The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-11
Work Of Freight Accumula-
tion Conference Has Re
suited During Last Fort
night in Material Changes
in Restrictions Upon Ship
pers.

+ Specific definition of the status of
the freight embargo on the New Ha-
ven road is embodied in the follow
ing official statement of the road
Through the action of the embargo
committee of the Eastern F'reig ht Ac-,
emulation conference, the New Ha-
ven embargo has been materially mod
flied during the last two weeks. AS a,
result of the notifications that have
been adopted by the committee there
are many ommodities that are now
accepted for shipment into New Eng
land that were formerly on the ex-
c1uded list. The object of the com
mittee has been to relieve the situa=
ton existing on the New Haven road
in the first place. and to permit ship
ments into New England of freight al
ready held by connecting lines in the
next place, and finally to open up this
territory for new freight as fast as
the situation warrants.
In making these notifications the
committee has been endeavoring to
impress upon shippers and consignees
the necessity of loading freight to the
fullest capacity of the cars in order
to keep down the number of cars. The
have also been urged to send forward
no more freight than is actually need
ed for, immediate business, and finally
to unload promptly. In cooperating
with the committee in these ways, it is
hoped that the normal situation will
soon be again in evidence.
tHThe latest embargo of the New Ha-
ven has fourteen separate items. The
first announces the placing of the en-
barge, while the second and third
state certain sections where the en-
barge does not apply. The embargo
does not apply freight originating
locally on certain roads in northern
New England and certain districts OF
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freight from connecting rail lines via
any junction point where joint rates
apply when destined to Boston, Fran
ington, Worcester, Springfield, West
field, Holyoke,R Pittsfie1d, Lowell
F.itchbt1rg and Northampton.
1.-THE exceptions to the embargo
which have been announced by the
committee are bleaching powder.
caustic soda, wI1itfng,( lamp black,
soda ash, nitre cake. coal for company
use, for hospitals, asylums, schools
and public utilities, charcoal, coke;
copper, spelter, zinc, pig lead, cruel
b1es (earIoads) !; feed for animals and
opuItry, fertilizer, Fertilizer material,
including agricultural lime, tobacco
STEMS stable manure and hard wood
ashes; freight for use of the United
States Government, freight from con-
Meeting rail lines for local delivery
on the New Haven system lines at
junction points with SAID l1nGS3 Iro1Snt
for stations on the Central New Eng
land Railway west of Canaan, Conn,
and Hopewe11, N. Y; freight to or
from points on the New York, West
chester and Boston; foodstuffs for hui
man consumption, salt milk bottles,
all comm edities in tank cars, perish
ab1es and live stock; printing paper,
except hQr export (carloads) unfinish-
ed blank wall. paper ;sma chinery, boil
'ers and machinery parts; seed (fie1d
and zgarden), nursery stock; agricu1-
tural implements for domestic use;
used household goods; glass (window
and, PLATED; railroad supplies consign-
ed the New Haven and Central New
England; tree spray MATERIAL. hoops,
slaves and heading; vitrified pipe;
terra Gotta and thing; f1ue Hning;z an
thracite coal to the extent daily of
one third of the amount received from
each connecting line in April, 1915,
averaged per day: and the following
iron and steel articles: angles and Ri
vets, band. bars, bil1ets, bloom, ingots,
hoop plate, rods nails tin plate pipe
and pipe fittings sheet, slab, structur--
al and wire"
The New York Coffee Exchange will
be closed on Good Friday and Holy
Saturday.