Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-07-16
|CNNG THE ORDERS
N, Injunction Against
D.ilroad Commission.
!. East Coast Railway Com
- Saws Recent Orders of
commission Are Ruinous.

Mani Metropolis of last Friday
..,oation to disregard the or
me Florida Railroad Com
.nd 10 fight the commission at
s'u .oin, was made evident to-
10 Aliug by the Florida East
p.Ilvay Of a bin for injunction
r ID, and to declare unreasonable
..;a., certain orders of the COM
y. y. a,ox. ST.. Clair.Abrams, acting
n.y. ,,I.,ov ior the road filed the petit
4. MI is signed by j. P. Beckwith'
PRESIDENT otths railroad Company
I, directed to R. Hudson Burr
@. Dunn. and Newton a. Blltch'
"Asrs Of the Florida Railroad Com
,,io0. Ausgustus G. Hartridge, ). NJ
=, and John c. Jones, States AT
~, for the Fourth, Eighth and
I,.D,b iudical circuits Of Florida.
a. Instrument seeks to RESTRAIN the
|.ol,Ots from enforcing their various
y, orders, relative TO the placing
,Dsrusnent agent of the company
White City, the building OF comoin-
b stations for freight and passeng-
nNsrsuja and Viking, and build
additional sidetracks aud imposing
rain fines,
AIthe outset, the bill declares that
.nenbers Of the commission have
10 practical experience or know
in Of the construction. operation or
Management Of railroads, placing a
lrdstIOn for the complaints following
As bill,
Auhearsal is made of the indebt-
|uess Of the Florida East COAT Rail-
II Company, citing the $l2,OOO,OOO OF
BOas bearing 4 l-2 per cent, interest,
ered by first mortgage on the road
n Jacksonville to Key West and its
nnches, and the S25,OO0,OOO second
gtgsges to secure payment OF the in
poe bondsin like sum.
Akayered in the bill that it would
sDOOO,OOO to rebuild the road. 1t
Hs the fixed charges of the road,
ilally, as follows; $780, 900 on ac-
pntoi the first mortgagd bonds, Sl35,
Hxes, and $4,000 for insurance,
fdional betterments, unforeseen and
haordinary expense. Five per cent
eaunum is paid for money advanced
pine construction of the Key West
ERnslOn.
Is claimed in the bill that the
ncals Of the company are not paid
'gH salaries than their positions
nmand, and that the road is operated
h paInIained in an economical man
The petitioner goes on to say that
pioad has 58l.7 miles of railway at
Pnt and will have 626.7 miles when
rIension TO Key West is complet-
Naat there is an average of but
persons to the mile along the en-
Nsdxay.
~ daclaration Is made that at the
''' rate for charges on freight and
'ger transportation, the road does
~ viii not earn for years. its fixed
~ and a reasonable interest on
n'one bonds. The business ofthe
''cseases slowly, the bill recites,
ls persistent cutting down Of rates
'.ea By the Railroad Commission
n 20 Increased expenses imposed by
submission has compelled the COM
|alvss.
tn --..,
~ Petition for relief further char
rAes as unreasonable and unjust
'qulrnents Of the Railroad Com
r'u Wherein the road is required
SaHocf Permanent passenger and
~. s'' buildings with in two or three
= each other, that it is not un-
s0aole and unjust for the Florida
coast Railway to expect from
y, s's1 and receivers of freight and
Il. Eas.engers that they shall travel
pa0nc roads u reasonable distance
4. s y stations to receive and de-
NJ ' LA and take passengers.
|. =. iurther declares that flag
s.s s1' nave been established to save
~ q perishables the necessity Of