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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>February 9, 1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>THROUGH TRAINS FROM CHARLESTON TO
NORFOLK</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Virginian Railway Will Begin to Operate on Regular
Schedule First of March</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> The Daily Telegraph learned yesterday through
a reliable source that the Virginian Railway has at last completed traffic
arrangements by which they will commence on the 1st of March to operate through
trains between Charleston, W. Va., and Norfolk, Va. The new railroad has
made some rapid strides since the new management took charge of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad [sic] and the arrangement by which they will be able to
operate through passenger trains over the Chesapeake and Ohio railway with their
own cars from Charleston to Deepwater, was really a mighty business arrangement,
as up to the present time the new railroad has been persistently fought by the
Chesapeake and Ohio. It is understood, according to the story, that
commencing with the first of the month the Virginian Railway will run a
passenger train from Charleston over the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to
Deepwater, whence they will make the run to Norfolk over their own line.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Mail contracts have been closed and every
arrangement completed for the running of through trains. Although every
effort was made yesterday by the Daily Telegraph to learn further concerning the
story nothing more definite than that conductors have been told that their runs
will be from Charleston to Roanoke could be learned. This of course means
that the new line will operate its own trains and crews along the stretch of
twenty-one miles from Charleston to Deepwater. It would almost lead people
to believe that Edwin Hawley and his partners bought the controlling interest in
the Chesapeake and Ohio so as to secure privileges for H. H. Roger's new road,
and this recalls the true story that John D. Rockefeller told a number of people
publicly that if H. H. Rogers needed assistance he could get it from his friend,
John D. Rockefeller. It may also mean another link in the chain which
Rockefeller, Whitney and Ramsey proposed building from the Atlantic to the
Pacific but which was rudely interrupted when Harriman secured the control of
the Gould lines by his assistance to George Gould's Pittsburg-Wabash terminal
deal.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>The mention of through service from Charleston to Norfolk
ignores the change of trains required in Roanoke.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>