, 1876-02-11

Now York in tho matter Of wator supply,
why should Chicago, which is 80 much bottor
provided lavo to pay higher insurance rntcs
than New York? viii some OF these UNDER
writer's who have found 30 much fault with
Chicago study tho lessons of this Now York
fire, o. furnished by the New York papers,
md give us their deductions, and nlso in-
form US why .any discrimination should be
made against Chicngo2
THE RAILROAD DETERMINATIONS AGAIN.
1t is not well that the abuses in the railroad
discrimination against Chicago which have
been discovered and exposed BY the Board Of
Trade Committee should bo permitted to pass
out of mind. They should bo agitated from
day to day on tho Bonrd Of Trade and among
the shippers md merchants generally, until
some definite plan Of action shall DO deter
mined upon to protect this city from similar
Determinations in tho future. We nro re-
minded by letter from: RICHARD z. MonoAN,
Jr., Of Bloomington, that this discriminating
policy was inaugurated rs much as thrco
years ago, md tint be then drow tho alton
tion of the people OF Chicago to its dangers,
having used tho columns Of The CHICAGO
TRIBUNE for TINT purpose The policy has
| been ataadily adhered to over since, tho dis
| examinations being revived overy winter as
soon as water competition was shut off by tho
closing of navigation. The railroads hayo been
growing bolder an tho whi1o, counting upon
| the lethargy Of tho Chioago people to HutEor
their abuses without protest; but they have
now become 80 oneroua and glaring that
Chicago will no longer submit, and must, to
insure complete self-protection, provide O
through and permanent railrond connection
with the Grand Trunk Railroad, whose in
terests will always DO opposed 10 any such
combination as the othcr Eastern routos
reaching this city have formed. It is certain
that 1t Is not safe to rely upon the Chicago
railroads. auch as tho Illinois Central, Alton
i st. Louia, Burlington j. Quincy, Chicago
t. Rock Island, md tho Northwestern, to in
fluonce their Eastorn connections to troat
Chicago fairly, for during oil tho time TINT
these determinations have boon practiccd
not single protest has como from tho off,
GERS Of any Of thoBo rnilroads, and no effort
has been mado on their part to direct tho at-
tention Of tho public to the abuses,
We will recount in brief somo Of tho
specific instances which have been trnccd by
tho Board Of Trado Committee, merely to
keep in yiow tho shameless character Of tho
determinations, Grain is shipped from Mil
waukoo at 37t cents per 100 and flour ut 76
ccnts Per barrel, while tho rites from Chicago
aro ~ cents per 100 and 90 cents pcr barrol.
Even the pool nnes take freight from B11f-
waukeo Mt tho saulo rate as from Chicago,
which, after paying tho local hnul Of 85 miles,
gives them several cents less than TINT for
which they will take tho freight at Chicago.
Other points in Wisconsin, aud nlso in Min
ncsota, are sending flour to tho soaboarl at
10 conts less o barrel. Davenport. 1a., 189
mica west Of Chicago, sends pork to
New York at 81 cents por 100 less than
Chicago can,-anl that by route which is
$40 miles further than tho distance between
Chicago and New York. Peoria, 100 mjlas
sent grim to Portland, Me-, at rs cents pel
100, while Chicago was paying 81 cents pc.
100, nnd Peoria sont It's freight by route
$40 miles longer. Tho mileage botwecn
Cincinnati aud Portland is only about II
milos less than from Chicago 10 Portland,
but Chicago Is compelled to pay 25 per cent
higher tariff, and Illinois freight travels Bov.
cral hundred miles to avoid Chicago and
rcach the seaboard via Cincinnati, because Il
ia thus onnbled to mako saving ot soveral
cents on every 100 pounds. Springfield, III.
sends ita freight to tho Eastern points at tht
Same rate as Chicago, though tho haul by ths
Grand Trunk Ia :s}5 miles moro than from
Chicago to Tie same points. 4 listlo place
called Bcartlstown, In this State, has become
m important outlet for 8 large volume o.
business, which ayails itself Of tho low ratel
I offered at that point, though tho disparity Ii
mileage is greater than that from Springfield
Such points aa Burlington, Quincy, Decatur
Kookuk, Lincoln, Mason City, etc., have al
lower rates relatively than Chicago. It i
. even suspected TINT meats arc hauled from
; Kansas City, NO., directly through Ohicag'
; To New York at the samc rato Us from Chi
cago, though the diAtance Is 489 miles create
. from Kansas Cityt
This array Of facts, which reveal con
:. Biatent and persistent effort to swindle CHI
cago. Gun leave no reasonable room to Buppos
TINT the Determinations have boon fortuiton
or undersigned. Nor is 1t the grain and Pre-
|, | vision krnde alone which are affected by tht
;. svindling operation. Every branch Of Chi
: cago's tralo must sutfcr in proportion. I'll
. little City Of Bloomington, Oh VIC know,
= : building up large wholesale TRADE in diree
!. connection with Eastern cities, instead c
It Chicago, ita natural ally, and now employ
!. over oue hundred d,un,mers to sell good
from that point 1t Is not unlikely that til
u merchants ct the other interior points a.