The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-09-28
FAIRMoNTs BOARD OF TRADE
WANTS THE BALTIMORE land
X OHIO TO IMPROVE THE sPASSEN-
Z GER SERVICE FROM THIS
+ PlACE-THE CITIZENS ! SUFFER
MANI INC oNNENIENcEs.
Observation-Disclosures
TWO Additional Trains Would Greatly
Help Matters In Getting to and
From Eastern cities-WiIl Urge the
Relief Sought.

The Fairmont Board OF Trade has
taken ZIP the matter Of better passen-
ger service for. our people with the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
and C. w. Basset, who Isl }at, the head
of the passenger service department
has promised the local organization
that he will take the mater, up.
1t Is expected that there will be a
change that will be better when the
fall schedule goes into effect. e
The improvement, in the service sug-
gested to Mr.. Bassett was to have a
train frcm this place to meet train No.
3 from the east at Grafton SO that peo-
pie coming from the east can reach
Fairmont before ten o'clock in the
morning. AS 1t is now our people COM
ing from the east have TO be carried
to Clarksburg and then come from
Clarksburg to Fairmont over the Fair
mont and Clarksburg Traction Com
pany's line in order to reach home by
noon. II a train Is put on to meet No.
8 at Grafton our people can reach
home by the time they now get to
Clarksburg saving an hour and a half
in time and the extra expense Of an
additional fare. Passengers7that come
from the east on No. 8 and do not go
to Clarksburg, and then from that city
here by the route indicated cannot get
here over the lines of the Baltimore
and Ohio before one.twenty O'Clock in
the afternoon, No. 3 is a favorite
train for Fairmonters in returning
from the east and the matter of hay-
ing an extra train put on from here to
meet 1t ut Grafton will be pushed with
all the yigor that can be mustered..An
other matter that will be pushed witt
equal vigor Is that the Baltimore and
Ohio put: on "a train Ifrem hereto Graf
ton to meet train No. 10 to the east.
This is the fayorite train for Fair
monters to go east. To make this
train they have to board an interurban
car and catch the train at Clarksburg.
An evening train from here to Graf
ton to make connection with this big
train will be a great advantage to the
people OF this city. they can be5well on
their way to the big cities in the east
before train No. pulls into Grafton.
Another matter that will be taken up
with the head OF the passenger de.
partmen. OF the big transportation sys.
tenn is that instead Of detaching the
sleeping car on train No. arriving
here at two-twenty o'clock in the morn
ing at Grafton as now Is the custom,
that the sleeping car be detached at
Fairmont. This will be another ad'
vantage.
These matters will all be pushed
with all the zeal that the Fairmont
board O. trade can command and the
organization should be supported by
all the citizens of the city in order to
accomplish better things in the way
of passenger service. A shipping point
that furnishes to the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company $S00,000 reve
nue. month for one industry alone
deserves better passenger facilities
But better passenger facilities vii
not come as long as our people are
content with the poor service that We
have. Let every citizen get busy and
do wha! he can to. better the service