Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-10-17
COLLEGE PROTESTS AcAIMsr
NEW MAIL SCHEDULE
And Complains Of Unfair Treatment
in Train Service.

College Station. Texas, oc. ia
strong protest has gone to the post
office department against the new mail
schedule that has gone into effect on
the Houston & Texas Central, the first
run Of which was made yesterday, be-
cause OF the inconvenience that will
result at College Station.
Under the action CT the Houston &
Texas Central the mail northbound
from Houston will be carried on the
fast train, or Hustler. This train
reaches College Station at 1889 D. m.
= The local train, No 3, reaches here at
1927. No mall is carried on No. 8,
the first train to reach here, and the
Hustler does not stop here. There
fore 1t is impossible for the mail OF
this. station to be handled with dis
patch. The handling OF the heavy mail
of this station on mail crane. and TO
dump 1t on with the train going at
fifty miles an hour. will not be salts
factory, and If the protest against the
service that has been made by Post
master w. c. Boyett is not needed.
then there will be strong protest
made by the college authorities.
There is limit TO the amount OF
mail that can be. handled in a mail
crane. The mail at College Station is
heavier than this limit The library
of the A. & NJ. College OF Texas is a
depositary of the public printing de-
partment OF the government. and re-
ceives full sacks OF valuable books and
documents which will be damaged by
being pitched of a fast moving train.
The military department of the col.
lege receives heavy mail from the war
department; the state entomologist
the director of the Texas experiment
station, and other officers get very
heavy mail, and II will be impossible
10 handle all this mail on train that
does not stop.
Another point is that the population I
of College Station does not believe
that right treatment has been accord
ed this place by the Houston & Texas
Central in regard to the fast train.
Although request has been made sew ,,
eral times to have the north and south
bound fast trains make regular stops
here, II has not been done and pas-
sengers destined for College Station
must ride to Bryan, five miles away.
and take the interurban to the col
lege. There are thousand students
on the campus and there are several
hundred people in the campus COM
munity. II is not population that
stays at home all the time. The pop
ulation is one that of necessity travels
a great deal and all during the college
year there are visitors here from all
parts OF the state, and II is a great
inconvenience to them to have to ride
to Bryan to catch fast train.
The passenger business of the ,
Houston & Texas Central on account |
OF the population at College Station is |
between $4,000 and $4,000 a year.
This is a valuable point for the road, I
Il contributes largely in passenger and /
freight business, and the road has put ,
the college down 10 the basis of
town of two hundred people who stay
at home all the time and the facilities
Of the fast train are not allowed.
Another matter of protest is that
the northbound night train does not
make stop at College Station, unless
Il is tagged. Therefore no outgoing
mail northbound can be sent on that
rain. Unless letter is ready for
he noon train II waits until the next
lay If 1t is northbound letter. Under
The old arrangement when the mail
was carried on the local train that
made a stop here, letters could be
nailed on the train, but now that only
he fast train will carry the mail, un-
ess letter is ready by IL O'Clock in
he morning to get in the postoffice to
De made up in pouch that is to hang
rom a mail crane, 1t will lie IN the
,ffice until the next day. The night
rain, southbound, does stop at Col
ege to exchange mail, and there is
10 reason both night trains should
lot do so. The authorities of the col 4