TRADE IN FRESH AND FROZEN FISHERY PRODUCTS 489 
RECEIVING POINTS 
Of the total fresh and frozen fishery products received in greater 
St. Louis, 5,655,000 pounds, or 43 per cent, are received by freight, 
7,257,000 pounds, or 55 per cent, by express, and 215,000 pounds, or 
2 per cent, by barge. 
Express shipments.—All express shipments carried by the American 
Railway Express Co. or the Southeastern Express Co. are received 
at their terminal at the Union Depot in the vicinity of Twentieth 
and Clark Streets. Fish arriving by express in less-than-carload lots 
are delivered to the consignees’ door without further charge than that 
included in the regular tariff rate. In some cases, where the fish are 
urgently needed, the consignee calls at the express terminal in person 
and obtains the shipment, although no allowance is made the con- 
signee for performing this transportation service. When express 
shipments are received in carload lots and nondelivery from the ter- 
minal to the consignees’ door is specified, a charge is made by the 
express company for such delivery. Usually a carload express ship- 
ment is composed of parcels for various consignees. In some cases 
the express company delivers the goods of only one person without 
further charge. The consignee who obtains this service usually 
receives the largest shipment in the particular car. The other con- 
signees must truck their goods themselves or hire it done by a trucking 
firm. In other cases, particularly with shipments of fish from the 
west, no free delivery is made. 
Freight shipments —Freight shipments are received over four routes 
from the east, three from the west, and three from the south. The 
freight terminals of these various trunk-line railroads are situated 
both in St. Louis and East St. Louis; the latter city is directly east 
across the Mississippi River. Shipments arriving by freight over 
these lines usually are handled by a terminal railroad company, 
which switches the freight cars of fish to various convenient localities 
in St. Louis known as terminal team tracks. No charges are assessed 
the consignee for the transfer of his carload freight shipments by the 
terminal railroad company, as all such charges are absorbed in the 
tariff rate charged for transporting the commodity over the trunk-line 
railroad. In many instances team tracks are situated less than one- 
balf mile from the majority of the wholesale fishery establishments. 
While the traffic over the arteries between the team tracks and the 
wholesale fishery establishments is somewhat heavy at intervals, the 
loss of time in intracity transportation of fishery products is of no 
great importance. Most of the wholesale fishery firms do their own 
trucking to and from the freight tracks, as well as any needed trucking 
between the express terminals. Should the contents of a freight 
shipment be urgently desired, the wholesaler will instruct the carrier 
of the shipment to leave the car containing that shipment at its 
freight terminal and his trucks will then call for the shipment. This 
method of obtaining the freight shipments is sometimes a little 
quicker than waiting for the terminal railroad company to switch 
the car to a team track, which sometimes requires half a day. 
Barge shipments of live fish. During 1926, 215,000 pounds of live 
fish, consisting of buffalo fish, carp, and catfish, were received in 
greater St. Louis. All originated in Illinois. These live fish are 
shipped in barges from the point of origin to the foot of Franklin 
