The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-26
TRUCK FROM SOUTHERN FARMS.
why Preference IL Given TO the Pennsylvania
Road In Shipments.

Esouu III
A despatch TO THE Sun from Charlotte an
nounced yesterday morning that the Southern
Railway Company and the South Carolina and
Georgia Railway Company had notified the re-
ccivers OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad that
after May 30 they would refuse consignIncnts of
fruits, berries, and vegetables to be forwarded
to Eastern cities by the last named line. Second
Vicc-Presidcnt W. W. Finley of the Southern
Railway. who was here yesterday, explained the
reasons for this notice as follows:
1T is necessary that this traffic shall be moved
at n high rate OF speed and that it shall be loaded
in through cars from point of shipment to dcsti-
nation. This traffic has been brought to its
present development through the closest CO
operation on the part OF the Pennsylvania Rail-
road IN this and other respects. Prior to this
season no shipments OF vegetables have been
forwarded from south C.r9liih VIZ ne southern
Ohio Railroad TO Eastern cities. during TINS
season shipments consigned via the baltimore
and Ohio Railroad have been delivered to
that road with the result that the Southern
Railway and its connecting line. the South
Carolina and Georgia, Railroad, have been
obliged. through IA division of the ton
mage. TO haul "A greater number or cars.
perhaps twice as many, for sn hstantially the
same amount of tonnage. than If the traffic had
been concentrated on one line. rms necessarily
whbers he traiic Was becoming unrcmuncrative.
The continuance o: the present high rnte OF
speed of these vegetable trims Is conditioned
IlNlI EON MI ll- Aas aFsNa'
To continue to divide the traffic would force Ms
TO reduce expenses by abandoning the fast SER
vice and by substituting a slower service and
one unsatisfactory to shippers.
1T il to the interest OF shippers that they
shall have u competitive route for this traffic
via the South Carolina and Georgia Railroad
and Southern Railway through Columbia. as
against the one other rail route leading from
Charleston. $: :. 1t will be seen, therefore, that
this competitive route could only be preserved
by concentrating the traffic on one line north
OF Alexandria, Va. where the southern Ran;
way connects with the Pennsylvania Railroad
and also with the b fillmore and Ohio. The pref.
erence OF the greater number OF shippers seemed
to be for the Pennsylvania Railroad. and, az
previously stated, tho traffic having been
brought to it's present development through the
cooperation OF that line. which has furnished a
proportion OF the ears for tho traffic, II was de-
tcruiincd TO consolidate the traffic upon that
road. and the Baltimore and Ohio road was nott-
fed accordingly.
las to the statement that the Pennsylvania
Railroad has used any threats TO make tho
Southern Railway and its connecting line take
this action, IL Is without foundation in fnct. and
the action watch has been taken in the matter
IL not intended in any sense to create an unfair
discrimination against the Baltimore and Ohio
road, but to preserve 10 shippers n competing
route, which might otherwise have. to be nban-
doned or its effectiveness materially dimin-
ished,"