Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1921-05-24
GIVE MANY REASONS TO SUP.
PORT THEIR CAUSE.


PROPONENTS TELL WHY THEY
WANT TO CHANGE CHARLES
TOWNS NAME.
Charles Town citizens who want the
name of the town changed have given
their reasons for it in letters and in
terviews for publication. These rea-
sons are so umerous that we have
space for only a few of the more m
portart ones.
f. d. Early, agent for the Norfolk
& Western Railway Company in
Charles Town says he has carefully
examined the latest authentic railway
guide and firds there is only one
Charles City in the United States To-
Gated on a railroad, it is in Iowa,
Charles City, Va. can be reached only
bv beat. No confusion could arise
from having two towns of the same
rame in Virginia and West Virginia.
Again. he says there is not a day IN
the year but we receive here by
freight or express something Tor
Charleston, or receive something from
Charleston for Charles Town.
In giving a brief outline of the EN-,
barrassments they have encountered
within the past eight months alone,
the Washington, Alexander & Cooke
Company. write that in rebuilding
their fertilizer factory, eleven out. OF
13 cars of lumber, shipped from the
south and all billed correctly. went
to Charleston. A man had to be sent
to Charleston to have one of the cars
removed from the yards there: An
overhead track shipped from Pitts
burgh, went to Charleston, causing a
delay of 80 days in the work, and re-
curing the company to pay tore
man who came to superintend the in
stallation of the track $40 a day while
waiting. -,
Freight and express shipments bill
ed to them and being shipped to Char
lesion have been the source OF an
novarce and losses for thirty years to
the A. Goetz Company. The mis-
routing of shipments to Charleston
has been of almost daily occurrence.
The additional cost of this would, they
estimate, figure many thousands OF
dollars to say nothing of the incon-
venience. loss Of business and non
employment.
A car of wire hoops for the manu-
facture of apple barrels, shipped to the
Jefferson Cooperage Company went to
Charleston last fall resulting in loss
to the company and apple growers as
well. The company's trucks that had
been used for delivering barrels to the
orchards of the county were dispatch
ed to other barrel factories in quest OF
hoops. one trip beirg made as far as
Stanton, Va. "This one car the
company's letter says. Caused us
loss in hauling. caused the apple grow
er loss by delaying his barrels, made
, more freight on the car, in fact, the
loss at that time could not be esti'
mated in dollars and cents"
"The foregoing is just one instance
in the season of 1920. There were
r several other like cases, and these have
been continuing since 1897, the yea
we started operations in Charles Town
Losses due to such errors run int
hundreds of dollars"
Numerous instances of losses be
: cause of freight shipments addressed
: plainly to Charles Town and going t.
; Charleston are reeited in a letter from
: the Charles Tean Garage. A CARLOAD
: of Oakland - from Pontiac, Michi
, gan glidex fly onto the side track
: at CharlesSm and remained there TO
r weeks. The Garages customers VIII
, had ordereS the cars cancelled the Or
ders a. Fdght other makes OF ma
! chin gsides losing the sales, TIL
proprietors had to pay al
;ght. bill of $50.
g. L. Robinson Ice ard Col,
.ge Corporation has kept recor'
shipments of freight and expires
addressed to them, that went to Char
! lesion. These wandering shipment
,, included coupon books from Minnea
, polls: waste from Pittsburgh; cor,
pipe covering from Philadelphia; tel
, drums of ammonia from Baltimore
three barrels of oil from Philadelphia
pipe from Pittsburgh; two shipment
of truck repairs from Philadelphia
truck repairs from Pontiac, Michigan
ice cards from Minneapolis.
Mail complications on account of tn
similarity in the names Charleston
and Charles Town were adverted t,
in a communication from John B
:. Brazier, vice-president and genera
manager of the Powhatan Brass an,
} Iron Works in Ransom. 1.-THE record
! of the postoffice department" Nh
: Brazier writes, "show, when Ransol
. applied for a post office, that by &C
tual count between 1900 and 1000 let
! tiers per week, properly addressed t,
Charles Town were found to have gon,
J to Charleston by error of the various
post Office department clerks and hat
to be returned. This condition no
! only still exists but is worse as tn,
, writer himself has seen and can voucl
for the fact that out of five pouche.
. of mail and two parcels post package!
. leaving on morning train for Stras
burg, from the Charles Town post of
flee, four of the pouches and the tive
parcels were mail received on tha
morning and addressed to Charleston
Improperly sent to Charles Town ant
was advised by the carrier that thi!
was a regular occurrence and that OF
many days the returns were larger
at is truS< y these errors are OF
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as yet been n ASeni
conditions are
tinue. The BUSH
ferer and throug
public; if it is then
conditions continue an
suffer directly or indirA