Old Dominion Failure
Hurts Elizabeth City, Too. . . Discontinuance of Steamers Between Norfolk and New York Will Embarrass
Many Shippers
The Old Dominion Steamship Co., for years the principal
carrier of fish and truck from Norfolk Va., to New York City, has been sold out
and the service practically abandoned. The announcement to this effect is as deeply
regretted by Elizabeth City and section as by the city of Norfolk itself. It
was via Old Dominion steamers that most of our fish, potatoes and other produce
moved to the New York markets, usually enabling local shippers to put their
goods on the New York market a day earlier than by rail freight.
President H.B. Walker of the Old Dominion line met with the
Chamber of Commerce of Norfolk Monday of this week and admitted to that body
that his company was “down and out,” having operated at a loss for many months,
its surplus wiped out. “There is nothing for us to do but to dissolve,”
declared President Walker. The Norfolkians appointed a committee to see what
could be done toward relieving the serious situation which confronts the truck
growers of that section, since the Old Dominion will no longer serve those
important interests.
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