The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-07-24

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and tvsniy.sir cans &C milk On wbieh
Cummings Baker 4 c. soeived foT
commissions a. .as aud an milk seBi
10 others. $il8l8. making iatal Of
sqllil0 which was uot bad 60 take
ia starting new business under such
dihcouraging circumstances Instead
d the railroad company refusing ia
help them, as be asserts, they wcr.
called upon TO Do al that was done iu
the way Of deductions. told Mr
Cummings that thought they ought
to take oI d part Of their commissions,
and thus help to start the business.
which was always met with a positive
refusal They have always charged
more commissions for selling milk thar
others were charging, and even more
than they were charging parties on the
liue of the Housatonic railroad. They
have even charged commissions or
milk that they dumped because it re-
manned on hand until sourcd
When asked by Mr. Cummings 70
make further allowance to help them Il
pay the rate named in the circulars,
have uniformly told him that the rail
road company would make any reduc
ton that they were willing TO make
from their commissions. That if they
would make a reduction Of ten cents q
can, we would do the same, but in all
eases has he refused 10 do anything o
the kind, except in one instance
where the bids were so low at one
station that he was ashamed to carry
them it, The amounts thus allowed
amounted TO about fifteen dollars on
their part. He claims that we arc
using their cars which is not the case
as they never owned a car that we
ever heard Of They fitted up few Of
our cars for ice, but even these we arc
not now using, He says that they &C.
B. 4 Co. putin their money to furnish
cans for the farmers. They cannot
show that they furnished a can that the
farmers have not paid them for All
that they did towards furnishing cans
for the farmers was to take their orders
and get commission from the manu-
facturers for 50 doing
Mr.. Cummings remarks in regard tC
Mr.. Tilden surprise me. He has al
ways used Mr.. Tildens' house as tho
it was his own, and has always found
in him warm defender He says, ID
the railroad company had lived up tC
their contract with US, there would
have been at this time, more than three
times the amount of milk being ship
ped over the road that there now is
In what respect have we failed tC
keep our contract? They started in
this bushes knowing that we had a
contract with the Harlem railroad com
pany, in which it was expressly stated
that the rate Of freight on milk should
not be less than two cents per quart
unless by consent of the Harlem rail
road company Now, instead of ou
getting two cents per quart, we only
get sixty-two and half cents per can
for the first ten months after the bust
ness was started. We have always
paid the Harlem railroad company forty
cents per can, leaving us only twenty
two and one half cents per can Of forty
quarts.
I Cummings, Baker & Go. made a con
tract with Vim. Butler Duncan, lessee
of the Harlem Extension railroad, t
build up a milk business on the line o.
this road, in which it is expressly stat
ed that if they shall fail to have a cal
load of milk by the first day Of Sep
TENDER, 1871, then this contract shall
be null and void. They did fail in Jan
uary, February, and March, 1872.
Notwithstanding the complaints Of
Cummings, Baker & Co, they are the
only parties who have made any money
out Of this business. They received
for commissions in 1872, $ll.S58 40
and for the use Of ice in cars on milk
going to other parties, SI,s73.30
making a total Of $lG.73l70 They
have now sold the business for large
sum, and ask us to pay them ten cents
per can on all the milk going to New
York from this road, The contrac
never contemplated any such thing
/ The contract with Mr Duncan wa
made for the purpose OF building I
milk business and giving Cummings
Baker q Co. the entire control, and tina
in case any one should refuse TO send t,
them, that then they should pay Ten
cents per can for the use Of ice and ca
fitted up by Cummings, Baker & Go
The $ls73.3O paid by the Harlem
Extension railroad company, last year
to Cummings, Baker Il Co., was IN con
sequence Of the business being done il
such manner that the farmers on th,
line Of the road lost all confidence il
them and refused to send TO them an1
longer The Farmers Milk company