The daily gazette., 1875-07-10
sFertke Delasedss Gasetfa
Eetter from SnnsaseI Townsend.
TOWNSEND, July 7th, 1875.

peacn growers meeblnS, nelu III Mluuie-
town, last Saturday, and therefore
send you the following statement, leav-
ing all out except the resolutions.
,There has been three meetings held; at
the first two took very little part, at
the first one, however, committee OF
two, Benjamin Il. Biggs and II. N. Will
Its was appointed to go on to New York
and meet the carriers, and try and get
the hauling reduced. That was oppos-
ed to, as never approved dealing with
imps, when l can deal the principals,
which 1 consider the commission men to
be and hearing the above inamed COM
mittee OF two kad been treated with con-
tempt by tho leading commission men.
prepare, the following before / went
to the last Saturday meeting, and after
b. L. Diggs made his report introduced
and read to the meeting the following
! statement and resolution. Mr.. Sewel Z.
Biggs then moved committee Of five be
appointed, and as chairman, to consid-
er said statement and resolution. | was
appointed chairman, Sewel G. Biggs,
Harry Clayton, Thomas Cochran, ST.,
and James Hart, were appointed COM
mittee OF five to consider and report our
views on the matter to the meeting.-
Owing to the want of timo we could not
go so deep into the details as we would
! have liked, but we reported the follow
| ing, appended, and B. I. Biggs after
wards presented the last resolution
| which was adopted.
WHEREAS, The Peach Growers and
! Peach shippers of this peninsula several
years ago, complained to the Peninsular
Peach Growers Association, that al
though most of their peaches was sold
at Jersey City by the New York Com
mission men. Notwithstanding, these
/ t1 ona nj
Of sales, charged the peninsular peach
shippers four cents carriage on every bas-
ket of peaches, whether sold in Jersey
City or New York. The said association
appointed q committee to go to New
| York and have that grievance remedied.
! Samuel Townsend, Charles Brown and
Ii. N. Willis was appointed on said
committee. They went to New York and
met all the principal commission men in
Messrs. Nix & Coomb's office. Aftersome
pretty plain talk, the commission men
agreed in good faith as then stated, to
| strike Off that four cents carriage there
after. The committee came home and
reported to the association, and We all
| thought that vexed question settled, but
when shipments OF peaches commenced,
@ certain party or commission man
showed round letter from leading
shipper Of Smyrna, who stated that he,
the said commission man, could use his
own discretion to allow four cents cart
age or lot. This caused o stampede
from the arrangement, and sales of pea
ches We're held ON to from 10 to 15 days,
until the shipper agreed to be robbed out
OF the four cents, and ..
WHEREAS, This evil has gone on un-
til this present year 1875, and two weeks
ago to-day, q resolution was passed at a
meeting held here in Middletown, and q
committee of two, b. L. Biggs and III. N.
Willis was appointed to go to New York
and meet those carriers, but it should
have stated those commission men. for
they are the real owners or controllers
Of the carts, and as lnasmuch as their
would be a large crop OF peaches, to ask
these men to reduce the carting to three
cents per basket, and | am told that
these carriers and owners OF said teams,
point blank refused to accede to the pro-
position of the peach shippers, to reduce
to three cents. And that said carriers
have formed into q carriers union, and
sent four men to represent them before
said committee of peach growers, and
that these representatives of the carriers
union, stated to the committee, and also
since, in the New York papers, that this
four cents charge was for hauling ovel
. and delivering peaches to all parts OF the
l >
hauling back all empty baskets, and de-
livering on board the cars at Jersey
! City.
A more unblushing proposal was
never uttered. In the first place every
, article sold in New York or Jersey
City is considered in the owners charge
except peaches, and any after hauling
or movements should be at the owner
charge. All peaches when hauled oveI
to Washington market and sold there
the buy ers pey twenty cents extra fo
every peach basket. These buyers
generally, come to said market in wha
J in New ork are called grocer wagons
= )and take from six to ten baskets, ant
Z when the come the next morning TO
more they bring the empty basker
back aau get the twenty cent deposi
money back, and as the peach commits
Q sion men of New York do not pay tn
e Delaware peach shippers but fifteel
6 cents per basket for all he does no
4 return, and he makes five cents as h
8 gets twenly from the buyer of TIL
peaches. And further, tie Delawar
peach shipper finds thousands of bass
cts th..t these co.n.nission men ALLOW
BUYERS to take beyond New York
therefore we, the growers and shipper
of peactcs, are finding capital TO
j., peach dealers beyond New York t.
carry ON business with, and then IL
addition are charged four cents TO
carting, and what is still b acker, three
!, fourths of the teams. are either o'yne
or cont. oiled by these commission mer
:. and a great number of tt EN- charg
q you ten Dor cent. to sell peaches to then
n selves, then charge you four cents fo
If carting them to some Railroad depo
e or ST toamboat toship them on their ow
> account and then if they do not max
as much as they expected they knoc
down on your next shipments to max
up their loss, therefore
8. Iesoloed, In cur opinion the bes
u surest and most practicable way t
'g remedy the grievances thai the PENN
a. sular peach business is groaning undo
% would be for the peach growers to a.
In point q committee of five to arrans
with the Pennsylvania Railroad Cor