The age-herald., 1901-01-16
THE COMPLAINT OF
 SHIPPERS TAKEN UP
Meeting of the Alabama Car Ser
 vice~iSSoCiation
REFERRED TO COMMIT FEE
New Rule to Require Penalty On Pack age Freight Left in Depots After Forty-eight Hours-other
 Business.

The Alabama Car Service Association met in this city yesterday and took up the complaint filed by certain lumber dealers and shippers of Birmingham and vicinity. The complaint as contained in a circular letter to the shippers of the district was published in the Age-Herald yesterday morning. The specific complaint was that a charge of one dollar for each days delay in unloading cars after they had been put in place by the railroads was required of shippers, the charge to begin forty-eight hours after the arrival of the car. It was charged that the rule was arbitrary and alty should be paid to the shipper by the railroads for the same delays.
 The members of the association discussed the question for quite a while and then re- ferred it to a committee consisting of Su- perintendents McKinne of the Louisville and Nashville, Johnson of the Central of Georgia, and Kemp of the Illinois Central. This committee will thoroughly investigate the matter and report back to a meeting of the association to be held on the third Tuesday in April.
 While no official action was taken on the question, the members of the association seemed inclined to grant at least some con cessions and it may be that when the next meeting is held the charges will be ordered discontinued or the railroads will agree to give relief in some other way.
 A New Rule.
 The association passed a new rule which applied to package freight, that is to less than car loads, bringing that class of ship ments under the car service report. The rule requires that all packages not removed from the depot within forty-eight hours af- ter it has been unloaded shall be subject ito charges. It is claimed by the members of the association that a large number of shippers fail to get their freight out of the depot within reasonable length of time after it has been unloaded and that on account of this delay the railroad com panies suffer considerable inconvenience. They claim that the depots are not large enough to furnish storage room for pack age shipments and that this rule is intended to prevent freight accommodating in the depots.
 Members Present.
 eh''9oN''hioii were: John A. Dodson, general superin- tendent of the western district of the South ern railway; Theo. D. Kline, general super fntendent of the Central of Georgia; H. E. Hutchens, superintendent of the Memphis division of the Southern railway; c. s. Hayden, superintendent of the Birmingham division of the Southern railway; A. J. Frazer, superintendent of the Alabama Great Southern; J. L. Welch. superintend- ent of the South and North division of the Louisville and Nashville and of the Birm- ingham Mineral; Sam Galloway, assistant superintendent of the South and North di- vision of the Louisville and Nashville and of the Birmingham Mineral; J. I. McKin- ney. superintendent of the Montgomery and Mobile division of the Louisville and Nash vile; J. T. Johnson, superintendent of the Central of Georgia; H. M. Fckinger, super intendent of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham; J. K. Kemp superintendent of the Illinois Central.