The daily gazette., 1877-07-25

pcu ny HloD ldWy ana were UUb uDOR L1lS
market to be sold for the benefit Of shippers
Ifmore arrive, and the New York route be
still closed we will sell them here unless
Shippers order to the contrary Our agents
VIII give prompt information IL the freight
em barge be raised on any connecting
route. ISAAC HINCKLEY,
WEST PHILADELPHIA,J July %, 1877.
Isaac Hincktey Pres, p ". & b. r. r. Co.,
We are confdentially advised that at
meeting which is now being held In the
WOODS across the river, resolutions have
been passed that the proposed peach trains
cannot be run to New York. suppose
you viii have to arrange its disposition in
Fhliadelphia TO, supply the market here.
Dut the chances are that the entire crop of
Delaware may beseriously Y interfered with,
and think you had better let the people of
Delaware understand the critical situation
or things In the country by whice all trans
portatton facilities are threatend.
THOMAS A. SCOTT
"N President Penn. X. II. Co.
WEST PHILADELPHIA, July %, 1877.
Isaac Hinckiey:-One of the resolutions
passed at the meeting held In the Park this
afternoon, was that no peaches should pass
over the Junction road to night. You had
them In Philadelphia. +. THOMPSON.
Gen1 Manager p. r. r.
Mr.. Brown insisted that as all other
things were coming down in value, the
freight charges on peaches should also
come down. The Railroad Companies
were reducing expenses by cutting down
laboring mems wages to 80 cents day,
while their Presidents and other officers
sill received salaries of $l5 600 and S20,.
600 per year. They should retrench
more directly at home, and then they
would be enabled to offer more favorable
terms to the fruit growers.
After some further discussion in this
tenor, the Committee on Resolutions re-
turned and made the following report:
Resolved, That in consideration of the
high charges of transportation betwe the
Delaware and Maryland stations and the
cities of New York and Philadelphia, 1t is
| the interest OF peach growers living within
| reasonable distance of water navigation.
| to charter steamers and tug boats for the
purpose of carrying their fruit TO those
markets.
Resolved, That If our orchards shall con
| tinue during the present year to he as unre-
| munerative as they have been for the past
| fou years, 1t will be matter of interest
| 10 us 10 uproot them, and to convert the
| land now occupied by them to the raising
| OF grain and grass.
| Resolved, That while we incur all the
risks of growing the most uncertain and
/ precarious OF all crops-a crop which the
| change OF few degrees of temperature in
the winter or the frOsts of spring may ut
terly wipe out, which the curculio may de-
| stroy after all danger of frost has passed by
or which may rot down before our eyes
| when fully ripe, or become utterly value
less from certain conditions of the atmos-
phere after 1t has been started to market
the railroad companies on the other hand
operate in handling them only on the GER
tain and sure basis of gain, and no matter
| whether the peaches sell for five dollars or
five cents per basket after they reach their
market, the freight on them, like the laws
OF the Medes and Persians, knows no
change.
Resolved, That we earnestly recommend
the growers on this peninsula to send
nothing to market that will not certainly
pay them some profit, and when the price
4 falls below that point to let the fruit rot In
| their orchards rather than permit railroad
companies to reap all the result of their
outlay, their trouble and their toll, as was
done in 1875.
Resolved, That this liberal policy which
. characterizes all their movements in our
peach trade, has been extended still further
this year by abolishing the chartered car
/ system, for the simple reason, as they al
lege, that in 1875 some of their cars we're
not used as industriously as they thought
they should have been, and thereby they
sustained trifiing loss which, com pared
to ours, was as drop to the great ocean.
Resolved, That we regard with displea.
| sure the offer to reduce the freight on the
car load of peaches to New York so as tC
baskets, while at the same time no similar
: reduction Is made. to Boston and othei
D northern points. and we edenounce 1t as un
. worthy of The men who have charge of the
great lines over which the fruit passes.
: Resolved, That the recon m end to al
peach growers and shippers to refuse Il
sign the form of contract for shipment o
peaches prepared and offered by the p, w
Il b. X. r., officials, and that we hold then
Y TO their duties ana responsibilities as com
I mon carriers, l.
The reading OF the resolutions was
: greeted with applause, and DR.. Ridgely
moved their adoption. =.,..-. =
e Mr.. r. FL. Cummins suggested tina
! they be adopted seriatim, which wa
9 done. .Y=.
D Mr.. Green, from this committee, agair
: offered the resolutions which were offer
e ed by him at the opening of the meeting
? and referred to the Committee on Reso-
= lutlOns.
fl Mr.. Townsend opposed the adoption o
t the resolutions, deeming their content:
foreign to the purposes of the meeting
1 He denounced the action of the RailroaC
: Companies in grinding down the wages
9 of the poor men until they were driven tc
! desperation by poverty and oppression
= He was opposed to riotous and lawless
t proceedings, but as this matter did not
concern Delaware there was no use il
s troubling the Governor about it,
Y Mr.. Henry A. Nowland made an elo
: queDt appeal for the peach growers to ar
: ray themselves on the side of law and
order, and against anarchy and riot. Ht
1 urged the organization of military com
h panies in this State to be in readiness &c
!. maintain the peace should the invasion
extend here. ,..t
j. MIR, Townsend said such talk was mer
buncombe, and that no damage was to b
Il app, ehended in this s lite.
After some fu'th di4cussion in whicl
:, the argument was advanced That he presen
riotous actious of the railroad striker
threatened the safety OF the psach crop an
'' thus affected the interests or the growers
$ the resolutions were adopted with but hal
: a dozen dissenting votes
IS Mr.. X. H. Cuminins moved that one thous
IT and copies of the resolutions reported by th
n committee bs printed Tor distribution amon
n the peach growers of the Peninsula.
a 1t heing suggested that the resolutio
m would he published in the papers, tb
~ motion Was altered Into request for a
, ~ the papels on the Peninsula to publish tn
y resolutions after which it was adopted.
n Mr.. r. II. Cummins stated that it ha
ID been reported that the F. W& B. r.. I