The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-01-11
soUTHERN.s NEW SCHEDULE
Mich Speculation as TO Cause of
Char-e-Causes Much ~Inconven-
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Correspondence of The Messeassr.)
Greensboro. n. c.. January 7.-One
serious result of the Southern's change
of schedules which was experienced
today. was the discovery that con
nection with the Coast Line had been
broken at Sanford. requiring passen-
gers leaving here H. 2:30 instead OF
1:2S as formerly for Fayetteville. VII
mington. Lumberton, etc, TO lay over
al Sanford exactly - hours. The
Coast Line pulls out from Sanford on
its old schedule. which is just one hour
before the new scheduled southern
passenger train from Greensboro
reaches there.
This looks very much like A dellb-
crate break on the part of the South
ern with the Coast Line trains, in eN-
actly the same way il has broken for
the second time the Selma connection
with the Coast Line.
Speaking OF these breaks" this
morninE, = prominent friend of the
railrOats. declared that Il was lncOm-
p~rehen-.y.e TO him, why the Southern
should act thus on the very eve Of the
meeting of the legislature, as it must
know thar such disregard of the rights
of the travelling public would tend 10
loose it what influence it might lave
TO prevent radical legislation at this
session. A ount@ suggestion made
was. hat the railroads no doubt had
agreed on this policy. hoping that b. 50
exasperating the people, such drastic
legislation would be enacted that II
would be unconstitutional. Another.
and possibly the true solution was.
that the railroads had proven by &C
tual test that the corporation commits
sion had no power to enforce its orders,
and were determined to bring TO a
final test the power of the legislature
to compel these corporations by direct
act to do other than they chose. 1t
was generally agreed that the rail-
roads had evidently abandoned any
purpose of trying to defeat any anti
railroad legislation at the coming ses-
sion of the legislature, but on the
other hand would encourage the stlcK-
ing of the coulter in deep enough 20
defeat any effort at reform.
The Piedmont Fox Hunting Cluo.
composed of prominent sportsmen IN
GuildfOrd, Alamance, Randolph and
Forsyth counties, delayed having
their usual fox hunt, lasting nearly a
month, at Manchester, in December,
until this week. The date was fiXed
upon as the 9th. to accommodate
Sheriff Kernoodle,. of Alamance, a men,
Der who had to attend to a hanging
on the Sth. There are 25 men, %
dogs and % horses in the ~foX-hunting
party. Saturday the food stuff, grocer
les, ct setera, for the club was shipped
to Manchester, and this morning the
horses and dogs were sent through
the country. A good many Of the mem
bers expected to leave on the regular
train this afternoon for Manchester;
leaving the others to follow to morrow.
On butting up with this new schedule,
they were dumfounded to find that
they would have today over at Sanford
% hours. waiting for a regular Coast
Line train to take them through. This
caused a change of plans, and they will
possibly wait until all are ready TO go,
and charter a special train, which can
be done for about the same expense
and a saving of n days time, as
would the cost of hotel bill, etc, be at
Sanford.