Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-08-06

that Is, they arc the samo whether the
road does large business or a Fmall one. {
There are the station agents who must be !
paid just as much II only two trains pass
in day as when twenty go by. Expert
ence has also proved that road is not
safe unless il is patrollea and every foot
of il examined every day. Ii takes an
engineer, a fireman, conductor, nearly
as many brakemes, and about the same
amount Of coal TO run train Of 10 ears
as to run 20. All Of our roads have
bonded debt the interest on which must
be paid whether they do large business
or small one. Now we will suppose that
a certain road must earn 1000. 600 dur
ing the year in order to pay expenses,
and its local business brings it only $780,
600. II it has no other business, il either
must increase its local rates One-third or
lose s250,000. But therO is through
business that the road can get if it will
take it at half rates if more is charged,
it will either 60 some other way or not at
all. If the business is taken, the cxpen-
scs of the road will be increased, say,
sl00,0 900, but tho receipts will be in-
creased S50O.000. Now the road by
taking this business has made S4O0,
900, although the half million OF through
business has not paid expenses, as you see.
For, had all the business been done at the
rate that the through business was, the
company's receipts would not have been
only 1915, 900, while its expenses were
81, 100000. So, you see, these cheap
through rates not only benefit the pro-
Queer in the far West who is enabled by
them to get his grain to market, but they
also benefit the farmer in this State be-
cause they help to pay the expense OF run
ming the roads and in that way make II
possible to have lower local rates"
! "The farmers think thst they are in
some way injured by tho fast freight
! lines that are run over many ofthe roads,
=. | observed.
G alt is a mistake" was tho response
: "Thc stockholders in the roads may bC
n injured, but the farmers arc not. These
IS lines arc not used for grain, and their cx
istencc docs not effect the rates of cthc'
IS freight along tho road" He then ex
y plained to me how it was that so mucl
better time could be made by
|. fast freight line than by the ordinar.
% lines. Cars loaded by these lines at an.
&c point in the West are not unloaded unit
s. they reach their destination therefore
., when they arrive at Pittsburgh or Chico
II 70, they are ready to 60 on with the hrs
ID train. Ordinary freight has to bo checke
re out of the cars of one company and int
d, those of another at those points, and ma
II be delayed two or three days before til
at bills are ready.and the merchandise ca
as go on.
fd OF the charge OF unjust discrmln'
Oh tions," which the farmers bring again
ISL the railroads, We talked at consderab
We length. MY friend said there was 7
NJ doubt that the railroads of this State hu
IN been generally managed with view
nc getting business than to dacvclopement
'e, the country and to giving the farmers Il
gu greatest facilities. "But," he continue
IFS IL think con show you that many of Il
SIS determinations which the farmers thin
10 unjust are based on sound business prime
/, ples-that is, that we charge the high
f"0 prico for the service which it costs us I
!" :, more to give. And first, let me say til
=, our rolling-stock, our cars earn mcncy
: ' us only when they are in motion, F
' " instance, if tlain arrives i'll Chicago,
'> night, and remains until morning befo
it is unloaded, it. earns nothing durl
'"' those hours that it is standing Id
'"' while if it could be reloaded and start
- back tonight. it would earn as much.
-, M fore morning as it did during to-day. ln o
w er words, every hour that your cars sta
'''' idle or run over the road empty. they
''' incuring expense and making no retu
n.y. Now let me apply to two stations on
hey road and show you how it is that we
''he afford to carry freight longer d'stal
law for less rate, and | win leave out of
'un' account altogether the fact that com
lcre tion forces lis to do it at certain points
'au' lose the business.
81 81 will suppose train is made up in
e. cago to 60 down the road, and that
:, car is destined for Lexington. ll0 m
!, down, and one for Bloomington, l29 m
= down. When the train arrives at l
c,r. ington, the car destined for that place
rrn- switched off and left to be unloaded,
cause, of course, the train cannot wal
the it. Then it is probable that there viii
ex- only one-fourth of a load for that cal
=,