The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-12
THE CENTRAL
is ENJOINED
DETERMINATIONS ALLEGED
AGAINST NORTH & SOUTH STEAM
SHIP COMPANY.

AIIege That the Ch lrges Are Less
by Four and One-HaIf Cents Per
Barrel When Naval Stores Are
shipped over Lines of Steamship
Companies Competing With North
& SOuth-Lumber Shipments Held
Up for from "a to As Hours-Au
Additional Charge Is Made on
Cotton Shipments-Seek to Re-
cover the Losses That Have En-
sued.
A temporary injunction has been
granted by Judge Cam restraining the
Central of Georgia from making alleged
unjust Determinations in freight rates
against the North and South Steam
ship Company and in favor of the
ocean Steamship Company and the
Merchants and Miners Transportation
Company. The company is ordered to
show cause why the injunction should
not be made permanent.
The application for injunction, to-
gether with damage suit for $4,000,
was filed on behalf of the North and
South company yesterday by Osborne &
Lawrence. The petition alleges that
unjust determinations are made
against the company and in favor of
the other companies named for the
sole purpose of forcing the North and
South out of business. The specific
instances of these alleged discrimina-
lions are stated as follows
1t is claimed that when shippers of
naval stores desire to ship their goods
over the lines of Ocean Steamship
Company or of the Merchants and
Miners Transportation Company that
they are charged five and one-half
cents per barrel for storage and ter
minal charges, including wharfage,
rolling, and towage. When they are
shipped over the lines of the petition
ers, however, there is the same charge
of five and one-half cents per barrel
for wharfage and rolling, but also
charges an additional price of four
and one-half cents per barrel for tow
age.
AS result of this discrimination the
North and South line is compelled to
offer merchants a rebate of four and
One-half cents per barrel in order to
secure their business. AS a result of
this rebate they have lost, in different
shipments, a total of S690.90, and it is
for this sum that they ask damages,
and which they seek to recover.
Holding of Lumber.
1t is further charged that the Ocean
Steamship Company discriminates
against the North and South line, in
that it holds up it's lumber and cotton
shipments, and will not allow it to use
the wharves which are most convenient
20 the railroad.
1t is claimed, that though the petit
toners have the right, upon payment
Of the dockage and wharfage rates
prescribed by law, to dock their ves-
sells at the point of delivery by the
Central of Georgia; that the railway
has refused them such privilege. Had
this privilege been allowed, there
would have been no expense of lighter
age or other terminal charges.
1t is further contended that lumber
shipments for petitioners have to pass
over the lines of the Central through
their yards. When the shipments thus
made are consigned to either the Ocean
Steamship Company or the Merchants
and Miners Company they are prompt
ly delivered, but if consigned to the
North and South Company, it is al
legged that the shipment is held up for
from twenty-four to forty-eight hours.
Delay Cotton Shipments.
A similar delay is caused when cot
ton is shipped to the petitioning COM
pany. Cotton shipments, if to be
shipped over the lines of the favored
companies, are delivered at the ves-
sells sides without terminal charges.
If, however, the shipment is to be
made over the petitioners lines, then
unless the shippers or the petitioners
in the above cause pay the cost of
towage and other terminal charges.
The plaintiffs allege that they have
no other remedy at law than the one
sought and in order that they may
not be compelled either to go out of
business or lose heavily in order to
compete with the two more favored
lines, they ask for the temporary and
permanent injunction and that the
court allow them to recover from the
railway the moneys lost on account of
the alleged determinations.