Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-15
Business Men of Washington
Ask for investigation by
the !. c. c.
NAME SO RAILROADS
AND STEAMSHIP LINES
Allege That Withdrawal OF Free De.
livery Amounts TO an In
crease in Rates.

The freight rates to and from WASH
ington. which, until September last
carried free store door delivery, were at
tackled in a joint petition fled with the
interstate commerce commission today
by the Chamber OF Commerce and the
Retail Merchants Association The
petition was filed through Chaplin
Brown, general counsel, and H. carlton
Hanes. special counsel. for the Cham
Der OF Commerce. and Maurice d.
Rosenberg, counsel for the Retail
Merchants Association.
This complaint names eighty eight
railroads and steamship lines involved
In the handling Of freight to and from
washington to and from points north.
The petitioners ask the commission for
a thorough investigation. and seek
reparation on the freight charges since
September l. the time the store door
delivery service was withdrawn.
Named in tho Bill.
The transportation companies named In
the complaint are: The Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company. Atlantic City
Railroad Company. Baltimore and Spar
rows Point Railroad Company. Baltimore.
Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Com
pany. Boston and Albany Railroad Com
pany, Boston and Maine Railroad Com
pany, Buffalo, Attica and Arcade Rail.
road Company, Bush Terminal Railroad
Company, the Central Railroad Company
OF New Jersey, Catskill and New York
Steamboat Company. Cornwall Railroad
road Company. Central New England
Railway Company. Central Vermont Rail
way Company. the Citizens Line
steamers, Cumberland and Pennsyi-
yania Railroad Company, the Cumber.
Delaware and Hudson Company.
the Delaware. Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad Comp ny. Delaware River
TRANSPORTATION Company. the Gettys-
D Dapx a Grafton Ha.rs snd UPTON ka,iroad
Company. Hartford and New York
Manufacturers Railroad Company.
HUDSON Navigation Company. he
Railroad and Coal Company. James
town, Chautauqua and Lake Erie Rail-
way Company and George Bullock. re-
ceiver; Kane and Elk Railroad Com
Rsny the LshiEn and s,i Hudson sn. River liver
England Railroad Company. the Long
Island Railroad Company. Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company. Maine Central Rail
road Company, Maryland. Deiaw
chants and Miners Transporta Ion Com.
pany Manhattan Navig -tion Company.
he Monongaheia Railroad Company,
Morgan.own ana Kinewood Raiiroad
Company. Mouth Jewett, kinza ana Hit
tervil.e Railroad Company. the New
england NAvisasion Company. New
England Steamship Company. New
the New York and Long Branch Ra l.
road Company. New York, PtiIadelphia
and Norfolk Railroad Company. the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
fsnnssivania P Railroad ssc conpsn sy s and
Frederic J. Pitney. receiver; Northamp-
ton and Bath Railroad Company. the
Northern Central Railway Company.
Norwaik Steamboat Company Norwich
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Peo-
pes Inc steamers, Philadelphia and
Read ng Railway Company. Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington Railroad
Gompsny the ss and Iass Ere
shawmut and Northern Railroad cum.
pany and F. 8. Smith. receiver thereof:
Railway Valley COMPANY. Richmond,
Company. salem Ere ght Company Shelf
field and Tionesta Railway Company.
South Manchester Railroad Company.
eemSsn g. sSSsa
bury and Lake Champlain Railroad Com.
pany. Stafford Springs railway. starin
New Haven line. the Staten Island Rapid
Bloomsbury and Berwick Raj road Com
pany, SusQuehanna and New York Ra l.
road Company, the Rhode Island Com
Rany the ansxeEt1 Rairoad COMPANY
ton ansrortation Company Union
Railroad Company. Valley Railroad of
Virginia. Washington Southern Railway
Company, West Jersey and seashore
Railroad Company. West Shore Railroad
Company. West v rsinia Northern Raj.
road Company. the Western Maryland
Railroad Company. Wood River Branch
Railroad Company.
Advance In Rates Charged.
The petition Of the local organizations
deals with the rates in six classes, all OF
which at one time took the free store
door delivery service. although at the
time the railroads withdrew the service
only three classes took free store dour
delivery service.
1t Is charged that the rates involved in
the petition are unjust, unreasonable.
preferential discriminatory and unlaw-
tul. Taking up the first four classes. the
petition asserted that the charges for
goods carrying these rates constitute an
advance in rates made and published
since January /, 1910; that. therefore,
under the provisions Of the act to regu-
ate commerce, the burden of proof to
show that the increased rates are just
and reasonable is upon the said defendant
carriers"
Pending the decision by the interstate
commerce commission. the petition says.
"the members Of the petitioners. will be
compelled to continue to pay the afore-
said unjust, unreasonable, preferential
discriminatory and unlawful rates and
charges and your petitioners Calm for