Smyrna times., 1884-03-26
For the Smyrna Times.
VI Interest to Fruit Growers,

IL,
-Gents Il have the pleasure to ack
ho"iedge the receipt from YOU of ,
very neat little volume entitled " Ros,
ton Illustrated" which ON examino
Cion proves to be very interesting
accompanying the volume is a c;ron
lar from you and it is to that 7 nronos.
10 address myself In the circular Won
state: The committee acting for the
receivers of fruit in Boston. are doino
all possible in the way of making ar.
rangements for berry train for this
season that will give a more satisfac.
tory service than in former years A
tralh is asked for to leave Crisfeld of
10 D A. NJ. and to arrive in Boston at
o a. NJ, the next morning"
am pleased to learn that the Ros-
Ton merchants have walked up to the
Importance and practicabilityofour fruit
shipments reaching YOUR market aorl,,
'ne next morning. During the season
OF ~, when l, together with others
made an effort to get the Pennsylvania
railroad Company to deliver percbes
IN your market the next morning all
Ihe Boston merchants as well &c tho
i@iiroad officials, thought it was i'm
Practlcal, while now since Mr.. Cassatt
mas become interested in the construc-
tlon OF the railroad to Cherry Stono
thehce to Norfolk, Va, forming q
southern trunk line and for the purpose
OF transporting early vegetables and
fruits to the markets of PHILADELPHIA
New York and Boston, the same Off
ciais seem to regard it not only practi-
cable but imperative and as under
stand, contemplate and arc making ar
rangements to have the road ready for
business by the 1st of July, when trains
VIII be run from Norfolk, with early
vegetables and fruits and delivered in
New York early the next morning.
AS | understand it is contemplated
leaving Norfolk in the afternoon. saw
one or two O'Clock and by running the
trains at the speed of 25 to 80 miles an
hour reach New York in time for early
market the next morning. This infor-
nation l get from railroad officials who
are interested and to nv mind il is
eminently practicable. Now if it can
DC done between Norfolk and
New York, and l am satisfied it can
why should like to know, cannot the |
same be done with fruit from the Della
ware railroad to Boston. I am posi-
tive it can be done and when fruit
growers and Boston merchants who
sell their fruit determine to have il
done it will be done. Why should a
car loaded with fruit sent from here
arrive in Chicago, a distance of near
1000 miles about the same hour car
loaded at the same time here arrives in
Boston distance little less than 400
miles, the former paying freight of 5000
and the latter $218. The answer is
sharp competition in the former case
and the want of it in the latter.
think, however, you Boston mer-
chants are wrong in naming the hours
'f four or six o'clock in the morning
or the train to start from Crisfeld
The fruit must be gathered the dav be-
ore and would therefore be two nights
Ind one day on the way to your mar
Iet and must necessarily become a lit
lie stale, musty or sour. The true oh ,
ect to be attained is to put the fruit in s
our market as fresh and in perfect /
as possible and in order to do
o more speed and shorter time is the
My way to do it. {
without giving the subject mature |
nd detailed thought it seems to me il J
would be more preferable to start one
ram from Crisfeld, say about noon. t
Which should take all the fruit gather. t
d during the morning along the road O
p to Harrington, for your market. \
hen start another train at Harrinp. n
On that will take all the fruit at and a
Dove that station destined for Boston. d
nus making two trains, the latter. I
owever, might take part or all of n
ne fruit destined for New York. p
AT Jersey City, the cars for Boston G
light be shifted out and either dis Z
atched at once by the present route
: better as 1 think, sent by the New
ork, West Shore and Buffalo railroad p'
nd cross the Hudson river at Fish. W
Ill, andthen by the New York & New W
ngland railroad. By this route think bt
'ere would be a saving of time. 8 or pl
ours, and the trains would arrive more it
'omptly and more uniformly on time W
by concert of action on the part of Sc
uit growers and commission mer-
lants the object to be desired, 1 am In
re can be attained and there is no re
liter time than the present to agitate lie
Id work the matter up. Our fruit IN
ust be in your market fresh the next tn
orning early, in order to give us the Ia
we naturally have, of sup pa
ying healthy fruit, otherwise Norfolk is
overs will be able by this new route en-
reach your market the same dav and ne
me in competition with our fruit and
ayoe overstock your market with Ia
lie fruit and drive our growers out ell
,ogether. tn
The outlook for the coming peach Gu
'p is good. Fortunately no one vet fal
had the temerity through the tul
wspapers to kill it as has been usual ex
herto at this season of the year. no
Yours truly, Ito
r. III. CUMMINs. nm
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