Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-22
STILL IN THE FIGHT.
Local Shippers Working in a Pitts
burg Freight Bureau.
A LETTER FROM GEO. 7. OLIVER.
Be Gives Interesting Facts and Figures on
discrimination.
THE COMMITTEE MEETING YESTERDAY

The Committee on Transportation and
Railways, of the Chamber of Commerce,
held meeting yesterday morning. Chair
man James B. Scott presided. The COM
mittee discussed freight determinations
and reviewed the work already done, but
did not take up any new business. They
will hold another meeting some day this
week, but which day has not yet been de-
cided.
The freight discrimination agitators have
not given up the fight by any means The
gentlemen who have been endeavoring to
obtain freight bureau for Pittsburg are
still hopeful of obtaining such an institu-
tion, notwithstanding the apparent lack OF
interest that has been shown by the manu-
facturers and merchants of the city. Mr..
George T. Oliver, who has given great
deal of attention 20 the subject, has addressed
the following letter to James B. Scott,
Chairman of the Committee on Railroads
and Transportation of the Chamber OF Com
merce:
DEAR SRI notice by the daily papers
that at meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce your committee reported progress,
and volunteered the statement that you
were disappointed at the slight interest
taken by the business men of Pittsburg in
the subject of freight rates, which is now
under consideration by your committee,
and that you further stated that your COM
mittee was diagnosing the case, etc.
The Eject of an Invitation.
Allow me to suggest the possibility that
the form of invitation sent out by you may
have kept away from your meetings many
business men, who knew that the evil of
inimical freight rates existed, but did not
have the necessary knowledge Of details to
present the facts clearly before your COM
mittee. In short, an impression has gone
abroad that the committee is not altogether
friendly to the movement to secure better
freight rates for the city. 1t is unfortunate
that this is the case, for believe the COM
mittee is sincerely desirous of efecting all
the reforms that are possible in this dfrec-
tion.
1t seems to me land know that my opin-
ion is shared by many OF hers) that the facts
already presented amply JUSTIFY recon-
Inendation by your committee in favor of
the establishment of a bureau orassociatlon
to look after the freight interests OF this
community; but Nknce you desire further
facts, have one dFtwo of them which have
lately been called to my attention, and
which now beg leave TO submit to you.
The city of Buffalo occupies exactly the
same relative position the Northern
Trunk lines as the city OF Pittsburg on the
Pennsylvania and Baltimore and ohio sys-
TENS. Each OF the cities is the dividing
point between the Eastern and Western di-
visions of their respective lines. They are
eQui-distant from New York, while Pittsburg
has the natural advantage of being 72 miles
nearer to Chicago than Buffalo. On a fair
adjustment of freights, therefore, the same
rates should apply between New York and
Pittsburg as between New York and Buffalo,
while Pittsburg should have slight advan-
tage in Western rates.
Figures on Freight Rates.
The following table OF rates will show
whether this is tine case or not: