Show I WITH THE RAILROADERS I AS IN fRE HT T S I COMING I Iw w WASHINGTON May ay 2 Tt i.-Tt It appears likely that the anticipated increase in iu railroad rates is about to be made malc S SA A few fc days s a ago o a l member of the interstate interstate in in- commerce commission expressed the opinion that within three or four tour months mortis unless I a decided improvement in railroad conditions should take tako place I it pro probably would be lc f for the carriers e either cither ther to lu increase c fre freight rates Kites or to tu reduce the thc wages of their employ employ- Sooner than was action looking to 10 an imi increase in freight rates of the I has hns been tal taken eu The railways southeast territory have file filed w with th the thc interstate commerce commission tariffs tariff effective June 1 J. J increasing their freight ht rates on fresh frosh merits mets materially Will Affect Meats The Tho proposed rates will 1 affect all fresh meats shipped into tho the southeast southeast- era orn rn territory from tho the north and wc west t. t Tho rho now new nor r rates will tako take effect at the Ohio r river cr an and Mississippi J. river crossings crossings cross cross- in ings 8 including Memphis Tenn and mcl will be effective C into all aU parts of of what is known as the thc Carolina territory that thatis is is Is the tho section of the countr country cast east of Asheville ille N. N C C. C. C and south of Danville Dan Va The increase w will amount to front from I 3 to 10 cents per pcr pounds poun s on all fresh meats It is is t the tun lC first m material raise in in the rates rales on foodstuffs made by the railroads railroads rail rail- roads of the country for a fL good many years It will mean much to the tho consumers consumers con con- sumers as it v will ill pi 1 result in an increase of approximately 1 cent a pound on low grades rades of meats an and per pcr- Imps as much aa as t two t o cents per poun pound on the select c cuts ts While Whilo the tho increase to the consumer in in tho the territory affected by by the proposed pro PlO po posed ed rates is is noticeable it t is likely that it is is intended as a feeler of public public pub pub- lic lie sentiment with wit a view to makin making a general raise in in rates on all tics ties I |