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THE RALEIGH EVENING TIME'S: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1906. MUCH INTERESTING DATA IN CORPORATION COMMISSION'S REPORT (Continued from First Page.) killed and 1,051 injured by the same cause, showing an Increase of casual ties of twelve killed and 264 injured. Freight Service. Perhaps the most important item to the shipper is the character of the service rendered by the railroad com pany. We regret to say that the ser vico in the handling and the trans portation of freights has been steadily growing worse for more than a year. It has grown so bad that it is not uncommon for it to take a month to get a shipment from one point to an other in the state, notwithstanding the heavy penalties incurred by such delays, ami the, business interests of the sate are being seriously crippled. Every shirfpfer has felt the burden im posed by such service, and it has cost thom in the aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars. Numerous complaint are being made for the lack of crers for out going business, and the commission has done all it can to relieve the situ ation, but most of these cars are needed for interstate traffic, over which we have no legal control. Many lumber plants are being seri c.:sly hampered and some are being but down for lack of cars. One shipper alone needs today 200 cars and has needed ten per day every day for two months, but has not bqen able to get them. It Is true that the railroad com panies have added greatly to their yards and side-tracks and have pur chased a considerable amount of roll ing stock, but their track facilities are still inadequate and they claim that they cannot purchase enough ro:'.ing stock, and that the demand foi cars and locomotives is so great all over the country that it is neces sary to place orders with tbo :uc:iu fa'iurers months ahead. It seems that the tailroad companies have gradually abandoned the old custom of making thleir own equipment and are entirely dependent on the manu facturers foi it. It is probably bet tor for thm to purchase cars and locomotives, if they can get them when wanted, than it is to build them in theiryown shops, but the commis sion doves not think this relieves them from the obligation to obtain the equipment necessary to take care of the traffic offered, and if the railroad company cannot buy a sufficient quan tity they should build it themselves. The congestion of less than carload business at junction points is another source of delay and loss to the ship pers. In many instances the freight depots are inadequate and the cleri cal force too small. If the ra'llWiH companies would spend enough of their revenues to prepare them to promptly and safely handle the traf fic, their profits would then far ex ceed their present proportion of the gross earnings, and the prosperity of the entire state would be greatly en hanced. Local Train Service. In this respect the commission's former report and recommendations are renewed. From no source comes mere justly cause of complaint. The local service, in the opinion of the commission, is subordinated to the through; this is remarkably so in the service of passenger trains. The trains on which the local travel is wholly dependent are the identical trains scheduled over hundreds of miles for the convenience, in its con nection and in other respects, of the through travel; hence, the transpor tation of the local passenger is de pendent on the movement of the through train and is subjected to the multiplicity of delays incident to long distance runs. A local passenger service cannot be satisfactory or ade quate when it is irregular and un certain and the interests of the local passenger served only secondary. The passenger thus served, in the very nature of things, must sustain great loss of time aad means on account of extra expense. This is equally true of the through travel. "Through trains" is a mis nomer, if they are scheduled to stop for the local passenger at every sta tion alo'ng the route, and the service becomes tsdiouS and belated trains is the result. There is a reasonable and just demand for more local passen ger trains. At present nearly all pas senger trains are regulated by the schedule of the through. Since the COZY HOMES tore o o :.' Your home can be made more comfort- l able than ever before if you have a Perfection Oil Heater. You can carry it about and can quickly make warm and cozy the rooms and hallways that the heat from the other stoves or fur nace fails to reach. There is no other heater so handy, so clean and simple as the PERFECTION Oil Heater (Equipped with Smokeless Device) Hundreds of thousands now in use and giving per fect satisfaction, f erfection Oil Heaters, equipped with the smokeless device, are all that the name implies. A trial will convince the most skeptical. Turn the wick as high or low as you can there's no danger. Gives intense heat, Two finishes nickel and japan. Brass oil fount beautifully embossed. Holds 4 quarts of oil and burns 9 hours. Every heater warranted. If not at your dealer's write to our nearest agency for de scriptive circular. THE, sideboards. ' I wire mattresses or springs, chairs, mir rors, chair stock, veneering, wooden seat stools, tobblns, shuttles and spools, vinegar, kraut, pickle and other barrels, tobacco baskets, delivery wa gons, and on all roads comprism? the Southern Railway Company on less than carload shipments of apples, beets, onions, potatoes., turnips and cabbage. .We think passenger rates are too high and should bo reduced, but wc be lieve it should be definitely settled first whether we are to continue, the , only state in the union, to require both first and second class accommodations. Two years ago the commission felt that If first and scond class lares were abol ished and one fare established instead, passenger rates could and ought to be reduced, and they so reported to his excellency, Charles 15. Aycock, who re commehded this course to the legisla ture of 1905, and bits were introduced to thatSitect. These failed to pass, however, toeeans, of the failure to agree on the 'fate for one fare, and the ques tlon of one or two fares will be regard ed as stil unsett.il. The commission thinks this question ought to be settled because if is very evident that a lower rate can he established and maintain ed with one fare than with two. The passenger tiaftic and earnings have increased pine,' these recommen latlonswere made. and a lower rate can v made 'now than at that time. This ll'.iUIU. the commission has been presenting this bery, furniture (including subject in its annual reports and pressing the matter before the rail way companies, some progress has been made, notably the service by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Com pany from Springhope to Rocky Mount and to Selma, and from Tar boro to Kinston; by the Seaboard Air Line Railway from Wilmington to Hamlet, and from Raleigh to Wei don; by the Southern Railway Com pany from Salisbury to Asheville, and from Greensboro to Ramseur. In every case where a local train has been employed with the special purpose of serving the people along its route, good results have come to the road providing it, as well as to the rmhllc usine it. ' We d'6,nt'' minimize the import ance of through trains. It is abso ltttely necessary if) .-ma lie provision for this immense rvolume of traffic; but the importance of the local travel is emphasized when compared with it. The number of passengers han dled by the railroad companies in the state for the year ending June, 1906, intrastate, is 4,462,327; inter state, 1,SS5,84 9. The three princi pal roads in the state report that for the same period they transported intrastate passengers, 3,918,688; in terstate, 1,467,051; that intrastate earnings were $2,707,119, and inter state earnings were $1,992,435. If the freight service of the state was undertaken without local trains, the result would be disastrous; even the tendency to make the movement of local traffic of secondary consider ation would congest every spur, side track and yard, and already there are penalty statutes requiring prompt movement of local freight to provide against such a course. A five per cent or a ten per cent reduction of a rate on any particular classification would avail the shipper but little if the shipment he desired to make was not allowed to go for ward, and while his carload stood on the side-track, his competitor, enjoy ing a gateway rate, would, by the facility of a through train, place his shipment into the hands of the local trade. The industrial conditions of the state are now such that the facilities and time employed in transportation are an important factor to the suc cess of almost every business. Litigation. The Belmn connection, case, referred to in our last annual report as pending in the supreme court of the United Slates, wa sargued in February but as yet no decision has been announced. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company mode reports to the commis sion monthly, showing revenue earned by this train and the visible expense of its operation, and at a loss there was a net profit.' ovet visible expense of $2,873.06 for the yeai ending October 31st, 18"C; and U5,7vS passengers were accommodated ' by this train. The case of .Southern Hail way Com pany against the Corporation Com mission, also referred to in our last re t us penning in tne supreme . cout t 01 year the average senger per mile Lino Railroad wi Seaboard Air Lin cents; and 'on tin was 2,508 cents, paid her passvmrt roads was 2,474 c Some members -bly having expt i s amount of rediu rate should be fix commission has tain and liicorpor fast as practuaM paid per pns- Atlantlc Coast s 2.65 cents; on the Railway was 2.3S2 Southern Railway The average amount i- per milo on all fits. if the general asscin- d a desire that til" in of the standard by the statute. Ill 1 .tvored to asc-er- in this report, as all the statistics -lion, and have re ad companies to mane report of June 30th, f the total earnings , and a full and to;n le inter and intrastate cly, which had only fore in their quarterly qt in of banks is constant- iiportance. This yeai ;lc:id nf cilieiatinsr -"'J li om lmo ouice in the best all-round household lamp made. Its light giving power is unexcelled. Easy to operate and absolutely safe. Equipped with latest improved burner. Brass throughout and nickel plated. An ornament to any room, whether library, dining-room, parlor, or bed room. Every lamp warranted. Write to our nearest agency if not at your dealer's. STANDARD OIL COMPANY EUREKA LAUNDRY. -9 v T k QUICK AND RELIABLE SERVICE ALL PHONES THE CIllZtNS NATIONAL BANK RALEIGH, N. C. With ample resources, respect fully offers its services to the people of this section. JOSEPH G. BROWN, President; HENRY E. LITCHFORD, Cashier. I the United States, was argued in April and decided on May 2Sth, adversely to the ' commission. The court decided: "An order of a state corporation com mission compelling a railway company engaged in interstate commerce to de liver cars containing Interstate ship ments beyond its right of way to a pri vate Siding is an unlawful interference with interstate commerce, whelhci Viewed as an assertion by the commis sion of its general powers over c;. filers, or of its power to make the older in a particular case in favor of a given person or corporation." It will be not ed that the court emphasized the fact, which appeared in the case, that the private siding at which Southern 1 tail way was ordered to deliver cars was Lcyond the tight of way of laid com pany, in the opinion the court uses the following language: "Without at all questioning the right of the state of North Carolina, in the exercise of Its police authority, to confer upon an ad ministrative agency the power to make many reasonable regulations concern ing the place, manner and time of de livery of merchandise moving in th channels of Interstate commerce It i.' certain that any regulation of such subject made by the state, or under its authority, which directly burdens in terstate commerce, is a regulation ol such commerce, ami repugnant to tin constitution of the United States." Another decision was made at th same term of the court in case of Hous ton & Texas Central Kailroad Com pany vs. John A. Mayes, the principle of which is of Importance to our ship pers, namely: "When applied to inter state shipments, the provision of Tex. Rev. Stat. arts. 4497-4500, as amended by Acts 1899, p. fi7, which penalizes the failure of a railway company to fur nfeft cars to a shipper. within a certain number of days after the latter's re quisition in writing in the sum of $25 per day for each car not so furnished and admits of no excuse except such as arises from "strikes" or other public calamity. Is ap unconstitutional regu lation of interstate commerce. Thees two cases show some of the dif ficulties with which shippers and con signees of Interstate shipments have to contend. Work of the Commission. The work of the commission has been constantly increasing. Last year there were 387 cases docketed and disposed of; thisyear there have been 625 cases, an increase of 61 Ms percent. Several thousand dollars, most of which In small sums, have been caused' to be paid or refunded to complainants, A number of depots have been ordered to be repaired or built, some of which have been completed. All freight rates have been reduced to the standard on tho Atlantic & Yadkin Railroad, and the fertilizer rate has been reduced to the standard on the East Carolina Railway. Some reduction in the differ ent commodity rates has been made every month this year, including rates on warehouse trucks, grinding or cor rugated rolls, building tile and hollow brick, common brick, trees and shrub- boarlng on this quired the ralln in their annual 11)06, a return i within the stat plete report of t earnings; scpara been done hcreti reports. The snpervlsi ly increasing in i there are 264 bank-; with $4S,307,488 re :nuces against :'."') banks with $41.0.. 539 resources last year, being an in crease of 2S banks with $7,211,919 re sources. During tie year forty-live new banks have been chartered and two banks have been liquidated. When we remember that each of these banks are required to make five reports each year and that tin- bank examiner makes at least one more, making six in all for each Bank, no can get some idea of the volume of the work. The combined work of the office has grown beyond the clerical force and our very efficient chief clerk is obliged at times to employ additional help. iO.COO letters have been mailed r and more than one milion words of testimony taken in shorthand by our stenographer. The state is-Vortunnte in having the entire worl-. of this department accomplished at a cost of $11,640. The work of th lax commission alone in those state which have a tax commissi on cost then nearly double the entire cos', of this de partment. Attention has be?n called in this let ter to several matters over which the Corporation Commission had no power or control. In order to remedy this de fel In "Vhe law wc tespectfuly recom mend that the Corporation Commission act be amended so as to authorize mpower the Corporation Commls lo make such order for the repair any railroad, or any addition to rolling f lock, ol- any . addition or provemcnt Iri the ec;ulpm.et of transportation line, or any chani the mantii r of operating the other transportation line aad Inj; Its business to promote tin ilrid convenience of the t ravelin; so that tiie Corporation Co shall have the same powers thorlty over telegAph and t companies as it tins over railroads, far as the same may be applied. Respectfully submitted. KUANKUN McNElU.. Chairman ! SAM. !. ROGERS, E. C. BEDDINGFIELP, Com inissioneis nd its Inr oads or onduct- loeurlty nubile; miBSlon nd au-lephune JURY GAVE $2,0011 LESS THAN ASHED After being out for about one hour the jury in the case of tho American Locomotive Company vs. inc Weldon Lumber Company returned a verdict ; allowing the plaintiff the sum of $3, 500 without interest. Suit was insti- tutcd for $5,00 with Interest for two ; years. .o denial was made of the work j being don, but it was contended that . the charge was unreasonable. The case was beg-un Monday and was con- i eluded yesterday fternoon, having i been given to the jury about live' 'clock. Tie verdict was returned one Mir later. Court was convened this morning ' and a motion was made to set the j verdict aside, which motion was over- ruled and judgment given. While no specific statement was made in re gard to tcklng an appeal, sixty days Is allowed to decide what course shall be pursued. This completed the present term of the court and a recess was taken until the 21st of Jaryaary. A Western Wonder. There's a Hill at Bowie, Texas, that's twice as big as last year. This wonder Is W. L. Hill, who from a weight of 90 sounds has grown to over 180. He says; 'I suffered with a terrible cough, and doctors gave me up to die of Consump tion. I was reduced to 90 pounds, when I began taking Dr. King's New Discov ery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Now, after taking 12 bottles, I have more than doubled in weigh and am completely cured." Only sure Cough and Cold cure. Guaranteed by all druggists. 50c and 1.00. ' Trial bottle free. WE HAVE PUT ON SALE OUR ENTIRE STOCK IIWMW'WIll'illlMIMillMillillWiffintTl Mil II llll Illll'i mmWBrWtMfm .nil Of Ladies' $3.00 and $3.50 Shoes and Oxfords, ranging in ' ' size from 2 to 3ii, at the low price of. $2.00 Men's $4.00 and $5.00 Oxfords at only $2.00 No such money-saving prices on Shoes were ever be fore offered here. S. C. POOL, RALEIGH, IN. C. STOCKS AND BONDS FOR SALE ' 1 or 20,000 N. C. 6's, 129. t , - ft'! c. 1 or 21,000 N. C. 4's, 1910'n. 5 or 1,000 Erwin Preferred 0 105$. 1 or 2,000 Neusc River 75. 3,000 Elmira 8 Per Cent Preferred 102 & interest. 5 or 35 Odell 90. 1 or 3 North State Five 125. 1 do not advertise anything I cannot deliver. I do not publish quo tations, but guarantee to sell as low as same can be bought for, and oftener less than you have to pay. If you want to buy, give me a show. If you want to soil, I will buy any of above at a lesa price. c. Mcdonald, RALEIGH, N. C. SAVE $1O0 at least by taking advantage of our great REMOVAL SALE. We are building a new store, 112 Granby St.. which will be ready about Janurtry next, and we will not move a single piano from our present store to the now one. This Is just sentiment with us. Everything must be bran new, so we are making special low prices on some fine instru ments, just to carry our "All New" point. YOU WILL SAVE ENOUGH OX THE PIANO TO PAY. FOR THE MUSIC LESSOXS. In addition to our own peer less pianos, wo have a few of other makes taken in exchange to go at well, $-10 and up. Better see about these. HEMEMHER AVE MAKE TIIE ST1EEP, "THE PIANO WITH THE SWEET TOXE." INVESTIGATE. STIEFF 66 Granby St., Norfolk, Va. GEO. S. NtVJSEAR, Mgr. Send for descriptive booklet aad prices. NOT TOO EARLY TO TELL YOU THIS IS pa 'REMARKABLE QFFEh Of tho city for the selecting of gifts for men and boys. Everything that is best in Gloves, Neckvyeaf, Umbrel las, Mufflers, Handkerchiefs, Smoking Jackets, Bath Itobes, etc., and a fine Hue of splendidly tailored Cloth ing at unusually reasonable prices. LEE & HOUGHTON. Remit us $2.60 for four full quarts, or $4.95 for eight full quarts, and we will ship you express prepaid, our famous Ef MAIZE CORK WHISKEY PUT VP II KIT PUU PACKAGE. 0 This la the product of the mountain stills of North Carolina, and la rich in quality aad flavor, made smooth and mellow by age. After you've tasted it. If you're not satisfied that it's the best corn whiskey for the money you've ever had simply cork ur the opened bot tles, ship back express collect, and we will re fund your money. Ask any bank in Richmond as to our reliability. THE PHIL. 0. KELLY CO., INC. RICHMOND, VA. Write for free booklet. Add60cts.taabov prices for shipment beyond Miss. Hver. BWWMI8BI Florida Oranges, SOc. dozen; three pound Canned Pie Peaches, 10c; three pound Canned Peeled Peaches, 12c; three pound Canned Tomatoes, 10c; two pounds Canned Tqmatocs, 7 He; two pound Canned Okra, 7c; two two pound Canned Okra and tomatoes, 7V6c; two pound Cann ed Okra, Corn and Toma toes, 7'4c; two pound Can Okra, 7c, Concentrated Tomatoes, for Soup, 5c; Mixed Vegetables, two pound cans, 10c; Prunes, 10 and 1214c; four pounds Pigs Feet, 26c; Grape Fruit, 7Hc; Lemons. 20c. a dozen; three pound Can Pearo for Table, 10c' These are extraordinary bargains. Stdmpa with cash purchases. J. B. GReen Co. WHO'S YOUR TAILOR? :0: w E WANT to meet and deal with the man who is fastidiously particular about his clothes. Just to show him what comfort and pleasure he can have from the scientific, painstaking tailoring that we are able; to offer our customers. We make clothes that retain their shape as long as they are worn, and clothes that wear as long as they are in style. We cut the garment for the man who orders it, and we make it on our personal guarantee, covering quality, fit and correct style. We always show the latest offerings in woolens. Will 70U call and see them? A. C. HINTGIM, NOETH CAROLINA'S FOREMOST TAILOR. Rooms 209, 210, 211 and 212, Carolina Trust Building. Raleigh Investment? Co. Securities of all kinds bought aud sold. MONEY TO LOAN. C. N. FREEMAN, Secretary. Office: Capital Club Building. MISS KATE C. SlilPP, Teacher's Diploma CamDrldge Dnlv'r PRIVATE TUTOR. Cor. Wilmington and 1ano Sts., RALEIGH, K. .
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