The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-06-05
Il TIE SpITIIIRN EhIN " ZIG
GER THAN TIE STATE?

Las December the EeyeninS Times
Of Raleigh (Which was consolidate
with tho Raleigh Post. the southern
Railway organj and ~" subsidized
| New If Greensboro. 9TH. organ II
| Butler and thc carpet-haE Logislttur"
| bonG~1 mrae q public donan upen
the Southern Railway tn change fh"
schedule If its we=t-hound night tain
leaving Raleigh at 100 O'Clock. This
Taper knew then that the southern
Railway political POSSES a resolved
to- STRIKE the blow that hey thoughf
would Kill The News and Observer un-
! less there is authority vested in public
| officials to prevent the contamination
| Of this outrage. But public condem-
| nation was such and the purpose t.
injurc this paper 50 transparent that
| the Bosses paused before letting the
g%uillotine fall.
From December until June they
waited TO work out a plan TO do exc
| cution i'm a way that would seem
fairly plausible. At last they thought
| they had put the dose i'm a capsule 50
the public would swallow it without
knowing Of the vilcncss Of the dose,
and 50 exclusively through the Raleigh
Times (euccessor to the Post) they
announced that on the tenth Of June
they will make such change in tn"
schedule as they think viii give The
News and Observer a ola p~lexus.
They think tina they are bigger
than the state. and that the Corpora
ton Commission. established to pro
tcct the public against railroad dis
ordinations and the public be damn
cd' policy Will sit still and permit
them to break long maintained sched-
ulcs and connections and inconVeni-
cncc thousands of people who depend
upon the Commission for protection
from just such outraGeS. so long have
the southern Railway Bosses driven
rough shod over whatever was in heir
way, buying where they could not
hull-doze. and trying to kill where
they could not control. hat they have
grown so that they blatantly
resolve to deal what they think will
be a crushing blow at the Raleigh pa
per that refuses to do obeisance TO
them.
They put up their schedule for leaV-
ing selma and greatly Inconvenience
many travellers. The Corporation
Commission unwilling to permit the
permanent breaking of the schedule,
ordered the atlantic Coast Lin to
maintain their schedule or run a train
into Selma to connect with the even
-: r,;,, l., D,1o;rJ md Iiract,l tho
Southern to hold it's train fifteen min
uteS. The effect of that order a been
tina the Atlantic COaSt Line uns an
extra train from Rocky Mount to
Smithfield. and the courts forced them
to do it. though the jury found that
the train would be run at n loss. h
courts held that if the road net in
come gave a profit the act that one
train on the system might lose money,
could not excuse the maintaining of q
long established connection and prop
CT accommodation to the public. And
that was 4 righteous decision. for the
.Atlantic Coast Line makes big money
operating trains instead of trying to
manipulate politics and buy the state
senate.
The attempt of the Southern Rail
, way to put up the schedule leaving
Raleigh and destroying the connec-
ton With the Seaboard train from
points south Of Raleigh. is "A parallel
with the attempt to break the Selma
connection. The Corporation Com
mission said: mot so. You shall not
destroy that tWenty-year-old connec-
ton" and by reason of the Commits
sion's action the atlantic Coast Line is
running a special train.
The people living south of Raleigh
have for many years enjoyed the ad-
vantage Of reaching Raleigh over the
SeabOard shortly aftcn one O'Clock and
taking the $40 a. m. train on the
Southern to all points between Raleigh
and Greensboro. They have much
business with Durham and the cotton
mills of Alamance county. They can
write a letter now after supper and it
will reach Durham or Burlington OF
Greensboro at the next
morning. That connection is the only
close connection between towns on the
SeabOard Air Line Railway apd the
towns IN the Southern between Raj
eigh and Greensboro. If that schedule
is broken. the people living south of
Raleigh desiring to go 70 any point
between Raleigh and Greensboro must
remain about five hours in Raleigh be-
fore making any connection. Is tina
right? VIII it be permitted
The Southern Railway authorities
admit that they can make every con
neCtiOn they desire to make at Green's
boro without breaking the Seaboard
connection at Raleigh if they will run
their train on Il fairly fast schedule.
They car cave Raleigh at 1:1O-con-
meeting with the SeabOard and trans
ferTing mail M passengers-and
reach Greensboro by 400 o'clock. The
earliest train leaving Greensboro is
~ Il. m. 1t is Only 81 miles from
Raleigh to Greensboro. No long stops
need be made on that train and if it