Show MAKE THE R PROTESTS Western Shippers Heard by Trunk Line Officials I SHOW CLASSIFICATION FLAWS j Merchants from All Over Talk Before Association and Explain Hardships Worked by the Advances Made on January 1st in the Classification Wabash Trainmens Trouble Canadian Pacific Alone Equal to I i Cope with Wall Street Syndicate I J A Edsons Success I New York Jan 22The boardrooms of the Trunk Line association wore I crowded today with a hundred West I ern shippers who came as reprcsenta I I I lives oi the various traffic bureaus i I throughout the country to confer with I the trunkline executive committee and I the classification committee andto present their respective grievances I against the new freightrate schedule which wont 1 Into effect on January 1st j Th last I lastChalrnrnn Chairman Garden of the Trunk Line executive committee called the meet I I ing to order saying they would be glad to hear all complaints that anyone any-one present hac to make William H Corvine < representing the Merchants association of New York I read a technical paper reviewing the difficulties between the shipper and I I the railway and trunk lino companies as exlsITng under the present classification classifi-cation lie showed that the reports of I I earnings made by railroads In the I financial statements in which It is Shown thai they have Increased their annual dividends and others for the llrst time in years If not In their history his-tory have dnilarcd dividends upon up-on their common stock That the decreased coot of operation of railroads and the tendency tOilowor the cost of l1an i Jlurt4Llion rather than to increase it Is sinllclcnl to overcome a claim for the necessity of money due at the advanced prices of articles entering en-tering Into the construction and maintenance main-tenance of railroads lhat the theory which has resulted In the widening of the difference between be-tween carload lots and lessthancar load lots Is wrou in that it lessens the area of distribution hurts the small shipper and the small buyer and should not be allowed to stand That the method of reclassifIcation of dry goods Is unjust In that It tends to discrimination and to complications and that If it be found necessary thus to simplify classification In these lines Instead of present classification standing V stand-ing all dry goods should be placed in the second class I That the new schedule works an injustice In-justice to the shippers In practically prohibiting the use of wood pulp packing f pack-ing boxes by a large class of shippers F to whom they are of great bencllt and thus adds to the burden and expense of Much shippers and therefore should not t be allowed to stand That the ruloof the new classification which reads as follows Shippers of 4 property combined Into packages by w forwarding agents claiming to act as shippers will only be accepted when the names of individual shippers and r finaj consignees as well as the character char-acter and contents of each package are declared to the receiving agents and such property will bo waybilled as separate shipments and freight charged accordingly will work a great hardship r r hard-ship to jobbers and packinghouses as r well as to small merchants and should r be rescinded altogether r F C Langley 13 P Wilson A M Compton Thomas Morris Simon Sterne J J Fernlcy and other Eastern merchants and manufacturers spoke I Their remarks were to show the inconsistencies In-consistencies classification and Irregularitcs in the |