The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-04
Lower RATES
EFFECTIVE ON
FEBRUARY IS
Directed in Interstate Com
merce Commission Decision
in Window Glass Case.

While the full text of the Interstate
Commerce Commissions order grant
ing reduction of freight rates on
window glass from this section is not
a reduction Of freight rates on wins
dow glass from this section is not
available information furnished John
r. Lent. of Pittsburg. gives consider
able Light on the subject and shows q
victory for the local window glass
companies. Mr.. Lent is president OF
the Lent Traffic Company, of Pitts
burg, and he represented the Central
West Virginia Glass Manufacturers
Association in its case before the In
terstate Commerce Commission
against the Baltimore & Ohio and
other railroads, wherein the carload
freight rate on window glass from the
Clarksburg district to different points,
east and west, was assailed as un-
reasonable and discriminatory.
The complainant's plants all are To-
Gated within a radius OF twenty-eight
miles Of Clarksburg, and heretofore
the rate obtaining on westbound busi-
ness therefrom was identical with
that from Connellsville, whereas on
eastbound business the Pittsburg rate
applied in respect of Clarksburg It
self, but Salem, West Union and Wes-
ton, constituting the Clarksburg
group, hayeSbeen classed with Park
ersburg, the effect having been, ac-
cording to the complaint, highly dis
advantageous to Clarksburg district
points compared with those of COM
peting districts.
The ruling Of the commission in the
premises is that the defendant car.
riers, which, in addition to the Balti-
more & Ohio, include the Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburg, Big Four, Cen
trail OF New Jersey, Northwestern, st.
Paul, Delaware & Hudson, Hooking
Valley, New York Central, r. F.. & p.
Western aMryland. and Washington
Southern, shall desist by February
10, next, and thereafter abstain from
exacting their present rates for the
transportation of window glass in
carloads from Weston to eastern des-
tinations and on westbound business
from Clarksburg, Salem, West Union
and Weston. The respondent rail-
roads are ordered, further, to file not
later than January Is, rates on that
commodity to eastern destinations
that shall be equal from the four
points above named, together with.
other rates on the same TO Indiana
polls, Chicago, Minneapolis and other
points west that shall not exceed the
rate in effect from Pittsburg to said
destinations. The order is to be effect
i've for period Of two years, from
February 10.
The Clarksburg Board of Trade
aided materially in prosecuting the
case before the commission and Sec
retary George w. Dudderar OF that
body has Mr.. Lent in the city today
going over other lines of freight.
whose adjustment will doubtless fol-
low with the way opened by the de-
cision. These include lumber and
bottles.
President Lent today called atten-
ton to some important points of the
decision. He stated that heretofore
the freight rate on westbound glass
from this section was two cents per
hundred pounds higher than the
Pittsburg rate The decision puts the
local rate on a parity with the Pitts
burg rate.
The commission, said Mr.. Lent, re-
spected the demands for having these
producing points for window glass,
Weston Salem, West Union and
Clarksburg being entitled to the same
basis in all markets. In other words,
it sanctioned the grouping theory.
Weston, he said. under the decision