The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-03
SHIPPERS find
new RULES IN
FORCE ON ROAD
New Haven and Other Lines
Regulating Less Than
Carload Lots.
LITTLE HOPE FOR
EMBARGO REMOVAL
Officials Make Concession
However, on Freight
That is Necessary.

however, ON Fre1gnL
That is Necessary.
Traffic heads of the largest rail-
roads in the country can see no relief
from embargo conditions until after
the summer months Of 1917 and pos
sibly not then. This fact became
/ known today through high official
sources of the New Haven road.
To meet these unforeseen condi-
tions. due to greatly increased indus
trial output, the shortage of cars and
the congestion on the restricted track
age Of the big lines entering New
York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia
land other cities where property VAL
ues are big factor in land acquisf-
ton, drastic rules and regulations for
handling freight are being framed
No longer will the method of get
ting a car for through shipment of
less than maximum car capacity be
possible to shippers under the joint
arrangement of railroad transporta-
ton masters and their efficiency
boards.
The selection of type ears by
shippers for transportation Of goods
will be subject to approval Of the SUI
perintendents of transportation of the
respective roads over which the ship
ments originate.
With general embargo being en-
forced throughout the spring and
summer months against practically
everything except foodstuffs and the
necessary articles for living, an Eek
L. H.,
troduced and will be extended
throughout the United States in such
manner as will give the railroads
full power to decide what shall and
what shall not be shipped over their
lines without discrimination against
individual or company.
Railroads heretofore granting spe-
cial privileges to shippers in the COM
petition for, class business, will, in the
effort to extricate their roads from the
tangle caused by car shortage. track
limitations and excess business intro
duce economical. and efficiency meth
eds never before practised on rail-
roads
The New Haven road has already
ton SYSTEM This is so closely re-
it's full meaning is Of the utmost i'm
portance to every shipper and con-
signee in Bridgeport today.
tt should first be understood that
EN- mbargoes on the New Haven and
other eastern roads are practically in
force against every material except
foodstuffs and necessities.
A manufacturer needing a supply
of certain material finds that an en-
barge Is in force. In dire need of
the material which can be procured
from factory in Ohio or some other
western state, he presents his need
and desire in application form to the
local freight representative of the
New Haven in this city. The particu-
lar reasons why this freight is es-
pecially needed at once and the
quantity needed for Immediate use is
noted.
The request is subject to railroad
official examination and if considered
worthy, the application forwarded to
the superintendent of Transportation
at New Haven, who in turn communi-
Gates with the connecting and "for-
eign" roads, asking them to permit
the shipment and by special designa-
| ton of the car or cars to see that it
passes the embargo from it's line to
the intermediate lines.
While this plan offers opportunity
of even greater dispatch for cars of
goods actually needed, it prevents
manufacturers from loading up in ad-
vance of their own requirements to
the detriment of other manufacturers
who are in more actual need of goods.
All requests for surplus stock, over
that required for immediate use will
be denied.
The system as now in operation for
several weeks on the New Haven road
is said to have met ready favor in the
eyes Of local manufacturers and will
be extended further. There are few
foreign roads today refusing deliveries
of "exceptional' freight to the New
Haven, provided the maximum car
ca pacity is utilized.
Car capacity rulings have been
found by shippers within the past few
weeks to have held up their shipments
and must be obviated In future The
average car is capable Of carrying
10000 pounds. The shipment Of
1900 to $4,000 pounds in an individ-
ual car as heretofore uniformly al
lowed in the past as a full carload"
shipment, is hereafter denied under
embargo restrictions. It's continu-
ance in practice by railroads connect
ing with the New Haven is practically
forbidden except in what is termed
"broken car lots. Shippers to get
maximum dispatch and delivery SER
vice. must bear in mind that they
should transport the maximum car
load capacity except where bulk is a
factor mitigating against the weight