The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-27
VISITS NEW ORLEANS
N. s. KEALHOFER RETURNS FROM
 CRESCENT CITY.
Freight Bureau is Seeking Adtustnent sf Rates from Louisiana MetropO- Ills t0 Montgomery for Benefit
 of MGrehanta.

H. s. Kealhofer has returned from New OrleanA, where he went, as man.
 ager of the Montgomery Freight Bu-
 reau. to look after number of mat
 especially in connection with the case before the Interstate Commerce Com mission, covering adjustment of rates. from New Orleans to Montgomery. Montgomery Freight Bureau. showing taat some of the through rates from New Orleans to Montgomery could he materially reduced on the Mobile leans to Mobile plus the rates from
 Mobile to Mont- emery. For instance. the Bureau contends that rates in [ third class goods can be reduced 13
 class twelve cents. coffee three cents and number of other commodities in proportion.
 The Louisville and Nashville railroad
 has admitted these facts to the inter
 offered solution by. proposing |" advance the rates from New Orleans to Mobile. It remains to be seen whether the Inter State Commerce CommIssion
 will accept this solution. The people of Mobile and Jew Orleans are con- siderably exercised over the matter. The New Orleans Times-Democrat of the 2ath. has the following to say Notwithstanding the assertion that his visit was without significance. n" little interest was aroused in railroad circles yesterday by the appearance of
 II. g. Kealhofer. commissioner of the Montgomery F'reight Bureau. wh" came over from that city and called at n number ot local offices. Among
 those included in his visits was Com .
 missioner John A. Smith. of the Freight and Transportation Bureau os the Board of Trade, with whom. how ever. his chat was said to have been of a purely personal nature.
 Tn general the belief was entertain : ed that Mir. Kealhofer's call was in connection with the cherEes of dis crimination recently made by his city to the Inter State Commerce Comm's- sion. the especial object of his visit being described as an endeavor to ob- tain the corporation of the New Or leans Board o' yrade. which is als" said to contemplate action on the rates from this city to Montgomery. Landed at last in one of the local rail- road offices, however. MT. Kealhofe said to reporter for The Times Democrat
 sonaI business. ana to visit some rela- lives whom ] have in this city; mo-
 thin to do with rates; assure you Yes. I have had a chat with MT:
 Smith. but there is nothing doing or interest
 In corroboration of which MT. Smith
 MT. KeaIhofer did call, for few
 minutes. but his visit was simply a
 At the same time well posted raii-
 road men declined to be entirely con
 vinced and look for early develop
 lin their appeal to the interstate
 Commerce Commission the merchants
 of Montgomery complain that discrim-
 on rates from Ohio river crossings.
 while the New Orleans merchants de-
 clare that the rates from this city 10
 Montgomery are higher than on the
 Mobile combination. As remedy TOT
 vile and Nashville proposed to raise
 the Mobile rates-a suggestion when
 failed to develop the slightest chthus-
 iasm for the merchants.
 .'On the other hand" say certain ship
 pers, the explanation has been made
 by the carriers that rates from New
 orleans tc Montgomery are not Soea oaseS ni
 Memphis. Cincinnati and Baltimore,
 these being cited as the actual points
 in comp etition with New Orleans TOT
 the Montgomery trade. In event or 2 Montgomery. rates from Memphis. Bal timore and Cincinnati to Montgomery would nc -assarily be affected also and
 scribe it. E disastrous--reductio would result all along the llno.
 "As for the low rates via Mobile extraneous conditions have compelled the carriers to bring their charges to
 a rock bottom point. below which they. declare, it would be impossible for them to carry freight. Figuring in this condition is the service of the
 Mallory line between Mobile and New
 York, while the river route from Mo bile to Montgomery has also influ-
 enced the railroads largely in offering extremely low figures
 Prom present indications no com promise will be effected on any of the points at issue, ~ +@ the questions involved will be carried to the Inter- State Commerce Commission