The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
MORGAN LINE MAY
 GRANT THE RATES
Birmingham Is Desirous of Through Freight From
 New York Via Mobile

o. L. Bum, general manager of the Birmingham Traffic Bureau, is not in- clined to look for the promulgation of through rates between New York and Birmingham via Port of Birmingham On the part of the Mallory steamship line
 Mir. Bum, Henry T. DeBardeleben. manager of Warrior transportation, and Murray Brown, chairman of the state harbor board, attended the hear ing before W. P. Lewis, traffic man ager of the Mallory line, in Mobile Fri oay. The hearing was in response to request of Mobilians that the Mallory service between Mobile and New York be continued and 10 the request of the Birmingham shippers that the line publish rates between New York and this city via the Warrior.
 Mir. Lewis declared that the service between New York and Mobile was hampered by lack of adequate wharf age space. This the Mobilians guar onteed to provide.
 CONSULT ROADS
 Thereupon Mir. Lewis promised to bring the matter-to the attention of the southern railroads with whom the steamship line maintains consulting relations and render report of the result of this conference. He said he would recommend that the service be continued to February 1. provided ann pie wharfage was provided. No state ment was made respecting operations further than February 1.
 The request of the Birmingham gem tlemen for rate between New York and Birmingham was met by the prom ise to present this request to the con- ference to be held with the railroad lines. MT. Lewis did not say whether h1 ,H1 1t1tzt zt,,.r of this rate. He did not intimate what he thought would be the outcome Of the conference
 MT. Bum is of opinion that Birmins ham shippers may be forced to apply to the Morgan line. plying between New Orleans and New York, for a through rate. At present the ocean rate from New York to Mobile is the same as to New Orleans. Hence. through rate from New York to Biz mingham via the Morgan line ,should rot be higher than a through rate from Mobile. The difference would be the longer haul from New Orleans by the river craft but the river differ entials would make up for that.
 DUAL OWNERSHIP
 One of the intricacies of the ques- tion of through rates from New York to Birmingham lies in the ownership by the same parties of the Clyde line, plying between New York and Charles ton, and the Mallory line. The Clyde line publishes through rates from New York to a large territory. which in cludes Birmingham. 'TKe through rate territory of the Mallory line is very restricted. applying no further north of Mobile in Alabama than Mont gomery.
 It was represented to Mir. Lewis that If this territory was widened so as to embrace Birmingham this districts shippers would make liberal use of the Mallory line, both via the War rior and by rail. Request will be made of MT. Lewis that the Birmingham ship pers be allowed to appear before the conference which he is to hold with railroad officials. MT Lewis promised to let them know when the confer ence is to be held
 As MT. Bum sizes up the situation. there is small prospect of the publica- tion of through rate from New. York to Birmingham via the Mallory line and this, is his opinion, points to the Morgan line plying out of New Or leans is the next best thing to do.