The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-11
WANT FAST TRAIN
FOR WEST POINT
Petition Will Ask Better Mail
Service to 1'idcwater
Counties.
FREIGHT TRAIN OFTEN LATE
Corporation Commission Asked
for Improved Facilities Out
of Richmond.

IN behalf of many protesting citl-
Gems OF six Tidcwnter counties. Major
j. \. Stubs. of Gloucester. will this
morning fln before tho state Corpora
tion Commission n petition asking for
an order recurring tho Southern Rail-
way Company to rum an carly morning
passenger train between Richmond and
West Point 1t Is presumed that later
q date will he set for a formal hear
ing.
Interruption OF mail facilities and
general Inconvenience ere cnoplaincd
OF. The citizens say that they arc en-
titled to train making good time
bound from Richmond to the section
referred 10. whereas at present the
early train is freight. to which Is at
tached n passenger coach.
Leaving. Time Changed.
Until recently this train left Rich
mond AT $40. hut IL has been changed
so rs 10 leave Mt c o'clock An arr
ranremeni was made Whereby the mail
carriers easthound wait a, West Point
for the arrival ~ the train. no matter
if II is late Inasmuch as there is
great deal of freight to No handled
1t is stated that the train is late in
arriving at West Point most Of the
time.
The trouble arises. according 10 the
petition. at points further on. 4 dIs-
tribu;!nr Office Is reached with the
Richmond mall. ana carriers there take
It on to other places. There again
other mail routes begin. Tho peti-
ton saws that while tho carriers from
West Point walt for the train. tho car
rlcrs which meet thcm are not required
to wait and do not do so. with the
result that on most DAYS some one or
more mail routes are 4 day behind with
tho mails
All this operates. according to Major
Stubs, 10 still further cut this large
section of Virginia, which already deals
mostly with Baltimore, on from Rich
mond.
Mniis Delayed.
But few people outside ~ Tide
water" said Major Stuhbs Inst night.
can possibly take in the great impo-
sition on tho people Of King and Queen.
MiddlescX. Essen. Lancaster Mathews
ana Gloucester counties. as to our malls
from Richmond TO West Point ami
thence overland to tho above named
counties. Our mail UP to n few weeks
since, left Richmond at 4:3o \. NJ, on n
freight train, renching West Point In
time for the mail carrier to man
age with much rush to get tho mails
through In time for - daily mail To
reach King and Queen Courthouse.
Tappahannock Urhanna and over to
Lancaster SANDY Bottom. Gloucester
Courthouse Almonds. Clay Bank
Gloucester Point. Mathews courthouse.
Glenns, Freenort. Cobbs Creek. etc.
There mails run through and give
these counties papers and letters-n
population not less than $4,000 people.
have applied to the Southern and no
relief; have written the Post Office
Department nj Washington and moth
ing has been done The Times Dis
patch kindly RESPONDED 10 my letter
and said It would do all 1t could.
The Tidcwater Democrat. Southsidc
Sentinel. Mathews Journal, Virginia
Citizen and thousands of citizens arc
ing Richmond at \. NJ, reaching West
Point after 10 a. ~ and giving our
people mail day behind
Here In File Petition.
Yes I am here to file petition he
fore the Corpora ton Commission ask
ing that the Southern be required to
put OH passenger train and mall
coach. leaving Richmond Mt 6 q. NJ,
reaching West Point at 1870 A. NJ. and
thereby accommodating the travelling
public and giving us daily mall.
when the petition is heard before
the Corporation Commission, I shall
ask the Chamber OF Commerce and the
business men of Richmond and the city
papers TO aid In carrying out this plan.
I hope petitions will be started and
signed in all portions of the above
and passenger train to be placed on
the Lork River Road. leaving Rich
mond at 6 A. NJ. daily, except Sun
day Send petitions to me so I can
have them when the petition is heard
before the Corporation commission"