New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-19
RAILROAD INTERESTS.
DATES TO THE NORTHWEST.

.,s ro ADJUST TIE RELATIONS OF THE
rruLAND THE LAKE-AND RAIL LINES.
,,sual conference. looking toward an adjustment
~, o1,rau and alexandria, rates to northwestern
o. was begun yesterday at NO. SAG broadway, at
ps,ol meeting held annually previous to the open
Wy =, navigation in the lakes. For months and years
NE - e opestion has called forth similar efforts and
tlS 60, has left the situation almost it " 1t
sa' me old chestnut" said one of the railroad men
w 49,, o,,or the meeting had adjourned for the day.
I, they will succeed in roasting the chcstnuS be-
W." ,he conference adjourns is question.
oIo w o four classes OF lines whose claims and
Inv o,otions enter into the important problem that
80 The conference They are the allrail lines,
Is ,, and wafer lines through Chicago the lake lines
uO r canadian lines. There is and has been no cs-
anu " ,,sis on which the difcrcntas and rates for
t'D ,,nes should lie made. After the establishment
u'g oh basis Will come the complicated work of max
aotas between individual points and on the various
n7 . ~ freight. After an alday discussion OF the
.io, vestcriay, the formation of general plan
or,ent was referred to committee composed
d o. members from each of the sections represented.
-" of this committee will be received at 10
i today. subcommittee on special classes OF
,eirht were also appolh'eu'
HoI, L Goddard, commissioner Of the Trunk Line
,,,o,. g. Il. blanchard. chairman of the Cen
%, ranc Association, and j. W. Midgcley, chair
"'i .. the Western Freight Association and of
"o - The roads represented as follows:
UNI Tunk Line, John Barton; New-fOrk Central
'~,,t,rd: West Shore, J. W. MussOn; Lake Erie
western Il. Ii. valiant and ii. Il. Chamberlain;
'u W. : sloane \. Fell and b. a. llegemen
-, ~ New -JerSey. F. III. WyckOf; Pennsylvania
u, II Joyce and F. IL. Kingsbury; Philadelphia ana
ra.drr B. II. Bail; Lehish Valley, John Taylor ana
~ sneers: Baltimore and Ohio, Frank larIiot ana
y Wright: Boston and Albany, ii. b. Chaplin; Fitch
- : Crane: Boston and Maine ". F. Berry ;
- o,k and New England. G. +. Randolph; Canadian
I.ciec George Olds Canada Atlantic, III. L. Chamber
Val, and C. J. smith; the Minneapolis. st. Paul and
c,,u Sic Marie II. l.. Shute; Duluth, south shore
o,d Atlantic william orr; Grand Rapids and INDIANA
7 n Kincsbury: II. Paul and Duluth, q. w Bull
,,,s.a,n of Minnesota President Alexander; Chicago
I'D Northwestern, Ii. Il. Mccullough; Chicago, ~.
psrl MINNEAPOLIS and omaha ii. VI. Pearce; Wisconsin!
rr ' Lines H. c. Barlow; Chicago, Burlington and
oi1ry " g. ilamDlin: Chicago, Rock Island ana
SSeri6t J. C. McCabe: Chicago, 81. Paul and Kansas
c;y Nr Iusenhari and = f. Stohr; Chicago, NIL
yankee and NJ. p;tu j. H. iliand; Erie and Western
Transportation Company /. J. smith and Evans Payne
No~fheen steamship Company, John Gordon Lake
F-e Transportation Company, y. W. Cotton thloh
stclmy0a, Company, Washington ballard Lake ou
us,ior n>poriGtion Company, r. i. Evans ana
ID H. Wilcox; Western Transportation company ;. f.
CALDWELL LehiGh Valley Transportation company
" p. Henry; OCdcashurg Transportation company
Prank owen the Port Huron line OF steamers
Il Wright.