The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-12-16
DELEGATES MEET
OFFICERS OF ROAD
Seek Service Similar to That Given
for Thirty Years Prior to 1918.


eftt snoon between the management
of the NJ, C. & st. L. Railway and
delegation of representative citizens
from Union City, Hickman, KY, and
Nashville, the matter of reinstating a
daily train each way between Hollow
Rock and Hickman was placed in the
hands of the traffic department of the
road for further investigation.
The out-of-town group of business
men who conferred with General
Manager w. P. Bruce on the subject,
composed Major ]. C. Burdick, Jr.,
H. M. oliver, Hugh Smith, II. A.
Bransford, Sam Brstton, all of Union
City, and C. L. Walker, of Hickman,
XIV. The Nashville men who attend
ed the conference and boosted the re-
instatement of the train, were Mayor
Felix Wilson, Charles s. Martin,
president of the Nashville Traffic
Bureau; Vernon Tupper, president OF
the Chamber of Commerce; J. H. Cor
bett, secretary of the State Railroad
and Public Utilities Commission; T..
M. Henderson, commissioner OF the
Nashville Traffic Bureau; Walter
Clarke, secretary-treasurer OF Phil
lips & Buttorff Manufacturing Com
pany; George Farmer, assistant cash
her of Fourth and First National
Bank; Green Benton, Ed F. Nenon,
II. e. Porter, Lee Douglas, Ivo Glenn
and John r. Jackson.
The train referred to was operated
between Hollow Rock and Hickman
for 80 years prior to 1918, when the
service was eliminated to curtail ex-
penses. The delegation from Union
City and Hickman claimed to Mr..
Bruce that no direct connections are
made at Hollow Rock now, thereby
placing that section one day further
from Nashville.
The management is asked to place
a train reaching Hollow Rock from.
Hickman at about a. M, to meet
the Memphis train moving to Nash
Vile and to authorize return train
at IL am. to Hickman, following the
arrival of the Memphis train coming
from Nashville In this way, it is
argued business men of that territory
may come to Nashville and return
home within the passing "a hours.
At present, however, three days are
required to mako the trip on account
of the poor connection at Hollow
Rock.
According to figures presented to
Mr.. Bruce, Nashville is farther away
from towns between Hollow Rock
and Hickman, in the matter of length
Of time necessary to make connec-
tions, than st. Souls, Cincinnati or
BIG TIME DIFFERENCE.
IT was stated that these towns are
only eight hours from st. Louis, IL
hours from Cincinnati, IL hours
from Louisville and 36 hours from
Nashville. This means, they stated,
that the other cities will get the bus
mess.
One of the delegates said that IL
two identical orders were sent at the
same time from Union City to Nash
Vile and St. Louis, respectively, the
atter would be received, filed, pack
ed and ready for shipment before the
syrmer had been opened. Orders to
st. Louis move over the Mobile &
ohio or the Illinois Central Railroad
It takes 36 hours to place an order
IN the receiving clerks desk in Nash
ville.
The reinstatement of the trains
would bring Nashville into closer
ouch with at least six additional
it was said, as follows: Car
.oll, Gibson, Weakley, Dyer, Obion,
lake and Fulton County, Kentucky.
1t was specifically pointed out by
he men that such service is partic-
llarly needed by the live stock ship
,ers. Since the trains were taken off
n 1918 the Union Stock Yards has
,een Cvganized in Nashville. Conse-
this city has come into the
imelight as live stock center, and
therefore, the number of shippers to
his city has increased proportionate-
v. 1t was argued that shippers
wish to go in person to the city to
which they have sent live stock.
Iowever, it was said, under the pre-
mt conditions, three days time must
e spent to make such trip to Nash
lille.
So anxious are the business men
or the new trains that they ex-
ressed willingness to do without a
art of the present service to secure
!. There are at present two trains !