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Show Cheap RailroiMl Trausporta. tioii. New York, 9. The New York Cheap Transportation association met to-day, B. P. Baker presiding. A communication from the Cincinnati Cincin-nati Cheap Transit board, suggesting a joint memorial to congress praying for relief from the excessive charges of the Union Pacific and other Pacific railroads, was read and referred to a committee for action. The committee on railroad transportation, trans-portation, F. B, Thurber chairman, reported that the managers of the trunk lines leading from the city have at last taken the position that freight rates from the west to New York shall be as low as to any other i seaboard city, lheir action has had i gratifying results, and if continued will result b-neficially for New York. The railroad companies claim that the present rates are not remunerative, remunera-tive, but the capital stock of all the trunk lines have been watered. Special rate contracts with the wholesale merchants in the interior ara deprecated as keeping buyers from the New York market. This svstem has nearly bankrupted our hotel interest and has injured the passenger traffic of the railroads. The railroad managers should adopt the same measures regarding westbound west-bound freight that they have adopted regarding east-bound freight. |