Note 262 — Chapter XXVI · PRIVATE-CAR ABUSES.

The present system, however, does not always give good service. In April and May, 1905, for instance, hundreds and hundreds of cars of strawberries rotted at the stations in North Carolina for want of cars. The Armour Car-Line could not, or at least did not supply the needed cars, and as they have an exclusive contract with the Atlantic Coast Line no other cars are in the field. At one station only 4 cars were furnished in two days and 125 carloads of berries were left on the platform and the ground to spoil. The loss this season to the truck growers of this one section from insufficient car service is estimated at $600,000. (Sen. Com., 1905, pp. 2596, 2619.)