Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-01
RICHMOND NOT GREATLY
AFFECTED BY RULING
Traffic Manager Of Chamber of COM
mcrce Discusses Interstate Com
merce Commissions Order.
VIRGINIA WILL NOT APPEAL
Rates Complained OF Have Already
Been in Effect Two Years and
Business Has Had Time to Adjust
Itself to Situation.

That Richmond and Virginia cities
would not be greatly affected by the
decision of the Interstate Commerce
Commission Thursday. in regard to
| freight rates between the West and
North Carolina. was the opinion en-
! pressed yesterday by T.. S. Goodman.
traffic manager of the Richmond Cham
Der of Commerce.
The decision of the commissio an
nounced yesterday was that freight
passing through Virgin to North Car
DINA cities from the Middle Western
eateways, Cincinnati and Louisville,
|, should have Il reduced rate. The reduc-
ton amounts to from to IL cents.
Apparently the jobbers of Virginia
cities would suffer loss Of trade as
result of the new ruling.
Mr.. Goodman stated that measures
have been taken already by the rail-
roads to make the conditions more
equal. The rate fixed by the decision.
moreover, has been in operation for
, the past two years. and business has
accommodated itself to the change.
GOODMAN WILLING no
LET COMMISSION DECIDE
The complete statement follows:
while the decision of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission must he in
the nature OF disappointment, we
L
state Commerce Commission is an in
strumcntality for impartially deciding
differences between shippers and the
carriers, and their horizon * undoubt-
eddy wider and their views much more
far-rcaching than the Interested views
of either the shippers or the carriers
Both sides cannot win.
The effect upon tho business of
Richmond has already been discounted
as the rates complained of have been
in effect for two years. and Richmond
merchants and manufacturers have ad-
juSted themselves to them. Very short
ly after the reduced rates from the
West went into effect in June. 1914, the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac Railroad and connections. and
the Norfolk and Western Railway es-
tahlished and promulgated what are
known as transit tariffs applying on
grain and grain rroducts-tiour. meal.
millfeed, etc. under which grain and
It's products, brought to Richmond from
the West can he stored and reShipped
at the through rate from the original
ing point Consequently, there has
been little If any interruption to the
business Of our merchants handling
those commodities.
AS | have already stated, merchants
ana manufacturers handling other COM
moditics have adjusted themselves TO
the changed conditions. Tho business
men of Richmond are enterpriSing, in
tclliGcnt and active. and their rela-
tiong with their customers in North
Carolina have always hecn of the most
pleasant character. and owing to our
proximity to the area affected by the
decision. transportation is prompt and
regular. All of these things conduce
to the retention of the trade of tho
North C;nrolinians, Notwithstanding
The change in our rates.
There will he no appeal taken from
tho commissions decision. In fact
under the law, shippers have no appeal
from negative order Of the commits
sion. However even if they had, ]
do not think that any appeal would be
taken. Carriers have the right of ap-
peal from orders of the commission,
but so great is the confidence of both
carriers and shippers in the Interstate
Commerce Commission, that very few
appeals are taken by the carriers from
its decisions and little or no dissatis-
faction is ever expressed on the part
of shippers when they lose"