Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-10-31
BUSINESS MEN OF CITY
WRITE PRES. WILLIAMS
interests of AmeriCuS Are
Set Forth.
Official Head of S. A.
L. is Urged to Ad-
vance Interests.

The members of the Americas Board
of Trade, and the business men gener-
ally of the city, will unite in a letter
of congratulation and good wishes to
Mr.. John Shelton Williams, on his re-
turn to the active control of the af-
fairs of the Seaboard Air Line sys-
tem with which the interests of
Americus have been for so many years
closely associated.
In addition to expressing their good
will to Mr.. Williams the business men
of the city, in the document signed by
them for forwarding to the prominent
Virginian, will direct attention to the
fact that Americus looks to him for
the protection and advancement of its
business interests, especially as they
are affected by the railway shops of
the system at this point and the re-
tention of the existing system of
changing crews here, making this
railway point of considerable impor-
tance.
The letter to Mr.. Williams, which
has been largely signed and forwarded
to him at once, is as follows:
Americus, Ga, Oct 80, 1909.
Hon. John Shelton Williams. Rich
mond, Va:
Dear Sir-It was with a feeling of
more than ordinary pleasure by the
public generally, and the business in
terests in particular, that the news
was received in Americus that you
were once more re-established in con-
troll of the management and the desti-
nies of the Seaboard properties.
The people of this city and adia-
cent territory. whose future Is so in
dissolubly connected with that of the
Seaboard Air Line, well remember the
personal interest manifested by you
and. your associates in their welfare
at the time you purchased the old
Georgia & Alabama railroad and made
It one of the divisions Of the greater
Seaboard System, then being nodded
into shape in your hands.
They feel that with these great
once more directed by you
here Will be the same protection ac-
corded their interests as in former
years, when through your construc-
tive genius this great trunk line was
being brought into existence through
the consolidation of numerous small
and weak roads.
1t is with this sentiment actuating
them that they avail themselves of
this opportunity to once more express
their good will to you personally and
to the S. A. L. railway.
1t was under your management of
the properties in question that the
Seaboard shops were established at
this point, the people of Americus do
mating property of the value of $4,000
to that end
In recent years these shops have
been operated to less and less de-
gree We trust, as business men, that
conditions are such, or soon will be,
that more work can be given to the
Americus shops, restoring the force to
somewhat nearer its old proportions
and increasing the prosperity of the
city accordingly.
1t is also the hope of the merchants
of the city that there will be no change
in the other conditions surrounding
the Seaboard's relations with this city,
that the crews now located here will
be maintained, with this as their place
of residence.
We recognize the Importance Of
these factors to the business of the
city. In appreciation of the past eff
forts of the Seaboard in behalf of
Americus, and believing that such a
wise and liberal policy will mark its
future operations, we pledge ourselves
to the principle of reciprocity and will
evidence our appreciation of its ef-
forts in our behalf by generous pol
icy toward it in the matter of freights
and all else that arises in the relations
of the corporation and the public here
25c to $1.00 a pair saved on all