Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1905-01-08
COMMISSION HAS
GRANTED RATES
Movement Inaugurated by Baird
Hardware Co. Two Years Ago
HAs NOW REEN gFFeoTEo

Railroad Commissioner, in Recent
Session, Ordered Reduction in Rates
Which viii Mean Big Thing for
Interior Cities.
The interior cities Of Florida which
have fought the railroad companies in
regard TO rates have won their point,
and Il is a good one, because il gives
those cities which desire 10 conduct
wholesale business an equal advantage
with Jacksonville.
In February. 1908. che Baird Hard.
ware Company, realizing what they
considered discrimination In freight
rates on certain articles, began the
fight, and TO them the credit belongs.
During that month this firm filed with
the Railroad Commission a petition
citing the apparent Injustice. and re-
questing that a comparative reduction
be made. The Ocnla Board OF Trade,
recognizing the Importance OF this
matter, became party to the petition
az its informal hearing, when the petit
tion was fled for information and
reference by order Of the commission.
For nearly two years this petition
occupied one Of the dark pigeon-holes
Of the commission in Tallahassee, but
the Baird Hardware Company, through
w, b. Taylor, with a persistent effort
did not fail TO remind tho members OF
the commission at various intervals Of
rs Importance, with the result that Il
was not allowed to suffer the fate of
the dead An order was finally issued
calling a meeting OF the commissioners
ia Jacksonville on December 1904,
TO consider the adoption Of amend
ments 10 Classification No. and
affording an opportunity to all railroad
companies and common carriers
and show cause, n any they had, why
the proposed amendment should not
be adopted The amendment referred
80 was the amendment offered by Mr.. |
Taylor, and IL willpFoye gratifying In
formation that the same was adopted !
Immediately after the organization
Of the Gainesville Board OF Trade,
that organization Joined the effort, and |
a. che meeting held In Jacksonville at
Che specified time, Mr.. Taylor. repre-
senting the Gainesville Board OF Trade.
Rud q delegatian from the ocala Board
Of Trade, we're present. Me-. Taylor
was the only representative giving IN
evidence chat submitted by him cover
I'd thirteen legal cap pages, typewrit.
ten, It had the desired effect, for the
have issued Order No.
s5, directing that the amendment be
aud that the railroads place
same Ia effect February let.
What the Order Covers.
This order covers agricultural inn
plements, blinds, doors and frames,
sarthenware, sash and skylight frames.
stoves and ranges, ia carloads The /
reductions, which will prove interes.
ing reading, are as follows, Agricul-
Iural Implements from 26 cents 70 10
SCENTS per hundred pounds sash. doors
and blinds, from 70 cents to 10 cents
per hundred earthenware, from 30
scents 20 rs cents per hundred sash
and skyllght frames, from 2S cents to
l0cents per hundred stoves aud hol.
low ware, from 81 cents 20 n aud a
.ourth cents per hundred
Merely Forester,
While the amendment covers only
.hose articles, il is merely forester TO
shat will follow, and q B calculated
hat this action az the commission
Fill be worth millions OF dollars to the
titles Of interior Florldn