Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-09-10
SAvANNAH'S OPPOSITION
WILL PROVE BOOMERANG
M benefit TO SAVANNAH
Threats Used To COerce
Seab0aFd Into Change

4 ,.s-s--ah E5cning Press Of FridayD
& .~rn reople of the western half Of
\ h. .ra-, ale being thoroughly arous-
l. in aanosition to the Savannah
HAM o. the plan Of some Savannah
NDterests, to deprive that section Of
sba benefits it now derives from the
bnIy local train service it enjoys" said
Ir Thomas Gamble, Jr., editor of the
,mericus Times-Recorder today. Mr.
N;amble had just come in from Amer
X lcus and near by points, where he had
3rpfuIly investigated the situation as
Ao the proposed change.
"A mass meeting of merchants,
.2nufacturers and leading planters
that section will be held under the
4uspicps of the Americus Board of
&rade on Monday night" he conitn
! led. TO protest to the officials of the
keaboard and the Georgia Railroad
Acmmission against the proposed
#bange OF schedule, and a movement
: ril be inaugurated to arouse the op-
POSITION of all the business men and
4anters now served by the Helena
Ampricus-Columbu train to the Sa-
&aHnah Morning News plan. Already
Ia intense feeling of opposition has
een awakened. Columbus is injured
&sead of benefited by the proposed
Ahange Cordele is likewise adversely
Effected. and the people residing in
be smaller towns will soon be up in
rms against a plan that cuts them
I ut Of the benefits they have enjoyed
pr some years.
4 This local train was secured for
bat section after a hard fight" con-
Aned Mr.. Gamble. General Man
I ger Gabbett, of the old G. & A OPP
oSed the plan to start such service.
&T Sheffield, of Americus, then dl-
#cr0r in the road led the fight for it
5 hd it was put on from Columbus TO
#bbeyille. Later it was extended into
Fitzgerald and Ocilla. Then it was
Banged to Helena and has been Civ
lg fine and satisfactory service
: Om Helena to Cordele, Americus
hd Columbus since. 1t is this SER
s &c that it is now proposed to disar-
Rnga and largely destroy on grounds
SAat do not stand investigation.
"a clear presentation of the facts
Flative to mail service would show
pat some. at least, of the statements
E lblished in the Morning News 10
Taken public sentiment in behalf 81
Il fight are Incorrect or absurdly
& Se. They are laying much stress
4 the fact that letter from Hagan
as thirty-siX hours in coming ftty
#iles to Savannah. The reason, |
#arn, was a washout. AS a matter OF
#ct, Hagan receives mail on the tram
paving Savannah at eight o'clock IN
T. morning and at six o'clock ut
&ight, Savannah time, and dispatches
#aied to Savannah on the trains
gazing Fagan at seven thirty-four N
y be morning and eight-twenty at night
EFannah time, two mails each way
\ day.
A thorough analysis of the mall
&mangements would soon show that
Per- is much buncom behind these
gains. There is certainly not
1ough in it to offset the serious n
Airy that would be inflicted on the
estern part of the state by the pro-
8osed change Of schedule.
4 The Savannah News and some
( 'hers backing the fight are very
Nolicitous about the country from Hell
pa to Columbus. The people over
aere are amply able to take care ol
lemseIves and are largely preparing
il hight this benevolent scheme OF oa'-
#nnah. The claim that they are SUI
ering so much from bad mail facill-
PES doesn't take much root among
Hnem when they consider what it WouIo
mean to have their local train service
D. railroad connections demorall|eu
Is proposed. They would be pleas
to have the Savannah Morning
news come in there for a share u
aSiness, now mainly absorbed by tue
uanta papers, but they are not VIII
'as to sacrifice their own Interests
eTely to accomplish that end.
Threatss Are Unfortunate.
The Morning News is very unlor'
mate in making threats, in allegin'
nat Savannah business men a''
xfeatening the Seaboard with Win
Fawal of business if II does not ac