The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-17
New York's Complaint Filed.

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New York's Complaint Filed.
The New York Produce Exchange has
filed very important complaint before the
lnterstate-commerce Commission against
the railroads comprising the Joint Traffic
Association which carry produce to the
seaboard, charging them with making rates
and regulations and giving terminal priv
ileges for the purpose of diverting traffic
which should naturally go to New York
to other seaboard cities including Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Norfolk Newport News
and Boston. The complaint asks for an
investigation and for the establishment by
the commission of just rates, charges ETC.,
for interstate transportation from Chicago,
Buffalo and the West to the seaboard cities
and markets
The railroads made defendants by the
complaint are the Baltimore & Ohio, and
its connections; the Big Four, the New
York, Lake Erie & Western, the Chicago
& Erie, the Grand Trunk of Canada, the
Delaware & Lackawanna, the Lehigh VAL
trail, the Lake Shore, the West Shore, the
Wabash. the Philadelphia & Reading, the
Central of New Jersey, the Boston & AL
bany, the Erie, the Detroit & Grand Ha-
ven and the Grand Rapids & Indiana,
The complaint recites the. exceptional
trade facilities of New York by reason of
the natural and artificial waterways con-
Meeting with the primary markets of the
West, Northwest and Southwest 1t says
is is favored by the great concentration
of business, its large import trade, its su-
per1ol ocean service, its harbor and general
terminal facilities, and says that the other
cities are localities competing with New
York for the export trade or the United
States The defendants are charged with
violating the first, second, third and fourth
sections of the interstate commerce act
in that they have established and main
tanned rates, charges, differentials, rules.
regulations for the transportation of grain,
-four provisions and other produce from
the interior and have given terminal priv
ileges to the other cities which are I'M
reasonable discrimination against New
York. The complaint quotes the estab-
lished rates on grain, flour and provisions
showing that they are from to 8 cents
per 100 ponds higher to New York. than to
the other cities except Boston, where the
rates are 2 cents higher than to New York
On grain the Boston and New York rates
are a. the same, and range about Ut ! cent
But, the complaint declares, in the case
of Boston the defendants grant shippers
twenty days free storage and free insur-
ance, which privileges are not granted to
New York. These Determinations will, the
complaint charges, nullify the advantages
ated by the expenditure of public and prl-
waite funds, and unjustly and unlawfully
divert from New York the trade and COM
merce which would naturally flow to 1t;
and unjustly and unlawfully stimulate and
build up the commerce of the said competi-
tive seaboard localities.
The complaint also says that Nov. -,
1895. the defendants except the New York,
Lake Erie 81 Western, the PittSburg, Fort
Wayne 81 Chicago and the Boston & AL
bany) formed the Joint Traffic Associa-
ton and that since Jan. l, 1896 they have
violated the interState-Commerce act by
their rates and the diversion of traffic from
New York. In conclusion, the petition asks
violation, prays that the defendants be re-
strained from continuing the d1scr1m1na-
lions and requests the commission to fix
rates and charges to the seaboard cities
and markets.
Voted Against Reduced Rate.
Members of the Central Freight Com
mittee met at Chicago yesterday and voted
down a proposition to make the rate on
corn from Chicago to New York 10 cents
per 100 pounds. For the ninety days Pre-
ceding Sept. Is the rate was Is cents
hundred, having been reduced upon orders
of the board of managers of the Joint
Traffic Association from the old twenty
The restoration came by limitation and the
board of mana gers submitted the matter of
again reducing the rate at the same ms. time
of the big trunk lines between Chicago
and New York favored the fifteen-cent
rate, the reason being that New Workers
are complaining greatly that their port
may lose ground export city. Small
er lines in the Central Freight Committee
were against the proposition to reduce,
because of the reductions which would fol-
low in their already small proportions of
Must Not Deal with scaIpers.
An important decision made yester-
day by the arbitrator in an appeal from
the local passenger association at Kansas
City. The case was one where a local
agent sold to a customer of broker a
ticket at full rates. There under
handed operation in the sale OF the ticket,
fraction of the association rule prohibiting
any deals with brokers under any circum-
pealed. The arbitrator has upheld the de-
cision of the local association, he finding
of the local associations to see that no
broker is given facilities fer handling any
form of transferable ticket. The decision
is very sweeping in it's character. and prac
tically prohibits any member of any local
association in the territory of the Western
Passenger Association from having any
whatever with any broker I'M
der any preteXt.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
f. c. Luce. assistant general passenger
and ticket agent of the Lake Shore road,
yesterday returned from his vacation.
General Superintendent Mills and other
officials of the Toledo ST. Louis & Kansas
City are this week inspecting the prop
orty.
B. II. Aiken recently appointed special |
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio at Cam
ton. assumed the duties of the position yes
-erday
James Early, passenger conductor on the
has been granted a months |
cave of absence, and will spend the time |
n Colorado.
Edward Stallings. of Fitzgerald. Ga,
travelling passenger and freight agent of |
he Georgia & Alabama, is in the city on |
officiaF business.
A. G. Blair, president of the Wheeling & |
Lake Erie, has gone to New York to try |
10 raise money to put the road in better |
shape financially.
j. It. Brooks, second vice president of the |
Pennsylvania, his trip making sound |
money addresses to railroad employees is ac- |
by his wife.
The court will next week fix the day for |
he foreclosure sale of the Ohio Southern |
y hich extends from Lima to Welston, O.. |
bout two hundred miles
Frank A. Palmer, assistant general pas |
;enger agent of the Wabash, who has been |
i'll at Rochester, N. Y, is said to |
De improving, and it is now thought he I
will recover.
Travelling passenger and freight officials |
If the Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw. |
Who were laid off for thirty days without |
pay on account of dull times, yesterday |
'esumed work.
S. J. Henry. formerly assistant general |
freight agent of the Missouri Pacific has |
seen appointed to the same position with /
he Rio Grande Western, with headquar- |
ers a Salt Lake City.
The new steel bridge of the Chicago & /
Great Western at Des MoineS is completed /
md trains began to run over it Yesterday, |
cutting down the distance three miles in /
getting from Des Moines to the main track. |
The owners of the Great Northern claim |