The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1907-02-21
HALF HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD.


Of all the hideous, horrible mon
strosities which a railroad company
ever foisted upon their defense1ess
patrons, the schedule which the NJ.
| e o. passenger department has serv-
ed up TO the people of Columbu the
I present schedule, is the worst Co
lumbus. a city of ten thousand peo-
pie, is now as completely isolated. is
ias completely cut off from her trade
I and territory as Tadmur in the Will
. derness or Ubedam. It is awful, hor-
rible. the extreme and final limit,
paralyzing TO all trade relations and
making journey to or from this
city on the part of passenger a sac
rifiee few are willing TO undertake.
Not only this, the mail facilities are
paralyzed and important business let
ters are belated, delayed and lose
their value. while the daily papers
look like the last years bird nest
when they arrive in this city, Yellow
ed with age.
Just look at this: A leading bus
to Brooksville a few days ago and
it took three days 10. get the reply
A passenger from that place to this
city reached .Artesia few moments
after the Columbus train had left, a
few evenings ago, and he had to wait
only six hours at Artesia to order to
get here He left for Brooksville a
few days later, and had to wait at
Artesia a few hours to reach his des-
tination. or until the local passenger
train arrived, for the through train
which our morning train connects
with at Artesia does not stop at the
small stations south of us. Coming
from the north, it is equally as bad
for the man who wants to reach Co
lumbus. He can't take the fast train
on the main line for Columbus, for it
does not stop at the small stations, !
and if he waits for the local train |
he will find that he has reached Ar
tesla after the Columbus train has
until six o'clock in the afternoon to |
get into this city If he wants to get |
back home he will have to walk, for
the fast train north in the afternoon
does not stop at these small stations
The most remarka Bile thing con
nected with the schedule is that the
evening train going to Artesia does
not connect with anything. 1t runs
TO that place, dumps its passengers,
and scurries back to this city and on
o Tuscaloosa, without any passen-
gers from the south, for it leaves Ar
esia just before the through passen-
ger train from the South arrives 1t
ioes bring in a few passengers from
he south, who in their hurry to reach
his city have arrived there several
ocal train.
Another peculiar arrangement of =
his schedule is that the evening train
oes not connect with the StarkviIle
assenger train.
1t is said that at Artesia there is
crowd wandering aimlessly around
nquiring about trains. They have
verrun the hotels, and the Union +
Jews stand has sold out People are
urrying here and there wanting to
now if they can get back home, long
Ince having despaired of ever reach :
lg this city Bob Mitchell's hotel :
as out the S. R. o. sign, and the ;
lerchants are quoting sardines at =
.londike prices so great is the de-
land from the famishing mob of =
travellers. The popula !,
on of the town has doubled already, ;,
nd the crowd is increasing with .
very train. It's awful! Awful, h
The Dispatch has a great and a !.
rofound admiration for Mr.. Russell, :,
nd we righteously rejoiced when he =
5sumed the management of the h
outhern in Mississippi. But If heI /
going to give us touch of the Ar =
esia schedule in the operation of the 4
bad from this city to Greenville, for y
he Lord s sake give us back the good :,
Id Southern management, when the .
outhern men bade goodby to their
antilles in this city every time they =
ent out on a run, for they doubted y
they would ever come back. IT
Wanted Three hundred flying =
quick. Address THE Null q
tude,'' Artesia, Miss.
State Senator Presley Groves, of Y
axe county, has announced that at :,