Middletown transcript., 1875-06-05

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peaches. we drove the Jerseymenb ou
of the Philadelphia market, The Cam
den & Amboy Company cut their trees
down and then sprung up set OF lane
peach, pirates, some Of whom we're mer
Of straw, who would 60 round and buy
peaches as this writeri in Eue'y EuenimS
proposes. If they made good thing
they paid ; if, not, they backed out, and
the grower lost. Major Reybold and
dozens of others had law suits with
these gentry, but never obtained much
SO that it is hardly likely that any peach
grower with moderate amount Of
sense would fall back on this old ex-
ploded plan When the Delaware Rail.
road was completed a new stimulus
was given to growing peaches on land
that had heretofore been considered too
far off fr,m the water courses
hauling was too great-but now the
railroad was within reaching distance,
thousands and thousands Of peach trees
were soon planted Our production
was SO great that Philadelphia market
was glutteda "A Set Of about thirty-fve
New Workers and Jerseymen formed.
into close corporation to buy peaches
in Philadelphia and ship them to New
York BY the Camden 4 Amboy Rail
road These men ruled the Philadel77,
phia market, giving the advantage to
the owners Of the peaches brought up
on boats, for these boats could 60 over
to Camden and unload, therefore giving
them an advantage over the peaches
brought up by railroad. Now, hersFI
willsshow how peaches were tnksn be-s
yond Philadelphia there were little
box cars holding about seventy baskets
each, with one Slated door; these small
cars we're pulled on fat cars and taken
from Camden to Amboy, and then re-
shipped to New York on steamboats,,
on the aesond morning from
Delaware. Now mind this was all
these superior old experienced Jersey
men had advanced to in getting peaches
up to New York up to 1862. In 1861,
with the consent Of Mr.. FELTON,, the
hen President of the P, W. 4 B. R.
R. Company, I had fixed the first rail
.oad cars With Slated doors and shelv-
ng, so that each tier Of baskets would
.est separate and have ventilation. The
Railroad Company in 1862 improved
ny plan with more ventilation and
middle supporters of the shelving. II
as the chairman Of a Com
nittee on Ventilation, for our Associa-
ion, met Mr.. Kenney on the part of
he p, w. & B.. Co., and had the iron
attice windows put in each end Of the
ars The Committee then by appoint
nent met Walter Freeman on the part
+ the Camden & Ambuy Company and +
old him what we had arranged with
be p R. R. Company to do, and he
romised to do the same, but to this
ay it ha, not been done, either by the
,amden & Amboy Company or the P.
!. R. Company, who bought them out.
Therefore their cars, not having end
entilators, are not as good fruit cars
$ the p, W. & B. r. R. Company's
ars. In the summer of 1862 I shipped
nree cars of peaches direct to Amboy
'ithout breaking bulk until they ar
wed there, and when these cars passed
trough Hightstown I was told that
ome of these old experienced Jersey +
each shippers swore that these three
ars were the best peach cars they had I
yer seen, and they told the officers of
lie Camden & Amboy Company that
lie P, W. 4 B R. RyTCompany had
eat them badly in their arrangements
r carrying peaches to market. i
Now so much for the cars We
'iginally bought our peach baskets in I
arsey, as they had plenty of scrub
hite oak and laborers to make baskets,
I'd they charged US 25 cents basket. 6
man by the name Of Carpenter in {
ewark invented machine to cut splits
ID up along the Erie Railroad made
'sksts for 20 cents; then Mitchell 4 t
ayhood first st Smyrna and since ]
'wn in Dorchester country, and Wor- t
N and Evans, now at Smyrna
9TH of these firms invented and got
} machines to cut gum and poplar $
to sheets, so that they can and are '
w making stave baskets at wholesale b
+ about 10 cents, Of uniform size, and n
tier to ship peaches in than any Jer7 s
y made basket that used to cost 25 v
nts. As stated. l tried the route o
a Amboy in 1862-it would net
swer, for could not gain any time
er that close corporation Of thirty-6vs
sksters; but the mex. year We brought Il
opposition down, BY making clean Y
n from the Delaware peach orchards n
Jersey City in one day less time than a
old rhute via Camden and Amhov Il