The daily gazette., 1875-07-06
The Peach GrOaUers.
-IMPoRTANT FREIGHT ARRANGE
MENTs FOR THE SEASON.

MENTs FOR THE SEASON.
AT Middletown, Saturday, a third
adjourned meeting of the Peninsnlal
Fruit Growers Association was held.
Hon. Benj..T. Biggs, of the commit
lee on reduction of rates of carriage
at Jersey City, reported that Ley had
met the carriers at the Merchants Ho.
tel, ard held protracted conference
They refused to make any reduction
whatever from the present rates on
crates from to cents. This was
the very best the committee could OBJ
! tain.
The following important preamble
and resolution was then passed by the
convention:
| WHEREAS, Various committees hav.
ing from time to time been sent to New
ork, and having failed to accomplish
but little for the benefit of the growers,
therefore
Resoloed, That the peach growers
think that three cents per basket cart
age full compensation for the labor
performed, and those who ship their
fruit in crates are benefited by re-
duction in filing the price at 6 cents
per crate instead of s as before; we,
the peach growers of the peninsula
are of the opinion that the surest and
most practical way to remove the
grievances that the peninsula peach
business is groaning under would be
to arrange with the Pennsylvania II.
X. Co. to set apart place at Jersey
City TO build sheds and arrange to
, transfer the entire peach market to
that place for next year.
The committee were continued and
have charge of the matter, and will
make the effort for a transfer of the
business next year.
The following resolution was also
passed:
That the commission merchants of
I New York city, whe were invited by
/ resolution and private letter to most
the committee sent by this conven-
tion to that city, to confer with them
and the carriers, in failing to meet the
said committee, are, to say The least,
disrespectful, and that the committee
except from the censure Messrs. Idell,
Duryes, Halleck and Waddy.
Mr.. Biggs reported the following
proposition from the Pennsylvania
railroad, and the rates were accepted
by the convention: Peaches, when in
train loads of not less than six cars,
(leaving Philadelphia three of which
are to be through cars 20 Pittsburg, and
the remainder may be dropped off on
the route, the following rates per car
load of 16, 900 pounds will be charged:
10 Lancaster $40, Harrisburg $50,
Miffiin $105, Lewistown S11O, Hunting
ION $120, Tyrone $120, Altoona $130,
Johnstown $40, Queenstown, $3.50
Pittsburg 81 so.
Peaches in less than full train, as above
the rates will be as follows: Lancaster
500, Harrisburg $100 BIifflin S12O.
Lewistown $l25, Huntington $130,
Tyrone $l40, Altoona $3.50, Johnstown
$l75. Queenstown S2C0, Pittsburg
1915. The cars, whether in full trains
or not, to leave Philadelphia en- the
Pittsburg through express at 6.1OP, M.
and will arrive at Pittsburg at 7.15 A.
NJ. Time is not guaranteed, and the
company take no risks. Peaches from
Philadelphia to Buffalo. Elmira,
Canandaigua 81 Rochester New York
$3.50 per car of $16, 600 pounds, when
in less than full train loads of six, when
six cars furnished Qeaving Philadel-
phia) three cars going through and
three dropped on the way, the rate will
be $500 per car, to leave West Phila
delphia at 10 p. NJ, and arriving at
Buffalo at Z. NJ. (second day. The
company will furnish good cars and |
the best of ventilation.
Thos. II. Stamford, Jr., the foreign
freight agent of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, was introduced to the
convention. He stated, on behalf of
the company, that they would ship the
fruit over the Baltimore and Ohio at
reasonable rates and furnish the very
best of cars, and run ON any time to |
suit the growers. The time from Balti- |
more to PIttsburg would be from 6 o. |
clock p. NJ, and arrive in the latter |
city the following morning at clock |
the rate to be 1925, and this, added to |
the rates over the Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore, $22 SO, would |
make total amount per car $147 SO, |
80 per car less than over the Pennsyl- |
vania. The Baltimore and Ohio road |
will take peaches to Cincinnati, San
dusky and Columbus in twenty-four |
hours, and to Chicago and St. Louis in |
thirty-three.
The Baltimore and Ohio road promi- |
ses to make arrangements for the most |
liberal scale, and promises to make
every effort to make shipping points
an object to the growers.
The committee on the Boston route
reported that they would not be able
to make the fhirty-second street route
practical this year, but that route
had been permanently arranged by |
taking batteaux at Jersey, City to Har-
lem Bridge, and there taking the New
Haven road to Boston. The rate per
basket by this route would be fifty
cents; the time, thirty-six hours from
Middletown, arriving in Boston at 9 o.
clock on the second day. Ample ar
rangements for shipments over this
route have been made, and it may be
considered as finally opened. Tho re-
port was accepted by the convention.
The growers then selected the fol-
lowing points to which they agreed to
ship during the approaching season.
and not to interfere with any othei
grower who had made like agreements