The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-21
REGULATIONS ASKED
Hearing Before Corporation
Commission Yesterday.
Large Delegation From Charlotte and Business
Men From 0her Pieces Asking for Rules
and Some Reductions.

a large delegation of prominent bust
ness men of Charlotte appeared before
the Corporation Commission here yester-
day, in the matter of the demurrage and
storage rules and also TO present a petit
tion for a reduction in the freight rates
ON paper and plow singletrees.
They also presented petition from the
Charlotte Brick Company asking for a
reduction in the rates on brick.
Yesterday was the day set by the Cor
pcration Commission for the hearing of
all parties interested in the question of
the making of rules by the Commission
for the proper regulation of demurrage
and storage rates, and the placing of
time limit for the delivery of cars for
shipment and of freight after it is ship
ped, in accordance with the provisions of
what is known as the Pharr bill passed
by the last General Assembly.
Another matter taken up and discussed
al some length was the question of the
transfer or switching charge of $3.50 on
joint freights: that is, where the freight
has to be transferred from one road to
another. The Commission has been pc
titioncd TO abolish this charge altogether
biity of doing So
The railroads were we'll represented
They argued against the necessity of any
rules being made by the Commission
claiming that it was best to judge each
case on It's own merits.
They also opposed the reductions asked
for In the special petitions from Char
lotto.
Of of ryrfay
laid before the Commission by the Char
lcttc delegation and business men from
other parts of the state:
The serious delays in placing cars on
wagon tracks and sdings to be unloaded
arer they reach their destination. I'm
Ger present conditions when a car is
placed for unloading the consignee is
given just so many hours in which to
unload it. and If it is detained longer
than that il only few minutes. tho
consigneo is required to pay 81 per day
for every day or fraction of a day that it
remains unloaded. On the other hand,
the railroad companies take their own
time to deliver cars to consignees.
After shipments have been received by
the railroads for transportation thy are
professionally delayed in being delivered
AT destination. all OF which Naturally re-
suits in serious loss of shippers, to say
nothing of the annoyance and interrupt
ton TO business.
The railroads refuse to receive car
of freight from another road which origi-
mates in a city and is intended for de-
livery at some side-track or warehouse
on another road in that city.
The Charlotte men present were w. r.
Wcarn, T. J. Davis, f. ]. Chambers, j.
w. Lewis, S. S. McMinch, and Attorney
Hcriot CIarkson.
Representative George H. Hall, of Red
Springs; and ID. r. Griffin, of Marsh
willie. were also at the meeting.
From Raleigh there were w. A. Wyatt.
]. b. Wyatt, j. A. Jones and A. d. John
son.
The following railroad men were at
the meeting: A. Pope, General Freight
Agent. Seaboard Air Line, Portsmouth;
#. C. Powell. Traffic Manager. Southern
Railway Washington: Henry w. Miller,
Southern Railway. Raleigh; T. II. Drake,
Southern Railway, Richmond; P. r. Al
bright. Manager North Carolina Car Ser
vice, Raleigh.