Fruit Transportation

Totho Editor of the Arqus: Allow me to raake an explanation of' my report aschaiiman of thecommiltee on transportatietn of frnit. As it appears in your columns it mav cuitvey ilie impresión that I charge the agent of the M. C. 1Í. ft. at this place wilh neglect of duty. I dil not uitend toconvey thatimpressioii. iio notknowof luit oue instance ot a f'ailure of ibis office totelegrapu the car number on time and in this instance the number was sent bv tho clerk at the freight office to the telegraph office at about tour o'clock p. na and was went by the operator four minutes past six o'clock. The operator cUiuis to have sent it as eaiiv aspossible I tliink Mr. Mayt-s and lus men generally have tried to sei ve the fruit growers aml get tlieir fruit into Detroit on tim. I cannot speak sopositively about thisseason,forl have not had opportunity to knovv so much about the woik. but l do know that lat year the otBce was kept open Uut il seveu and t-ight o'clock and fruit was recived and loaded at thwt timn. The men weiekeptthereto accommidalethe growws. 1 lie car was aisn sent down expressly f-ir our benefit several times wlien but few bushels were on board. The Detroit offlee clainied that every failuie to liave uur car in iis place on time was caused by a failure in Uiis office to report the car nu moer, bnt Mr. Hayes shoWed me a telegram from De troit a duplícate of the mie sent from this office and the car number was ol the message. The eommiitee tboueht we, the fruit growers, nught to employ a man at this place exp'essly to attend to the business here. giving as much time to this woik as was necessury aml receive pay for it and they recommended this to the chippers but were not suppoited b the shippeisgeiierallyand dul nol feeleoiioweied lo do it. L;ist year I attended to this woik bnt stated verv posiiively at the beginning of the fruit season thïit I could not attend to lt Ibis year. ïjeveral slnppers lust much ty the delays m gettinir uur car in position, and some abandomed the freight transpurtatiiiii and went back to the expiess compiiny. I think this mode of Iransporlution is verv dt-sirable aml ought to be. and may be made a complete success. 1 am unable to say 'aIio, if any one, is to blaine fur the failures. Hespecifnlly,