Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-27


in widening the difference between car
load and less than carload lots.
Here q general discussion took place
participated in by Ripley Sutherland,
Armstrong, Cleveland Cameron, Thomas
of the Denver road, Smith of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas, Hendricks,
Turner of the Texas and Pacific and w =.
@ Turner
Sutherland said that much of the
trosble grew out of the quarreling and
jealousy of the railroad men among
themselves, and as if to give force and
emphasis to the truth of the assertion ,,
Smith of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
and Ripley Of the Houston and Texas
Central indglged in rather warm dis
cussion regarding the action each of them
had taken in reference to fixing a rate
from a certain point. The question as to
who was right and who wrong was not de-
cided, and the meeting proceeded with
the business on hand.
COMMON POINT CONCESSIONS.
One of the chief subjects OF complaint
was the recent extension of cOmmsn point
territory, and Mr.. Sutherland went right
at the heart of that matter.
"Mr. Ripley he said, "will you
withdraw Albany as common point i
withdraw Henrietta?'
Mr.. Ripley replied that he would, or if
he did not do that, would give Fort
Worth and Dallas a local'rate that would
enable them to sell goods there.
Mr.. Smith said he was not authorized
to withdraw Henrietta from common
point territory, but would use his influ-
ence to have it done.
Mr.. Thomas, for the Fort Worth and
Denver, said he would withdraw Wichita
Falls.
Mr.. steere of the Santa Fe agreed to
withdraw BTOwnwood, and Mr.. Turner
made the same promise regarding Cisco.
Each of these promises to go in case all
the others do
The meeting then went again into gen.
eral discussion of the state of affairs, the
talk being entirely informal and abso-
lutely unreportable. 1t was participated
in by about everybody present.
MR.. CLEVELAND AGAIN.
Mr.. George Washington Cleveland had
managed thus far to sandwich a short
speech in between every other two that
had been made on any phase of the case.
Up to this time the remarks as a whole
consisted of piece of Sutherland and
slice of Cleveland; chunk of Ripley and
erou and a section of Cleveland, .aAa so
on throughout the whole discussion.
From this point ON to the end Mr..
Cleveland cut himself INTO thicker slices,
which he slipped in with rather more
frequency than before, until il came to
be very much CleYelapd and very little
anything else.
Mr.. Cleveland moved that the rail-
roads be requested to reduce the
through rates on carload lots to
Texas common points 20 per
cent. -. and the local rates on
less than carload lots 80 per cent. He
said this would neither reduce the rev
enue Of the roads, nor increase the cost
of the articles shipped to the consumer.
1t would hurt nobody but the iobbers in
Chicago, st. Louis and other places who
are trying to down the Texas jobber.
Ripley SAID it might be that the roads
could make the reduction asked, but he
could not give an answer until the effect
had been figured out. He thought the
best plan would probably be to raise the
through rates on less than carload lots.
POLITICAL CONVENTION.
Mr.. Cameron opposed the motion. He
thought it premature and calculated to
put the railroad men in the position of
reasonable men think of doing without
consideration. While up he took occasion
to speak of the Dallas meeting, which ne
declared was a convention of politicians
and not of business men, such as he ex-
pected to find. He had been on the COM
mIttee on resolutions, and found only
two other business men on it. The rest
were politicians, and they voted down
every motion made by the business men.
Mr.. Steere could not see how the
roads could reduce the rates 90 and 80
per cent. and not lose anything. He
thought the proper remedy would be
found in widening the difference between
carload and less than carload rates.
Mr.. Cleveland called for vote on his
resolution.
Mr.. Cameron moved vote OF thanks
to the railroad men and visiting jobbers
who attended the meeting.
Cleveland called for vote on his reso-
luton.
Mr.. Cameron s motion was adopted.
Mr.. Cleveland called for vote on his
resolution.
An invitation had been received for
the members of the meeting to go around
the city on the electric street cars. Mr..
SteeTe moved that the invitation be ac-
cepted with thanks.
Mr.. Cleveland called for vote on his
resolution.
Mr.. Steere 9 motion was adopted.
Mr.. Cleveland was still demanding a
vote on his resolution when the meeting
adjourned.
The following signatures were put to
the petition referred to above:
Fort Worth Grocer CO., W. F. Lake,
wholesale hardware; H. W. Williams s.
Co., wholesale druggists; Cameron &
Tatum, wholesale dealers in lumber and
flour; E. H. Keller, wholesale dealer in
buggies; b. c. Evans & Co., wholesale
dry goods, boots and shoes; Ellis & Kell-~
ner, wholesale saddlery and harness; w.
a. Huffman Implement Co.; Moore
Bros, wholesale gTocers, Waco; R.lF.
Scott, wholesale grocer, Paris; Fakes &,
Co. wholesale furniture; Armstrong s.
Co., wholesale grocers, Dallas; Wallace
& Waggeper HI8holesale grocers, Dallas;
j. II. Brown, wholesale grocer.
MIR Dave Mccoy, thesgreat negro de-
lineat1r, elicits rd4ltaas of applause every