Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09

companies there are insiders connected with them
that are also interested greatly in the TalirGaos
difference.
squareIy on Record.
I. G. Jenkins-There are many Inconsistencies
and palpable robberies practiced upon us business
men of Pittsburg by the Pennsylvania Railroad 10
our utter helplessness. There is no other agency
by which we can deliver our goods to points EAST
and West so we have to submit to the inevttaDle'
1 am heartily in favor Of Mr.. Carnegie and MS
suggestions as to specific remedy for this great
bugbear to the business Of our thriving city Inc
II. P. Dilworth, Of H. F. Dilworth & Co., COM
mission brokers': '1n our business we have an
have an existing competition between the Penn
sylvan1a Railroad and the Baltimore and ONO pc
most of our sugars. The FennsyiVanis Railroad
company thought 1t could compel us to acceae, 70
defphia was touched by Competing road just so
soon we left the Railroad ana nos l1s
the same. and with unqualified success.
bins Mr % or sne nd yyrfbaa Escorted
to the school-boy method Of retaliation in expos
ing the outrages practiced, is all twaddie; He S Is
terest to enter into such controversy without
having some good foundation for facts; Anyhow.
his motive is to be commended, and, think, ne Is
perfectly right in his charges.
Joseph Horne 6 Co. IS shipping agent, Mr.. Shay;
rates hurt their business or not. He had Just
glanced at Mr.. Carnegie's letters; no opinion
Good day.n
PnIpable Injustice.
George Preston, of the st. Clair Coal and Coke
Company-The rates on coke are most exorbitant,
and much higher than coal, which should not be,
from the fact that the coke Is easier to handle Is
cleaner, and is unloaded inst the same as its
cousin-coal. Mr.. Carnegie is perfectly right;
but he is doing just what should have been done
20 years ago. Pittsburg undoubtedly has been
subjected to a higher freight traffic than any other
city in the country, and had she not been
wealthy town she would have been bankrupt sure
Frank McClintock, of Oliver McClintock Co.,
carpets and furEiture-The chief point with us 1s
the damage done to our trade within a radius OF
come in and say: 1--WE can buy the same goods in
New York or Philadelphia. and have greater
variety to select from, and still pay
the same freight tariff from these
MIR. Buhl, of Boggs & Buhl. Allegheny am
hardly pre- pared to say anything regarding the
subject you broach, but 1t Is most apparent that
we Jobbers suffer immensely from the grasPinIg
road. was in hopes of the South Penn project
Undertaking., but since that has sunk deep into
the mire of oblivion, we must abide 6y IL pnlIo;
sophically. 1 hope, however, some other channel
may open soon which will serve as an ant1dote
from the present ''cinch'' Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad on rates.
favor of anything which would prove ''strong
enough to down the greatest outrage known in
the history of railroads.
Mr.. Wilson, of the Chautauqua Lake Ice Com
pany, is quoted as saying that Pittsburg has to
pay more freight ice than any other city in the
United States.
Any number of business men were seen who
criminstion, as proposed by Mr.. Carnegie, and to
bring our city within the realm Of reasonable
railroad rates.