| From the Southern Confederacy (Atlanta,
Ga.) |
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| May 5, 1863 |
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| W. & A. R. R. -- The 25 cents
Extra {Western & Atlantic RR} |
| Small abuses from their
insignificance too often pass unnoticed by the public, and therefore
remain uncorrected. |
| The undersigned have thought
proper to expose, over their own signatures, an abuse which is said to
be of frequent occurrence on the State Road, to wit: the extra charge
of 25 cents to parties without tickets. |
| With a number of others we
took passage at a depot on the 1st inst. Before starting we sought the
agent to procure tickets, but he was not at his post. We therefore
could not procure tickets; yet were required to submit to the petty
injustice of an extra charge. We say injustice, not that we object to
the rule itself, which may be right and proper; but because the means
for complying with it were not furnished us. |
| We therefore make known the
fact, not that we care for the amount, which to us individually was of
course not worth the trouble of this notice, but that the Railroad
authorities may know and correct the abuse; and that the people of
Georgia, for whose benefit and comfort the Road was constructed, may
no longer be taxed on account of the carelessness and negligence of
railroad agents. |
| R. C. Word |
| J. O. Scott |
| Wm. Gore |
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