Joseph McKenna

“ Neither the agents at the mines nor at Philadelphia knew for which particular customers the coal thus forwarded to South Amboy was intended. Complainant had a number of regular customers east of New Jersey, to whom it promised to make deliveries on monthly contracts; the exact requirements of such customers, in tonnage and kind of coal, were known only to the New York agents. These agents from time to time totaled such requirements, plus other orders for coal, and issued their requisition based upon such totals, to the Philadelphia agents. ”

“ It does not appear how they could be filled, uncertain in time as they were, except from the accumulations at South Amboy. Indeed, it is in the testimony that without such accumulations the orders might strike a period when there were no cars and no coal, and then customers would suffer.
It is clear, we repeat, that such trade could only be accommodated through the storage of coal somewhere, and appellant availed itself of the conditions to put the storage in New Jersey. ”

“ If not, such coal was dumped into a coal depot or storage yard of the railroad company, located about 2,000 feet from the piers, equipped with derricks for the loading and unloading of coal, and where the different kinds of coal of the complainant were put into piles, which would be subsequently transferred into bottoms; not necessarily the first bottoms arriving, as the preference was given to coal subsequently arriving and still in cars. In the year 1906 the expense of dumping the coal from the cars, and its subsequent transfer into bottoms, was borne by the railroad company. ”