Show STRAINED RELATIONS Import Traffic Pool Causes Trouble Between the Trunk Lines t NEW YORT Feb 18 There IL-There There Is every evidence of strained relations Just now b between v t n certain frunk e railroads arid and f trans-Atlantic trans steamship lines particularly particularly particularly the Continental companies The basis of ot the the trouble is the Import traffic pool which went into effect on January 1st st st. The object of this pool was to prevent rate cutting on Imported merchandise merchandise merchandise mer mer- chandise under the guise gule of through rates and Frank Harriott who is chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of ot the New York Grain committee was appointed chairman of ot the import pool The main stumbling block seems to be bethe bethe bethe the contracts which certain railroads claim to have had on hand when the pool went Into operation Chairman Harriott declares emphatIcally emphatically emphatically that despite these reports the pool has not an and will not be abandoned |