The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-04
VIEWS OF 1T.
SAVANNAH DOES NOT GET THE
CARGOES OF LUMBER.

poiIrOnd and terminal Charges,
ubiIe Railroad Men Say These
& charges Are No Higher Here Than
rIsewhere-A Delief That There
,IouId Be Lit de Trouble in Getting
Eocilities If Lumber CargOes For
Europe We're Offering.
II is a hard matter to locate the trouble
o,a disadve .ntages under which Savan-
Fl ali labors as a port, which prevents her
q rom get ing large foreign shipments,
s inch as lumber and other products, that
re goi AZ through neighboring ports, but
Khich.. il would seem, should naturally
4 10 Il rough Savannah.
TT mmbermen, as stated in the in
er Sew presented in yesterdays Morn
. News. say that the fault is both with
8 he railroads and the shipping men, in
hat the railroads have extraordinary
h criminal and transfer charges which are
a nj made at other ports, while the ship
n ing men do not offer as advantageous
81 ,cean rates as are given from other ship
ing points. The shipping men say that
he fault is entirely with the railroads,
ecause of these terminal charges, while
& e railroad officials attribute the whole
niculty to the shipping men, because
.ey do not get the ocean rates that are
sered at other ports.
81 4 representative of the Morning News
& erviewed one of Savannah's leading
% brokers yesterday upon the lumber
MS interview to the effect that he had
He a contract to ship a million feet of
Iber through adjacent ports to Eu-
r. which he would have shipped
tlugh this port had he been given as
Ambiguous rates as he secured at these
OF ports.
think that your informant was about
rig in everything he said. The trouble
is, nd has been all along" the ship
bror said, that the railroad terminal
anQranseer charges here have kept
awe great deal of business that we
VOL otherwise have secured. 1t was so
wi4tegard to cotton prior to the agita-
dOnf the question of cotton shipments,
aftewhich the railroads removed their
ternal charge of cents per hundred
pouB.
Tire is no trouble whatever about
gettt the vessels. We can get vessels
just cheap as Brunswick or Charles
ton, I'd we can get them from $500 to
$2,0OOheaper than Pensacola, or any of
the Ger Gulf ports, because of the six
or sen days extra steaming that is re-
quirel to reach the Gulf. There is no
troub at all about getting an ocean rate
from avannah as cheap as can be Sc
cured rom any of these other ports, and
If our ailroads appreciated the situation,
and wuld adjust their charges so as to
put uson the same basis as competing
ports, lbelieve we would have no trouble
at all lb,ut getting all the freight to
which We are entitled
The getleman made a pointed state
ment, whei he said that the railroads no
longer usf their terminals as an ad-
Junct to tie transportation business, but
are using hem as separate and distinct
moneymdling scheme
''Nobodt has ever approached me, nor
any of he other ship brokers, so far
as I knot, with regard to taking a cargo
OF Jumbo by steamer. l don't think
that thee would be any trouble at all
shout quoting them an ocean rate as low
as they coud secure anywhere else. When
me gentleman spoke of not knowing
Where to 50 to secure rate through Sa-
Vannah to a foreign port, l think he
must have had reference to the rail-
roads, or rather, perhaps knowing the
expenses attached to shipping through Sa-
Fannah, thay have never taken any trou-
ole TO investigate the matter"
In order to get the railroad side of 1t,
a Well-knOwn railroad official, who is
thoroughly familiar with freight trans
portation, was seen.
your informant is altogether mistaken
ABOUT the terminal charges" he said. "for
we charge no more here than is charged
at other ports. The wharfage here on
lumber is % cents per thousand, and it is
tne same in Brunswick and in Jackson
Vllie When it comes to making a trans
ler from one wharf to another, a distance
oI ten or eleven miles, that is an extra
service and we are entitled to an extra
CHdrse Tor 1t, and each of the roads gets
SLoO car for the service rendered This
Is considerably less than we are entitled
10 charge under the ruling of the railroad
commission. In Brunswick the tracks
run right along by the side of the
~harVes but when there is a transfer
rom Il, one wharf to the other, a distance
OIL SIX or eight miles, a, charge is made
ior II Just the same as in Savannah
don't know just where the trouble is.
puI am satisfied that IL the business
we're olfering, it could be shipped through
GAY dhhah with the same facilities, and at
just as advantageous rates as can be Sc
Surea at any of the competing ports. Why
Jon these shipping men get out and
luS.ie Tor this business, if they want it,
as 40 those at some of the other ports.
ny lar from here? / think IL Won will
.nnESsugate among the lurnbermen. Won
WI, WI ma una as rule that they have no car
- y. ouerlhg Tor Europe by steamer. and
= tney mad, am satisfied that they could
s.laAe arrangements through this port
norte oI the lumber shippers have had
g g',,s Oh cargoes of lumber, and have en-
so,l,. to get freight room for It ON
1 sDi Oh the cotton steamers, but the shin
mrs simply wouldn't take IT.
sh, I'm regard to the contract for the
sitpineht OF million feet. which Won men
n IN, Oils morning, l happen to know that
~, YI"'lehlan, who was in Europe recently
,l1I contracts while there for the shin
ana +, Vi several million feet by steamer.
of nm 'e might be wen to state that on one
MAJ large steamers a million feet will
he Win lS one cargo. In shipping II. as
mo-. ~ ne Will have the advantaee of al
of co,, elil're water transportation. which
tago e' gives him an additional adyan-
ro,Gs' the fault does not lie with the rail-
land cbo-A can snow you, where their rates
arc els''lses' are no higher here than they
and H., "tnere. Let the cargoes be offered
|busno. tne shipping men compete for the
and re- anu oter equitable ocean rates