The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-05-08
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Iaunfl Shore Railroad Company pouid
leke IA arrangement and cenf<r !
md monopoly to anyone, - Nan-
Seer Mcneil st4fes has been given 10
- transfer company, The giving of
Z 9hifh would of course injure and de-
rfror TIE business Of the railroad
<umpany, II too stupid for SERIOUS
!, eunsiderstion Or attention The Shore
4=77lne railroad, ID The lace Of competi-
IN, Is, and has been. making m
surnest and successful effort 70 20
arsve their patrons, the merchants
~ shippers 81 Puget sound
- Seattle il particular. a. 70 eet
III shipments. aud il Is for the bet
- serving OF the shippers and ia
Bons that Ne 1xe - anxious 70 COM
I 80 the terminal facilities now beng
<r6otructed. The character Of these
Movements or the broad gauge
1ip' viii be fully appreciated b. asjy
11rDon who sees them. and the fact
80 there has been expended up
&4rds Of ~, 900 10 bring them 20 their
s l.ent state Of compieticn. Is Il
assemble 70 suppose for . moment
ut the railroad company viii suffer
~ monopoly. By Discrimination Or
11fnfr treatment Of its patrons, which
meod IT oace cause those patrons %
~ their shipments 70 competing
IT. arrangement with She transfer
sompenv provides - fellows And
z 4 u further mutually understood and
o1roed that the demands 81 the busi-
-. up1Is snan - S cvissaSieIsn anu Al
: 49, 49, ~ sA.<Iussy kAstssu IN t1se
cn1uuct. e 9nsii,czs uIsqer TINS agree.
Neut; toeS 1fcleat snail &c foaaea ana
N.esaeu promptly nha expe1it;eusly
- mat no d1scrsmsnaAon Oh any
ma snaH IS e1ercisea against any
9nckman, shipper % consifnec Be
5ofs tne agreement Win me transfer
10mpany was e4ecuteu y Was submit
- q many 81 the pfDulineHt business
nm ana Shippers OF seatkies anaong
ghom were tseorEe y hdair, fress-
1pnt 81 the Beard q Trade bailey
0atxerf, CSC. representing the heasi-
~ shipper III peAtifs aud A. A.
Denny, esq.s each OF whom carefully
seudied Y over. and after being siight-
* modified and additions made to
na1es their suggestions, was pro-
nounced ~ each q them 70 be fair
md just and fully protesting the
rights Of every consignee and truck
nan.
That the narrow gauge road requires
q jutends 70 build any warehouse or
improvement on the broad gauge
rip Is al bosh and intended TO mis-
ieod. in the first place il has no busi-
noss except coal, which in no event
eouId be placed in warehouse. and
- the second place. IL by any
chance Ii should ever get any
SADNESS, it could not reach any
warehouse on the broad gauge strip
except over our tracks. The mans
eor states that they want 30 build
warehouses 70 rent 10 the broad gauge
rQad. The broad gauge In building
these improvements Tor ils uxn uses.
and for other roads that may come
into Seattle, and for the purpose Of
ketfing away from the narrow gauge,
from whose depredations IL has been d
constant sufferer.
The merchants well remember the
unjust and onerous wharfage tax the
narrow gauge company levied on all
shipments which came into Seattle
ser the broad gauge road prior 20
June Last, az which time the
broad gauge got out from
under their control and abolished
that wharfage charge. from the levy
ms Of which the Columbia u Puget
Sound Eaiircad Company extracted
many thousand dollars frofsi the pock-
cts 0i seattle shippers, The senffie,
lake shore e Eastern Railroad tori'
pany einhe paiu over ss1b on their
steei raas which arrived "a ear loads
eno diu hot ~ any point toucn any
property uiis marrow gauge com.
gany. Ills Gfaniying 10 pote the iaes
1Iat ssnoc Tug snefe inc road aas had
separate omcers and gotten out from
nnuer narrow gauge aictahon, It's bus
mess mas pecoms I'VE Gines larger.
lney Wouiu nave yon believe Trey
sre illenqs o. the people ana now
ssandlng netween seattle and her de-
sucsaon. Ihosc speeious p,s.snIions
I've pec, ts'o otsen msuc. 0hsn ths
nsAttie. Laks rnorc Eastern ran
.sy were puuuink their raiiroan aionS
~ Nsteh front q ssoa1se, sns marrow
4uge company diu everything ~
neir power 20 prevent them. ana tnsrt
on ne IN tne district court ailsuayits
sIpn eiaparate anu neaauiui maps ana
arawihgs 81 extensive terulnS,
: nuhain8s when tney CANNED
they were then going 20 erect on sneii
ssefM docks oi lois near tne ioos o.
fike street on the water 'front.'. Naf,
TOW gauge ofLclals then tas now
waited under oath thaf Their company
Has ready and anxleus 10 commence
punaIng INC pieiufed anu pisnneu
wafenpnses etc. tnal those puiidings
we're Hien imfefauveiy necessary fof
Meir business and that Their company
n.u no other property ia Seattle upon
.nieh shey could buiia them THOSE
piocks are now bare OF any improve
fasnts
Iney nave pursued a course OF petty
snnoyahcss and hindrancc te the ois.
erauon OF the West Seattle Terry, and
arc irving 70 destroy u.
NOW that the lei Sound shore
Nompany are providing faculties
proper and eom.nensurate With II
vsiame 81 business and Tor use OF al
susas that VIII come INTO seattle ths
AafIuW gauge company Is on hanti
skain and snsistang thatit must have
sals broad gauge strip 70 erect ware
eoases on, although Claiming nun
akeuS 81 acres ef tide Nat lands sd
pahIng IN tsets nfouestly claiming
square IN the city of Seattle.