The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-02-13
A NUISANCE THAT SHOULD BE
ABATED.

A0H J Ell.
Time tide and the O.-W. r. & N
trains wait for no man. These state
ments have been proven to be facts SO
many times that they are no longer
doubted The ancients gave up trying
To beat the game with time and tide,
and the contest has never been renew :
ed But with the O.-W. r. & N.
trains it's different; there are people
even In this enlightened age who still
hope for little courtesy and consid-
GRAFTON from that great corporation.
They need more enlightenment for
the hope Of getting show Of courtesy
and consideration, even when it costs
the railroad company nothing, is In
a realization Of the fact sooner as
later.
I The Wallace branch Of the O.-W.
r. & N. company is one of it's most
profitable lines. Without complaint
or at least without having registered
a complaint that awaited them any
thing. the shippers have paid thous-
ands and hundreds of thousands of
dollars into the company's treasury
for freight hauled since the road was
built into the Occur d'Alenes. Added
to this they have paid cheerfully and
without complaint for passenger SER
vice between Wallace and Spokane
that is subject to as much complaint,
unquestionably. as any service of
line of similar length in the United
States. The chances are that they
will go on paying for the same kind
of service for good many years more
unless the proposed electric line is
built, or the interstate commerce COM
mission is appealed to and comes to
the rescue, There is possibility that
a commission will be created within
the state some time that will be able
to cope with the difficulty; but at pres
emit, there is no relief In sight in any
Of these directions. We are, as Mr..
Dooley says, up asin it for fair.
Just and reasonable grounds for
complaint are to be found daily; but
no more conspicuous case is recalled
than that presented last week at Har-
rison, in which number of Wallace
business men were left stranded there
for twenty-four hours because the
boat from Occur d'Alene, on which
they were passengers, locked a min
ute or two after the scheduled time
for the passenger train to pull out.
The train left the depot. but pulled up
iilo AIIS ydIAS anu WdttSu lOHk GHDuEIl
for freight to pass on a side track
IL the passenger train had been held
at the depot as long as 1t stood wait
ing for the freight to pass it, all the |
Wallace. Mullan, Kellogg and other
coming this way could |
have been accommodated, and the !
company would not have been |
loser either in time or money But /
then, the company was just ais sure OF I
getting the fares the next day, for
there is no competing line of trans
portaton and the walking was bad.
The conductor of the passenger train
was advised that several on the boat
were very anxious to make the con-
aection, but evidently considered it no
lifair of his.
II the legislature can create COM
mission that has power to regulate the
Nv. r. Il N. train service, or COM
)el the officials of the road to show
courtesy and extend little accommodate
ions now and then to the people who
re among its best patrons, then we're
or that kind of commission and ,
he sooner they give 1t to us, the bet t
er. [