Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-05-02
Early Rrnlt rrnlna.
TEE TRANSPORTATION OF OUR DELAWARE rsurrs
TO NEW YORK.

| TO NEW YORK.
NEw York, April a..
To The Editor of the Commercial;
wish to urge upon the small fruit growers Of
the Delaware Peninsula to cooperate, heartily
this Spring, with the Railroad authorities in The
provision of speedy fruit trains to carry ouI
| fruit to market, and arrive before 3, A. M.
| addressed note TO Mr.. Kenney Superin.
tendent Of the Delaware r. R., a few days since
urging tho importance Of this subject upon hiE
| attention, and requesting him to accommodate
| as far as possible. received a reply from him
to-day, in which he kindly says
In reply to yours of the Gath, / may state
that have written TO different parties as to the
| time they preferred to send berries, and have
arranged to get them to Gray's Ferry by OF
| $3.50 p. NJ, 80 that zee no reason why the
| Pennsylvania X r. should not deliver them in
| New York by A. M"
wish to urge a few important points upon
the fruit growers, TO induce them to assist Mr..
| Kenneys plan AZ far as possible
LIST. Let the Railroad people, this year. ar
| range the time Of trains themselves. 80 as TO
| secure rapid and punctual delivery in New York
Last year, the growers wished the trains suited
to their picking time, and a result the trains
were to hours late, majority Of the time.
End. 1t is Of more Importance to the fruit
growers TO get their fruit in early, than TO clamor
for q longer picking period. lost, last year,
$500 from fruit because it arrived too late in
the market and to my certain knowledge other
fruit growers lost in the same proportion. |
calculated the loss, last Spring, to the Delaware
fruit-growers. from late trainR, at Sl5, ,00O One
train alone lost 5000.
3rd Whenever the fruit train arrives late.
prices decline to cts. per quart. kemembor
that the market houses are open every early and
grocers come TO market at $3.50 p. NJ, and il
there is no fruit ON hand they go away without
buying it. II you want good prices fer your fruit
De on time. and ret your fruit here while you can
find purchasers. 1t is folly to think that the pur
chasers will tcdd for you Another thing to be
remembered is that it takes from three-fourths
to one hour to transfer the fruit from Jersey
City to New York.
4th There will be an enormous qAantity of
berries sent to market this Spring, estimated by
some to be double the product of last year. The
only safeguard you have against very low prices
is to take extra pains to get your fruit 10 early
II you do so, many grocer may be induced by
the commission merchant to double his usual
purchases. Those that buy but one crate will
take two three, and thus there is a steadness TO
prices. Early drr'iudls ioiH prerent disastrous
gluts. as the commission men will have time to
work Of any unusual quantity in other direc-
tions, and 80 save the fruit from total loes.
9th. large portion of the berries that arrive
here go out into the country. and thus a large
trade is created which increases yearly. II trains
are early, giving time 10 ship into the country,
this trade might be doubled. Thus your fruit
has competition for 1t. 1st, for the city trade,
and 3D. from the country trade. II your trains
are late, you cannot depend upon either helping
you, and your fruit will have to be sold to the
wagon boys at 10 cts or less per at.
9th If your picking should be large ship
part OF it upon the New York train and finish
the rest for the Philadelphia train. Do not i'm
peril your interests by trying to delay the New
York trains 80 as to get all your fruit upon it,
Suppose the total pckings of one man in one
day is 1900 quarts, and il he tried to ship all to
New York, and thereby delayed the train, you
might get but Is cents per quart, or only S225.
But II you were able to ship 1000 to New York
and thus helped the train to be early you can
depend upon twenty cents or 5000 The re-
manning 500 sent to Philadelphia will bring you
l6 to IL cents, or $50; or, in all. $3.50 gaining
sos, by helping to make the trains early
l urge all fruit growers this year to assist all
they possibly can in the m tier OF early trains
have endeayored to help th- matter with pen
and personal efforts for the past two years, and
think fruit growers begin 70 see the point in a
more favorable light.
have petitioned Mr. Kenney that in case the
lower Delaware or Maryland growers, can not
cooperate, or should delay the trains too much
that he will then allow the central Delaware
growers an opportunity to have a train Of their
own, which may go through to New York with
out waiting for the other.
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad have a
train which leaves Mantua at 0.55, p. M, and
| goes directly through to New York II is pro-
posed this year to connect the Delaware fruit
train with this. Last year the Delaware fruit
train did not often get to Mantua till 12, p M
and then had to follow another train the entire
| distance. 1t il imperative that the fruit train
| should be fully two hours ealler than last year.
| am yours truly,
| HENRY T. WILLIAMS
Editor the H0rticult,trist