Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-10
HOW IT HITS PAPER.

Str0uE Statement From the Firm of Cod
frey & Clark ms to the Determinations
Against Their Freigbts-1Iore
Food for Reflection as to the
Monopolistic Leech-
ing of Profits.
The inequalities of this freight discrimina-
tion are not confined to iron, steel, glass,
drygoods, produce and grain; they reach
all classes of shippers. For example, G. E.
Godfrey, of Godfrey & Clark, Liberty
street, paper manufacturers, had this to say
yesterday:
"Yes, we have followed this question through
the papers. and are nightly pleased at the
stand taken by THE EDIsPATCH"
"What do you think of Mr.. Carnegie's
charges?'
81 think they are perfectly true, aud think
Carnegie is not done with the P. R. R., by half.
/ know that certain lines of heavy goods used
by US are shipped by the Pennsylvania to
Cleveland, Akron and Cincinnati, at the same
rates as are charged u.s."
'Can you explain the probable reason for
this2'
The Real Difference.
SIT is simply because we must pay it. We
have no other way out of it. We have put up
mills, etc., and can't shut them down, and must
have goods to keep them going, You see the
Nypano, the Erie and the Nickel Plate run to
those points, while we are isolated. We never
really had any Eastern road beside the Penn.
sylvania. We gave them every favor; apd now
we are getting our thanks for it. know posi-
lively that the Pennsylvania charges us from
New Y ork to Pittsburg "a to q cents per 100,
while on the same goods they charge only
This latter they charge to all points touched
by the New York Central, Lake Shore. and
West Shore. You can imagine what tire.
mendous drawback this discrimination is to
Pittsburg.
Here Is another case Last September we
had $50 tons of imported stock due in New
york There was a big war of rates on and
freights went down to 15 cents on that class of
goods. Unfortunately, the stock was delayed.
and in the meantime rates advanced We had
an offer from the West Shore, however, to haul
Pennsylvania's 400 miles, at Is cents It sounds
good; but the man who says the Pennsylvania
Railroad makes its freight rates according to
distance would be laughed at.
Wonderful Inequality.
"For bleach the Pennsylvania charges Pitts
burg Is cents per 100 from New York. Yet
they haul the same goods three times as far
toward the West and charge only one-third
more. The Pennsylvania Railroad charges us
only cents less per 100 for 80 miles than the
New York Central and Lake Shore charge for
225 miles. Jute stock, paper pulp, and heavy
goods are put from New York into the Miami
Valley and Cincinnati for about the same as
here. On certain heavy goods the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad charges from Is to II cents
fpom New York to Buffalo, and from New
York to Pittsburg (about the same distance)
they charge 25 to 28 cents. If I had only known
you were coming l would have been loaded
with figures, but these are reliable.
II am not kicking blindly. We want mere
justice, and 1 will say, in conclusion, in our
line of business alone the Pennsylvania exacts
thousands and thousands of dollars more than
they do from Cleveland, Chicago or Cincinnati;
and if this is not discrimination, and if this
does not initiate against an enterprising city,
then we are not in the paper business"