The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-14

being a very slow schedule. The schedule
on this train seems to be about fifteen
miles an hour.
80 Train No. 80 which IS due at Selma
at $50 connects with accommodation train
No. 1888 On the Southern Railway at Selma,
which is scheduled to leave Selma for the
West at 325 p. m. This latter ram is d
locs., freight train with caboose attached
and not adapted to doing passenger ser
vice.
"a. One other train relied on Is no lG2,
Atlantic Coast Line, which leaves Colds
boro for Norfolk at 1870 4. Ii. and makes
clos connection at Hobgood with NO. %,
the Atlantic Coast Lines Train IRON KIN
stCn to Weldon, ana this tram, no. %,
leaves Kinston as stated above AZ f:60 q.
H., and arrives at Weldon at l1'1O q. n,
and connects at Weldon with the seapo2fJ
Air Line for Raleigh ana Durham ana
points west OF DurhaIll This anofds GER
tain facilities FOR reaching R2lel6h ana
Durham; and if the Seaboard AR Liae
train from Portsmouth 10 Atlanta arrives
al Henderson on schedule time, and il the
Scatoard Air Lines train trCm Hendcr-
son to Durham arrives at Durham oil
schedule time 1t would also AFFORD Iacih-
tics Tor reaching all points or the Scute-
orn Railway west OF Durham. the OBJ
lection to this route is that it Is further
floin the greater portion Of the Atlantic
Coast Line territory, and, therefore the
expense is greater and the time longer
ard there is more o. less uncertainty or
the connection at Durham. 1t IS admitted
that the usual route OF travel from this
territory was by South Rocky Mount ana
Selma. 1t is practicable to extend the
run OF the train on Plymouth Branch 30
Selma. The distance from Plymouth TO
South Rocky Mount is GS miles, and from
South Rocky MoTnt to Selma is ~ miles.
This train arrives at South Rocky Mount
ut 1926 4. m. and lies over there until
1913 p. IT. There is no force in the sug
g=stlon that if this train instead of loaT-
ing South Rocky Mount for Plymouth
at 2;35, as the schedule now is, II would
leave at 4:20 p. IL. and that thereby tH2
connection which is row made by means
CT this branch with the weldon and Kin
ston branch at Pa:mele, which in turn
connects with the Atlantic and North
Carolina at KinstOn, for the reason that
the arriving time OF the weldon anG
Kinston branch at Kinston is G:+5, and the
leaving time of the Atlantic and Nort;l
Carolina at Klnston for Gcldsboro is 1871
There is, therefore, margin OF IS min
Utes between the arriving time OF the
Atlantic Coast Line and leaving time OF
the Atlantic and North Carolina at Kin
ston.
1T is also practicable to extend the run
OF the train on the Nashville branch from
South Rocky Mount to Selma. The dis
lance from Spring Hope TO Rocky Mount
is 20 miles, and this train arrives al South
Rocky Mount at 1910 p. m. and lies
ever there until p. m, when t returns
10 Spring Hope. 1t is claimed by the
Coast Line Company that the en-
CINE and crew on this train, except the
bagga ge-master, are engaged in switching
al, the time that they are at South Rocky
Mount.
There is within the territory served
by these branch lines approximately 400,
600 inhabitants. (The report OF the a. c.
l.. Co. to this Commission for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1903, shows net
earnings from operations in North Caro-
lima amounting to $1,943 1868 and that
there was a surplus OF $1,293 ,9S9.54 after
paying interest on its debts and per
cent dividends on the stock, both com
mon and preferred from the net earnings
of the company's entire line) On
mileage basis that will SHOW that there