Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-09
BIG SHIPPERS DISAGREE.
Produce Commission and Grain Merchants
Have Various Opinions for or Against
Determination as Suits Them Best


Business Mems Ideas.
Among dealers in country produce the
following was the drift:
John Aiken, of Aiken & Henry-We get
along very we'll with the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. 1t gives us good SER
vice and we do not complain. It is true it
has always Disseminated against US, but in
80 years we have got used to it. Away
back in the time when steamboats, did car
rying between here and st. Louis the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company delivered -four
through its connections from st. Louis to the
Eastern cities as cheaply as it did to Pittsburg.
Mr. Renton, of Baxter & Renton-Carnegies
fight against the Pennsylvania Railway Com
pany is all right but had he shown more ardor
in showing the South Pennsylvania Railway
project would think more of him. The P. R,
R. service is excellent, but it makes US pay
about all our business can stand.
VIM. Boehmer, of Boehmer & Co.-The P. R.
R. does just what any other company would do
under similar circumstances. 1 have no par
ticular fault to find with it. [Mr. Boehmer
appears to be firm believer in the doctrine of
total depravity and rather seemed to think it was
all right. He was rather obscure in his utter
ances.1
Frank Wilbert, of Wibert Bros.-The Pennsyl-
vania Railway Company's rates are too high, and
it gives us more trouble than any other, by its in
dependent and arbitrary rulings, especially in
the matter of demurrage. The company charges a
dollar a day for all extra time. If we cannot get
carload Of potatoes away, leave just one load,
and we cannot get an hours grace, but must pay
a dollar for few minutes detention. The off,
cials are angry on account of some trouble they
had with our predecessors and we are the victims,
We have no trouble with the Pittsburg and Lake
show its line,
Comprehensive Unfairness.
H.. McCracken Co.AThe Pennsylvania Rail-
road discriminates not only against Pittsburg,
but against the entire State, and has slighted
Philadelphia ever since it got its terminus in New
York.
Henry B. Rea-We can't fight that company. 1t
gives us good service but 1t is the dictator, and
all do Is to stroke its fur the right way and
get the best terms that can be coaxed out oft.
Somers Bros.-We think Carnegie is about
makes us pay for it,
Meyers 4 Tate-The Pennsylvania railroad
suits US as well as, rather better than, any road
coming into the city.
Thomas H. McGowan-we get better service
other carrier. but charges are steep. haven't
much to say on the subject.
pronounced against the Pennsylvania Railroad
than produce men. but some of them were not as
K. s. McCague-I don't find as much fault with
the PenInsylDania Raiir3ad as when It gave re.
Sase 6ases S0 SSrSey I to den fn1e
the discrimination in favor of particular cities,
and l hope MIR. Carnegie will keep up the war
until we get a State law similar to that Of the
interstate commerce act. 1 believe that would
make the matter all right.
Does it All Come Outs
B. McCracken-While would not stop the fight
between Mr.. Carnegie and the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, don't believe either side tells the
whole truth. If the Legislature were disposed to
do its duty and provide for the enforcement Of
article II of the State Constitution the trouble
of which people complain would be abated
speedily and effectually, but for II years that
article has been allowed to remain dead letter.
while its enforcement would cure all the ills COM
planned Of 1t does not seem that the people want
relief. for it is not very long since Chauncy
F. Black pledged himself to work for
the very end they profess to want, If made Gov
ernor and placed In position to do so, and an
earnest in this direction had been given, but the
| people decided by their votes that they didn It
want 1t. The enforcement of that article would
prevent all corporate grievances complained Of
1t was the work OF jeremiah S. Black and goes to
| the root of the evil.
John Hood-l don't talk on such matters for
| publication until have considered what have to
say. and am too busy to-day to give it time for
| thought think law in the spirit of the inter-
State commerce bill would remedy the matter.
| Prentice Hackett-We have three lines from
our works to this city, and of course have all the
competition we want and do not suffer, SO we are
Schomaker & Co.-The Pennsylvania Railway
sasss With u Fet soEg verT well With it
but obliged to pet and take what 1t sees t to
allow We have trouble with any of the
roads.
Why They Smile on It.
B. A. Voskamp Cove get along excellently
with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Its
| management gives a better show claims
| than does any other road and our relations are
| CO rdal with it as also with the Ft. Wayne Com
pany. We have unsettled claims of 6, and
| Il months standing with some railroad COM
| hut of hal nd with a
| MIA Railroad or Pittsburg, FIT. Wayne and Chi
cago, and both are accommodating in the matter
| offreight delivery.
r. J. Weixe Of Marshall, Kennedy Cove
can only ship about = miles on either the Penn:
syvania Railroad or the lines controlled by it and
compete with other cities, frelghts are against
us. For instance, Buffalo can block us at Par
nassus. In fact, we can scarcely ship out OF the
city % miles in any direction, and are forced to
| fill orders by having Western shippers BILL dt-
rectly to our customers. At times we can send
| stuff to Liverpool or Glasgow cheaper
| than to points on the Allegheny Valley Railway.
Here is table of rates for March, 1883 in which
you can See that on our class of freight the rate
| 1t was but Is cents from Chicago to Pittsburg.
Western shippers cannot only get better rates
than we, but can have passes thrown in. Pitts
burg cannot get fair rates West, but the West can
| get them to any point.
s. b. Floyd-I think 1 would rather submit to
| the tender mercies of the Pennsylvania Railroad
| Company than to those Of any other we have ever
| struck in the matter. We have never had any
| trouble with 1t, and have no complaint to make.
Dilworth Bros.--We ship with the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, and have no trouble with it at
| all and don't expect any.
Mr.. Flood, OF Arbuckles Co.--So far as know
| we are at peace with all the world, and have no
| trouble with any railway company.