The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-01-27
SECOND EXCEPTION.

| p. IN.
| SECOND EXCEPTION.
To the suggestion of the Commission
that this connection can be accomplished
BY running an extra or additional train
| from Rocky Mount to Selma between the
hours of 1890 p. m. and 2:25 p. m.
| To run this train would require an en-
CINE, baggage car, and two coaches. and
train crew OF six men; and this aadi
| tional cost and expense to the company
would be at least the sum OF $65, and
there would be no possibility OF any in
creased revenue to the company from the
operation OF this train, but the said sum
ot$65 day would be total loss, amount
ing to an annual loss to the company OF
about $23, 725. The regular tare from
Rocky Mount to Selma is 135 for first
class passengers and S1.15 for second class
passengers. Such an additional train. If
required to be run, would precede the
regular train of this company, to-wit:
No. SO, by only half an hour, and return
!, ing to Rocky Mount it would follow a
| regular train of this company dong local
| work. No. 40, at very short interval
| II would carry no passengers either way
other than such as would travel an equal
distance on other trains of this company
| if this additional train were not run. The
company has had compiled from the rec
ords of the Auditors Department state
ment of the number of passengers trans
ported over its line from the Eastern
part of the State from Southern Railway
points via Selma on train No. 80, for the
six months of April May, June, July,
August and September, 1903, which shows
a daily average of II $40 passengers; Tor
the three months OF October, November.
and December, 1903, on train No. 5S,
daily average of 45-1GO passengers; and
OF. train No. 81, for the same three
months, daily average of $40 passen-
gers per day; copies OF which said state
ments are hereto annexed and marked EX-
hibit A, and are to be taken as part
of these exceptions. A statemnt was also
ohtaind by it from all of its conductors
III charge of the train mentioned above,
which is embodied in Exhibit hereto
annexed, which is to be taken as part
o. the exceptions. The company there
/ fore excerpts to the order OF the Com
/ mission in so far as it is to be construed
as requiring it TO run an additional tram
from Rocky Mount to Selma between the
hours above named, because 10 do so
4 would be requiring the company to per-
! form services without compensation to 1T
for the same, and thereby taking its
property without due process OF law, ami
! in violation of the constitution OF this
State, and in violation of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the
/ United States.
THIRD EXCEPTION.
The company excerpts to the order OF
! the Commission upon the ground that
the Commission has not power or au-
! thority ,Rder the law of North Carolina
to compel or require this company to put
OH and operate an extra or additional
| train between Rocky Mount and Selma.
FOURTH EXCEPTION.
| The company excerpts to the order OF
| the Commission upon the ground that it
| it is not practicable for the company to
make the said connection at Selma, Is
required by the order of the Commission
without putting ON an extra or additional
| train to do so. and this the company
contends the Commission has not the
power to require it to do.
FIFTH EXCEPTION.
That the order OF the Commission re-
quiring this company to make the con-
al
cause this company is already affording
ample and sufficient accommodation for
passengers from the East to Selma and
points on the Southern Railway, and it
does this in the following ways:
The train from Rocky Mount, south
bound, in the carly morning, makes
close connection at Goldsboro at $50
O'Clock with the Southern for Raleigh and
| all points West.
| The trains from Norfolk and Richmond
make close connection OF Goldsboro AMI
Selma with the night train on the South
err for Raleigh and all points West.
| The train from Weldon to Kinsten
makes close connection at klnston with
the Atlantic and North Carolina train Tor
Goldsboro, which train in turn makes
close connection with the Southern at
Goldsboro at $40 p. N. for Raleigh and
all points West
The train No. 80, from Washington to
jacksonville is due at Selma at 2:39 p.
M, and the accommodation train. NO. lH3,
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