Middletown transcript., 1877-08-04
r. w. & B. Railroad.


The following letter has just been written by
President Hinckley, of the P. W. &B. Rail-
road Company, to William Green, Esq, Of
ATiddletown, chairman Of the committee Of fruit
growers that has been seeking reduction of
freight charges for carrying peaches. It Incl
dentally pays high compliment to the en-
ployees of the company:
PHILADELPHIA, July 26th, 1871 WlHiana
Green, Esq, Chairman, &C., Middletolgn, Del.
Dear Sir ~ have your letter of yesterday
with enclosure. The maintenance Of reason
able rates upon this company's lines enables us
to pay our employees satisfactorily to them.
Although those employees have, am conf
dent, too much respect for their own high and
fairly-earned reputation to ever take any part
in such acts as have disgraced, in the eyes Of
good men, the employees of the other COM
panies, yet the fact Of a Ieduction Of wages at
this time would have afforded the very pretext
needed for .communistic disorder to outside
parties. And the people of Delaware, like the
people Of other States to-day might be suffer
ing from an embargo so far as railroad COM
munications are concerned, and might have
seen our employees restrained by brute force
from doing their duty to the public, to them
selves, and to the railroad company as they
always hitherto have DONE and now wish to
do.
have read the resolutions Of the convention
with regret and disappointment. ] should have
rather expected that instead Of these they would
in some way have recognized the loyalty and
good conduct Of our employees, and the exer-
tons of the Government, State and municipal
authorities which have rendered possible the
or
York, while railroad traffic is stopped or inn
paded upon so many of the trunk lines.
But l do not wish to be understood as COM
planning Of the course taken by the convention.
It is rarely that buyer and seller, common car
riers and their customers agree in everything,
and We cannot expect to please all.
do not think, however, that in the face Of
the resolutions referred to it would be of the
slightest use for me to ask President Scott at
this time to alter freight tariffs. The losses
sustained by his company within few DAYS
past are of too grave a character and too large
in amount, should think, to Justify my broach-
ing the subject. If, however, the committee
think otherwise I see no reason why they
should not address him directly.
This company viii continue to do all In our
power to move the peaches to market
Respectfully yours,
ISAAC HIECKLEY, President
E P. SIN respect to the last one Of the IRE
solutions" It did not require any action Ito
hold this company to our duties and RESPONSE
bilities as common carriers We always as
sumo these as a matter Of course, and viii make
no exceptions now. These duties and respon-
sibilities, however, cease at the termini of our
road. We do not expect to be asked to send |
our cars away from the line Of our road by any
shipper who is aYerse to agreeing, lin accord |
ance with our printed eontract) that be will |
not hold us responsible for damages or losses
sustained on other lines; but if we be asked to |
do this, we must respectfully decline
Yours respectfully,
ISAAC HNoKIEY, President