New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-23
New York Central
Utica & Black River
Total through ....

H, thr crtr4cts from tae evidence appears that
discrimination X made IN favor ct CANADIAN ana aShs
New YORK shippers uf between 80 aud 30 per cent. and
the true Of freight carried Ia either NeM-N"Fk
between the roads terminating nt Ogdcnsbnrg. charge
IA made up0n butter and chctsc shipped over
ibese roads 10 points on the s. Lawrence River.
destined for shipment abroad via Montreal, So high
M 10 compel their shipment tho otuct way, nalnc v
rs Srw-York or Boston. u. & b. r. Testimony. D. 49,
The reason assigned arbitrarily forcing freight
over the longer portion or their roads was patriotic
one-to compel freight 10 pay tribute To NeNIOrk
or Boston merchants instead OF passing Into foreign
hands, degree OF patriotism altogether 1887 sEhl oil
when Inc rate was made 80 or 40 per cent cheaper
10 Canadian shippers than to shippers OF our
own state The Montreal market, OWING 10 the
chcan water communication OF the 81. Law
renee River ia frequently higher but
Isst season with butter at IL cents and
cents that would be advantage or about per cent
Duter and 20 per cent on cheese percentages Wnch
saved to te butter and cheese makers Of the northern
Tie d.cr minatous against The State the part OF
the Central and Ere equally marked though not ~
specifically shown their tariffs. Cereals, livestock.
and all articles manufactured theroIrom, iarm ana
forest products generally. carried To our metropolis
tan markets from Western of the time az
less abs olutey, and generally AT much less
cost relatively, than similar productions oil our own
State are Compiled 10 pay.
Mr.. willard Testimony y. 1.s55) testified: ASA
general rue'our freight Is from 30 TO $50 higher per
car load from Chicago to Ncw-York than II would be
through freight" Ihat IL. II the cattle are brought
the West IN the spring aud graZed IN this STATE
and sent 10 the NeTlOrk market In tho Fail, the cattle
are charged Two local rates, amounting to 500 or $50
per ear load more than thcy would pe II they were
erazrd u the West ANA sent direct 10 New-lork
Nj. Vanderbilt tcsbhcs CPD. 1880 that the railroads
carry Western freight the seabOard mt loss upon
AVERAGE from thirty To sixty days IN the year.
william w. Mack, OF Rochester, edge tool manufac-
urer testhcs (p. 1909 that he shipped Ina goods 10
New York and mad tnem rc-shipped to Cincinnati. via
ocheser and saved fourteen cents per hundred weight
Thereby; shipped goods 60 NeN-IOrk aud then re-
shipped 10 ST. LOUIS via Rochester, and saved eighteen
cents Der hundred weight I'm each case the railroad
hauled goods about TOO miles further than direct
baul from Rochester aud did II fourteen aud eighteen
cents cheaper, respectively.
Alexander, Of Rochester, testiies d. 2O2S TO an
hahftual practice precisely similar.
Flour was carried from Milwaukee 10 NewYorf for 80
opch rate 20 cents cut rae tho rate from Rochester
60 NewYOrk being al the same ame 30 cents. (Iest
mony, y. l,102)
-Four was carried from Fest St. Louis TO Troy at 10
cents a time from Rochester
10 Troy was also Is cents. Testimony. y. l,l02D
Flour was carried from Buffalo 10 Albany ana Troy for
cents barrel when the Rochester miller charged
10 cents barrel aud the Buflo miller 20 cents barrel
on flour manufactured at these points CIestlmony p
1,lJ3J
Flour be manufactured IA chcapy I'm Rochester
at the West. Testimony, pp l,lO43; also testimony OF
Mr. Huds pp. l,913O.l
Port Jcry miieIs have grain shipped from the West
via Jeryis To Newburg and thence hauled back
Port Jcrys, distance or fifty miles. at less rate than