The age-herald., 1901-01-19
REDUCTION MADE
 IN COTTON RATES From Alabama, Georgia and Mis- sjsSippi to the Carolinas SETTLED BY ARBITRATION Question Was Referred to Col. T. 0. Bush of This City and s. R. Knott Formerly of the Louis
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SETTLED BY ARBITRATION

 sissippi and Georgia to the mills in South Carolina and North Carolina has been re- duced by the railroad lines interested. This action was taken as a result of the reduc- tions made by the Southern Railway and the Atlantic Coast Line on September l. When the Southern and the Atlantic Coast Line announced this reduction other lines entered a protest and after considerable discussion the matter was referred to Col. T. G. Bush, president of the Alabama Con- solidated Coal & Iron Company, and s. R. Knott, formerly vics-p president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company as arbitrators to settle. The conclusion of the arbitrators has been announced in a circular issued by Vice President W. w. Finley of the Southern railway. In his cir cular MT. Finley says
 The extraordinary development of the cotton mill industry in North and South carolina during the past several years has leu the cotton manufacturers of those States to seek in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia portion of their supply of cot ton.
 ''The consumers in the Carolinas have contended that they could not buy in neighboring States because the rates to the Carolina mills were unfairly adjusted
 
 and foreign countries, and effective Sep- tember l, last, the Southern Railway and Atlantic Coast Line published a line of reduced rates from points in Georgia, Ala bama, Mississippi and Tennessee, which were intended to bring about a proper re- lation as between rates to Carolina milling points and rates to Eastern mills and for export.
 This action of the Southern Railway and Atlantic Coast Line met with much opposition on the part of the other trans portation lines interested in the cotton traffic from Mississippi, Alabama and Ten nessee, and led to the adoption by such lines of reduced rates to Gulf ports and to the East from competitive points to counteract reductions made by the South ern Railway and Atlantic Coast Line to the Carolina mills.
 ,. The question was finally submitted to arbitration, and the arbitratorS, Messrs. s. R. Knott, formerly vice president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Plant System, but now president of the Kansas City Southern, and MT. T. G. Bush, presi- dent of the Mobile and Birmingham Rail- road Company and also president of the Alabama Consolidated Coal and IIron Com pany have now announced their decision on this important case.
 While the rates established by the Southern Railway and Atlantic Coast Line to Carolina Mills have not as a whole been approved by the arbitrators, it would seem that the decision generally sustains the po- sition of those companies, i. c., that the conditions surrounding the cotton mill in dustry of the Carolinas called for a better adjustment of rates than that existing prior to the reductions inaugurated September l, 1900.
 For illustration: To such manufacing points in the Caroiinas Charlotte, N. C., Greenville, Greenwood, Columbia, Spartan burg, Pacolet, Pelzer, Piedmont S. C., etc., the arbitrator's decision results in re- duction as compared with rates in effect prior to September l, 1900, of eight cents per hundred pounds from such points as Chattanooga, Birmingham, Anniston and Selma; of eleven cents per hundred pounds from West Point and Columbus, Miss. ; nine cents per hundred pounds from Winona and Greenwood, Miss; fifteen cents per hundred pounds from Greenville, Miss; i; five cents from Meridian, Miss; fourteen cents from Memphis, Tenn; six cents from Gadsden and Attalla, Ala. five cents from Florence, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, Decatur and Huntsville, Ala; fourteen cents from Corinth, Miss, and twenty-two cents from Grand Junction, Tenn.
 "The rates fixed by the arbitrators in- volve, in some cases, advances from the rates issued by the Southern Railway and Atlantic Coast Line. In some of these cases, notably Meridian, Miss, Florence Sheffield Tuscumbia, Decatur and Hunts II Railway and Atlantic Coast Line are con- firmed.
 ''To the manufacturing points in North Carolina, east of Charlotte, the arbitrators have confirmed a differential rate of five cents per hundred pounds higher than the rates to points in what are called the South Carolina Group mentioned above.
 Owing to the large interests involved this question has attracted considerable att tention. and it will doubtless be gratifying to the Southern Cotton Manufacturers to know that the result of the arbitration has been to give them a much better adjust ment of rates than they have enjoyed in the past"
 Obeyed Orders.
 A striking illustration of an engineer 8 compliance with orders is furnished by Hiram Adams. an engineer on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. En- gineer Adams was forgotten and left three weeks on a sidetrack; the company will be asked to pay a handsome sum in overtime. There had been g. wreck on the road that blocked the line, and the instructions were wired to Adams to lay over at Hampton Junction, Pa. These he obeyed implicitly, and when time passed on and he did not get orders to move, he went to the hotel and engaged board The days passed into weeks, and three weeks from the time the order was given he was told to come on.
 It appears that after giving the order the train dispatcher forgot it. When Adams did not show up he was supposed to be sick, and matters went thus until he was dis covered at the junction.
 When asked why he did not inquire for further orders Adams said that only a short time ago he was called down for that very thing, and that he proposed to do as he was told He has put in a claim for his ho- tel bill and time and half after the first ten hours. He says the Brotherhood will or,I Dxrh h tn f11a d 6c tha