Note 323 — Chapter XXVIII · OTHER PLACE DISCRIMINATIONS.

See the series of broadsides on these subjects in the Philadelphia North American during August, 1903, and the early part of 1904. An excursion ticket from Washington to New York and return allowed 10 days in New York. Formerly a southern buyer going north on such a ticket could stop over in Philadelphia. But in 1903 this stop-over privilege was revoked, and if the buyer stopped in Philadelphia and then bought an excursion to New York he could only stay five days in New York. The result was that southern buyers began to leave Philadelphia out in the cold and merchants found that “the present tariff arrangements are working incalculable injury to wholesale houses in Philadelphia,” and some of them had to open houses in New York.