St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-20
THE BALTIMORE & OHIO.
President Garrett Explains the Con
nectiOn of His Road with the
Pennsylvania Road.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 19.-PreSldent Garrett,
of the Baltimore 81 Ohio railway, reviewing
the statement of Superintendent Roberts, of
the Pennsylvania road, to committee of the
Merchants and Manufacturers association,
of Baltimor which visited him last week in
Philadelphia, in regard to the difficulty be-
tween the two roads, said the committee had
received a most imperfect, one-sided and,
doubtless with intention, very misleading
reply. Facts, true in themselves, have been
stated, but in such an imperfect way as to
leave very erroneous impressions. Other
facts have been separated from their proper
connections with others which were very
necessary for their free explanation.
President Roberts practically intimates the
action of the Pennsylvania company was
taken, not because the Baltimore 81 Ohio
traffic was improbable to that company, but
because the Pennsylvania company regarded
such action as a proper retaliation on the
Baltimore IL Ohio for building its new line to
philadelphia. This is the whole scope and
spirit of Roberts statement. He declines
traffic which he has been carrying for some
years, not because it does not pay, but sim
building line which in time will be COM
petitor of the Philadelphia, Wilmington &,
Baltimore road. The Pennsylvania company
charges the Adams Express comphny $40
per car between Philadelphia and New York
charges US $40. The Pennsylvania company
distinctly refused to permit the Baltimore 81
Ohio Railroad company to have any express
facilities at the new elevated station,
and not even allowed the Baltimore & Ohio
to unload at the station express matter car
ried in its baggage cars. The facilities fur
nished at the Broad and Prime street depot
consisted in leaving the Baltimore & Ohio
car on side track, not even under q shed,
where the company was compelled TO unload
and load cars, unprotected from all kinds of
weather, lingering the condition of goods
in loading and unloading to and from cars
and wagons. Not only has Roberts not given
us facilities for carrying on an express bust
ness, but absolutely prohibits US from doing
any business whatever either between New
York and Philadelphia or New York and Bal
timore and Philadelphia and Baltimore, and
confines us entirely to such express matter
as goes to points on our line,
although we have always been willing
to pay him and his shareholders so per cent.
more than the Adams company do for doing
the same business. Again, we are charged
for sending sleepers over the Pennsylvania
line, and the Pullman company are actually
paid for so doing. The Pullman company
receive three cents per mile for each car and
their expenses are paid by the Pennsylvania
company besides. The Baltimore d Ohio
company, on the other hand, pays to the
| Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia, VIII
mington 81 Baltimore roads twenty cents for
each sleeping car passenger and fourteen
cents for every parlor car passenger, and
pays all its own expenses and receives no
mileage from the Pennsylvania company as
the Pullman. company does.
President Roberts does not pretend to JUS
tify his action on the score OF its being a
measure of economy to decline the Balti-
more & Ohio traffic over the Philadelphia.
Wilmington IL Baltimore New York division.
| 1t is simply method of annoying the Balti-
more d Ohio company for expressing its
rights in building competing road. The
fact is, the traffic we give the Pennsylvania
and the Philadelphia, Wilmington d BaIti-
more road is given them at rate which is
more profitable per ton and passenger to the
mile than their own traffic of like character
on the main line of the PENNSYLVANIA road
from Pittsburg to New York. The aggregate
Of traffic We gave them for the year ending
September IS, 1888, is as follows: Freight.
1892, 553; passengers, 1858, 024; express,
! SoO,O13; sleeper and parlor cars, SAIL:
total, $3.50, 091; and TO this should be added
considerable other sums coming from the
pool. The gross earnings Of the freight bust
ness OF the Pennsylvania company in 1888
were at a rate of .0S19 cents per ton per
mile. Our freight paid them over one cent
per ton per mile, and the expenses of trans
portation were less, the rate paid by the Bal
timore 81 Ohio being 3 IA cents per mile per
| passenger, while on the New York division
the Pennsylvania earned only 2O74 cents
per passenger per mile. We begun to build
new line for one reason-because of our
! experience with Pennsylvania contracts and
! because We were resolved to remain in the
power of that company no longer.
The public and private interests involved
in the prosperity Of the Baltimore IL Ohio
Railroad company are very great The man
agement of that company had always been
conservative, and it is proper that it should
have every commercial facility TO
meet the demands of modern
transportation. AS trunk line IL absolutely
requires connection with New York. The
present controversy has been forced upon us.
1t is not our seeking. Itcan only be brought
to an end by such action on the part of the
pennsylvania management as will accord
with the calm judgment Of the business COM
munity and will fully protect the interests of
Baltimore and the state of MARYLAND.
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