Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-27
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
RAILROADCOMPANIES
He Declares They Cannot Be Hurt
Without Destroying Property.

PITTSBURG, April 21.-Three hundred or
more railroad presidents. vice presidents
freight agents. traffic managers ana othei
officials, besides manufacturers ana Az
classes of shippers of freight. were guests
of the Traffic Club of Pittsburg last hish'
at its fifth annual banquet at the iio'el
Scheney. A number of the guests, VINO
came from all parts of the country arriFei
early in the day in special cars which they
made their headquarters
During the day the guests were taken
on a trip along the Monongaho river WIS.,
iting the steel plants and other Industrial
enterprises of the pittsburs district.
The feature of the banquet was the
speeches of the clubs president w. a.
Terry, general freight agent OF the Fi's
burg and Lake Erie road; Me.Niiie T.. IN
gals chairman of the board of directors Oh
the Big Four system. and Charles ham
lin. corporation counsel of Boston
President Terry in his address Oh WEI
come to the guests presented many susses-
tons 10 both shipper and carrier as u 'i.eii
duties toward each other to further spirit
of cooperation. and also advised that cach
interest be represented on the interstate
commerce commission.
President Terry Speaks.
President Terry outlined the work or the
Traffic Club since its organization five
years ago, and then defined It's purpose
first and foremost as the establishments vi
close relations-personal and buslness-as
between the representatives of the Shippers
and carriers. He said that II was III III
small measure that the trafhc manager anu
the railroad commercial representative as
sisted in bringing the two interests toeethel'
He regretted that body or the lihpoi
lance of the interstate commerce commits
should have among Its nufnpef iol
one representative of either of the TWO
great interests directly commemorative snip
per and the carrier-not one man whose
training could in anywise have acquainted
him with the manifold dlfhculties VI eoiii,
plicated problems of either.
He thought the commission should nave
associated with it in a professional ca
pacity a small committee of representatives,
of those interests in order to have always
available to it that knowledge Of the
practical, everyday requirements of those
interests.
And in the absence of such an arrange
ment," he said I'VE urge every interest IN
dividually to cooperate with the commas
sion in every possible way with view Oh
assisting it to the maximum OF lnlor-
nation and comprehensive kho"ieuse VI
the questions coming before them Tor con
sideration and action. 1t is from the az
mosphere of cooperation that the franc
Club draws it's breath, and In TINS SOIL Oh
fairmindedneSS takes its root.
The speaker then took up the duties OF
shipper and carrier toward each other:
Foremost among the duties of the failroao
toward the shipper Mr.. Terry placed ade-
ouate facilities. which had not been sup
piled in the past
Railroad Man on Railroad.
Mr.. ingalls, gave brief history of rail-
roads from their inception to the present
time.
cret contracts. designed to crush out COM
petition. He maintained that there are
always dishonest men in every profession,
but the great mass of rebates and con-
tracts in the past have been made by rail-
way officials in absolute good faith, and.
as they believed, for the interests Of the
property they represented. Now the end
had come, and special privileges were to be
no more. AS to the future, he said:
You may abuse the railway men, you
may by chance force into bankruptcy rail-
way lines, but you cannot wipe out the
great Transportation industry, the great
business represented by the railways, with
out destroying the business of your coun-
try.
Therefore, he is very careless man and
no lover Of his country who turns in and
joins the crowd of demagogues who today
are bowling and abusing the railways
Your Congress.
1.-THE talk that their tariffs must be re-