The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-05
TO ASSIST THE
NEKG IN FIGHT
MAIE SERVICE
PosTMAsTER SMITH SUGGESTS
UNITED EFFORT ON THE PART
OF BRUNSWICK PEOPLE.
Says the Service is Bad and Urges
the People to Get the Matter Be-
fore the POstotfioe Department at
Washington.

For some time The News has been
lighting for a better mail service over
the Southern railway-it has endeav-
ored to get the business men and
civic organizations to assist. The
following on the subject was received
from Postmaster Smith yesterday:
Editor News:
have noted with great interest and
satisfaction the editorials and news
items you have been publishing re-
Gently respecting the abominably poor
mail service given the people of
brunswick by the Southern railway.
If the Southern railway were max
ing an effort to afford the poorest pos
sible mail service. it could not make
1t any worse and provide any arrivals
of mail on train IA at all. Unques-
tionably the people of Brunswick are
as patient as any in the world, which
is demonstrated by their submission
to such treatment without concerted
effort to force the railroad to render
bettor service, or, at least, to giyI ire
reasons why better service cannot be
given. 1t seems that, If the Southern
railway cared anything about the up
building Of Brunswick, 1t would bear
in mind the fact that large quantities
OF freight are daily received over it's
19rfnu AZ al
exporters much of which could be
routed over other lines If the mer-
chants and shippers were to meet and
agree to route over lines that are
making any effort to give the people
of this community jHst mail train SER
vice in return for the freight and pas
- Traffic received.
nave been making every effort
during the six and a half years have
been postmaster to secure better SER
vice from the Southern railway by
making reports and protests to the
postoffice department. ! am firmly
convinced that even a protest from
the business men and trade bodies Of
Brunswick to the postoffice depart
ment would have little effect in cor
Tecting this evil, as every late arri-
val is, and for a long time has been,
reported by the railway postal clerks
on train IA, and fines are imposed by
the department for same. 1t is nay un-
derstanding that the postoffice depart
ment is prevented by legal restrictions
from frnunuing -
force railroad to provide better SER
vice, The law provides, ] believe,
that no fine shall be imposed larger
in amount than the pay the railroad
would receive for the one trip, and |
do not believe that the fines that can
be legaD imposed would make much
difference to the Southern. However,
it certainly could do no harm for a
copy Of a protest from the trade bod
les to be transmitted to the postoffice
department, the original being sent to
the president of the Souhern railway
and couched in no uncertain terms
along the line suggested in this let
ter.
1t is a noticeable fact that, while
the Southern invariably blames the
lac arrivals ot train IA -: liz Queen
& Crescent connection Train IA, in
stead Of making up time lost by the
connection, almost always loses time
between Atlanta and Jesup, where
the connection is made with the Short
train from Brunswick which goes out
&c 4sofr gA nj OH 1oxfc
night in J Jesup to connect with train
IA from Atlanta to Jacksonville AS
matter of fact, it is quite likely that
train IA is too heavy during the win
ter for the engines furnished the di-
vision Of the road If too heavy for
any one engine, the train should be
run in sections, with the mail car on
the first section.
It is true that much of the delay
! recently experienced is due to the
fact that the Southern is operating one
train, with one crew, as trains 13 and
Il between Brunswick and Jesup ani
as express trains 80 and 81 between
the same points Trains 30 and 81
do not carry mail cars or CLERKS, but
upon receiving notice that they w.1d1
be placed in operation, not long ago,
arranged with the local agent of the
railroad to notify the Jesup agent to
see that the mail from Atlanta and
| Jacksonville train IA is brought in on
the express. train arriving at 80 pm
in case Atlanta and Jacksonville train
/ Id is so late that the Short train. No
! Il, from Jesup, due at Brunswick at