The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-07-25
BETTER RAILWAY SERVICE.
SOUTH CAROLINA TRAFFIC ASSO
CATION MAPS OUT GOOD
WORK.
Southern Railway and Atlantic Coast
Line Officially Requested to I'M
prove Service by Putting on Several
Additional Passenger Trains for Lo-
cal Business.


Additional Passenger Trains for Lo-
cal Business.
Columbia, July 22.-An important
meeting of the recently organized
South Carolina Traffic Association was
held here today. If the recommended
ton of the special committee is car
ried into effect the local railway
schedules will be practically revolu-
tionized by the addition of new pas
senger trains for the accommodation
Of local business
The Southern Railway is requested
to make radical changes in the train
service between the low and upcoun-
try. Three new trains are. called for
and the service between Charleston,
Columbia, spartanburg, Greenville,
Charlotte and Augusta would be
greatly improved.
The Atlatic Coast Line has been re-
quested, and has practically agreed to
put on a new train between Wades-
boro and Florepce, leaving Wadesboro
about $50 a. M, and connecting at
Florence with the trains for Columbia
and Charleston. Returning the train
! would leave Florence at $40 and ar
rive at Wadeboro about II p. M, con-
| Meeting there with the Seaboard train.
The chief interest in the meeting to-
| day centered in the address Of the eX-
ecutive committee, composed of the
| president, Mr.. Lewis w. Parker, and
of Mayor Rhett, Of Charleston, and
DR.. E. H. Cain, of this city.
The address is "to the citizens OF
the State of South Carolina, boards of
trade, chambers Of commerce and
other similar organizations within
such State, municipal .and other cor
| porations interested in the subject CT
| railroad traffic within the State OF
South Carolina" and its cardinal SEN
timent is local trains for local travel,
| better schedules surer schedules a-3
| quicker freight delivery. The paper
is particularly strong one. The ad-
dress in full follows:
At meeting in Greenville on May
RI
from various boards of trade and com
| munitiss interested in the subject OF
| railroad traffic in South Carolina, an
| organization known as the Traffic AS
sociation of South Carolina was form
led, and officers were elected, as indi-
Gated in the heading Of this articles.
This meeting was representative OF
many interests and many communities
who were vitally interested in the sub
ject Of traffic, and who sorely felt the
| conditions under which we are now
suffering in this State.
We can justly claim that in the past
few years this State has greatly IN
| creased in prosperity and with this in
| crease has been the consequent in
crease in railroad traffic, both passen-
ger and freight According to the ad-
| missions Of officers Of the railroads,
this increase is equivalent in many IN
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the past five years. Notwithstanding
this. during such time the railroads
have done practically nothing to IN
crease facilities of travel, but on the
contrary. have, in many instances, al
lowed their rolling stock and roadoed
| to deteriorate and in some instances
| to become positively dangerous TO
travel; they have been apparently
Indifferent about compliance with the
laws of this State and to the rules OF
the railroad commission, relating TO
the length of time to be consumed IN
the TRANSPORTATION of freight; they
have been equally as Indifferent 10
compliance with their own schedules,
and have within recent years done lit
tie to increase the facilities for travel
which are now justified by the in
creased travel Apparently no inter-
est is fell in and no attention is given
to local travel and traffic, which is to
a great degree the remunerative part
of the traffic of the roads, and IN
which the increase during the past
few years has been probably greatest.
It would seem now that it becomes
absolutely necessary for the citizens OF
the state to unite in order to make
demands upon the roads, Which While
reasonable are necessary to the IN
terests of the people Of the State, and
we must put ourselves in position to
enforce the demands. For this pur-
pose the organization of the Irafhc
Association Of South Carolina has