The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-28
SHIPPERS TO TAKE ACTION
 UPON TIE=UP
Will Appeal to Public Utili- ties Commission Unless Embargo Is Lifted

lifted it is likely rnanufacture of this city will appeal to the Public Utilities Commission on the ground that the freight confusion may be remedied from the inside
 One manufRcturer said today that this appears to be the only recourse. Investigations are being made, and the blame is being placed on the New Haven's system here, rather than the nEreaa in freight shipments
 Freight congestion and delivery confusion here was wnIse today when the general embargo that had been placed upon western freight and a ten- tative ,embaTgo upon outgoing ship ments were forced
 Early morning scenes at the local freight houses and sbuIktracks were interesting as scores of truckmen lined up at the entrances to demand freight that was expected. or eagerly sought for 1t under tons of other freight piled upon. it.
 Instances where cars that had re- corded as delivered, upon bulk tracks at one point, were found in some in stances far away from the expected point and little could be done in the transfer of these cars to more avail able spots for unloading.
 At the Naugatuck freight docks a scene of indescribalble confusion re- suited from the New Haven roads ne g1ect to take away train loads of 'stranafer ears that had been left in front of the delivery entrances during the night and for which Locomotive power was not found until g o'clock this morning. @
 Local transfer agents declare openly that systematic management of in- coming freights is sadly lacking, due. to the hiring of inefficient labor and standard of payments that is not corn mensurate with local conditions
 It is pointed out that not only is in- sufficient help employed but that men unfamiliar with the city are brought here by the trainIoad with the. prom ise of $1-75 per day for railroad work. Their transportation is paid to this city and they are turned loose, but being without funds that are not ad- vaneed daily by the company as is the rule qf the boat lines, they fail to find beds and food and in consequence either get other work or drift back to New York
 One trucl1nan, day before yeater- day, uncovered a case of fish due for delivery to local fshmonser last Friday, which had been trucked far away from the delivery entrance. by an inexperienced man.
 F While the New England Etearnship Go officials haye seen the necessity of paying 25 cents an hour to men, making full payInentH nightly the New Haven company fystenn. it is said, has been greatly tD bAazne for the present cnngRstions
 At the time af inc strike the New Haven road paid excessive wages to BtrIke-hraakErs and also supplied them with lodgings and food on baggage, bunk and Pullman cars It is said that if this rnefRaod yys5s za.aoDted at This lime no c6ngesd1en would result
 The tranafer nen's stand on tzaa bulk track ,sttuaz1Dn Is that cars are not pruperzV p1annd for unloading and that a&her A tEnzn han been nta4ior- ed fha ernpt4es ln some cases are not raEnqFad for a period Of ten days.
 The coEnpanv's position as ort1fned to The Farmer tadaN thrnsasaa L. B. Nirkerann. general freight agene Aa 4n effect
 The storm cozldit1ons on the Sound have greatly hampered boat ec1ad- ulea, making 1t necessary to retain cars at a later hour than usual at the sNaugatuck dock but that the, de- by getting transfer freight out of their way. This condition w111 have to be madn6 aimed as long as no embargo is placed upon transfer boat ship nents via Bridgeport. %tThat the comDany's communication with the West must be closed by enn- baEgO otherwise the Manufacturers, association, in its Investigations, would have discovered the fact and made it public
 That if there are only two switch engines in use it is because they are forth upon the present track system here without impeding traffic
 That the company is doing every thing in its, power to aid local ship pers and the local officials of the road are in hearty sympathy and accord with both shippers and consignees or their transfer agents
 In speaking of the embargo one prominent manufactures of the city. who asked that his name be kept from print, said today:
 '@This embargo will mean hundreds of thousands of dollars loss to Bridge port every week, and unless it is lifted our only resource will be an appeal to the public utilities commission for we are positive in our own minds that the congestion is due to lack of facili- ties and preparedness rather than to embargees at New York city.
 tsIt is practically established in our minds that there is no embargo on freight via the Central of New. Eng gland R. R.. g constituent road of this system, but there again, facilities to handle the ears are Lacking and we have heard it is because there are not enough engines to pull the cars to us
 Freight here can be handled much more quickly if proper men, we'll paid, are put at the work and more switch CTS employed. While I have no deh- nite knowledge on the subject I am told that there are but two engines doing this work in Bridgeport, the same nunbef that was employed five years ago. If this be so, it will easily be seen that the road is grossly negIi- gent in its management of fairs here.''
 New York, Dec. 28-RaiIroad off, cials here say that the congestion of freight has been relieved by the i'm position of embargoes by many rail- way lines, that the situation is clearing up and that there will be a marked Improvement within a week. The