The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-20
THE RAILWAY QUARREL.
President Garretts Statement CT Grievances
Against the Pennsylvania Company.


BALTIMORE, Nd, Oct. l9-President Garrett,
of the Baltimore & Ohio road in reviewing the
statement of President Roberts, of the Pennsyl-
yania road, to a committee of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association of Baltimore which
visited him last week, in Philadelphia, in rela-
tion to the difficulty between the two roads, said
the committee had received most imperfect,
One-sded, and, doubtless without intention,
very misleading reply; facts true in themselves
had been stated but in such an imperfect way
as to leave very erroneous Impressions other
facts had been separated from their proper con-
nection with others, which were necessary for
their fn1l explanation. President Roberts prac-
tically intimates that the action of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company was taken,
not because the Baltimore & Ohio traffic was
improbable to that company, but because the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company regarded
such action as proper retaliation the
Baltimore & Ohio Company for build
ing its new line to Philadelphia.
This is the whole scope and spirit of the Roberts
statement. He declines traffic which he has
been carrying for some years, not because it
does not pay, but simply because the Baltimore
4 Ohio is building line which in time will be
a competitor of the Philadelphia, Wilmington &
Baltimore railroad. The Pennsylvania Com
pany charges the Adams Express Company $40
per car between Baltimore and New York, and
charges us $40. The Pennsylvania Company
distinctly refuse to permit the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company to have any express facilities
at the new elevated station, and would not even
allow the Baltimore & Ohio Company to hire
men to unload at this station express
matter carried in its baggage
The facilities furnished at the Broad and Prime
street depot consisted in leaving the B. & 0.
eompanys car on side -traek-not even under
shed-where it was compelled to load and un-
load cars, unprotected from all kinds of weather,
endangering the condition of goods in loading
and unloading to and from and wagons.
Not only has Mr.. Roberts not given us facilities
for doing express business but absolutely pro
bibits us doing any business whatever, either
between New York and Philadelphia, be-
tween New York and Baltimore, or between
Philadelphia and Baltimore, and confines us en-
tirely to such express matter as goes to points
our own line, although we have always been
willing to payshim and his shareholders $50 per
car more than the Adams company does 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 a large
part of their expenses are paid by the Pennsyl-
vania Company besides. The Baltimore q Ohio
Railroad Company on the other hand, pays to
the Pennsylvania and to the Philadelphia,
4 Wilmington q Baltimore, twenty cents for each
Bleeplng-car passenger and fourteen cents for
every parlor car passenger, and pays all its own
expenses, and receives no mileage from the Penn
sylvania Company, as the Pullman Company
does. President Roberts does not pretend to
justify his action upon the score of its being a
measure of economy to decline Baltimore &
Ohio traffic over the Philadelphia Wilmington
G. Baltimore. and New York divisions 1t is
simply method of annoying the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company for exercising it's rights
in building competing road The fact is the
traffic we give the Pennsylvania and
the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti-
more Railroad Companies is given them at
a rate which is more profitable per ton, and per
passenger, to the mile than their own traffic of
like character on the main line of the Pennsyl-
vauia railroad from Pittsburg to New York.
The aggregate of the traffic we gave them for
the year ending September, 1883, was as follows:
Freight, 1892, BOB; passengers $253 024; express,
$50. 073; sleeDers and parlor cars 81, AL; total
$3.50, ,09l-and to this should be added considera-
Bile other sums coming from the pool. The gross
earnings from freight business of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad in 1883 We're at the rate of oslo
cents per ton per mile Our freight paid them
over l cent per ton per mile, and the expenses
of transportation were less, the rate paid
by the Baltimore & Ohio Company being
2 IA cents per mile per passenger, while the New
York division of the Pennsylvania earned only
20H cents per passenger per mile. We mean to
build a new line because of our experience with
Pennsylvania contracts, and because we are re-
solved to be in the power of that company no
longer.
Cheap Fares at Buffalo.