New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-14
THE GRAIN TRADE.
GRADING AND DELIVERY IMPEDED AT
THIS PORT.

GRADING AND DELIVERY IMPEDED AT
THIS PORT.
The RAILROAD COMPANIES UNWILLING TO MAKE
CONCESSIONS TO THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
TO THK DISADVANTAGE OF NEw-YoRK-A SYSTEM
WHICH WOULD GREATLY DEMENT, TIE GRAIN
DRAIERs-
The question of grading and delivering gram
has been the subject OF serious consideration among the
grain dealers the Produce Exchange, ana indeeu
throughout the country According to one oil the pes
authorities in the trade proper system OF grazing ana
delivering grain is alone required 10 make New YORK
the greatest grain port In the world The great increase
In the grain receipts renders IL absolutely essential that
new system should into effect In 1870 the grain
received from all sources amounted to 4s 66i busheis
by rail IN that the receipts l5lCo5s bushels
ls7s the receipts from all were 727i4s7o
bushels by rail the receipts wero 29,5s3o bushels
From JAN TO April 49, 1874 the receipts by rail- were
100000 bushels The absence OF proper terminal faoi-
this port has had much TO do with retardng the
growth OF the grain trade Suitable elevators have been
regarded essential the handling OF grain at this
port and this deficiency the NewYork Central Railroad
has already begun meet The Eric Railway purposes
build elevators and also TO improve Its terminal &C.
commodatons. SO necessary has the system
OF grain delivery become that the railroad
companies have Seen forced by competition TO
deliver grain "hShtersge free" alongside ships. Not
wthstandiug increase In the grain trade. the
grain dealers OF this city complain that NewYork has
been Disseminated against by system requiring
shipments OF dve OF kind Of grain
20 insure delivery "hghterage free" less than
being subject to Ghterage charges, whereas to
Boston. Baltimore, and Philadelphia single carload is
taken the regular tariff rates. Under the present
methods OF railroad transportation several days frequent
~ eapse between the arrival OF the first and the last car
Of consignment of Eve of grain. This renders 1t
elhcr to deliver In small quantities or TO hold
It, either in the track in boats until the arrival
OF the rest These delays expensive, and when
business Is done with such exacuess In the grain
trade 1t proves upon the carrier. inasmuch
prevents the unlo aiding Of on their arrival,
crowds the Track and increases the NUMBER VI DOats
Under present system each shippers grain must be
kent separate. plan 1naly proposed aud paper
submitted by H. I. Kneeland Tor grading Grain and
storing 1t temporarily in boats 1t proposed the esta
become the leading grades Of tue country and be
known in all European markets. and TO which enc trade
be weighed track scales and stored in beats rrespee
lively Of ownership OIL identity being lost rd in
would permit the consolidation OF conSignments
for immiate delivery negotiable receipts BENG issued
by the railroad companies, which were TO be allowed 10
deliver. Oh orders from the owners, any gram OF Tie
grade named m the receipts from any boat they chose,
Just as the grain elevator. The merits of
the plan conceded. Ii would furnish Immediate
nnsToaby the ppesen condition Of the export trlde
would relieve the merchant OF much labor. IL would
Ii wonld Establish one Of the sOuudet ~ stems of
housing grliu that was ever known. REPRESENTA-
Gves OF The three trunk railroads held repeat
sa, snaR the with sct sns E aea c%ns 3
a clause the proposed agreement which Limited the
railroad charges for elevdting unloading boats
imposins other charges than were preserlD5d By the
conference the railroads issued an order stating mat
subjected " hghterage charges.
A cvmmittee was appointed by the grain dealers with
&c ion The grain men repre- en.ed that. while the
thgle-car business was not relnunerauVe Oy
itself. either TO the carrier the merchants. yet
by opening communications with Interior ports and
Inducing shippers TO depend upon this market as ther
this during the past year mainly owing TO
the that the NewYork Central and Hudson River
Railroad aud the Eric dIl not enforce the rule OF ehar
ing liGhterage on small lots of grain Holding to the
opnlon that life Of the grain trade depends
largely upon ability OF this market to take all bust
fl red, whether OF small or LARGE lots ana ieeHnG
,ie grain dealers claimed that while handling nearly
lO0OoO bushels OF grain yearly they had no facilities
them to charge of ghtcrage OF from TO cents u
busnel aud when that eXp1ilse - a!dei 10 me ieA-,
the large buyers discriminate AGAINST small lots IN R
cbasug to the extent OF fuIy Genus Dishei 50 ihdt
of railway companies OF exactI1g hEhterage
results In prOhlmon Ot sicn traIhc schulus ~ 70
markets, whore there Il certainty more ther-
The grain believe that the establishment or the car
gram trade the bass OF shipments OF live car lots or
to other seabOard cities an NewIorA 10 The destruc
OF the great trade which the establishment Of
that even IL the railroads declined TO do TINS act OF mani
justice themselves mud 70 the merchants the
logical OF neir action demonstrated III The ian
falling oil In the movement or grain Dy raj dur
Ing the past mouth, largely owing 10 the very fact Of
winch conplain made would DO argument suiii
centy strong Conviction 10 tLcT minds, even
other arguments failed.
Tue representatives OF theailroads stated that the
tus rempOstOn Of lgnleragc were That II
requires time and switching for as for live
cars and fact more" Z" 1t Is the most expensive
business we have. performed loss. New York
Is better fl without such business than WIN Il "A
which the COmIUHtce did not cuncur As TO the
discOntuance Oh tie charge -thrtequarvrs OF cent
for unloading grain lichershe representatives OF the
railroads 1T cdu'6 De done. III you should Gd1
three quarters of cent to roads, tnat would make
the dilcreuce between Baltimore and NewIOrk, plus
quarters of Dushel and that would sJ0n
sunk out of sight and should lose H. These roads
ou West ought 10 pay their pr portion o hghteraGr,
and they viii Any attempt our part 10 impose
crimlnate against New-fOrk and we VIII be met WIN
response business at Baltimore or PAliadel
pnla rather than Ncw-Yura."
Tue Committee asked the railroad representltiVtsSt
tley saw a time in the futuro at which tarlH
could be made embracing all charges one rate with
should deliver property from shipper 10 merchant Ihe
railroad men said Wnen all Inc roads gct elevators Ii
will be TIE anywhere else, aud thcy VIII get
day.. storage" The Committee asked: Would The
Railroads wiling to adopt the canai custom OF GeH-
eTy,i C.. the lighters, the grain paying harOur
towing 2" Tue railroad officials si,d ave cannot
sumo any single additional expense deiYery."
the matter stands at present the railroads charge
hghterage the small lots Of grain, and tue grazing
system, which has cOucelo1 b. all 20 be the LuSt
effective mctbOl OF handling grain al this poii, is stu
thing Of the future.
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