Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-05-22
WILL \. o i. co. 60 INTO TIT
Rumor Has Ii THAT Norfolk & South
ern will Be Good at Last, and Not
Wait For Corporation Commissions
(Raleigh News and Observer.)

Decree.
(Raleigh News and Observer.)
Will the Norfolk & Southern Rail-
way not go into the new union depot
at Goldsboro without being forced to
do so, or will it be good and give the
people the accommodation that is
needed? That is the question which
may be answered on Saturday when
the North Carolina Corporation Com
mission takes up the matter again.
The union depot has been completed
for weeks and is being used by the
Southern Railway and the Atlantic
Coast Line, while the Norfolk &
Southern keeps out OF it, pleading it's
receivership and inability to put in
its part of the construction expenses,
though at the inception of the depot
plans it agreed to "go it's third" in
the building at Goldsboro.
The matter has been before the
Corporation Commission for some
time, and a new phase of the matter
is on the docket for Saturday. In the
face OF it there came whisper yes
terday that the Norfolk & Southern
would no longer contest the matter,
but would meet it's obligations with
out further delay, and 90 into the
Goldsboro union depot, paying its pro
rata part.
The new phase of the situation is
that the Atlantic & North Carolina
railroad, owned by the State and pri
vate parties in the State, now leased
to the Norfolk & Southern railroad,
has been cited through it's president,
Mr.. J. w. Granger, of Kinston, to
appear before the commission and
show cause, If any, why 1t should not
be made a party to the proceedings,
and carry out the order of the conn
mission; as it it it's trains, which are
to go into the union depot. The Nor
folk & Southern has plead its being
in receivers hands and in the Fed
eral court as a reason why 1t cannot
pay up and put its leased road into
the union depot, and the present pro-
ceedings are to see that the Atlantic
& North Carolina, obey the directions
| of the commission, it being the report
| that further refusal by the Norfolk &
Southern may jeopardiZe its lease OF
this valuable road from Goldsboro to
Morehead City.
| The Southern Railway, the Atlantic
Coast Line and the Norfolk & South
ern were first ordered by the corpora
| ton commission to join the erection
of a union depot in Goldsboro and the
three agreed, each to bear one-third
of the expense. AS completed the de-
pot was found to have cost about
$105, 900, and the Norfolk & Southern
which had obtained the Atlantic q
North Carolina, or the lease OF it tt
the Atlantic & North Carolina compa
ny, having in the meantime gone intt
receivers hands, declined to pay VI
it's one-third, later Offering to bea1
: one-third of the running expenses ant
one-third of the interest. TIL othe
roads refused this, and the North Car
o1ina Corporation Commission Is nov
taking other steps in the matter, s.
as to bring the Norfolk & Southern t.
terms.
The new phase of the matter Is be
ing Investigated by Attorney-Genera
Beckett, who is now carefully exam
lining the details of the lease by whicl
r the Norfolk & Southern is operating
the Atlantic C North Carolina rail
: road, in order that steps may be takel
which will result in the Norfolk
Southern using the Goldsboro unio
depot, which it had obligated itssl
, to do.