The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-28
FREIGHT MAY BE
 PILED SkY-H|GH
 IN A FORTNIGHT
Bridgeport Terminals Gut. ted With Shipments That
 Aren't Being Moved.
NO PLACE TO STORE
 MASS OF FURNITURE
Lack of Auto Trucks and Warehouse Space Contri-
 bute to Serious Tie-Up.

With approximately 75 carloads o
 undehvered freight at the freight
 house of the New Haven railroad il Water street, with additional cars ap proximating 50 in number waiting or sidings to be broken open and distri. buted to hundreds of conSgnees Bridgeport faces congestion next week that means confusion among factories and merchantile houses unless ways and means for getting the goods from the terminals is devised.
 The railroad officials today sent ou1 an S. O. s. call for relief through ths Chamber of Commerce and Manufac- turers' association, which in turn have appealed. to the newspapers fo1 assistance
 Inquiry into the situation) discloses that vast amounts of freights are held on the terminal floors because o1 failure to promptly meet c. o. D. arrangements, shipment of furniture moving and smaller truckmen to care for the excess business, failure o1 truck manufacturers to deliver, made quate terminal facilities provided by the railroad and general lack of stor- age warehouses.
 Other alleged conhibutory causes are said to be congestion at freight terminals which prevent owners find- ing. their shipments when notified, failure of the railroad to provide bills of lading to replace those originally is- sued, the refusal of truckmen~ to take any business except that which as- sumes' large proportions and the in- discriminate shipment of goods to this city for the purpose of Warehousing if at terminals, until wanted.
 In behalf of the railroad, James H Cosgrif, freight agent for the New Haven road, opened his warehouses for inspection today with the result that it was disclosed, today at least, the freight was placed in orderly ar ray accessible to the public. He fur ther declared that any goods properly identified by the owner would be de- 1fvered upon duplicate freight bills to relieve any congestion
 Local truckmen declared that to ac- cuse the truckmen as a whole with la1fty in accepting orders from the general public for removal of goods would be an injustice to some, of the Bridgeport truckmep, while it was true that many wera discriminatine in passing small lots for the larger ones
 Another factor disclosed by the truckmen was the failure of autorno- bile salesmen to eqnip horse-drawn trucking concerns with mechanically driven vehicles and the further failure by makers to deliver trucks already ordered by some concerns. .
 An embargo Is being considered by the railroad upon receipt of furniture for Bridgeport unles if can be shown at the acceptance point that goods may be removed at once from the stations here
 One of the most complex and puz- zling features of the present congestion seems to be the holding of goods sent to this lcity subject to bi1-of- -ladihg, which Is the equivalent of a delivery otherwise than by freight shipment. Huge quantities of motorcycles, stoves, silver alloy ingpts, furniture and freight of all description arei piled on rh0 floors here, some dating from the cars as far back as May Though mo- mentarily expected to be released it interferes with new shipments. It is asserted by officials of the company that in New York, Boston and other large cities such delayed deliveries are Attempts here to hire storage space has been met with re- fusals by warehouse men, Until the projected nine-story structure con- temp1ated by private capital Is com p1eted there seems to be no relief in sight unless local civic and commer- cial organizations provide adequate places for storage.