now in
operation.
ut would appear to the writer that no
better time than the present could pos
sibly be, for all the people along this
proposed line to get together and put
their shoulders to the wheel, give this
Independent line all the assistance pos
sble and in their power. / say independ-
ent line because the charter states plain
ly that so long as the subscribers to the
second mortgage bonds of the railroad
company are held by the counties. cities
or towns this road cannot be sold, leased
or merged with any other corporation,
but must be run on separate and dis
tinct line. Would not this to some extent
eliminate the freight determinations as
alleged by the various commercial bodies
50 far as Raleigh, Wilson and other
points along it's line are concerned, as
against several of the Virginia cities. be
ing granted by the trunk lines, the South
Atlantic port rates from all the western
and middle States? Certainly this could
be effected by the Inter State Commerce
Commission putting Washington or Bel
maven OH 4 parity Win NOfIOlk, Lynch
burg Roanoke, Va. Charleston, S. c.,
Savannah. Ga, and other coastwise and
interior cities, the mileage averaging
well for the North Carolina tidewater
pofAts as against others mentioned above.
This will give our State with it's 200 miles
of Atlantic ocean outlet at least one dis
trbuting or gateway point in its Dor
ders which does not seem to be unreas-
enable or unjust for the trunk transpor-
tation lines of our State to allow At the
same time each one of them has a much
larger track mileage in this than any
other States they traverse, and our citi-
Zens have to pay tribute to the Vir-
ginia cities, while it would not materially
return haul from Washington or Bel
haven would be shorter into the interior
fer a distance of about 125 miles than
frcm Norfolk. and naturally a CORE
spending less rate.
'Referring to letter from Rocky Mount
in Sundays paper, taking a passenger
two days and eight hours to go from
Fairfield to Raleigh. distance of about
210 miles. at an expense of at least seven
dollars fare, two and a half days board
five dollars, time two dollars per day
five dollars, making seventeen dollars.
The proposed line would be about 40
miles to the center of Hyde county. fare
about five dollars and not over six hours