The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-08-17


agent, has difficulty in selling tick
cts to all who apply for them. The
train going from Greenville to Co
lumbia gets here at $40 in the af-
ternoon, and passengers who come
over the Blue Ridge have 55 min
utes in which to buy their tickets.
/ Saturday afternoon, when the
Blue Ridge train pulled in at 5.25
and the Anderson trolley followed
at $50, something like a hundred
people rushed into the station to
get tickets for points up the road.
There were numbers of ladies stand
ing around waiting their turn to
get ticket for some point north of
Belton. A tall, black haired man
walked up to the window, handed
Miss Rogers, the accommodating
agent, two mileage books that
were nearly used up and asked for
ticket to Columbia There was
not enough mileage in the two
books combined to buy the ticket, so
he asked her to tear the mileage
out of both books, substract it from
the number of miles to Columbia,
and he would pay the difference
In cash. Miss Rogers very kindly
asked him If he wouldn't wait un-
til she had sold the tickets for those
ahu VINO were
waiting to catch the northbound
train. She explained to him that
he had until $40 to buy his tick
ct.
instead of giving place to those
VINO certainly ought to have been
given place at the window, the
man Strengthened himself and in a
most insulting Manner informed
MISS Rogers that she must not
Know who she was talking to- He
further informed her that Il am
Cole Blease, the Governor of South
carolina; I've got right to buy
ticket any time l call for it and
you We got to sell it to me- He
TOOK occasion to tell her that if he
didn't have to he would never
have ridden on her old Southern
road. He also informed Miss Rog-
ers that he was going to write her
up to the superintnedent."
The above is an extract from the
Bolton Times Article, and in COM
mentlng on the Governors conduct
at the railway station here, the
Belton Times certainly did not
mince words. The editor handled
his subject with gloves off One of
Governor Blease's adherents wrote
the Governor, asking him If the ar
tlcle was a true statement of the
tacts OF the case and the Governor
replied in a most positive manner
that the article was not true
The Governors Letter.
August 5, 1911. - Mr.. James G.
Harrls, Bolton, S. C.--Dear Sir:
your letter of the 4th instant re-
ceived. In reply l beg to. state that
on my way home on Saturday, July
lly3.l - IL, 4s.I.
window at Belton, laid down two
mileage book covers, with some
strips left in them, but not enough
to bring me through to Columbia.
did not know at what time either
train arrived at Belton, but was
OF the opinion that l made close
connection. When | presented the
mileage books l asked the young
lady for a ticket to Columbia: she
replied. i have not time to wait on
you now / said, Well, | want to
go to Columbia and l want a ticket
She said, L have not got time to
compute this mileage and make the
calculations | smiled and said.
Very well, | will tell you who /
am and you will please remember
am Cole l.. Blease.' U did not
use Governor of South Caroline
1NASioh lhC ldCJ IndI was
GoVernor.). | told her who L
was because it was my in
tention to get on the
train without a ticket, present the
mileage and state why | did not
have a ticket, and if the conductor
declined to accept the mileage, /.
was going to sue the railroad for
damages and / wanted the lady as
a witness, to remember that had
applied to her for a ticket, pre-
senting the mileage and that she
had refused it. When ] told her
who l was / said L will report this
matter to the superintendent She
then took my mileage, quickly made
the calculations, told me that there
was seventy cents due, which L
paid very promptly. She handed
me back the ticket with the two
vacant slips and said, Thank you
said, Il am very much obliged to !
you; you may keep the two old COW
ers, as you may wish to send them
in She said, No, you might need
them to show the conductor when
he asks for your tickets. l replied,
All right and picked them up and
walked away.
81 showed no discourtesy whatev-
er to the young lady; only was ex-
ercising my rights as a passenger
on the road and told her who Il
was, as | have stated, for the
purpose / have stated. 1 showed
no discourtesy but treated her the
same that l would if every relative
of hers in the world had been pres
ent. There. There were two
young men sitting behind her in
the office at the time and an old
Confederate Veteran standing by
me, with badge on. The conversa-
tion did not even attract their at
tention, which shows that there
was nothing whatever about the
matter to have caused any one to
write a lie about, such as has been
written by the dirty. sour