Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-15
GOODMAN EXPLAINS new
DEMURRAGE REGULATIONS
Tramc Manager Of Chamber OF Com
merce Issues Statement N to Eject
of McAdoo's Order.

merce Issues Statement N to Eject
of MeAdoo's Order.
For tho Information OF local NOR
chants and shippers. r. S. Goodman.
traf1ic manager OF the Chamber OF COM
merce has prepared tho following
statement In regard to tho new car
domurrsEe regulations issued by d.
rector-Geueral McAdoo:
In accordance with Director-General
1918, tho Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion has issued fifteenth section order
No. 225 OF Same date. authorizing rail.
way companies to Issue demurraEe
tariffs, taking effect January 81. liking
tho following Increased chargee to ap-
ply after the expiration OF free time. as
now provided In the current demurraEe
tariffs.
First day after expiration of free
time, 50 per car.
Second day after expiration OF FREQ
time. 81 per car.
Each succeeding day 81 per car addi-
tional. until tho charge reaches $40,
which is the maximum, and will be ap-
piled thereafter for every day or frAc-
tion thereof.
Cancellation OF average agreements.
In accordance with tho above orders,
all average agreement provisions in e1-
listing tariffs will be Cancelled: conse-
auently, railway companies will neces-
sarily withdraw all average agreements
with shippers and receivers at present
in effect. .
Freight-movins NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. en-
cral McAdoo has designated tho week
OF January ll-2I as freght-moving
week, and exhorts every shipper and
receiver to bend every energy toward
relieving the commerce OF tho country
from the existing congestion. He gays:
II therefore, appeal to every citizen
to accept In q spirit OF hearty CO.
operation tho increased charges which
will be imposed. and especially ap-
peal to every shipper or eonsiEneo. rs
4 patriotic duty. to employ every pos
sible effort and expedient (even though
| it Involves unusual and special arrange
ment and additional cost. to load ana
unload freight ears with tho least pos
sible delay, IN order that tho existing
congestion may be cleared up before
tho new demurrase. rule goes into er-
feet"
Practical reasons fer "treiEht-movine
week."-If shippers and receivers will
approach the new demurraSe rules
with the conviction that Director-Gen-
! cral McAdoo. while imposing upon them
demurrage regulations OF greater So
verify than ever yet imposed, is. at the
same time. cIactins from the carriers
implicit obedience to e4pedients. per-
haps, never before contemplated, and
that he is doing this to restore COM
merce to the status nearly or fully
prevalent under normal conditions, 1t Is
! believed that they will undertake, not
only "as a patriotic duty" but as q
/ practical measure, to enter into his
scheme and mako "freiSht-movins
week" a success. and. thereafter, by
loading and unloading promptly within
the FREQ time, release railway equip
ment SO that the collection OF tho ex-
cessive dcmurrase charges will be the
exception; the prompt movement OF
cars a reality.
| The carriers must DO their part-Un-
less the carriers under tho orders Is.
sued by Director-General MoAdoo do
| their part, the efforts OF shippers and
receivers who address themselves in
! good faith and with vigor to secohding
his efforts must necessarily be i'm
/ paired. and as cooperation between the
carriers and the shippers and receivers
( should be complete. a failure on the
/ part OF tho former to enable shippers
and receivers TO comply with the de-
murraGc requirements must DO either
prevented or overcome In 4 positive
and orderly manner.