The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-06
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No sucl1. Freight Congestion Here
as Pictured in an After
noon Paper.
REPORTS MADE MAD BY ROADS ID,
1.-TWO Thousand Cars damned in
Two Yards Reduced to
Fifty-Three.
REPORTS MADE BY ROADS.

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In an afternoon paper yesterday 1t
was stated on tho authority of zone
of tho largest shippers and receivers
Of freight In Richmond and Manches-
ter" that 1000 loaded freight cars are
standing idle in the yards OF tho Chcs-
apeake and Ohio and tho Atlantic Coast
Line awaiting transfer to the Southern
Railway to be taken to points on that
line, and that the Southern Is failing
to move them. The story goes on to
say that many OF these cars contain
materials which have boon delivered
to the roads from Richmond and Man
chester manufacturers and merchants
for delivery to their patrons along the
Southern, and that tho Southern has
! given these roads notice that 1t can
move only twenty-five cars per day
from the yards named.
! Superintendent Cones Statement.
Mr.. A. 2. Cone, division supcrinten-
| dent Of the Southern, was interviewed
| by a Times-D ispatch reporter ycster-
day afternoon and said this broad state
ment is 50 very far from tho facts in
the case as to- be ridiculous. Ho says
| there lis = a. freight congestion in all
yards In Richmond, and has been for
some time, ] ust ,ns there is and has been
for some time Iii every yard In every
| city In the United States.
The congestion has probably been
more noticeable In the Southern yards
| than in those OF tho other roads CEN
tring here, owing to the fact that the
Southern, because OF the location OF
its tracks and sidings right in the
midst of the large Wholesale houses
and manufacturing establishments has
| to shift and put In place for unload.
| ling many cars that come over other
! roads loaded for Richmond merchants
and manufacturers: but tho conges-
ton is being relieved as rapidly az
pcssible. and Is not now nearly as
! bad as 1t has been.
To show that tho figures Of the
afternoon papers informant are far
out OF the way, Superintendent Cone
1 called by phone the yardmesters OF
| all the other roads In the city, and
| asked how many cars they had to be
| transferred, E to the Southern. The
l Chesapeake and Ohio yardmaster re-
/ piled that he had sevcnty-five cars to
| bc moved, thirty ofawhlch were being
|
/ would be- in the hands OF the Southern
! before night. The Richmond. Fred
! erlcksburg and Potomac had delivered
to the Southern during the day twenty
eight cars, and had no moro to de-
\ liver. The Atlantic Coast Line, at 3
o'clock, had not single car to deliver
i to the Southern, and the Seaboard Air
i Line had eight cars for tho Southern,
(which Mr. Conc said would be trans
\ farred during tho afternoon.
Figures Greatly Reduced.
.Instead of 1000 cars being hung up
in the yards of the other roads. await
ing removal by US there are really
4 only SO, and Mt least s OF those will
4 be in our possession by night" said
i Superintendent Conc. ,35 q
Continuing. Mr.. Cone declared that
though there Is congestion and his
company's yards are full, they arc
no moro crowded than they usually
( are at busy time Of the year. and
no more crowded than are the yards
of every railway in the country. The
conditions, no said, have been very
much improved within the past thirty
days and are improving every day.
MIR. Conc and tho Off cials of other
roads said that there had been trouble.
a plenty Of It., in handling cars as
rapidly as they wished. SO great has
been the general rush Of business.
M smch cnmnIainta from Tich,nond
/ sh,nners and No smch dernoraliZation
Il to their business as the AFTERNOON pa-
4 per had pictured. "The truth Is" said
one Of them, ''the shippers and the
!. Wholesale merchants OF Richmond un-
derstand tho ANTIQUITIES we are labor
ing under and they are patient. They
are trying to help Sus all they can
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