Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1916-01-28
P. R. R. EMBARGO
ON SHIPMENTS
AGAIN RENEWED
$4,000 Cars Clog Lines-Par-
tiaI Refusal of Freights for
New York Zone.

Facing the possibility of a complete
tie-up of it's system, with the move
ment of $4,000 cars seriously impeded
by fog. the Pennsylvania railroad last
night renewed it's embargo on certain
classes OF freight for New England
and for delivery in the New York
zone
This action. the railroad announced,
was absolutely necessary TO protect
shippers and the travelling public and
to keep its lines open.
The embargo does not include live
stock, perishable freight, foodstufrs
for human consumption. railroad fuel
nor shipments for United States gov
ernment offices.
Freight for New England is serious
ly hampered through the inability of
the New York. New Haven and Hart
ford railroad to move its normal
! share of this traffic. The principal
cause for this has been, as also with
the Pennsylvania railroad, the prev
alence of fogs around New York har-
bor making lighterage least hazard
Gus. The Pennsylvania at present
| has 5000 cars that the New Haven is
unable to accept
The Announcement.
! The announcement by the railroad
says:
THE Pennsylvania railroad regrets
to announce that it finds it necessary
J again to refuse to accept for ship
ment freight for New England and
! for delivery in the New York district
! This is the only way the company
can prevent an absolute blockade of
the railroad and thereby protect the
! interests of the majority of shippers
and Of the public at large.
"The recent rapid accumulation of
freight has been due to a number of
causes, not the least of which was
! the dense fog hanging over the
waters around New York the last few
days. The New York. New Haven
and Hartford railroad, because of the
! fog and because of an accumulation
of freight on it's own lines, has been
unable for some time past to take
! from the Pennsylvania railroad its
normal number of cars. The result
has been that cars loaded with freight
! for points on the New York, New
! Haven and Hartford railroad. or
routed via that line. have accumu-
/ lated rapidly, until today there are
on the Pennsylvania railroad ap-
! proXmately 5000 cars awaiting such
! delivery.
| w ileIl Int ItDIlSA iNdllld idliIbd
recently removed virtually all restric-
tions on freight for the New York
district and for New England ship
! pers and connecting lines Immediate
| ly turned over to this road large
! quantities of freight, held up while
! the restrictions We're in effect, re-
gardless Of whether that freight could
| be disposed of Immediately upon ar
rival at destination.
stFrhn Gnrinl1s i1tnrfpTpn1n in nt h1rhpF
operations in New York has caused
new accumulation of general lighter
age freight both for export and for
domestic delivery.
THE general congestion in the New
York district and on the railroad be
! tween West Morrisville, Pa, and
Jersey City has made it impossible to
expedite the delivery of freight to
! local points on the New York division.
THE result of all of the above is
that today there are approximately
| %, 900 cars of freight on this railroad
destined to points east of Trenton,
or for delivery to other lines at juno
| ton points east Of that point.
"The Pennsylvania railroad must
protect shippers and the travelling
public as a whole by keeping it's lines
open. This can only be done by re-
! fusing to accept traffic of which there
/ is already an accumulation. Accord
ingly, this company will, until further
notice. refuse to accept for shipment
the following:
"All shipments of all kinds of
freight destined to all points on or
via the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad routed via Green
vile, n. j. Jersey city,. and Harlem
river, except live stock, perishable
! freight, foodstuffs for human con-
sumption, freight consigned to officers
of the United States government and
fuel coal consigned to the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad"