The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-17
ficial conduct of the Southern railways

official conduct of the Southern railways office in New York.
 I say again without fear of contradic- tion that a few months ago I purchased two mileage books at the Southern office in New York, and upon these mileage
 books there and then purchased I was enabled to secure sleeping car accommo- dation from New York to Birmingham and check my trunk through. . However, upon last trip I was un- able to buy a mil ..se book at their of- flee. and upon presentation of a mileage
 book over the Pennsylvania line to the
 handsome tall clerk in the office, with
 the request for a ticket from Washington
 to Birmingham, he refused to sell it to
 me, ana when l finally agreed to wait and
 buy my ticket in Washington. and asked
 him to sell me sleeping car accommoda-
 ton and to check my trunk through to
 Birmingham, he declined both, saying
 that I could only do that upon the pur
 chase of a straight ticket to Birmingham.
 So, therefo the traveller is compelled,
 in order to check his trunk and obtain
 sleeping car accommodation to buy his
 ticket in New York through to Birming-
 ham.
 MT. Sevier is simply mistaken or mis-
 informed when he says that the New
 York office Is permitted to reserve all
 berths and secure other accommodations
 direct from New York to Birmingham, as
 they positively refused it to me and the
 handsome clerk aforesaid to whom I com
 plsined, and said I would bring this
 matter to the attention of the people in
 Birmingham and to the Chamber of
 Commerce, seemed to be amused at my remark.
 MT. Sevier says that my letter in The Age-Herald of January 12 might go unnotced,' but l say to him that he had better sit up and take notice, and in form his booses in Washington and New York that clouds are again rising and the first rumbling noise of an approaching storm is being heard. If he doesn't, l prophecy, and I am not a prophet. but 1 come from a race of them, that the day is not far off when another Conner and Weakley will appear on the scene, who will get after them with a much sharper stick than they did, and when that day comes, which is inevitable, the people, unlike in their last unheaval, will and especially with the Southern, but will exciaim with the immortal Shakes peare, Lay on, MacDuf, and damned be him that first cries, hold. enough" am, and have been for some time, a ! holder of some of the securities of the Southern railway, and since the pur- chase of them they have steadily de- clined in value and as a security holder, l feel that I have probably more rights than the general traveller. to criticise the conduct of the road in maintaining an expensive office in New York city for no purpose that I can see, except to send a
 negro somewhere to get ticket for you, from New York to Birmingham, when l you ask for it, and when you finally l see that you can't get to Birmingham | over the Southern railroad, with Penn sylvania mileage in your pocket except
 to buy a straight ticket from New York | to Birmingham.
 | Now, as to the hotel lobby article of my friend, MT. Frank Fowlkes, yes, Tt | is wonderful to relate" but Frank has | been too busy selling lots and opening I mines. or doesn't know what he is talk
 ing about, for I did not complain about or desire to purchase ticket to L.r- lningham and return, but. simply wanted I to come to Birmingham as formerly and stay as long as I desired, but even the
 purchase of return ticket is nothing un- | req asonable In addition. I wish to tell him that since the day the. Commercial
 club was first inaughrated to the present day, have been an officer and a paying member and hope to be so as long as we both exist, and, therefore. am not so
 busy accommodating wealth in New York; as not to keep in touch with conditions
 In Birmingham, and desire to inform him