Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1928, Page 16

L EVENING ‘THE STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1928, BITUMINOUS RATE OF §313 AFFIRMED Berry Approves Freight From New River Mines to Pow- er Plant at Benning. Previous, findings of the Interstate Commerce Commission upholding a rate of $3.13 a_ton on bituminous coal from the New River mincs in West Virginia to the plant of the Potomac Electric Power Co. at Benning, D. C.. were affirmed in a report proposed to the commission today by Examiner Charles W. Berry. The report, if appr by the com- mission, means that power consumers of Washington will not benefit by a reduction in the cost of coal to the power company, estimated by Lindley E. Sinclair, general superintendent of | the compal at between $60,000 and | $70,000 a Mr. Sinclair testified during hearings on the application of the company for a reduction in the freight rates on coal for Bennin I that if this amount w: by the proposed reduction the s: would be passed on to the consumers of | power in Washington through a lowered , ¢ electric rate. i The examiner proposed that the order of suspx on issued in a previous find- ing be vacated and the proceedings be discontinued. At the same time the miner upheld forme: findings that rates on s t ginia t Virginia and Kentucky the District of Columbia and adjacent inations in Maryland and Virginia, | ) prejudicial to the extent that they exceeded rates cotemporan- eously maintained from mines on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in com- | parable districts. He also urged that | another former finding be upheld that rates on soft coal from mines in the | New River district on the Chesapeake | & Ohio to Washington, for Baltimore | & Ohio delivery, and to Relee and Ross- | 1yn, Va., were unduly prejudicial to the extent that they exceed the rates main- tained from the same district to Wash- ington, for Pennsylvania delivery. Own Lines. ‘The Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio ar the only carriers owning tracks in Washington. The Potomac Electric Power Co. asked that the rate of $3.13 | on soft coal from New River mines on the C. & O. to Benning and Washing- ton, for Baltimore & Ohio delivery, be | reduced to $2.84, to bring it into line | with rates for delivery at nearby points | in _Virginia. Counterclaims were filed by Northern operators against the pro- posed schedules, who alleged rate prej- udice against them would result. The majority of Southern coal moving to Washington is delivered on . the Pennsylvania tracks at $2.84-per-ton rate and to the Potomac Electric Power Co. at Benning at a rate of $3.13 per | ton. Since the original hearing two years ago, the commission, in a general in- quiry into bituminous coal rates in. the East, prescribed a rate of $2.71 from the Cumberland-Piedmont-Meyersdale dis- trict served by the Baltimor & Ohio, to Washington. This rate became ef- fective June 5, 1928. ‘The Washington Board of Trade and the Chamber of Commerce joined in a protest against an increase in thes flat rate to $3.13, claiming that Washington and adjacnt points and all points with- in a seven-mile radius of the Union Station should be established ds a metro- pomaln district and treated as one ter- “The Washington interests are na- turally interested in securing as low rates as possible,” the examiner sald, “and expressed . view that a $2.71 rate from the hern fields -to the Washington district would be a reason- able rate, But their witnesses fvere wholly incompetent.” Examiner’s Statement. ‘The Washington witnesses “did not hae any knowledge of the transporta- tion or operating conditions, the dis- tances from the coal mines to Washing- ton, the rates maintained to other desti- nations, or of any of the facts usually considered in ‘determining the reason- sbleness of rates,” the examiner said. “The evidence, giving due considera- tion to the operating and transportation conditions, the length of hauls and other facts of record, is convincing that 2 $3.13 rate from the Southern fields to the Washington district is not more than a reasonable maximum rate,” the examiher said. ‘Three railroads which haul soft coal from the New ' River district—the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Norfolk & ‘Western and the Virginian—applied last Summer for an increase in the rate from $2.84 to $3.13 a ton. The Potomac Electric Power Co. did not join in the proceeding. This application was oniy touched upon by the examiner today, although it enters in any consideration of coal rates to points in Washington. Mr. Berry used the following language in referring to this application: “If there is merit to complainant's (Potomac Electric Power Co.) conten- tion that Benning is unjustly discrim- inated against, such discrimination will This Perfect Hose Makes a Perfect GIFT All of the Wanted New Shades and styles. At Your Dealers WEA New York-Florida flyer, at a grade crossing at Wake Forest, ) left the tracks and crashed into a drug store near the tracl be removed by the establishment of a $3.13 rate to all destinations in the Washington district, as now proposed. In view of our findings herein, the ques- pass hereon. roads mentioned August 10 to esta cept Potomac yard, TRAIN INVADES DRUG STORE When a light roadster blocked the path of the Southerner, crack Seaboard | N. 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After protests were filed by local interests, the United of Justice, essociations of operators mining coal in the Southern fields and commercial and other assoclations and jion is moot and it is unnecessary to iffs were filed by the three rail ton, the operation of the schedules was ish & $3.13 rate to Washington, ex- suspended until March 10, 1929. from mines in the A Truly Remarkable Domestic Coal— Great Valley Anthracite Mines in Virginia Prepared in All Sizes for Household Use—Contains No Mixtures Adapted to all heating plants, Hot Water, Steam and Hot Alr: also s, Latrobes and Cooking R: nges. 1Is entirely free of Slate and maximum heat. Burns freely with Ro draft to pulverized ash. Tequiring no sifti than Pennsyivania c and lasts equally as long. 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