The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-09-15
TRANSPORTATION.
Saturdays Session of the Senatorial
Committee in New York.

! NEW YoRK, Sept. 13.-The Senatoria
Committee on Transportation resumet
their session to-day. Senator Windon
and President Hayes, general manager
of the Blue Line, made supplementary
statements. After showing that tht
local traffic in short hauls cost more
in proportion than the traffic in loca
hauls, he said the through lines that In
tended to cheaper transportation TO pro
ducer and consumer. were compelled te
inaugurate the system Of through freight
age. In reply 10, the question with re-
gard to the receipt given without averag
ing the amount contained in the car.
Hays says there are many points at which
railroad companies are too poor to build
warehouses. Private persons own these
warehouses, and sometimes the land
around them, and are purchasers oi the
produce they handle and load their own
property. When itarriyes at station 1t
passes from the hands of the railrond
companies into the hands Of persons not
connected with the roads. Therefore
companies neither weigh In or out from
an elevator owned by railroad company
loading a given quantity and eending 1t
to Boston or any other point. Where the
company owns the elevator and It Is
weighed out by tho company they have
guaranteed weight, deducting one per
cent for shrinkage. 1t was Hayes opin.
ion that II a company could receive and
discharge, they should assume the shrink.
age, so as to deliver tho quantity loaded
or its value. He also held that New
York must build elevators to meet the
competition of olhcr seaport towns {;
Otherwise New York must lose Its
business, as many OF the railroads center
ing in New York end in Jersey, while the
New York Central ends In New York.
There is consequently difference ofopin.
ion as to what point can be called New
York. Railway cUmpanioo claim that
New York IS where the road ends, from
where they discharge into barges in five
car load lots and deliver to any ship
warehouse or inspection yard. whether in
New York, Brooklyn or jersey City.
These barges are controlled entirely by
persons outside OF the railroad companies.
The expense oi this ranges from 90 cents
TO one dollar per ton, for which neither
the producer nor consumer pays anything.
This Is one of the Credit Mobilier ar
rangements, by which companies pay but
get nothing In return. The railroad com.
panies are compelled to compete with
other lines centering in other towns.
Hayes read brief paper showing that
no section OF the country is more pros
porous than the western country, not.
withstanding the cries OF the oppression of
railroad monopolies.
A delegation from cheap transportation
made q statement with regard to railroad
monopolies, their control OF water fronts
and their legislative jobbery.
Mr.. Walker, Siatistician Of the Produce
Exchange, said the two promised CON-
peting routes will be through the State Of
New York and through the st. Lawrence
roate. The State ol New York must be
prepared to meet the competition
by the st. Lawrence route at q rate
not to exceed ten cents per bushel from
Chicago TO Montreal. The remedy for
exorbitant rates is the improvement Of
the water routes and increased facilities
by rail. Many lines are now doubling
their tracks, and they can scarcely do SO
fast enough. Canals since 1887 have
transported over $700, 100000 worth OF
property, and have produced revenue
sufficient to pay for themselves. The ton.
mage Of canals for twenty.three years has
been more than double the tonnage Of all
the vessels entering the port Of New York.
The greatest capacity Of canals TO move
property Is estimated at 100000 tons,
a lock should be able to accommodate q
boat Of z, 600 tons. 49,