The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1920-09-24
4 RESIST A. &
+, RY. PETITION
.,.,o Line Of Railroad Agree
v,..,ous Fight to Prevent
Y, ABANDONMENT of Line.

,rotest against the discol
d. X operation of the Alabam
,uippi Railroad was made D
Z Jackson, George and Green
. \ 4 monster mass meetin
4 the court house in .uoedal 1a.
Representatives OF ever
y tovn along the route wer
.,d in some cases they too
..ture of a delegation, espe
,,om the cities of Pascagoula
O,,nt and Leakesville. Prom
an interested in the lumbe
4. and railroad operation from
Jones and other nearby coun
..,e in attendance, and joined
general protest raised by the
more directly involved. Mr.
Morgan, railroad commissioner
Il southern district, was pres
n did not speak. Mr.. j. w
n attorney of Brookhaven
m present and addressed the
Il.
meeting was the result Of q
hued following the meeting OF
4 of Moss Point and Pascar
h.the court house two weeks
,Aen 1t first became known that
slroad would petition the In
II Commission and the Railroad
sions of Alabama and Missis-
br permission to cease operat-
railroad and sell the proper
\ their physical value. The
I Monday was called by a COM
composed of F. H. Lewis,
Of Pascagoula; George Wa
mayor of Moss Point, and J.
htosh, president of the Cham
Commerce, Moss POint-Pasca-
Circulars had been distr'ib-
hong the route of the railroad,
miners, business men, manufac-
and a number Of ladies re-
N In order to protest against
ruoyal of the railroad that is
his Of valuation to their property
hk agricultural development of
countles.
: making and filing of the appli-
: of the railroad to permit aban-
mt was made at meeting OF di
\ Of the rilroad held in Vine.
Bend, Ala, and Leakesville,
on August 20. The railroad is
9onted in both Alabama and
hllppi, which necessitated the
nestings. The application asks
Iison to abandon the line in Ala
from the northern terminus at
N Bend in Washington county,
hence southwesterly to Leakes-
u Greene county, Miss, thence
sry via Evanston and Moss
10 Pascagoula.
application asserts that Vine
end is served by the Mobile &
Railroad, Lucedale and Evans
the Gulf, Mobile & Northern
u and Moss Point and Pasca-
BY the Louisville & Nashville.
lns the only large producer of
at Leakesville Is the Bear
Lumber Company; that the A.
receives only a small proper
NE passenger traffic tributary
! lines because of the fact that
'ances to the larger railroad
are short, and that the traf-
Dc taken to them by automo-
acks; that the entire territory
which the road operates could
suately served should the road
'ontlnued. 1t is claimed that
y mas operated at a loss since
10 that there is no prospect of
ny business along the route
W.T. the railroad; that the road
ave deprecated, and there is
Aole money with which to re-
that the company owes
aounts, has defaulted in pay
y interest on bonded debts;
prtlon of their property has
'uaced to judgment, and time
'u'ion has arrived. The COM
AIMS that by abandonment Of
: 'ne debts could be liquidated
they desire to do.
.'cedale meeting was in pro-
INST these claims, and to take
prevent the abandonment of
''so' and insure, if possible,
's'siul operation and develop !
'Qei new owners. I
oyrd, a merchant of Luce
o the meeting to order, :
".ssed pride that Lucedale l
's''alnlng SO representative . o
D. J. Mcintosh of Moss d
!" NAMED chairman, and Mr.. 5
ili Of Lucedale, secretary.
y N his address, explained e
's'lroad as at present was v
s''tsy the name. and that C
: aneible should result C
|. meeting. s
a'osn said that contrary to "
- claims, the people had o
With them; that the peo- n
lie had foregone its right a
- Its entrance to their
the railroad could not p
Inse. He said that the t,
Z ssfe In deplorable condi- il
'soed rehabilitating, and Il