Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-29
THE TRANSFER COMPANY.
Serious Charges TO be Met SquareIy
and Fairly.
A Chance for the Louisville Road and
Transfer Company to Explain.

Editors Appeal: l wish to call the
attention Of the business men of
Memphis to a dangerous monopoly, a
cancer upon the interests of Memphis,
her merchants and the planters along
vile Railroad-the Memphis City
Transfer Company, a company owned
by citizens Of Cincinnati and Louis
vile, and the Memphis and Louis
vile Railroad, and run in the interest
Of the Memphis and Louisville Rail
road. Let US look a little into the
workings of these corporations and
see if they have the interest of Mem
phis at stake.
The Memphis and Louisville Rail-
road, the self-cOnstituted agent OF the
merchant and farmer, with a great
flourish of trumpets, proclaim to their
| patrons that it will transport cotton
to Memphis, at so much per bale be
ing twenty-five cents more than the
regular tariff and charge nothing for
deiireTing IL to any shed o part Of the
city. Now this proposition at sight
bears on its face the seQblance Of fair
ness, but you come to look into it you
find il is not fair. The cotton trans
| ported over this road on its arrival
here is turned over to the Memphis
City Transfer Company, and it re-
| ceiVeS the extra charge of twenty
five cents per bale made by the
Memphis and Louisville Rail
road under its free deiiCsriRg
contract. This road does not tell you
at the time it is acting agent for you
that the very same cotton that the
Memphis City Transfer Company re-
ceives twenty-five cents per bale for
transporting, can, and will be deliver
ed TO any part OF the city, not free Of
charge, but for ttCeiUe. dad-d-hdlf cents
per bale. Does the Memphis x Louis
vile Railroad deal fairly with the
merchant and the farmer when, as
their agent, it pays twice as much for
! delivering as the merchant or farmer
| could have it done for? Now this
twenty-five cents paid- the Transfer
Company is excessive, OnerOus and
| highly oppressive, and IS an outrage
on the rights and privileges of our
business men and farmers which
! should not be borne or tolerated
longer. l repeat that if the Memphis
Il Louisville Railroad will give out
/ siders, citizens of Memphis, 4
| chance, the same cotton will be re-
moved by perfectly reliable parties
| at twelve-and-a-half cents a bale-a
| saving to the farmer of One-half.
The Memphis & Louisville Railroad
brings into the city annually 10000
| bales of cotton, which, at p cents per
| bale, as charged by the Transfer Com
panV, will be S10,O00-at I2l cents per
/ bale, as will be hauled by citizens OF
| Memphis, 5000, a saving to the far
mer of 5000, and to Memphis $1,000,
because IL riU be INFESTED i'm Memphis
and not in Louisville or Cincinnati
for wagons, harness and other yehi-
| Giles fof transportation,
The local and through travel is seri.
| ously and heavily taxed to support
this "paper worm" Before +. keck
q Bro. compromised with this compa-
nv two lines of buses piled between
| the Memphis and Louisville railroad
! depot and the hotels, and the fare was
! twenty-five cents per capita. After
/ the compounds the fare was imme-
diately raised to fifty cents, with the
boast of "no opposition" Twenty
five cents was the rate Of charges be-
fore the war, and we hear it said that
the travelling public can be aGcommo-
dated at those figures now.
Now, Messrs. Editors, we ask, will
the merchants allow their customers
10 be hoodwinked, and their pockets
rided in any such style IS thise VIII
they allow Memphis and the farmer
TO be robbed of their Just dues by the
false cry of d" free delivery" Will
they sit by and see Memphis pay trib-
ute to Cincinnati aud Louisville? The
knife must be used; the cancer mast
he .sgeyed that Memphis may -four
ish. MS not tHst @a love the Mem
phis City Transfer Company leS., but
Memphis more. Let us hear from
YOU, Messrs. Merchants. Let your pa
tfe.= see YOU are not sleeping while
their rights are being preyed upon;
MENPHIs, August ., ISIS.
I'VE have only to remark, as 70 the
charges Of our correspondent, that we
have no knowledge Of the tariff Qf the
Transfer Company, and less as TO any
agreement between the Louisville
Railroad and that Company, We
hope that either corporation will make
answer, and if possible satisfy our
correspondent and the mercantile
pubiiG.-EDS. APPEAL