The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-24
MERCANTILE MUITERINGS
AT RAILWAY DETERMINATIONS.
New York's Leading Merchant Princes
Object to the Pernicious Pooling
system-Examples Presented
to the Il II. Commission.

state Railway Commissioners Ker-
nan, Rogers and O'Donnell sat in the
chamber of commerce for six bonrs
yesterday, listening TO the complaints of
several merchants of the Traders, a
Travellers union and other orpari,o
Mons against the present pool svstan,
OF snipping freight. The Hon. Cbaun
cey M. Depew and Traffic Agent Hay-
Gen represented the New York Central
O. hudson River railroad and the Mer
chants Dispatch Transportation com
pany. Royal q. Villas cared for the in
Ierests OF the New York, Lake Erie n
western railroad, and representative
0I the West Shore road was also present.
Inc nearing, was brought about by a
mn eeg held at the Merchants club on
december 70, by twelve well-known
nrms, among which We're d. s
Jaiiray d Co., Mills d Gibbs
Bliss, Fabyan q Co., II. B.
Claim 4 Co., Jay, Langdon& Co. and
Bates, Reed IL Cooley. This Meeting
resulted in appointing a cOmmitteee
consisting OF John Gibbs, of Mills 3
Slpps; JONES FL. Durham, of Dunbsm.
buckley " Co., and VIM. G. Dunn. 81
UI ii. b. Clsfiln & Co., which induced
.ne railfoad commissioners to hear the
Va tllO winch ia tn
The effect that under the present moi
system OF shipping freight they have no
choice In selecting the roads over which
1ney desire to have their goods sbipped.
~ was asserted that when goods left
tnis city no calculation could he noada
as 10 the time they would arrive at their
9estlnatlon, as in many instances
Irelghtls transferred from one road to
anoener without either the knowledge
or consent of the shipper, and that these
srahsiers not only delayed the goods,
t pae .nat M the frequent handling injured
tnen. THESE transfers. were made. il
was alleged, for the purpose of equaliz-
ms the percentages.
ne merchants opened their eause nv
specifying instances of damage from
the system in use. 1t was shown that a
merchant had shipped a quantity of
&oIous TO Piqua, Ohio, on November 10
Inc goods were in two cases and were
consigned to the Star Union line. Under
oIulhsry circumstances the goods
should have reached their destination in
SIX days, and this time was calculated
on When the sale was effected, The
purchaser waited for the goods until he
spuiu wait no longer, and then pur-
chased them elsewhere. On December
10 the goods arrived at their destina-
tlon' IL was asserted that the DELAY
was due to the fact that the goods had
peeh diverted from the direct ronte
several times. -ou'0
,Another statement was to thu effect
Lnat shipper was charged So cents n
hundred weight for goods shinned tn
INDIANA, when the regular ch arge was
only " cents, and that the increase was
because they had gone in a round
ap9ut way. The firm of Calhoun.
nopDins q Co. made shipment to Pitts
purg, ON November 8, by the Star Union
Line. The goods did not arrive until
Ten Gays later. Shipments were made
py IL. Ii. Ciaflin q Co. to Pittsburr on
oMovemDfr Is, December 10, IA. is and
q AlT the goods arrived in a bupch
On december 2S. The merchants sub
miJted other instances where goods had
Deen diverted from direct route. They
J.. said they had no objection to anv moi
s1at might be formed by the railroads,
al they wanted was to have their goods
sent directly TO the points for Which
they are intended. They said that the
spring trade begins about February /,
ana tney want the question settled be,
lore that time, because it is hard for
bnem TO retain their trade at points a
great way from New York. such az
Chlcago, unless they can deliver the
goods 10 the buyer when he wants them.
merchants in distant cities, the mer.
chants said, were frequently forced to
20 10 higher markets Tor their goods be.
cause they could not afford these rates.
New York sun.