New Britain herald., 1921-05-12
FREIGHT AGENT AT
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C. C, Woodruff Tells Traffic Men
 of Proposed Plans

G.. C. Woodruff, general freight agent of the New York Central rail-
 road at New York city, addressed the members Of the Traffic Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon and meeting held at the Shuttle Meadow club yesterday afternoon. An invitatioit had been extended to the local manufacturers and traffic men to attend and there was a large dele ga:ion from the various factories.
 Mir. Woodruff spoke in general of the proposed Improvements and bet ter transportation service planned by the railroads. During the past five years there had been little opportun-
 ity for the railway officials to keep in touch with any of the local manu- lecturers and they had little knowl- edge or the vast amount of shipments being carried on in this city.
 MT. Woodruff mentioned, an inn portant point in the service whereas there would be a total of 102 cars sent from the quarters at Albany which would aid the local factories in making transportation easier and en- able them to better compete with the western trade. The handling of the eastern business would also be car
 ried on much more convenient es- pecially for the coad dealers. Previous to the present plans. the dealers had no particular person to apply to in tracing their shipments.
 Today, however, arrangements have been made with D. A. Gerlach, gen. eral freight agent at 152 Temple street, New Haven, whereby all trac- ing of freight at IS different ternin- als could be ascertained. Another point will be the fact that an agent at West Albany will keep in touch with local manufacturers and report on all shipments going west and in case of a shortage, give the factory an opportunity to follow with ex- press transportations. Among those who attended the meeting were:
 J. F. Atwater, American Hardware D. Harmon, Manufactur- CTS association of Connecticut; w. l.. Price, J. B. Williams company, Glastonbury; F. H. Johnston, City Coal and Wood company; D. A. John son, City Coal and Wood company; W. L. Bell, North and Judd Mfg. company; M. O. Hayes, North and Judd Mfg. company; R. w. Leach, c. w. Lines; J. C. Webb, Webb and company; A. Roebuck, Jr., Miner, Read and Tullock; l.. H. Sherman, New Britain Machine company; J. K. Hill, Traut and Hine Mfg. com pany: H. s. Humphrey, Parker Shirt company; F.. O. Shjeriden, Parker Shirt company: A. H. Petts, American Hardware company; E. K. Burr, Skinner Chuck company: J. w Con- nelly. Arrow Electric company; F. c. Russell, Landers, Frary and Clark company; A. P. Marsh, Interurban Transfer and Storage company; P. J. Gaffney, Fafnir Bearing company; F. F. Usher, Hart and Cooley; l.. S. Cowles, Hart and Hutchinson; Logan F.. Page, Hart and Hutchinson: c. s. Ramsay, Citizens Coal company; H. E. Shepard. New Britain Lumber company: James F.. Rowland, Cheney Brothers, South Manchester; w. H. Caldwell, Beaton and Caldwell com pany; R. H. Hubbard, Beaton and Caldwell company; l.. H. Taylor, Ann erican Hosiery company; J. Heffer- man, Service Mfg. company; w. Brown. Chase companies; H. Bald win, Corbin Cabinet Lock company: R. w. Poteet, Stanley Works, and Ray Maxim, secretary of the Cham her of Commerce.