New-York tribune., 1885-07-04
THE BARGE OFFICE CHANGES.
FEW COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE SYSTEM.
WHAT INFLUENCED THE cUNARD AND FRENCH

FEW COMPL ANTS AGAINST THE SYSTEM.
WHAT INFLUENCED THE cUNARD AND f"hNo''
LINEs-wILL OTHERS FOLLOW THEM
Collector Hedden received orders from Secretary
Manning yesterday to permit the Cunard ana 'ehera'
Transatlantic French) steamship lines 10 iahd theit
first and second cabin passengers, with their baggage
at their pers instead of at the Barge Office. Both COM
panics had represented that the practice Oh Trans,
ferrinr Messengers and baggage at Quarantine, and
landing and examining them at the Barge once had
resulted in greater detention and seriously nterfered
with the ruar business of these steamship lines, by
diverting passengers to other lines
Vernon H. Brown the agent of the Cunard line SAID
In this matter acted Independently Of other lines
and understand that the French line did the same
In the order given Secretary Manning has deferred 70
public opinion tLat Is. he has not been moved oy
what some of the papers have said that he was but nc
has received complaints OF the system OF
Barge Office by the patrons OF our line Inc iacs Is
that the incon venenccs and delays oil the barge oce
system. aud relieving those lines when had tneir
terminus at Jersey City, has been discrimination
against those lines having piers In New YORK au
aware that the Barge Office system has been SAYING
20 the lines of between and two hundred dohats
for each passenger ste but we are wiling u
forego this saving rather than to inconmode our
passengers. do not know what action tne o.nct 'lc'
will take. but think they will follow our example
A representative of the White Star Line, In the
absence OF the general agent X. D. Cortis, SAID do
not know whether We shall make similar spPncao' pPa'
10 permit passengers to be landed at the
per or not We shall be guided entirely by the wishes
Of our patrons SO far, we have not heard oil single
complaint from them" w.
will probably ask TO be placed the same footing a.,
The Cunard line, but not q complaint have we heard
from our patrons against the Barge Ohct system on
the contrary. some of them have comme nded ~. -
Mr. Gibson, passenger agent OF the Guion line sMo
do not know whether We shall ask to be permitted
TO land our passengers at the pier or not NO com
,Ia Of inc delay
Raroe Office have been made To by our passengers
Agents Of other English lines made similar state
ments. l.. ,.,,o,
s Barpev's express business at Castle Garden and
the Barge Office said that the first intimaton which ne
had received of the change came from the day papers
suppose the news is tr1e," he continued, " ana
In that ease it probably the abolition of the
Barge Office system. We shall lose some business bu'
not so much a people suppose. Before the barge
Office was established managed all the baggage
transfer business for the White Star Line, and II the
Barge Office should be done away with, we would
probably obtain this business again We have never
heard complaints about the efficiency OF our service
but II the steamship companies are deermined 10 g
back to their old methods, We shant complain. -,
John u. Starin was also disposed to look Of the
mater phGsCphos snI1ge 7 bs siher ns
will follow the example Of the Cunard and the French
Company They certainly will he allowed to do So u
they want to. There Is Question whether We e. nave ~,
abolition of the Barge Office but these rights are mol
40 valuable that would be inclined 10 hight ioi
them Our contract for the transfer OF u
baggage was 20 be valid for three years, but don
know whether under any circumsanc ! would have
renewed IL. We obliged To keep three steamers
at Quarantine all the time. Many days these steam err
lie idle there In the could use them ID
far greater advantage In other lines OF our business
For the present we shall continue to transfer passen
gers and baggage 20 the Barge ohce as IN the past
although Il loss of the passengers who arrive by the
Cunard and French lines renders the service even
less profitable than II was before