The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-10-20
BUSINESS BRIEFS.
PRESIDENT Garret ScOrches President
Roberts of the Pennsylvania Road.
THE COTTON MILLS REsuMINe
The Coal Miners OF Ohio on Anotber
strike-rhc' Hooking Valley Min
ers' supply Cut GA - The
Eastern Railway War.
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Baltimore q Ohio and Pennsylvania Rail-
ways.
BALTIMORE, Oct 10. President Gar
rett, of the Baltimore q Ohio railway.
in reviewing the statement of President
Roberts, Of the Pennsylvania road, adj
dressed TO acommittee of the merchants
and manufacturers association, of Bal
tlmoro, which visited him last week in
Philadelphia, in relation to the difli.
Guilty between the roads, said the COM
mttee had received most imperfect,
one-sided, and doubtless without inten-
tion,a very mis- eading reply. Facts
true in themselves had been stated, but
IN such an imperfect way as to leave
very erroneous impressions. Other facts
hau been separated from their proper
connection with those given, which
were necessary for their mll eNplana-
ton. President Roberts practically In
timated that the action of the Peunsyl-
vAnia railroad company was taken,
not because the Baltimore Il Ohio COM
pany'S traffic was Improbable to that
company, hut because the Pennsylvania
railroad company regarded such action
as proper retaliation ON the Baltimore a.
Ohio company for building its new line
to Philadelphia. This is the whole scope
and spirit of Roberts statement. lie
ieclines the traffic which he had been
arrying for soma wears, not because il
does not pay, but simply because the
Baltimore Il Ohio railway Is building Il
Inc which in time will be completed to
The Philadelphia, Wilmington Il Balti.
more railroad. The PENNSYLVANIA COM
pany charges the Adams Express COM
puny $40 per ear between Baltimore and
New York, and charges us $50. The
Pennsylvania company distinctly
refuses to permit the Baltimore
S Ohio railway company to nave any
express facilities at the now elevated
station and would not even allow tie
Baltimore Il Ohio company 10 unload NJ
his station express matter carried i'm its
baggage ears. The facilities furnished
at the Broad and Prime streets depol
consisted in leaving the Baltimore Il
Ohio compauy's ear on the side track
not even under n shed, where Ii WA,
compelled TO load and unload cars un
protected from all kinds ul weather, en-
dangering the condition et goods IL
loading and unloading to and from the
ears and wagons, and not only hu,
Roberts not given us facilities for doinl
express business, but absolutely pro
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either between New York and Philadel
| phia or between New York and Bnlti
more or between Philadelphia and Bal
timore and confines us entirely to sucl
express matter rs goes to points upOI
our own line, although we have Away
been willing to pay him and his share
holders 80 per cent. more than Adam
does Tor doing the same business
Again, we are charged for send
ing sleeper over the Penn
sylvama line, and the Pul
man company are actually pai
for so doing. The Pullman compan
receive cents per mile for Oach car an
u large part of their expenses are pal
by the Pennsylvania compay. Besides
the Baltimore & Ohio railway cOmpan,
on the other hand, pays to the Pennsy
vania & Philadelphia and the Willmin,
ton ~ Baltimore 20 cents for each sleepe
car passenger and II cents for every pa
lor car passenger and pays al its on
penses and receives no mileage from tb
Pennsylvania company as the Pullma
company does. President Robert
does not pretend to Justify hi
action upon the score of its being
measure of economy to decline III
Baltimore ~ Ohio traffic over the Phil
delphia, Wilmington Il Baltimore an
the New York division. II is simply
method of annoying the Baltimore
Ohio company for exercising its rights /
building competing road. The fact
that the traffic we give the PennsylVanl
and the Philadelphia, Wilmington
Baltimore railway companies is give
ut a rate which Is more profitable pC
ton and per passenger to the mile tia
their own traffic of like character on tl
main line of the PENNSYLVANIA road frol
Plttsburg to New York. The aggregat
= of traffic we give them per year endin
September |, Is as follows: Freight
S9',>53; passengers, S2i3,02i; express
SNOl3; sleeper aud parlor cars, Sll,ll
total, Sa3O,00l. TO these should be adde
considerable other sums.s Coming frnl
r n pool of gross earnings q
freight business the PennsvlVan
> railway in lSSl was at the ra
of ~ cents per ton per mile ON freigl
paid them over cent per ton per mil
and expenses of transpoi tation were at
less rate paid by the Baltimore ~ oh
company, being II conts per mile ~
passenger, while on the New York div
sion of the Pennsylvania IL earned on
20 cents per passenger per mile. We h
gan 10 build q new line for one reaso
because of our experience with II
, Pennsylvania contracts and because y
were resolved not to be in the lower
that company any lorger.