Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-19
The DEAL OF The DEALERS.
Two Sides of the Pool For Shipping
Agricultural Implements.
CONCERNING THE cAAUTAUQUA
Services mt the Churches The County
Printing-A Special Jury For
the COfYman Case-The
Park Case.
The Implement SINNERS.

facturers who have simply agents To-
Gated here, and who ship their goods
from this point through the houses of
transfer agents. These agents claim
that they are residents here, many OF
them owning property here. and paying
taxes. and that by reason OF such dis
elimination against them as this assOci-
alton seeks to enforce, they will be COM
PEELED do move away from here, locate
their business elsewhere, and that the
city will thereby be injured to that ex-
tent. They feel that il the business men
generally understood the situation they
would not endorse the action of this as
sOciatiOn. 1t was suggested to them
that they bring their cause OF complaint
to the attention of the board of trade, so
that some formal action might be taken
to relieve them, but the claim is made
in reply that the very men who are
foremost in this movement against
them are leading members of the board
Of trade, and that such u complaint
would naturally not receive fair treat
ment. They claim that it is hardly con-
sistant for such men to be shouting for
Council Bluffs, and urging all to help
build it up, while they are endeavoring
ing out others and injurng the city at
large.
The chief complaint against this as
sociation is in regard to the shipping of
| goods. 1t has been customary for GUS
| toner to order goods of different makes,
and from different parties here, and the
one having the largest shipment, say n
half carload, to allow the others to put
their goods into the car, thus getting
advantage of the carload rates. The as
sociation, composed mainly OF those hav-
| ing warehouses and sidetracks. has de-
cided that the one doing the loading of
the car shall charge the other members
of the association, sending goods to go
| Those who are not members of
the association are charged 10
cents hundred. AS these
| general agents here, handling gooos
| through transfer houses. are not men,
bers of this association, they have to
pay 10 cents hundred for shipping
their goods, while members to the asso-
citation load for each other for cents.
This is claimed to be q discrimination
which will force these men to do busi-
ness elsewhere. The members of the
association state the situation in quite a
different light. They admit that there
is an association, but deny that it is
simply Council Bluffs arrangement. II
the same regulations adoptedl here
govern there. If these who complain
locate in Omaha, they will get no bet
ter rates there. If they go to Kansas
City they will find that they cannot load
there in other dealers cars a,
any price, but will have to dc
their own shipping rs best they can. Al
Lincoln thare are no facilities for get
ting others to do their shipping, as they
desire here. In fact, under this ar.
rangement, Council Bluffs affords these
gentlemen as good opportunities as car
be secured anywhere, and better than
most cities.
AS to the Justice of the association in
making this arrangement, the gentle.
men concerned assert that they have
acted for the best interests of their own
business and to protect that. 1t car
hardly be expected of them that they
should sacrifice their own interests for
the sake of furnishing facilitie.
for men to cut into their own
trade. 1t can hardly be asked
of them that they should main
tain warehouses, sidetracks and Other
facilities for shipping, and then allow
men in the same line of business to have
the advantage of these for nothing. Al
to the charge of 10 cents per 100 fol
loading such goods as these agents
bring to them, they say that this doe
not pay for the trouble, annoyance, ex
pence and frequent delays. Even u
| mOdating those who now complain. The
reason for making different rate fOl
members Of the association is that thes,
members are in position to return tn,
courtesies, while those who complain
are always asking to have goods loaded
into other dealers cars, but seldom,
ever, load by the car themselves.
One instance will make 1T clearer
One house which has shipping tacilitie
received an order for a car load o
goods, including some. seeders. Tht
agent for another kind OF seeder induce,
the customer to cancel the order for tn
seeders and order Of him. One OF th'
inducements offered the customer wa
that the agents seeders could b
shipped in the same car as the Othe
goods and would cost nothing additiOna
for freight, and at the same time tn
agent cut the price, thus securing tn
order, and causing the house which wa
dong the shipping to lose this much O
the original order. Then when tn
goods were to be shipped the agent sen
his seeders to the warehouse of thi
: firm and wanted the firm to load ther
into the car and send them to this Gu
toner. Hardly any business hOus
would feel like shipping goods unde
the circumstances, and the least tina
could be asked was the payment of
= cents IL 100 pounds to help meet the ea
penses Of shipping.
Mr.. w. w. LoOmis, Of David Bradle
& Co., chanced to be at the teatable tn
: other evening, and was drawn into cor
versatiOn on this subject by the re
Gently appointed correspondent of tn
Omaha Herald, who was formerly i
the agricultural implement business
and on the strength Of this acquain
= ance, and. little dreaming that he wa
J being interviewed, Mr.. LOomis talke
= freely. What was his surprise when h
a found the next morning what purporte
a to be full report of this private, sOcit
conversation. Had the conversatio
" been correctly given it would hav
been bad breach of social confidence
r but Mr.. Loomis found the statements {
Q garbled and twisted, in the evident il
r terests of the parties complaining abo.
T. the association, that he protests Stout
9 about being thus represented before tn
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