Special Committee of the Assembly of the State of New York for the Investigation of Railway Management - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... 21 so blended together that it is difficult to separate them. It is therefore necessary to cite a considerable part of it at length; omitting what may be called the confiscation clause, which I have already referred to, and which I shall recur to hereafter. The remainder of the clause I will therefore read in this place (p. 11): "The pool lines have also established differential "rates between the principal seaboard cities and western "points, in which occurs the curious anomaly of Balti"more, Philadelphia and Boston all being accorded "lower rates than New York, the first two ostensibly "because their distances to western points are shorter, "and the latter because its distance is longer, or, in "other words, because Boston has the advantage of a "competing road, (the Grand Trunk.) which by reason "ofits situation cannot enter the pools. The present "managers of the New York trunk line profess to be "powerless to remedy this discrimination, because they "say to give equal rates to New York would divert "business from other seaboard cities, and this would "bring on a railroad war. Yet on through business, to "and from foreign ports, the rate is the same ihrough "all our seaboard cities, and it would seem as if there "is no good reason why it should not be so on traffic "which stops at the seaboard. As regards our own "city, we are fully convinced that New York merchants ' are entitled to not only as low, but even lower rates "on westbound freight, than from any other seaboard "city, the "distance argument" being far outweighed "by the preponderance of business furnished by our "city, and by other considerations well known to rail"road experts. It is a fact admitted among railroad "men that it costs the New York Central Railroad, "distance notwithstandin...

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