The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1915, Page 8

THE EVENING WCRLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 380, 1915. FREIGHT BLOCKAD STILL GRIPS CITY; TRADE SUFFERS Railroad Embargoes on Ship-| ments Give Some Relief, but Situation Is Bad. Merchants’ Association Giving) consumers may experience some de lay in shipments, Conditions serious in oft coal mar- kets due to delays and prospects of labor troubled, but New York City ts not vitally affected by this. “In all my radiroad experionoe,” said C. L. Bardo, general manager of the New Haven Railroad, to-day. “I have never knewn auch trae con- ditions, The developments of the past three months have amazing. On Oct. 1 hundred locomotives tn good order standing on side tracks. To-day we cannot handle the business, We have put on 1,550 extra men in our |operating department, of which 900 are trainmen and 550 are firemen, We have twenty-five per cent. more employees than a year ago. The Haven's total foree of train and ely 8,300 “We aro keeping up with the ship ments of freight out of New England, Aid in Effort to Clear Chan- {tt %¢ are oblized to put an embargo nels of Transportation. New York City fs still in the grip]. of an Unprecedented blockade of rall- road freight, which ts gradua spreading back into tho interior of the country by reason of embargoes dam ming up shipments at the source.) Conditions were reported to-day by warious railroads as follows Point of worst congestion moved eastward from New York City and Bow centring in, New England Terminal yards trunk lines on the Jersey side somewhat relieved by @imbargo of the past two weeks. Pennsylvania Railroad raised some of its bars and freight of certain kinds allowed to come forward. Delaware, Lackawanua and Western catching up with its trafic and follow- ing lead of the Pennsylvania New York Central beginning to get the upper hand of its traM®é and hopes to relieve certain embargoes next week. Westbound freight from New York moved freely FBastbound traffic, both domestic and export, greatiy delayed. NEVER KNOWN BEFORE. All attention of railroad managers centred on moving foodstuffs, perish- Able goods and coal. but supplies of raw material in many industries aro running low. New York merchants Teel effec 2 domestic erticies, ditions reached 5+t Anthracite coal operators announce plenty of supply on hand at tho mines and no advance in prices, but to N ology | SUCH TRAFFIC CONDITIONS, Rejected New York State Con- Jation in the United Diplomats Di Workmen's CompencationLaws Political Platforms on certain lines of traffic coming In. The products of our mills and fao- | tortes are going forward to New York and other places without much delay, but the inpouring of raw materials ts ing the glut. There is a hump of 8,000 cars dumped on us at the ter- minals in New York and vin the ehkeepsie Bridge. pint of worst congestion fs in yn south of the Boston and Albany road and weat of the Con- necticut River, which includes the p manufacturing towns of Connecticut, The output of munition factores 1s going forward to New York for export along with other westbound freight, assisted largely by co-operation between the railroad and shippers. Vico President Daly of the New York Central said that he thought the worst of their congestion was over, as the resent embargo had given oppor- tunity for clearing out terminals and me of the heaylest export shipments Jhad been gotten off. The company hoped to get thingy, moving faster Jatter the first of the new year MERCHANTS’ ASSOCIATION TRY- ING TO HELP OUT, The Morchants’ Association is en- deavoring to help oyt the situat on port of New York, J. C. Lincoln, bureau, said New York las the worst railroad | trattic service of any city in the coun- No factories yet reported shut down, | try, but this ts not the fault of the combined to produce this unprece- dented Los dite akeeedd starting firat with ap abd Lek langiing up domestic fretght with It, “W are trying to handle an enor- mously Increased volume of business with antiquated methods, Practically all export freight and all domestic The Great War and War Chron- Fense Moveménts nemen to-day numbers approxt- | Jin considerable and to protect the Interests of the| nanager of the association's traffic] “Our reports to-day from the yards railroads alone, ‘Conditions have shipments arriving on the Jeresy side have to be Hghtered. There is lack of co-ordination and co-operation. Delays arise on every hand. If New York wants to maintain its prestige of commerce something radical and vital will have to be done, “The Merchants’ Association te aceking In various ways to better this situation, not merely to tide over this temporary crisis, but to bring about permanent improvements turers to help the railroa by getting their goods out of cars and away from terminal warchouses @* rapidly as possible, This will re- lease cars and help clear the piat- forma, “The export situation resents that prevails is due to a combination ot conditions that I enumerate aa follows: “Pirst, effeots strike of last summer, ganized the handiing forc docks, Second, closing of the Panama Canal, whigh ‘has seriously affected important lines of steamships and many tramp gteamers. Third, comes the poor handling of exports, due to lack of facilities, inadequate lighter- age and wasteful methods. “The railroads, taking advantage of this crisis, have filed with the Inter. | state Commerce Commission notice of change in certain ruil regarding export shipr , to whitch we have made obje the commission to suspend the n rules until full hearings oan be had. Otherwise th We are waiting for the cumn to act to-day or to-morrow on this application, ‘8 or Warehouse at termini before nurrago charges start. They want ing that much of the co standing in cars undue length of tir EXPECT SHIPMENT DELAYS TO! LAST ALL WINTER, “We maintain on behalf of the shippers thot this would work hard- shtp, becausn they cannot tell how shipments to to make sure of catching steamers which space is contracted for they | are obliged to allow plenty of time If the railroads will guari on freight shipments, so tha | porter can know when leapatch tn order to catch his ship, Ports. 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