Show RAILROADING THEN AND NOW Enormous Freight Rates That Wero Paid by Our Fathers Mr Frank AV Samuels district manager of tho Postal Telegraph Company Com-pany at Indianapolis has just discovered discov-ered a most Interesting relic of rats roiidltiK being tho Issuo of n railway guido published In 1811 Tho book la 1 about four Inches square a halt Inch thick and contains the tlmo tables and rates of all tho railroads In thin country at that tlmo Railroads which now stretch clear across tho continent nail ore so long that It takes three days and nights to traverse them at i 40 mil os per hour were then loss than 200 miles in length Chicago had but ono road and that not yet completed Into tho village In 1784 the freight rate from Philadelphia Phila-delphia to Plttsburi was 12Vj cents per 100 It cost 249 to carry ono ton of merchandise from Philadelphia to Erie I and three dollars per 100 trs transport mnrchnndlso from lingers town Md to Hrownsvlllo Pn In > those cases lacla horses were tho only means of conveyance To carry a tam of Iron bars from Center county Penn sylvnnla to Plttsburs took 75J and an emigrant from Alexander Va to tho Monongnhela valley soon after tho revolution paid 533 per 100 tot j hauling women amt goods between tho two localities over BrnddockH road In 1814 to move a ton of freight from Philadelphia to Plttsburg cost 110 tho scone service now costing two dollars An old shipper says Before any cnnnl was made I shipped 800 barrels of flour from Pitta burg to Philadelphia by wagon Gone stoga wagons six horses amt bells paying 240 for freight threo dollars dol-lars per barrel My first load of goods GO years ago cost 4 par 100 from Philadelphia to Pltlshurg Having handled tho United States mall bags for Cl years consecutively I have taken two bushels of oats or five dozen eggs or two bushols of potatoes for a letter that camo 400 miles or more Tho charge for a stagocoach passenger tOm Philadelphia to Pitts burg was 14 to 20 tho trip taking three days In those modern days of railroading to carry n barrel ot flour between Now York and Chicago costs an average of 30 cents A man consuming a pound of flour per day which took that journey Jour-ney would pay a transportation charge of one dollar per year The same man eating a pound of meat por day would pay a transportation charge of 120 Ono days wages of this man would pay tho transportation between Now York and Chicago for a pound of llonr and a pound of meat each day In tho year |