Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-24
CHECKING THE ROADS
The Boards of Trade of Cities Will
Let Their Voice be Heard
IN THE MAKING OF FREIGHT RULES
The Rock Island Extending Its System
Into the North west.
THE ST. PAUL TRAINS NOW GO TO OMAHA

CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-The railroads are be-
ginning to understand that they will here
after meet with strong opposition in any
movement they may inaugurate that is not
acceptable to shippers, The National Trans
portation Association. recently organized in
this city, and which Is composed of dele
gates of the boards of trade and commercial
bodies throughout the country, is preparing
for active work.
Commissioner Inglehart, of the Chicago
Freight Bureau, said to-day: "The Associa-
tion has grown in strength until it is now
prepared to take stand on questions affect
ing the interests of shippers. Hereafter we
propose to have voice in the regulation of
matters in which we are interested, such as
the forming of car service associations and
kindred combines, which provide for the
lntliction of penalties on shippers who fail
10 unload cars within certain period.
Transportation Combine Means Business.
"The members of the n ational Transporta-
tion Association believe that by united
action they can correct inconsistencies and
secure recognition and Justice from the rail-
roads. There are now over 20 commercial
exchanges represented in the organization,
its members are going actively forward"
A part OF the programme OF the association
is to insist upon representation in all confer
ences of railroad officials looking to the
adoption of rules or the forming Of agree
merfts calculated to curtail the privileges of
the shippers. If their demands are resisted
they will resort to other means, as they re-
sorted to the boycott in the case of the uni
form bill of lading, to prevent one-sided
legislation.
Chairman J. W. Midgely, of the Western
Freight Association, is apparently very
much surprised and chagrined at the failure
of the Trunk Line Association to adopt the
Uniform classification.
The Illinois Live Stock Rates.
Representatives of the Illinois lines met
to-day at the office of Commissioner S. P.
Brown to consider the new schedule of rates
on live stock prepared by the State Board
of Railway and Warehouse Commissioners.
They found on checking up the rates that
the schedule makes reduction of about 5
cents per 100 pounds for distance of 40
miles on shipments within the State. AL
though no action was taken at the meeting,
there was an understanding that the sched-
ule would be adopted without protest by all
lines.
Commencing next Sunday the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad will ex-
tend the run of its Chicago Council Bluffs
trains to Omaha, using the Union Pacific
bridge to cross the Missouri River. Here
tofore these trains have stopped at Council
Bluffs, and the new departure does away
with the delays heretofore existing at the
transfer depot on the east side Of the river.
Uniform Pay for All Switchmen.
A conference of the General Managers of
the Western railroads was held to-day, re-
lative to the demands OF their switchmen
for Uniform scale of wages. Switchmen in
the Chicago yards have heretofore been paid
by the hour, their wages in day aggregat-
ing from 30 to so per cent more than the
day wages paid in small cities and towns.
The managers agreed upon scale approxi-
mating uniformity, by which the wages of
outside switchmen Will be within S. a
month of the Chicago switchmen's wages.
Surveyors, who are now engaged in run
ming line from Chicago 10 Milwaukee, are
said to be working under the direction of
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
They have reached point near Racine. and
the line they are mapping out follows the
Lake Shore closely. The Rock Island
reaches the principal gateways of traffic
covered by the St. Paul and the North
western, except in Wisconsin. The Rock
Island Is anxious to get part of the lum-
ber traffic to the Southwest, and other
branches to penetrate the interior of Wis
consin are projected.