Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-04-08 | Page 5 | Boat Lines Making

BOAT LINES tM MAKING I'iilfl Great Lakes Independent Litet H Doing Well on Investmeiijs VH Railroad Attitude. Washington D. C, April s-- Lakes package boat lines, mdejKi'dH cnt of the -railroads, are ninkluJbH cording to testimony submitteftoH day to the interstate commerce'mH mission, good profit on InvestmcbHH though they carry less lonnagoJPH the lines under railroad control. The 'H intimation of witnesses for the ship- )l pers were that the rail lines were ;JH ''starving" their boat lines through H expensive management and the con- pH tinuance of out of date methods of Y1 operation, to divert traffic to the, rail lines. nl Julius U. Barnes, chairman of the," ' j traffic committee of the Duluth com- jl mercial club, maintained that the at-1. j titude of the railroads tended to re- rM duce the lake tonnage. 'LH "We challenge." said Mr. BarneB.- vfiH "the whole policy of the operation by fj the railroads of package freight lines.? JH on the Great Lakes. It has all the jj disadvantages of a monopoly and nonajl ! of a monopoly's advantages." I j He Insisted that expenses to the! shippers, instead of being reduced,;! fM were constantly being increased. SlJ G. R. Hall, traffic managejelH Duluth Commercial club, crlticisedtjraEH "archaic methods" used by the laWflH and rail lines in handling freight. , jH