Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-03
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ping machines to New York and to points
in New England,
THE embargo on the New Haven" he
said, has hit us particularly hard. We
are frequently obliged to ship cars to
points 80 or 40 miles from their destina-
tions and then drive them over. For in
stance, cars destined for Bridgeport, Conn,
we have to ship to Brewster, n. Y, and
drive them over from Brewster to Bridge
port distance of 25 miles.
Conditions in shipping are daily be-
coming more chaotic. Frequently our cars
become lost, and after several days search
we pick them up in New Jersey or New
York State, many miles from the points
for which they were billed"
w, K. Armstrong, manager of the Phil.
adelphia branch of the Studebaker Com
pany, said: Because of the scarcity of
box cars we have been forced to use fiat
cars with canvas covers and we cannot
get enough of this kind of rolling stock
Right now we need four trainloads of au-
,tomobiles to meet the demand of current
business In the Philadelphia district but
we cannot get them through from Detroit
The situation is very serious. and the au-
tomobile business in the Philadelphia dis
trict will suffer tremendous loss unless
we can obtain relief in the near future"
Trucks placed in service by the Auto
Car Company make trips daily between
this city and New York and between
Philadelphia and the plant of the BethIe-
hem Steel Works in South Bethlehem, Pa.
THE freight embargo contains no
menace for the business of this company"
said w, W. Morton, manager, today,
"The minute the embargo began to put
crimp in our supply of raw material
from the Bethlehem Steel Works and from
forging companies In New York and
Brooklyn we put a fleet of fast motor
trucks into commission, These trucks
bring forgings from the Bethlehem Steel
Works and castings and springs from
Brooklyn.
I'VE are also delivering new trucks by
our auto freight service. We send new
trucks over the roads TO New York, and
they are shipped from that city by boat.
"At first we were seriously handicapped
by the embargo placed by the New York
New Haven and Hartford Railroad, but
we are now getting shipments of steel
from Boston by boat direct to Philadel-
phia."
READING NOT AFFECTED.
The Philadelphia branch of the Ford
Automobile Company Is not affected by
the embargo because the plant is located
on a siding of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway. Parts of cars are received
over the Reading from Detroit and as
sembled at the Philadelphia plant.
Agnew II. Dice, general manager of the
r.
ment today in which he announced that
there was little likelihood of an embargo
being placed on the Reading in Philadel-
phia. He also stated that the Reading
would not send a representative TO the
Interstate commerce hearings in Wash
ington next Monday and Tuesday unless
| asked to do 30 by the Government.
"Of course" said Mr. Dice, we still
| have the old embargo on grain and
bituminOus coal at Port Richmond, but l
| don't believe 1t will extend TO the entire
| Philadelphia district Traffic is running
| at the high-water mark, however, and we
| have TO hustle TO keep down congestion"
Several automobile concerns I'm the city
| affected by the embargo are using the ex-
| press companies with fair success for ship
| ping and receiving Of goods Many tons
/ of small parts OF automobiles have been
| received via the express companies this
week The Maxwell Company reported TO-
/ day that Il was using the express COM
/ panies with considerable success The
/ Hudson Motor Car Company had a siding
/ on the Reading, and Il Is not suffering
from the embargo
W. p. Herbert manager OF the effice OF
| the Chandler Motor Car Company here,
said a number Of automobile concerns had
become so badly crippled by the embargo
that they were driving cars from fac-
/ tories in Cleveland and Detroit 70 agencies
/ in Pittsburgh. New York and other cities.
Omcials OF the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road announced today that Il was not
/ unlikely that the embargo would extend
/ 70 that railroad. While traino ID incre3s'
/ ms daily, the read has been able 70 pre-
vent serious congestion