The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-29
FIRST SHIPMENT OF EASTERN GOODS BY
 WAY OF THE RIVER
MaIlory-Warrior Route Utilized By GoodaII-BroWn and Co. With Saving of 43 Gents a
 Hundred Pounds

First shipment of goods from the east via the Warrior river under the new 20 per cent freight differentials is announced by Goodall-Brown Dry Goods company, wholesalers.
 Fifty bales of rugs from Alexander Smith X Sons Carpet company, Ton kers, N. Y, have been consigned for ship ment via the Mallory Steamship line out of New York to Mobile, thence up the river in Warrior barges to Birmingham.
 The first-class rate on this rail-and- water route from New York is s1.75, com pared with the all-rail rate of s2.1S. There will be saving of 43 cents on each hundred pounds. Delivery will be at warehouses tine same as though the ship ment came all the way by rail.
 FIRST ATTEMPT
 Goodall-Brown company was the first to attempt use of the Warrior barge line after Lock r was completed and Lake Bankhead filled five years ago. This ] firm had a large consignment of staple dry goods shipped from New York to SOOOo were brought up by the makeshift river fleet of that period and dumped on the ground by main strength and awkward ness at Taylors ferry.
 | With great labor, loss of time and alto gether strenuous effort goods were finally placed on automobile trucks and brought to Birmingham over an apology Of highway. The cost of operation from the l river bank to Birmingham interdicteo 1 repetition of the effort.
 1 Now the goods will come from Mobile fin steel containers, which are airtight and waterproof, the containers will De lifted bodily from barges to cars of the Ensley Southern or Frisco, according to whether port of Cordova or port oi Birmingham is used, and the containers placed on warehouse platforms.
 Murray Brown, president of the Good all-Brown company, speaking of the ship ment, said: We had a lot of dress goods ordered for shipment via the Nal lory line boat leaving New York April 9 when the new rail-and-water rate wen into effect, but the consigner, being ac- customed to ship via savannah, Tor warded the goods by steamer to savan nah, thence by rail to Birmingham we shall, of course, hold him for the differ ence in the freight rate between thu Warrior and the Savannah routes.
 NERVOUS MARKET
 Tt is not quite so easy to fully patron ze the Mallory Warrior route right now on account of the nervous state of the market, where merchants are naturall, apprehensive of lower prices, and speet in delivery counts for so much. Not withstanding that, we are going to pa tronize the river for the sake of the per manent future and, where time is not tht essence of delivery, we shall assuredi. use the Warrior.
 'The interstate commerce commission has presented to Birmingham the oppor tunity of a lifetime in the readjustmen' of rates to southeastern territory. Witf Nashville's first-class rate of s1.66 iron the east eliminated and one of S.1o sub stituted, in effect June 30, we have ar advance of 8 cents to do jobbing busi ness to the north of us.
 Tt is the opportunity of lifetime I is up to Birmingham to make good There is no longer any freight handicap On the contrary, everything is now in ou faVOr'