Eastern rail rate hikes flood ICc filings across region
Freight tariffs rising across the East and Midwest prompt 2000 schedules to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Major eastern lines file increases from July 1 to 5 with effects on Chicago to New York and Chicago to Ohio River territories, while Western rates face legal scrutiny.
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New York
Ohio Valley
Chicago
Middle West
Commerce Commission
Baltimore & Ohio
Rate Associations face Sherman act scrutiny in rail disputes
In Chicago on June 2 the Western Trunk Line Association documents reveal how twenty five railroads set and discuss freight rates while preserving individual action. Officials insist such conferences ensure compliance with the Inter State Commerce law against discrimination, though critics compare the system to an overarching price list for all shippers.
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Washington
Congress
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New York Times
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Hannibal
Eastern Trunk Line Association
Liberty Street
New York Central
West Shore
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
New York
Trunk Line Association
Western Lines
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Taft
Western roads seek dissolution of injunction on freight rates
Western railroads in a conference in Chicago plan to ask for the dissolution of an injunction restraining advances in freight rates. Missouri Pacific Vice President Martin L. Clara says representatives of affected lines will attend, but grounds for absolution remain uncertain. In St Paul Judge Walker H. Sanborn received a transfer certificate from the Attorney General and will handle railway actions aimed at dissolving the injunction.
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Department of Justice
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St. Paul
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Railroads seek White House word on Taft tariff talks
Chicago June 2. Presidents traffic managers and lawyers from eight Chicago centered systems met with President Ripley of the Atchison Santa Fe to learn the real rate situation. They lacked a defined subject for discussion and may seek a personal visit to President Taft for clarification. The May 17 committee plans to meet Tuesday to consider July 1 and 5 tariff advances by Eastern railroads.
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Chicago
Ripley
Atchisonne & Santa Fé
Taft
White House
Eastern
Railroads allegedly seek cancellation of freight car orders
Reports claim New York Central asked three equipment makers to cancel orders valued at 000,000 for freight cars amid Federal injunctions against rate increases. American Car and Foundry Company and Standard Steel Co. were named as suppliers with 3,000 and 2,000 cars ordered.
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American Car, and Foundry Company
Standard Steel Comany
New York Central
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Igumens
West Shore
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Washington
Merchants Seek End to Differential Freight Rates
The Chamber of Commerce and the New York Produce Exchange will petition the Interstate Commerce Commission to remove the differential freight rates disadvantaging New York City. The joint committee notes the 8 cent per hundredweight gap favoring Boston Philadelphia and Baltimore redirects grain and large ships away from New York. A Brooklyn iron works example shows local firms shipping by sea to Newport News then rail to the West.
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Inter-State Commerce Commission
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New York Board of Trade and Transportation
Merchants of New York
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia
Itimore
Newport News
New York
Baltimore
New Orleans
Montreal
Brooklyn
Court to decide if Isabel Wall is colored under law
Washington June 2. Judge Wright will rule tomorrow whether Isabel Wall with one-twelfth African ancestry is legally colored or white. If colored, she will be barred from white schools. if white, her father may appeal to higher court. The case sparks Brookland and citywide school tensions as legal and racial lines are debated.
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District Supreme Court
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