The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
First Decisions Since Return Of Roads Made By Commission

Coal Company ct al vs. Southern Railway
 to establish freight and passenger serv-
 ice from Gorgas to Parrish pending ef-
 fort of petitioner and defendant td
 reach an amicable adjustment.
 Granted petition of J. A. Shinn vs
 American Railway Express Company for
 free delivery and pickup service at
 Sylacauga.
 Granted petition of citizens of Clan
 ton to require Louisville and Nashville
 passenger train No. 1 to stop of flag
 at Clanton but declined to stop No. 4
 to operating difficulties.
 Granted petition of American Railway
 Express Company for permission to dis
 continue messenger service of Southern Railway trains Nos 25 and 26 between Anniston and Birmingham.
 Denied petition of Alabama Power Company to establish Twelves electric service at Guntersville and required twenty-four hours service.
 Denied petition of citizens of Del champs for order requiring Mobile and Ohio to establish agency station. Denied petition for agency at Rents on Atlantic Coast Line. Approved plans for Southern railway depot at Jasper. with certain qualifications, and called on St. Louis and San Francisco rail- road for additional set of plans. Fixed Monday. July 5, as day to near peIlllOH TOT OIueT TeQulTlHS w NeSl- ern and Central of Georgia railroads to construct adequate passenger sta tion at Opelika.
 The Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company will not be permitted to discontinue the transportation of freight in less than carload lots be- tween Birmingham and Bessemer and Birmingham and Ensley, but may make general increase of 25 per cent in freight rates and establish a mini mum charge of 50 cents under an or der of the public service commission this afternoon.
 Jurisdiction of the case was retained until August in order that the com pany show whether or not the in- creases are sufficient to meet the in- crease in operating cost. Citizens who have used the street railways freight service for many years opposed the petition for permission to discontinue 1t.
 The Louisville & Nashville railroad
 must re-establsh telegraphic service to twenty towns of Alabama which was discontinued when the Western Union Telegraph Company disposed of it's poles and wires to the railroad without authority of the pub lie service commission. The commits sion issued an order this afternoon directing the railroad to re-establish the service without delay. This means fight in the courts The railroad contends that 1t does not do commercial telegraphic busiAess, but the attorney generals depart ment, in a brief prepared by Harwell G. Davis, assistant attorney general, showed that the railroad, in advertis- ing during the controversy over the condemnation proceedings of the Western Union a few years ago, pub- licly declared it was in the telegraphic . business and competitor of the Western Union.
 Towns which will obtain telegraphic connections again if the order Is ef- fective are Camden, Monroeville, Gen. eva, Opp, Oneonta, Altoona, Beatrice, Corduroy, Ironaton, Mckenzie, Black, Berlin, Roy Springs. Wallace, Syca- more and Siluria.
 Another order of state importance handed down by the commission de- nied the petition of the Pullman Com pany for permission to make an in-
 crease of 20 per cent in the rates for berths, but granted the petition for an increase of 20 per cent in the rates for seats. This case was taken under advisement several weeks ago.