Show SOME IE CAUSES OF h GAR r Facilities F s for Unloading ing s Freight at the Terminals Are i r P Lack Lacking ng I 5 I INCREASED RENTAL OF CARS W Western stern 1 tc r Roads Paying 20 Cc Ceuta n a nit Day While l lern no Toads cl p Pay Payo r TiO o 0 Cents h Rental on freight cars em o oa of ofIs ofa I's a to total of or In tho the United States has been increased Cd from 25 cents a a. day to 50 GO 0 cents b by an advance I for practically all nil of or the Eastern roads 4 which w went nt into egret effect Doc Dee 1 Western u A roads oad arc nrc still paying 20 cents cent a 11 tIn day daj for f r the tho first fir t 20 days and after niter that time a demurrage of or 1 adny aday a day Tho The only k or Ir that refused to big system tom of or the Hast cast r I bj become como a a. party to lo the tho Increase was wa the New York Central No n new New ew En England road would agree r o to the tha increase and andr r tho Central and a n few 0 11 roads in ini i the tho East Kast and anti South will continue ue to tu tuI pay a a. rental of 25 5 cents a day as provided pro pro- I as ns- Railway vided by the American r The rho rental of or cars car In thet the t L district was raised from mountain Inter 1 10 ti cents a Ia day to 20 cents h tx day only 1 Q n few years ars ago Ito and with the present n i fh shortage portage of cars it is la I exp that the thc theIr Ir rental will ill bo to Advanced ance l at nt least per pel n cent l before et fl another 12 months In Salt Lake City the representatives L lives tives of the tho Gould and Harriman ss s's systems r tc tents lUS and antI other thc Western Vestern roads f say ay V there are more Western estern cars ears In th the j East than there are Eastern cars In Inthis 1 this region Representatives of or the largo J Eastern 8 systems disagree with I i- i r the local people popl saying the 01 Oregon Short hort Line 1111 anti and tho rho Denver Den A S Rio rOot Grande system have far more morl cars car on the tho Eastern lines lutes than can bo ho shown JJ din 11 their theil lines JInes In the West Actual r car tr I records kept kepl by hy the Westerns Western railroads i are not made public however Ol and the i general 1 opinion expressed ed b by disinterested disinter disinter- I. I 1 Oar flied ested observers CIS s is IR that it is about a aIr and andI standoff between the tho Eastern rf r I Certain It Is IS' is J Western systems though that thit a n la large g proportion or of tale I cars of oC the thc Western roads t that hat were ere sent East lorded loaded with wool during the thc summer season have ha not yet found their way back to their owners The They are coming though as aI the records record show that for tor the tho last two months the tho I bount freight t traffic has ha gr greatly th exceeded the tho eastbound 1 r EtI Eastern frn Cars Inspections lIon of the local freight yards eem seem to bear out out ut the thc statements nt of or the r nf of tho Eastern roads that they are nrc furnishing more than their share sharo of or cars for tho Y st st. The Tho Oregon Short Line Is using our Cm cars to lo until haul gravel II said Mill a n. local 11 agent for rOI one of or the Ea Eastern lines yos- yos 01 I r I hail had occasion to walk through h the DIP local Cl freight yards yc yesterday yesterday yester yester- day anil ln l Its It's an actual ra fact l that hint at least l third one of or the the- freight carS cais Inthe in inthe inthe the Or Oregon on Short Line yards were those of oC other oilier lines mo most l of oC th them m with hea headquarters in the Ea East t. t With fol Freight ht car CRr rentals on their theil present ent basis It Is a a. simple business proposition lion tion that ft It Is Js cheaper for fOl th the Western est I roads to tn u use p. p borrowed beloved d oars cats than limn to lose C bu business h by waiting wailing until th they can cangel get gel their own rolling stock p leached To stop slop the practice of or holding borrowed cars cm's officials of or the tho roads a a majority of the freight cars of th the country met In Chicago Nov 9 and agreed d to double tho the per diem rental Dec J. J Some Rome roads wished to Increase the rental to 1 a day clay others favored fa 75 cents and others othel'S were against any advance A compromise was cans finally reached cached fixing the pi price Ice al at I 50 60 cents Ont with the thc additional penalty penally of 1 a day If It the road load failed to lo return return re- re turn the car ar after 30 da days days' s notice was served ocl on them to lo ijo so ro A committee commItted commit commIt- tee ted was appointed to draft a rule Impo Imposing Imposing Im Im- posing po a n line lino on any road diverting from a dh direct ct route an any car b being ln re returned returned re- re turned to the owning line Une It I is exp expected expected ex ex- p IEl that th the committee will recommend mend a tine fino of or 5 r for tor each ach offense In discussing lI cu ing the present car cm famine in j the the- danger threatening the industries Indus indus- Industries tries of oC tho the West Pest es a prominent railroad man nan sold said ye yesterday On an on avern average c the freight ct cars o of this his country countr are aie actually In motion motionless Ic less e s than n lo to per cent nt of or the time DurIng During Dur- Dur ing ng nine days das out of oC ten tn freight ht cars are arc h being held held- for or loa loading ln or unload unload- lug ng or are arc tied up nn sidings waiting wailing space at ot terminals or o motive power to handle them theta The maximum number of cats cars that the factories of the country countr country coun coun- is tr try can build In ono one year E nl If It shippers and consignees could hasten the tho loading and unloading of cars emS so as to reduce the avern average o time from front nine days lays to eight days by that act alone they would Immediately obtain obtain ob ob- tain the u use use if f cars or more than the railroads could have havo built In It an entire year 31 Thero There are enough ears aIs In the country now to meet existing demands but hut conditions tn I are arc such that It Ir Is Impossible to get AAtI satisfactory results rC from them Thousands of merchants and manufacturers manufacturers manu manu- are ml doing two or five times as Mt much business J n as they were doing live hp years enra ago while few faw if it any of or them have havo Increased from flan to rilO por 1 cent their facilities for handling fr freight This failure a 11 II 0 of v s men nten mento to Increase ns' ns their freight t handling fa- fa forces railroads in 1 A furnish h warehouses warehouses ware ware- houses s on wheels for forr that Is Js what a aSi Si gr great eat a majority of or the CI fright l' l cars are o arell ll used cl for today I do tin- not soy iy y the railroads rail rall- roads have done dono all they might ml ht do to expedite tho theO handling of or freight at but nul tho they have spent enormous norm enormous ous OUM sums scans for additional ware taro warehouses houses and other Improvements for Cor tint that purpose e This Is only C b. b by th the work of or tho the system now underway under wily way In the Salt Lake TAke yards and tho the changes 01 and enlargements of the thc yards ards of he the Gould system now contemplated which will till v. v ill ho he under way wy in a n few fw months |