Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-05
GLENN'S NEXT FIGHT
CONTEST NOW COMING FOR
LOWER FREIGHT RATES.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RALEIGH, n. c., August Gov Glenn
and the state corporation commission will
this week begin the hardest fight they have
yet had with the big railroad companies,
when next Thursday they start the demand
for lower. freight rates and make the I'M
qualified demand that the freight rate dis
ordinations which have VIGOROUSLY eX-
listed against North Carolina points and in
favor of Virginia commercial centers, which
the Determinations have done so much to
build up, must now cease, as required by
the new act of the state legislature under
which the governor and the corporation
commission are now to proceed.
On August 8 the traffic managers of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company
will appear in Raleigh before the corpora
ton commission in response to the sum-
mons that has been served upon them.
Their appearance here will not be in COM
pltance with the recent invitation which
Gov. Glenn sent to the traffic managers of
all the roads to meet with him and the cor
poration commission. The governor fixed
no date in that invitation, but stated that
a date would be determined later. The
service made on the Norfolk and Western
traffic managers was served the day before
the governor sent out his general invitation
for conference with all the traffic mana
gers of the roads concerned. i.
Speaking Of the matter today a member
of the governors council Of state stated
that the corporation commission thinks 1t
has a typical case Of discrimination against
the Norfolk and Western, and that II 1t can
adjust or compel the elimination OF these
determinations 1t can the more readily and
effectively proceed against the Southern,
which is the greatest offender, as 1t was
In defying the passenger fare reduction
law and the Atlantic Coast Line and Sea-
board Air Line ct al.
Long and Short Haul.
While the Norfolk and Western is not in
tic same class in the amount of passenger
business done with the three other roads
just named, yet it's important factor
when 1t comes to freight hauling. The
Norfolk and Western enters and has rs it's
two terminal points in North Carolina the
two largest tobacco manufacturing towns
In the world, namely, Winston, which is en-
tered from Roanoke. Va, and Durham
Winston manufactures millions Of pounds
OF chewing tobacco exclusively, while Dur
ham Is known the world over for its smot-
ing tobacco and cigarettes and cigars. No
chewing tobacco is made in Durham which
is the home of the parent plant of what is
now the American Tobacco Company, the
present head of which learned the business
there and no smoking tobacco is made in
W nStOn, out several OF the greatest plants
there are owned and operated by the Amer
lean Tobacco Company, just as nearly the
entire business at Durham Is controlled by
the same corporation.
These facts are stated to show that the
tobacco trust" Is presumably interested
in what is about to go on in the matter of
freight rates adjustment. Nothing has been
heard from that concern in this connection,
however. Whether it will actively interest
Itself in what the state Is now attempt. g
to do remains to be seen later.
The rate from Cincinnati to Roanoke, Va,
which Is only a few hours ride from Win
ston, n. Cess than a hundred miles-is
63 cents on certain classes of freight, the
same rate being given to Norfolk, Rich
mond, Lynchburg and other Virginia points.
But 9a cent is charged for shipments of the
same goods to Winston and Durham, N. c.,
although the trains carrying the consgn-
ments to Roanoke or Richmond. etc, must
pass through Winston or Durham to deliver
the conSignments of freight at one-third or
80 per cent less freight charges. The South
ern railway is guilty of this discrimination
even mole than the Norfolk and Western,
the Southern being the leading carrier in
the big towns of Durham and Winston,
where the Norfolk and Western also fig
ures