Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
THE REAL CENTER OF OIL OPERATIONS

places for various reasons, but is now break
ing that habit. Some improvements coule
be made and the Allegheny Valley people
have been trying to make them.
Arrived at Titusville, asked Editor 81
| @. Bloss what he knew of the matter. Ht
replied; SIN general way I think the
facilities are not good. l have thought
that with fast trains running through with
1 out change of cars and without passengers
having to stop at Oil City, travel to AMI
from the East would 60 through your city
more, and more people would 60 to Pitts.
burg to trade.
NO COMPLAINT TO MAKE.
G. P. Devereaux, boots and shoes
Facilities are much better between here and
Pittsburg than between here and Buffalo,
and freight rates are better. 1 certainly
have no complaint to make.
Mrs. Henry Kehr, milliner-No, don't
| know that have any complaint to make
| about the facilities for travel between here
! and Pittsburg or the freight rates, only that
from Philadelphia we must pay two rates,
while from New York we pay only one. l
wish that could be changed.
j. Westheimer, boots and shos: "We can
| get goods from Buffalo in one day. It takes
longer from Pittsburg. That is about the
| only difference. That is quite an advantage
when we want anything to fill out an assort-
ment of goods"
| Fletcher. drygoods: "We only buy one
| line of goods in Pittsburg, blankets. Nearly
| all our shipments are from Philadelphia and
New York by Empire line. We don't have
much success with ordinary freight. We
have no complaint to make against facilities
between here and Pittsburg.'
L. Ullman, drygoods: Don't know any,
thing about it. We don't ship any goods
from or to Pittsburg."
ANOTHER OPINION,
Robert Kernochan, hardware: "The facili-
ties are bad. 1t takes 13 to 10 days to get
freight from Pittsburg. Can get goods from
| Chicago in less time. We don't trade in
| Plttsburg for that very reason. It is an out
rage. No, we don't buy dollars worth of
| goods in Pittsburg. There is no travel that
way either. Everybody goes East by the
| Philadelphia and Erie"
S. S. Bryan, hardware: "We ship eight
or nine car loads q month from Pittsburg.
We have no complaint to make. The facili-
ties are good, much better than between
here and Buffalo. We get pipe and heavy
hardware in Pittsburg altogether and some
of our light hardware What we don't buy
there is the fault OF the jobbers in your city
and not the railroads. But there has been
| great improvement in the harware iobbing
houses in Pittsburg in the past ten years. I
| used to live there and was employed in one
OF the hardware jobbing houses. It is 80
miles farther to Pittsburg than to Buffalo,
but the fourth class rate from Pittsburg is
only 9 cents. while from Buffalo it is 10
| cents. We have more to complain of in
local rates when we ship goods to Warren,
Kane or Bradford. More trade is going to
Pittsburg than formerly"
Titusville Iron Works-We have no COM
plant to make on tina. score. We are the
heaviest shippers in this city, and get more
freight from Pittsburg than anyone else.
We don't think either Titusville or Pitts
burg is injured. Rates are lower between
here and Pittsburg than between here and
Buffalo. Of course we would like lower
rates. but are satisfied with those between
here and Pittsburg. Between Pittsburg
and West Virginia is where we have to put
up the tariff. 1t is outrageous down that
way. There is no complaint to make ON the
grounds you speak of.
GOOD FACILITIES.
81. Splitter, HARDWARE have no COM
plant to make. The facilities are good. I
buy all my heavy hardware in Pittsburg,
but can buy much light hardware to better
advantage elsewhere. ! buy some articles
made in Pittsburg cheaper in New York
than I can buy them in Pittsburg. And /
can buy some goods made in Warren, lust
over in the next county, cheaper in New
York than at the factory. We like Pitts
burg goods
G. stinsoD, leather: Everything is sat-
isfactory. I have no complaint on that
Facilities are good.'
Colonel j. J. Carter: "That subject needs
consideration before it is discussed. l am
railroad man myself and would have to
know all the difficulties and phases of the
case before l could answer the question
But can say L think the trend of trade
toward Buffalo is more matter of old habit
than anything else. We had facilities sor
reaching that place before we had any means
of reaching Pittsburg. Then few years
ago lady could not think OF going shop
ping In Pittsburg without getting her
clothes dirty and her hands and face soiled,
while Buffalo was a nice, clean city. But
the people are looking more friendly toward
Pittsburg now than ever before, and 1 think
trade is turning more and more in that
direction. People up this way are Just be-
ginning to realize what great center of
trade Pittsburg has come to be.
ONE FEATURE.
1--WE who are in the oil business are
drawn more to PIttsburg. It is now really
the home and center of the trade and we
feel at home there. A good many oilmen
went to Buffalo to live when Bradford was
the scene of activity, Dan O'Dav, II. L.
Taylor, John Satterfield and others. 1t is
now question whether they will not have
to pull up and move to Pittsburg. OF course
we would like better facilities for travel
that way. The new fast trains which run
solid between Pittsburg and Buffalo are
greatly appreciated, and If the train leaving
here In the morning and returning in the
evening could be run the same way it would
be appreciated. However, I suppose the
railroads have good reasons for running
trains as they do.
"The situation is this: Old habit has the
trend OF trade the other way. Pittsburg has
been gaining lately. To get the trend
turned that way two things are necessary.
Special inducements offered by Pittsburg
itself and first-class facilities ior people to
get there. Something might be done in
both directions in the line of improvement.
With these pointers I went to Mr.. G. B.
Price, Superintendent of the River Division
Allegheny Valley Railroad, and asked him
to tell The DISPATCH what he could about
the matter. Mr. Price said:
The train you speak of used to run solid |
between this city and Titusville. We have |
tried repeatedly to get the Western New
York and Pennsylvania road to restore this |
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