Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-02
THE GREEN LINE WAR.

An Evansville View OF the Questions
InVOIyed-FreigIts TO the south,
and the Proposed New Route via
Baltimore.
We find in the EUanScUe journal of
yesterday the following editorial article.
which promises to reopen the freight war
so vigorously Waged during the late session
OF our Legislature:
The "Green Line" was organized Jan. /.
1865, by the Louisville and Nashville.
Nashville and Northwestern, Nashville and
Chattanooga, Western and Atlantic. and
Macon and WesteX Railroad Companies
entering into an agreement to establish a
fast freight line between the cities Of St.
Louis, Louisville, Nashville. Tenn, Allan
"a, Ga, and other points south. It now
comprises p roads, and includes the
st. L. as. E. r. r. L is simply an inter
change Of traffic On q cooperative basis. 1t
has an Executive Committee Of seven. with
G. J. Foreacre, Of Atlanta, Ga, Chairman,
and q Committee Of Rates of three. con-
sistiDg OfC. W. Anderson. General Freight
Agent the Y. c. & St. /. r. r: II. II.
Smith, General Freight Agent of the L. &
n, and O.. 5. r. R., and 5. Fr.nk. General
Freight Agent Of the Iron Mountain Rail
road, to whom all questions Of importance
are referred. Section II Of the original
agreement reads thus: "The rate Of freight
from Nashville south and from ChattanOo-
"a south shall be the same TO all COnnec-
tions north Of those points, and prior TO
1872 the rates wee made On thar basis.
In October, 1872, the L. 4 y. r. r.
leased the y. x d. r. R which gave
them an independeBteutlet 10 the South,
and forced the Y, & G. r. r. to divide ter
JitOry, giving to the l. & \. r. r. the
country west and south Of Columbus, Ga.
In the mean time, by purchase from the
Government, the y. Il G. r. r. obtained
control of the Y. & n. ". r. r. to Hick-
man, Ky, and the St. L. & S. s. r. Il
opened up a through line from ST. Louis 70
Nashville via Evansville. By reason of
being shorter and quicker lines the Evans
vile and Chicago Railroad from Chicago |
soon took away from the l.. Il y. r. r. |
and its connections north Of the Ohio
river the business from Chicago via Louis
vile, and the s.. /. & ). L. COM
menced to command the S.. Louis /
trade and take it away from the North
western road and its connection with the
Iron Mountain road. Of course the com
mittee on rates, whose roads were directly |
effected by these new and short routes, soon !
began to ignore section Il by charging theSt |
L. and 5. T. Il. r. from Nashville from two |
to iive cents per 100 pounds more than they /
did each other; and in order 10 better con
troll the freights. erected elevators at John /
SOnviile, on the Tennessee river, AID made 4
such rates as they thought necessary to |
control the freights via Cairo. Johnsonville /
or Louisville. They refuse to prorate from !
Chicago via Evansville, but were anxious /
to pTorate with the Z. and c.. r. r., if they
would drop their freigh. at Nincannes, and
send it via Cairo, route 80 miles longer
Finding all their arrangements more or
less ineffective, they last month issued
notice that they would charge on Evans
vile freight, and all freight via Evansville,
local rates from Nashville, with an addi-
tiOnsl arbitrary of four dollars per car,
which rates in all cases from Nashville are
more than they ask from the JObnsOnville
wharf, and in some instances more than
from Cairo, two hundred and f0rty-twO
miles greater distance. Our home dealers,
who were fast building up a great grain
trade, have been seriously annoyed and in
jured by these Determinations, and when
asking for redress have always been refer
red 10 JOhnsonville as a panacea.
As q. W. Anderson states il, s'AYe must
take care Of our wooden leg, the North
western road And % show at whose cost
the Northwestern road IS taken care of. we
note below rates on grain from various
points, and what it pays from Nashville.
The JOhnsOnville elevator having been so
ealOusly fusteTed, and being no doubt
valuable property to whoever may be indi-
ridually interested in IL, the Louisville and 7
Nashville railroad have erected one recent
u at Bowl ng Green, and the same system.
lf discrimination in favor of that point is
being made against our people.