Discriminative rates are made oftentimes without any intent to prefer one shipper to another, but simply to make things move. For example, a business man of Greensboro, N. C., wanted to build a smoke-stack of New Jersey brick, but the rates from New Jersey were too high. “A quotation was made me by the stack builder, whose office is in New York, and I remarked to him, ‘That price is prohibitive; I cannot pay that price for that stack.’ He said, ‘That is the best I can do; but if you will tell me what you can afford to pay for that stack in competition with home-burned brick, I will see what I can do with the railroad people.’ He wanted to know how soon it would be necessary for him to give me a reply, and I said, ‘I want to know within ten days.’ He said, ‘All right; I will take it up with the railroad people.’ His quotation included the delivery of the brick and the erection of the stack at my plant. It would require something like 50 carloads of brick to build that stack. Within a week he had his price revised, and gave me a satisfactory quotation and took my contract for the stack.”[238] The railroads, having regard to what the traffic would bear, gave the builder a special rate in order that the New Jersey brick might move over their lines to North Carolina. CHAPTER XXIV. VARIOUS OTHER METHODS. Railroads are in the habit of giving special rates on stuff sent over their lines for other roads. “It is done,” says one of the leading traffic managers of the country, “on everything that is handled,—supplies, coal, and material.”[239] This enables any one who stands in with the management of a railroad to have coal, etc., billed at low rates to the railroad for him. The routing of freight is the source of a double discrimination. Connecting lines in some cases pay shippers to route the goods over their roads, while in other cases the connecting lines pay the rebates to the originating line, or make an agreement with it for reciprocal favors in the routing of freight.[240] Shippers receiving rebates from a connecting line can afford to pay the originating road or its clerks to route the goods over the said connecting line. Mr. Morawetz says it is customary for shippers to pay clerks in the routing department $5 or $10 to route the goods the way the shipper desires. Or it is done by giving theatre parties or presents to wives and daughters.[241] In the California Orange Routing Case (132 Fed. Rep. 829) the United States Circuit Court decided that an agreement between railroads as to routing, whereby the apportionment of freight to connecting roads is affected, is in the nature of a traffic pool and comes within the prohibition of pooling, Section 5, of the Interstate Act.