New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-23
RAILWAY POOLS AND CONIRAO1S
THE SPECIAL RATES SOME FIRMS GET.

THE SPECIAL RATES SOME FIRMS GEL.
NEw-YoRK CENTRAL CONTRACTS WITH MERchAN'o
IN SYRACUSE, ALBANY. UTICA, AND OTHER ~
TERROR CiTIrs-ERIE SPECIAL RAIES-CoMAiS-
sioNER FISK's TESTIMONY.
Albert Fink commissioner of the four great
Trunk lines continued his testimony before the Asseop
committee Saturday, in regard to the Westoound lrot
pool aud railway management eeneraiiy nc s"' ~
he had sixty clerks employed in this city doing the WORK
rennred nv the pool The record OF 500 routes ana COM
naous OF routes was kept by him at an expense 10 'no
railroads of 80, 900 monthly. The pool ra'o ho''
York 10 Chicago rs cents for nrstciass He'sp, o.
cents for seoond-cass so cents for tmrdon'ss ""u ~
cents for fourth-class per loo pounu'
yewYork Central received 40 per cent VI
tho rates for transportation 10 Buffalo. Anything
less than IA cents hundred on fourth oh'S
freight from New-York to Chicago would prove lo' "
The railroad The cutting OF rates was az iu'o 'o''
injurious TO The public interests. as well AZ 70 the r
ways; and insovent railroads were frequently udps"
Gus to the solvent ones from their habit OF carrying
freight merely 70 cover the operating expenses
Mr. Fink said that the low competitive rates maze
local rates appear higher comparatively When gools
we're carried from Chicago TO Ncw-fork for 20 cents
hundred pounds and % cents % hundred was charged
from Syracuse to New-York, people complained that
such system was discrimination against
the local tariff. and they were nght. Inc
trunk lines AT New-York incurred large expense not
horne Inv anv OF the other lines ligherng and moving
freight in the harbor; and 3Ocent rate tins expense
was equivalent 10 per cent Of the distance IN te
transportation from Chicago AT Boston, fhii'ueipni'
ana Baltimore the roads received freight Only Dc 'e"
depots ana all other movements OF the ireighs were
made at the expense OF the shippers The Baltimore
elevators made an charge for handling grain but
bere was no charge 10 shippers for delivering or hoat
ing grain brought to NewYork by the Erie and New
York Central. In the case ~ imported goods tn' ra
way companies of NewYor received the freight az the
ship docks and incurred heavy expense Ihe "eS'
bound tonnage OF the four trunk lires from New
York in 1873 was 74l,7S4; from Boston, lo%'o-o
ops. iron, Philadelphia 10s 1872 tons, ana fIoln bai-
49, IN 90 or A total traic Of 491 $50 tons fOrn
Roston baltimore and Philadelphia, against l4lfot
from New-York. The total canal ano riid Westpou,r
traffic from New-Gork in ls1s was II-VooV I"n,s ~
ab0nf fOur times combined volume from ne otncr
three pnrfs named The full inland rates over the tfh
lines Ion through Western freghts had Deeh uh' IN
whether the freiehs had been ocean freights or mn
come from New-YOrk. The result OF giving Chi'aeo o"
of adpg from European ports 10 Western cues III lh-
I.nd rates had been 20 bring PACK q hrse ah"un'
transatlantic trade to Ncw-York. The diherehee III
Wes,ern rates between New-lOfk ana GDl.ade4lhhid
,res D cents: before the pool II was D c'ntS'
An InNexihIe tarin fixed by law IN tbe
state of Nry-York would be injurious 10 the failodus
and the public. The pubic interests WUuu y
preserved by scale OF high rates l1gidiy %
~ 10 all persons, than a system OIL 10" Ia'e' WIN ~
A.srmbIymeu Duguid Terry and Wadsworth pre-,
rates for a wear which they had prepared ater Nyrh
work among the books OF The new YORK IthtIa' -
road Beoy are given extracts from tiiS taple' iHe
rates are Tor 100 pounds, and are mehtiuneu III ,nt
ar1er reading from the left 10 the right, for nr-t,
second hirl and fourt-cass freight THESE rates were
culled from $500 special contracts maze u1itnS sno
lime CONTRACTS and 300 yearly contracts The ex-
tracts follows;