Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-12-17

GET terminal RATES THE CITY COUNCIL
R. R. COMPANY ADMITS ERROR OF
CUTTING OFF GRAYS HARDOR.
A Welcome Telegram is Received,
Stating urayS HdrbOr Would be
Placed Among Terminal Rate
Points as Soon as Possible, From
Traffic Manager iiannafOrd.

Aberdeen, and all Grays Harbor,
has received most acceptable
Christmas gift in the announcement
that the Northern Pacific Railway
Company has agreed to rescind the
tariff that cut Grays HarbOr out of
terminal rates, and would place this
point on terminal rates as soon as it
can be done. When the Importance
of this measure is fully understood,
it should make us all feel like rails
ing our hats to the efficient joint
committee that had this matter in
charge, and patting ourselves on
the back over the fact that the
towns on the HarbOr may scrap
among themselves as much as they
please, but they are unit when
the general welfare is threatened.
When the railroad company an
nounced the new rates that cut this
port off from terminal rates, a few
weeks ago, a meeting was called by
T. Rupert, manager of the West q
Slade Grocery Co. The meeting was
attended by representatives from all
parts of Grays Harbor, and a COM
mittee was appointed to fight the
change before the Interstate Com
merce Commission and in the courts.
Desiring peace, the committee at
hta;n q
with the railroad officials. General
Western Agent Blakeley was inclin-
ed to regard the matter as trivial,
and said he had no time to give it,
but a sharp telegram from Mr.. Ru-
pert had the effect of a Sunday con-
ference between the committee and
General Traffic Manager Hannaford,
and Mr.. Blakeley at Tacoma.
At this meeting the committee e.
stated the claims of Grays Harbor
for terminal rates so clearly and
forcibly that Mr.. Hannaford prom
ised to take the matter up with
President Elliott Immediately on his
return to st. Paul. That he die
so with good effect, IS evidenced by
the following telegram received
Tuesday:
"a. J. RUPERT,
"West G Slade Grocery Co.
Aberdeen, Wash:
"Mr. Elliott and l have discussed
the Grays HarbOr terminal rate
proposition and decided that as sooI
as it can be done legally, to place
you among terminal rate points. An
writing. 81. A. HANNAFORD.
To this the following reply wa!
made:
81. A. HANNAFORD,
IN. P. r. R.
est. Paul, MINI:
probation of your prompt actor
and feel this will cement present
friendly relations existing betweei
your road and shippers here.
"E. o. McGLAUFLIN,
"a. RUPERT,
For the Committee
Under the interstate commerce.
law, the railroad must publish an!
contemplated change Of rates 81
days before they take effect, and thu
change affecting this port adverse
iy was filed December /, to take eff
feet January l. What Mr.. Hanna
ford undoubtedly means by "as sool
as it can be done legally" is tnat ;
new schedule must be filed 80 day
before the concession to Grays Har
Dor will become legally effective.
Under the tariff sheet complaine'
OF there were sixteen points in tn
state of Washington allowed ter
minal rates, most of them insight
ficant shipping points, by eithe
land or water, when compared witt
Grays Harbor. The following list o
those points will show the injustic
that would have been inflicted her
10y that schedule:
Anacortes, Ballard, Belilnghan
South Bellingham, Blaine. Dupont
Edmonds, Everett. Kendall. Lowell
Olympia, Richmond Beach. Seattle
Tacoma, Vancouver, Wrenn.