New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-26
MIGHT CAUSE A RAILROAD WAN.
FRANK MARRIOTT TELLS WHAT HE IHiNN'
WOULD FOLLOW IF NEWBORN hoAo'
,po1 1suED DIFFERENTIALS.

~. e,.,o Commerce Commission. which is In
curing into the Tightening business IN Ne" iu ",
Harbor resumed It's sessions IN the rrouu'e ~
change Building yesterday ,.-o
u n Caldwell traffic manager or Inc Deia"a4'
rackawanna and Western Railroad. was the nrs'
u,,,ress He said that his company had ono pier
q modest one in Brooklyn. The John H. ''"''"
rjehtering Company did the hghtering LOT ''o
railroad There was no agreement tne "o'N "a
being done on an expired contract Inc I8'e -
n the starin company was 60 cents ton ine'uI,ls
Loading unloading and filing. For transforms
freight IL cents ton was pau ~
terminal facilities. ill.,
NJ Caldwell was asked his opinion regardlis
charge, for lishterng here, and said tha' MS
onin,on WAS only half formed and OF little Va'ue,
ss he had been here only since last jury "e sou
he was absolutely In this territory as MS pre''
Gus railroad relations had been IN the west
1D newt witness was Frank Harriott. trainc
.aagor ~ the Erie Railroad He said that ne
had formerly been connected with the ba'"iao'
and Ohio Railroad He went into the history u
rate wars from 1876. at which time ne sa'u tlei'
vas no agreement or understanding with the west
ern lines He told OF the figures agreed upOn q,
dtnerent times between the railroads. he 'olu u
.h various rates agreed upon at different tunes
On many articles. He thought the present ulie'
entails unjust and nequitabe, and deci"'eu '""'
The present condition OF commerce mere WAS S''"p.'
,ba result OF the opening up OF other ports hc
sa,d. .sYou cant stop II any more thaH SOu w."
dam the Mississippi. These results are Only N"'
ural" ,, 80.
Mr. Harriott was asked II he DID not th'ln '
time had arrived for the Encouragement Oh "i'
entails and said that the trunk lines hau Uo"0'N
Grad the matter He did not think an aIlaHsc
rent OF the diferential rate could be see"'eU
through the Board OF the different trunk me ma
ayers as the result Of any report by 'he Oo'n-
mission. A.oc,
II this Commission should take up 'he s"oJ
NJ direrentials and compare the differences eN'
,nv IN 1852 and the present time, and shou4u "u-
,.,se that the diferentials be modified wouu '"e
railroads be at all disposed TO base their dscuSslo'
on such action?" asked Mr.. Farchild.
They might" said Mr.. Harriott ana i''e -
he OF some assistance to the Newly orK ioAus i-o
admitted that the New-York roads all aereou ''"'
tina direrentias were unjust and that the fennsy =
vania and Baltimore and Ohio roads lhsls'eu '""'
they not unjust. ,s -,- o,,+ .her
,,estence and abolish the differentias. the en-,
1varia and baltimore and Ohio roads would 3rine
on a rate war. would they not! asheD MI az
'Tf looks very much Ike IT," said Mr. HaTriot.
Mr. Harriott then made me Statement
age makes the differential ,,e .o,,o -
lie eaid that Il did not make any IlileIsiiiSSS -
the rate was the same Baltimore OF fhllaue m
the factor of taking something out OF tnS 80 a.
not alone in New-York. mere was "e'''''o- 80
~ you consider the Pennsylvania Railroad tcss
fearful OF a rate war than the Ne" i''
"a don't know 1 cant say was the answer
uot ~ ,a,k Of nv neighbors business
uo ss,oUrnment was then taken subject TO the can
OF the Chair.