The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-08
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including those who have no access TO the
railway tracks. do business in competition
1 with all neighboring cities and at the same
7 time sell goods al a profit. The present
charge Tor delivering cars on River street
] IS only 81 per car, which is very reason
able indeed. River street is unfortunately
very narrow and there are difficulties 10
contend with In transacting business on
l the railroad track there. i have just receiV-
/ ed complaint from the owners Of StOd-
I ards range that the value of their prop
/ erty fronting on River street is being di-
/ minished by reason of the continual block
/ ing OF the street with lumber cars and
/ stating that the city will be held liable for
/ damages II this condition Of affairs con
/ tinues. The opening up Of River street so
| as 20 give the Savannah. Florida and
I Western railway the same access to that
street which the Central railroad now en-
/ joys, viii undoubtedly prove Of great bene-
| Mt 10 the merchants located there and il is
/ the intention Of council TO proceed as IA
/ pidly as possible in this matter"
Mr.. A. 5. Guckenheimer of the firm of S.
| Guckenheimer & Sons made very strong
/ argument against the idea that il would
| be necessary for the grocery merchants
/ TO go to the railroads. THE gentlemen
! who are making this argument" said he,
lose sight of the essential fact that so
! per cent. of the goods in the wholesale
/ grocery line are brought to Savannah by
water. Very little flour, for instance,
| comes mere by rail now. Almost all OF II
comes by water. If we had union freight
/ depot or the warehouses were located az
/ the railroad yards, the principal part OF
| the freight would sfill have to be hauled.
| Whatever disadvantages Savannah labors
! under by reason Of the distance or the
/ stores from the depots is more than over
/ come by our cheaper water rates, which
/ makes ii TO our profit to haul the goods,
rather than have them shipped by rail.
| Ihe rates on flour from St. Louis to our
competitive points are as follows: Macon,
/ Sc; Atlanta 81; Augusta Sc; Americus, 40;
columbus Sc. The all-rail rate TO Sa-
/ vannah is 81 cents, and the rail and
| water rate is 4S cents, which gives US an
| advantage of Il cents a barrel over our
| lowest competitAor. Rates on other freight
are in the same proportion.
! The advantage in the warehouse
| plan" continued Mr. Guckenhemer. is
/ only in receiving the freight. In ship
/ ping in less than car load lots 1t would
! be necessary TO dray the freight to the
/ railroad depot, anyway. We are probably
| the only grocery firm on Bay street own
/ ing our building. and we could hardly be
| expected to favor the warehouse idea,
| anyway. We have no idea of moving just
/ at present, either l have no doubt that
at some time in the not far distant fu-
| ture there will be a railroad track down
] Bay street, and another down the lane,
and cars will be left at the doors of the
/ merchants in the afternoon, to be loaded
/ and removed at night.
When asked about the complaint of the
/ Bay street merchants with regard TO de-
murrage and storage charges. Mr.. F. B.
! dlgs general freight agent OF lOe EldnL
system said he was considerably sur
! prised when he read the article. Under
/ the existing circumstances he said, he
did not see how such complaints could
! be made.
eve fully agree with them on the sub
| Ject of opening up River street." Mr.. Papy
! said, and have no objection whatever to
| that being done. In fact l think it
! would be a good thing for all parties con-
/ cerned to have the street opened.
! But when it comes to the question of
rates and charges" Mr.. Papy continued,
Savannah has decided advantage over
all other points in this section, and es-
pecially over those points with which she
comes in competition. Take the rates
from Ohio river points to Savannah, as
compared with rates from those points to
/ other cities or towns in this section, in
| GLIDING such as Macon, Columbus, Val
dosta, Albany and many others similarly
| situated"
Mr.. Papy exhibited a list of rates from
| Ohio river points which he has prepared
! in connection with this discussion.
You will see" he said, that in every
| case the rate is decidedly in favor of the
| Savannah merchant, by an amount all the
way from or to 80 or sixty cents per
100 pounds. This may be taken as one
example, and there are many others
! like it.
The rates for demurrage and storage
are not controlled by the railroads. That
IS matter altogether within the prov
ince of the Southeastern Car Service AS
ISOLATION, of which Mr.. J. c. Haskell of
| Atlanta is the manager This assocfa-
| ton keeps track Of every car load of stuff
shipped within the territory which il COW
ers, and by regular agreement certain
| stated charges are made"
| speaking of demurrage, which is the
| charge on loaded cars TO be unloaded bv
| the consignee left after the time limit
Mr. Papy said the rate was uniform ev-
erywhere in the territory covered by the
/ southeastern Car Service Associat ion
The rate is 81 per car per day. the rate
fixed by the Georgia railroad commission.
and that charge, he said, is made at ali
| points within the associations territory.
| including of course, all the points which
| have been mentioned
BY agreement between the Plant svs-
| TEN and the Central of Georgia Railway
| company schedule of rates for storage
! mas been in effect in Savannah for some
! time, which is considerably less than the
| rates allowed by the state railroad com
! mission. The rates allowed by the com
| mission for Storage after the time limit
! are, in less than car load quantities. NOT
! more than one cent per 100 pounds ner
! day and in car load quantities not more
| Ihan 10 cents per ton of 1000 mounds ner
Jay. Inc rates here are from 40 to IS per
! cent. less than these, the schedule havine,
| been hXed by agreement between The
| principal railroads centering here
Inc savannah merchants, it appears
nave pave an advantage in every way, Mr..
Papy said These rates for stora ge he
sald, are less than those charged AZ
! points which come into competition wifi
savannah, and far less than those chargej
| at local points, for at such points tbe PM
rate allowed by the commission is charee5
Mr.. Papy showed representative Of me
Morning News that the Plant system has
| plenty of warehouse space to accommo1
GATE Whatever goods are brought here nv
the road. The system has lust buiI+ =
| large warehouse, which is almost TUT
the size of the other storage warehouses;
and in case all the space of these sbo,,i;
| be occupied with stored goods tbe So
| TEN accommodates its customers nv So
ing them in the freight depoHs There Ia
| a good deal of merchandise now in 60
| age in the freight depots SsO
When goods are left with the svs+an, IN
| storage, 1t unloads them from fbe car 81
and loads them again for shipment 80
OF cost to the merchant. The ONLY cbare-e
made is for the storage as has basD
stated. The Central of Georgia ~ -,
stated, furnishes practically the same fa9
From what some of the railroad NO.
say with regard to the matter. tbsv So -,
to look upon 1t as a desire on the ~ ~ u.
some of the merchants for the ralji In, u y.
to help them do business for notb U1.es
They look upon the idea of a union Fai ~
depot as utterly absurd. They say tbe ~
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