The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-08-05
Will BUILD PIER
SOUTHERN RAILWAY TO LOOK
Out FOR CHARLESTON

IT'S PRESIDENT TALK
Fairfax Harrison Explains Conditions
Under Which His Railroad Has
Labored-Says Its Ambition and
Policy Has Been to Take Part In
Regeneration of the South.
Confirmation of the intention of
the Southern Railway to build imme-
diately at Charleston, S. c., an inde-
pendent coal terminal, largely for
Panama canal traffic, was given Mon
day by President Fairfax Harrison
before the special Senate committee
investigating the coal rate situation
in the South.
EC0S2QSuL 11aIIlSc0 Sd1o CoSAA0 .
were now at work preparing plans
for the construction Of terminal to
accommodate the loading of one ship
at time at Charleston, and that it
would take from nine months to a
+ year to complete the work. He said
| he had desired to arrange use the
proposed Clinchfeld Road terminals
at Charleston, but after months OF
consideration he had found in May
or June last that this was impossible
because Of objections Of shippers.
Mr.. Harrison estimated that it
would cost s11,300,000 to put his
road from the Appalachian coal fields
to Charleston into proper shape for
profitable coal transportation and to
complete the terminals at Charles
ton He said the charges to the ship
per would be the same as that "harg-
ed by the Norfolk and Western from
the Pocahontas field, although the
expense Of the trafic to his road
would be greater than over the rival
line.
/ Fairfax Harrison, president OF the
Southern, told the Senate committee
investigating Southern coal traf1c
that in his opinion B. L. Dulaney'
the independent coal operator, OF
Bristol, Tenn, whose charges have
formed the basis Of the coal inquiry
was suffering from what is known
as delusion OF persecution.
81 believe Mr.. Dulaney has deep
seated hatred for one or two men
twho have succeeded in the Virginia
land Southwestern aud Appalachian
coal fields where he failed" said Dir
Harrison. Being unable to reach
these men, he attacked the Southern
Railway, as a railroad in these days
lis always a target for attack.
81 resent with every fibre Of my
being the charges Of bad faith and
chicanery brought against the organ
ganization> Of the Southern and
think am supported therein by that
Egreat mass of~people who have done
business with Us in the South.
|feel a further resentment at the
charge that the direction Of the pol
licy of the Southern Railway has been
lin outside hands and that the man
fagement has been for any other In
Iterest than that of the South. The
|ambition and policy Of the Southern
has been to take part in the regen'
Ieration of the South and in that pol
Iicy its officers and management al
ialong have shaped its course"
| President Harrison contended thai
the charges were in the temper o1
times, which would listen to any ale
lgation that a railway Is being used
|for dishonest purposes. "if belie7'
ed that the stockholders had elected
directors that used the Southern Rail
way to its own disadvantage, as
president of the railroad would re-
lsign," declared Mr.. Harrison emphat.
tically.
eff either Mr.. Berwind or Grant
lB Schley have exercised mal7o'
Ilent influence over the Southern,
do not know it. I have never heard
of their approaching the Southern to
Iget coal facilities or anything else
If they have had any influence It has
Gambrel, mayor Of Abbeville, Of date
April 8, 1911; also certificate Of DR.,
sWm. D. Simpson OF date July %,
1912, and further certificate from DR..
C. C. Gambrell Of date November Is,
1918. signed at Abbeville; also OF
DR.. William D. Simpson Of date, Ab-
beville, November 10. 1918, and OF
DR.. Rolfe E Hughes of date, Lau-
rens, November 1S, 1913.
That he also had Dr.. A. B. Knowl
ton and DR.. James H. Mcintosh to
examine his brother, not as COM
imittee appointed by Gov. Blease, nor
at the request Of Gov. Blease, but Of
dependents own volition, and that
he received from these physicians,
through the hands Of Dr.. A. B.
Knowlton, the original certificate,
which reads as follows-the headline
, thereof being in print and the body
thereof in typewriting without any
alterations, erasures, or the slightest
change whatsoever; that the body Of
this paper is in typewriting and the
! signatures to it are made by pen and
ink; that he delivered this paper to
Gov. Cole L. Blease, and that the
same paper read by Gov. Blease at
Abbeville, and at the Columbia cam
paign meeting (as published in the
inewspapers), is the same certificate
that was delivered to him by DR.. A
B. Knowlton, and was Immediately
delivered by deponent to Gov. Cole
L. Blease. That deponent now, at
this moment, holds in his hand the
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