Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1911 — A PECULIAR PROPOSITION [ARTICLE]

A PECULIAR PROPOSITION

Shipper Charters a Car But Can’t Ship Auto In It Without Paying Extra. A. J. Harmon was a business goer to Chicago Wednesday. The railroads want $66 for a car to ship his goods to Mitchell, So. Dak., and in the car he could ship eight or ten head of horses, if he chose, and be given free transportation for one man with the car. But to include his new Ford auto in the car they want about SSO more. As the car is his for the $66 it would seem that he’d have the right to ship anything he chbse in it up to the carload capacity, but the railroads evidently are a little prejudiced against autos, and say “No,” notwithstanding Mr. Harmon offered to sign a contract relieving them from all liability in transit.

Another interesting feature is that the Monon charges $26 for the car to Chicago, 73 miles, and the North-Western takes it the rest of the way, 640 miles, for S4O! It is said that Harvey Davisson who moved to Hamilton, No. Dak., last spring, loaded his new auto in his car and said nothing about it, supposing that as the car was bis he could put into it whatever he blamed pleased, but on its arrival the railroad company learned that there was an

auto in the car and held him up for S9O. This looks like a great injustice and a bare-faced hold-up, but what can one do?