Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-06-11
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easy their minds about the Florida pineapple who
raising just righteous kick against avOrtism shown the
pines by railway company. best kind
they the defensive The Times Union during the past week
has devoted columns strong convincing O editorial leaders
railroads position These
the earmar of the heavy editorial man. they all contain the
seaswerng questions pc
cular to his style
That paper says the lower East Coast is just now rousg it.
self a condition hysteria Call you will "a by
any other name etc. but the
Coast pineapple shippers getting the end of the deal
matter getting their products This every
day The Florida shipper pays 70 from Miami while
shipper pays from Knights Key
The TT the roads make long cheaper short
haul Maybe but you can't make pineapple growers
it that way
The TU devOtes all its efforts defending
the railroad commission allows c. railway
not responsible and all that sort of thing but this
and legitimate why pines rushed through
to the northern markets in record time while the pines are
sdcked various and sundy places kept dy ayng along
for three and four before reaching acksone 1t the
boast the railroad people pines rushed from Knights
Key to Jacksonville considerably twentyfour hours
distance of nearly five hundred miles Fort Pierce
to Jacksonville and instances cited every day three and
four days elaps before shipments from here con
Meeting roads.
The Times Union ntmaes that pines are taken on
just to fill up the trains that already
that they fill partially and feel hurt because the
Florida doesn't the foreign pine to 90 the same train
with the East Coast product WE'LL there the slightest
danger of Cuban and Florida pines being or even
on the same trains has the Florida objected such ar
rangement The latter gentlemen would to death if he
could get his Florida pines the same train for
he would be sure quick transportation AS matter
of fact special train awaits the boat load of Cuban pines
and the transfer from boat is made as fast as possible
is to
orders that all Dutch the of us but which
grease the track for record flight this special foreign pine
apples which the esteemed Times have one believe
carried at loss and just to fill the spots in the regular
freight trains not filled up by Florida crop Should Florida
grower ask headquarters for the privilege putting car of his pines
IN the train he would be answered classic language of this knd
eat it, Rube this the CUBAN PINEAPPLE SPECIAL Your
stuff can hike along later in the good summer time
The Times Union, from its dizzy heights admonshes the
Florida thusy e help one another burdens
Oh Lord The road takes the Cuban loss M and then
asks the East Coast man to help bear the burden
But coming o brass acks let us admit tho o,od,
contention that the rate already established Cuban pines b
the water transportation companies railroads had to accent
to get the business That all right legitimate business if they
do But the Cuban pines handled at that rate
cannot the Florida article be handled price, That
the shoe pnches They claim to handle the local nine
apple business but it certainly not the loading ninety
per cent or whereabouts of the pnapps shipped from ST.
county are loaded by the shippers One of things the St
county want the of $50 miles as
their competitors for nearly 500 miles hauling be donef
if can he rIshed - II