The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-03-01

I was made on the bulletin board, and
parties inquiring Of the operator as
to when the train would arrive got
very little or no satisfaction from
him.
The Commissioners do not wish to
| take formal action in this matter. if
| it can be avoided, therefore this letter
is intended to call your attention again
to this rule, which was made effective
February LIST. and to insist that unless
| the rule is obeyed at all open tele-
graph stations, that they will make an
example of the very first violation of
it that is reported to them.
You will note that the rule requires
that you print the rule in large type,
and that it shall be posted at top of
your bulletin board at all open tele-
graph stations. This has not been
done so far.
You will please give this matter your
immediate attention, and oblige,
Yours very truly,
r. C. DUNN,
Secretary.
February "a, 1905.
Mr. f. K. Hugar, Portsmouth, Va.
Dear Sir:-I am directed by the
Commission to call your attention to
the meeting held in the Office of the
Railroad Commission at Tallahassee.
Florida, January %, at which time
rule No 6 of the rules governing the
transportation of passengers was
amended by changing the time that
the arrival of delayed trains has to be
posted on the bulletin boards, which
amended rule reads as follows:
IS. 1t shall be the duty of any rail
road operating in the state of Florida
to keep a bulletin board of sufficient
size at every open telegraph station
along its line where such train is
scheduled to stop, in which shall be
plainly posted the schedule time of ar
rival of all its passenger trains; and
when any passenger train on any sucn
railroad shall be behind the schedule
time more than thirty minutes, it shall
be the duty of said railroad to prompt
ly bulletin and Keep posted at every
such open telegraph station along it's
line in the direction which said train
is going, the time such train is be-
hind the schedule time
Such notice of late trains shall be
bulletined not less than half an hour
before the schedule time of arrival of
said train. but passengers acting up
on this information will do so at their
own risk.
"A copy of this rule. printed in large
type. shall be posted at top of bulletin
The Commission desire that | saw
to you that this rule means exactlyi
what it says, and unless your com
pany gives such instructions to YOUR
agents as to require its obedience. the
Commission will cite your company
to show cause why it should not be
fined for violation of this rule. tneI
first time such failure is reported to |
them.
Your company has not been obey
ing this rule, nor was it obeying the
old rule, which required the posting
of delayed trains when an hour late
The Commission is convinced of this.
because OF the general complaint of /
the failure to bulletin trains, and also
from personal observation.
am directed to cite that on the IA
day of February, Commissioners
Browne and Burr left Tallahassee for.
Jacksonville on your train No. rs.
When they arrived at the depot at
Tallahassee there was nothing posted
on the bulletin board. and when the
time for train No. 76 to leave had ar
rived, 1853 p. m, they found, upon n
quiry, that train No. rs was one hour
and fifteen minutes late, and yet il
had not been bulletined.
The Commission do not wish to
take formal action in this matter. is
it can be avoided, therefore this letter
is intended to call your attention again