The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-09-18
the TREICHT QUESTION.
More Grain shipped from Baltimore than
from both New York aud boston.


AT the meeting of the Directors Of the
Baltimore and ONO Railroad Company IN the
18Th INST. Pres dent Garrett reported that, not
withstanding the extremely low rates at which
n ortion of the business OF the company had
been gone. the revenue for August shows
O. 30 10. against the revenue Tor the same
month Of the preceding year OF fl.2l6l2l.70. The
COMPANY will make the regular semi annual divi-
deud II i've Yer ccnt., and also add a large sum
10 the surplus fund at the close Of the nscal
year. These results are exceedingly interesting
and iml ortant AT This time. when the C mpany
II so much the obJect of sympathv on the . ri
Of parties IN New York who feel that II IL being
practically ruined by the competition brought
ABOUT By the New York Central RAILROAD Com-
pany.
The New York Central and Hudson River
COMPANY states that It has road with less
grades ind less curves, and that II has 80
miles Of ia AZ miles Detwt New York and
Buffalo with four tracks, but IL OverlookS the
fact that on the Baltimore and ohio lines, for
~ miles, coal literally crops out immediately
on the road. and thus TINS company has IN The
comparative economy Of fuel alone a difference
which more than compensates Tor the difference
IN grades md curves and the limited portion Of
extra tracks The Baltimore and ONO COMPANY
mas hlso uoupie tracks' and mira ana fourth
Tracks where needed Ter facilitating Its business,
aud terminal facilities and Arrangements for
shipping grain and every desofituon Of traffic,
uucn more economical and much superior to
those Of the New York Central Company. Tn
less. therefore, thai COMPANY can carry freight
between ALBANY aud hun llo Tor nothing for the
SJmiles between these cities liz alleged position
isslinflN abrurd.
For the crop yeer that ended on the slst Of
"
suipneut from Baltimore ~ i've hundred and
seventy carRucs Of corn 10y steamships and sail
ING vessels TO all paris ~ the world to " hich
corn Is exported from ne United States, carry
ing an aggre gate OF lTAa9in bushels. nnd the
trade statistics Of New York snow that during
the sane period tue whole Of the corn shipped
from New YORK wAr uniy l3,kj2.flS bushels.
Tue New YORK Central has reduced Its rates To-
such point thar the baltimore and ONO and
the P'nns NlVhnit companies are now not merely
connecting for that which WIS formerly railroad
It No TINT fpr thtt which Wa canal tTHfiis. aud
the result Is THAI lirltmore has ivcd not only
A. much corn as New York has received hy the
N,w urk Central ton1, hut more than fhc New
NrrA and Erie Canal aud the New York Central
ili dd combined laN" brought to tine cry OF
New York. Ihe New York Central Company
has also worked NJ extremely low and uurcuiu-
ner tive rates 90 Boston. ihe statistics If the
corn trade show. during HE crop We r, the exp RI
from lio~ton OF 3.lOi ss bushels, so that tie ex-
port from these twD CITIES, New urh and Bns-
ton, whose trade has thus been iosicrrd hv the
New Drk Central, aggregate lG4bu2H hu-ht s,
aud thai of baltimore, having he, u l1..t-N ~
show nm excess ~ XIV dbb hushcl. hcyuud the
combined quantities ot the shipments of corn
from New \ ork ana Boston. baltimore has nu
impro .natic position. II o.. Two hundred miles
south Of New York, aud its lines. on I'M own
parallel reach into this crup-Etowinr -lon, aud
this corn must 50 to the parallel Of New York
before the New York Central ROAD can obtain II
foT transportation.