Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-25
GRAIN ORDER HELD IL.
Shippers Gain Concession by
Delay OF Elevator Allow
ance Order
COURT DECISION is AWAITED
Claim Loss of Customary Payments is
an Injustice Without Precedent, and
Commerce Commission Acts-ReIief
System on Pennsylvania Lines Boon
to Many-RaiI Notes.

TO Many-Hail NOTES.
Chicago, Nov. 25.-Thc large grain
shipping interests of many other cities
Won Il temporary concession yesterday
They have protested vigorously against
the order of the interstate commerce
commission prohibiting the railroads
from making further payments of the
customary grain elevation allowance OF
one quarter of n cent II bushel 1T has
been announced that the commission
had postponed the effective date of the
| order until July /, 1909.
The order was postponed at the re-
quest of the Chicago grain interests
who asked that the case be allowed to
remain in allegiance until the legality
of the commissions position can be
passed upon by the courts, on the APP
plication for an injunction to be filed
by the board of trade of Kansas City
Omaha, and other Missouri river cities
They claimed that it was unjust to re-
quire them to lose the allowances UNI
til the courts had been given an OPP
portunity to consider the matter.
Claim Allowance is Reasonable.
The protest to the commission was
signed by nineteen prominent Chicago
grain elevator companies, who claimed
that the service performed by them OF
weighing transferring, clipping, and
grading the grain is a reasonable one
for which they are entitled to remun-
GRAFTON by means of the allowance. IL
is also claimed that tn eliminate II
after it has been in effect for twenty
five years and extensive investments
have been made for elevation facilities
with the expectation of receiving the
allowances. amounts to nothing less
than an increase in rates.
The order of the commission de-
claring the allowances a discrimination
against grain companies who have no
elevators was originally applied only
to the Missouri river cities but on Oct
16 was extended to apply to all rail-
roads and localities after Jan. l.
More than S25.OOO.0OO has been paid
out by the employees relief funds of
the Pennsylvania railroad system, both
east and west of Pittsburg. since the
organization of these departments
Since July, 1889 on the lines west of
Pittsburg and February. 1886. on the
lines east, the sum of s15,050.644 has
been paid to members, who, because OF
illness or accident. have been inca
pacitated for work. The remainder
$10,276,227. has been paid to the fam
lilies of members who have died.
Reports of the operation of the fund
for the lines west show that during
the month Of October the payments
amounted to s4O,31O. OF this $26.227
represented the payments to members
disabled by illness or accident and $14,-
0S33, the amount paid in death benefits.
The total payments for the lines west
since the organization of the fund
amount to S6.S41,11S.
Traffic on West Coast Improves.
John Sebastian, passenger traffic
manager of the Rock Island-'Frisco
lines, returned yesterday from an ex-
tensive trip to the Pacific coast, where
Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and
Seattle studying the conditions of that
territory and the needs of the serv-
ice.
Mr.. Sebastian said that the coast cit
les were making remarkable progress
that would bring about increased traf-
tic, and that San Francisco had so
completely recovered from the effects
Of the earthquake that vast improve
ment could be noted in the travel to
that city, which has decreased some
what.
New Equipment for Rock Island.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
citic announces that it has placed an
order for thirty-five locomotives and
seventy all steel passenger cars, which
will hereafter be considered as the
standard type for Rock Island passen-
ger equipment.
The locomotives will be the largest
ever purchased by this road, weighing
225.OQO pounds each, the weight on
drivers being $4,000 pounds and the
diameter of the driving wheels seventy
three inches
Roads in the Western Passenger as
sociation have adopted the recommen-
dation that homeseekers' rates to the
southeast, southwest and northwest be
made for the months of January and
February on the same basis as for De-
cember, that is, one and half fares
plus 50.