Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-03-04 | Page 7 | Sidetracks Filled with Loaded Cars

SIDETRACKS FiLLED " N Willi LOADED CARS, Congestion of Traffic Be- j tween Chicago and New York Grows Acute. j CHICAGO, March 3. Only one of tin through railroad? between Chicago and New York has ils tracks rh-ar, according ac-cording to a stow whieh will be published pub-lished in the Chicago Tribune tomorrow. tomor-row. Tho story will !-av that them are I'Mi.iiun cars loaded to the roofs, backed np on storage tracks bctweou the two cities. "(ioods that left Cliicaizo in Decern-1 ber have Dot gotten within 300 miles of Xpw Vork. ' ' The do'dts, pinrs, privato warehouses, ware-houses, public ttorehouses and, finally, 1 the ban: ground are I it t e:-il with de-laved de-laved freight. The freight Ivinjj on th j uround alone will total' "millions of dollars. dol-lars. " ! The story is credited to a traffic expert ex-pert sent out to investigate t he car fdiortaee sitiiHtion for a big Chicago -j-orporai ion. Tho t-xpeit will be quoted ' as saving: ''Tho runtrrstion ih causing great losses to maimfaft t;nrs. A large jiart of : f !he goods were sold f. o. 1. New York, Tutt tho railroads are not delivering within the time limit and the home interests . urp being assessed the demurrage, de-murrage, besides having to stand the delays. '"Bad wnnther, la-'k nf bottoms, the rush of export goods to the seaboard, n nd. finally, the - tremendous increase in the domestic- movement, have all combined to make the situation most serious. In, a'ddition, the railroads have been woeful I v inefficient, failing even i after the ineffectual embargoes to J measure up to the situation and deliver goods in time for sailings." The expert will be further quoted as saying that '"ugly minors have been a float that undue influence has been used to expedite the movement of munitions mu-nitions of war. but that these rumors have never been confirmed. ' Americans probably do not realize the full extent of the munitions movement. move-ment. A banking authority in New York told me that the Bethlehem plant alone was turning out. more munitions than all the English, plants put together."