The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-07-02
PLANA7|0N Of THE
LOWER FREIGHT RATES
MISUNDERSTANDING SEEMS
TO HAVE ARISEN
lNTRASTATE RATES
Is One Which Became Effective
Yesterday And New Western
Rate is Effective July 20
INTERSTATE RATES

The following stat men, WA. issued.
By III" Traffic Department of IL.
Chamber of commerce yesterday an
fcrnuon.
There seems to b. some little mi,.
understanding on the part Of son
Shippers as to the dates when In.
new rates to Anderson go into effect
based ON The decision uf the Atlanta
conference and other conf ,rcntes l..lG
including two in Columbia Tie trus
intrastatc rate from Charleston 10
Anderson went into effect TO-DAY Tho
new rates. greatly lowered. from Obi ::
River and other Western points -.
into effect on July 10th. The rr,l,...-
lion In these Western rates Is very i'm
Inrtant and mutcrIal. ana shipper;
should acq,iuint themselves with thc
-hinc as soon as possible
with regard To n.w ratc., from NV.
York and the East TO Anderson, 4
commission Of experts has been y,
work for several months at the fii-
eigh Hotel. Washington. d. C.. repre-
senting the sixteen main railroads ~
the Southeast, pcrfecting the ne,:
schedule OF rates to apply from the
East to Piedmont and other SC,ithc.
tern points
The Traffic Department has l.acn
assured that present DETERMINATIONS
against Anderson in favor OF Ncrth
Georgia points Will +, done away
with when this commission OF experts
completes its work. and Andcr:ou will
In no instance take higher rate t.inn
the Atlanta rate, being either on II
parity with or lower than Atlanta and
other North Georgia points. The rail-
roads are now bending every effort
rossible tn p'lco the o new Eas-
tern rates into effect by October. 1st.
They may be delayed until January
lst, but NIL Anderson shippers may hr
assured that the new rates will. amply
r0iect this CITY and give rY tie best
rates the city has ever enjoyed T',crc
will be no DETERMINATIONS Of any
kind
The securing of the new non-dis-
criminative rates from the West, tr
into effect. as stated. on July 2Qth;
the ne wadiustment of intrn state
rates: and the assurance that on or
about Oct. 1:t. to Jan. 1st, next the
new nor. ~ crlmvnat1r rau.s from
the East will go into effect all those
things mean much to Anderson ship
per. retailers ana JODberS.
The Traffic Committee wants TO
take this opportunity TO thank .hc
railroads for their efforts to see that
henceforth Anderson Ia not dis:rimi-
mated agnin:t. great many reasons
beyond the control of the railroads
entering Anderson. growing out of
conditions as they existed many years
""n were rnspOnsiblc for some OF the
determinations under which the city
suffered. and 1t might here in all JUS
fice be stated that the railroads enter
Ing Piedmont cities also ;uffcrnd
since naturally the volume Of the Job
Ing business of the Piedmont. handled
by railroads entering the Piedmont
wns curtailed hy other competitive
territories having better rates The
Interstate Commerce Commission. In
its efforts to equaliZe rates. acted In
accordance with tho desire. or the
railroads, who desired equalization us
much. II not more, than the shippers.
and therefore the railroad gnve their
hest efforts towards the accomplish
n It OF the results obtained and
about 10 he realized.