Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-24
THE AFTERNOON CHICAGO TRAIN
Run Through the City at Rate Of IL
to Is Miles Per Hour.
NO HALT MADE AT THE DEPOT.
Waiting Travellers Left, and Incoming
Landed on Pile of Rocks
in Suburbs.
NOW TEAR UP LEvEE TRACK
And Learn This Piratical Company
That There is God in Israel.

AAAS OAASoSVS uAAA"dUACO " 0Vs 10u1 railway
company is an incorporation doing business
and operating its line of road in Minnesota,
under the laws of the State.
st. Paul is a prominent point on it's line,
having regularly established passenger de
pot, at and from which the company advertises
passenger trains to arrive and depart at GER
tain specified hours of the day; such depot is
located at the foot of Jackson street. Another
railway incorporation having st. Paul as it's
terminal point is the St. Paul, Chicago & Min
neapolis railroad company.
Both these organizations are backed by
large capital, and represent fearful power
either for the veal or woe of the communities
along their routes, and depend upon them in
whole or in part for getting their products to
the markets of the world, and receiving in re-
turn articles of consumption.
In doing their general business these two
corporations, rivals in certain sense of the
word. have been operating under what is
known in railroad parlance as ''pool,'' a
word generally construed by those who furnish
the BUSINESS Of the roads to mean a division of
the spoils upon the basis of certain per-
centage agreed upon between the high con.
tracing parties.
In pursuance of this ''pool' the two COM
panies some months since united in general
ticket Office here in st. Paul, by which the ex-
penses of the two corporations were material Y
reduced, and only few weeks ago, it is
claimed, leading financiers of the two roads
united and bought up the st. Paul and Duluth
road. before acting independently of their
roads, so as to bring it into the '.peol,"
and give them full control of the
Eastern transportation business of Minnesota
and the great Northwest.
The outsiders: the general public, supposed
that this 'pour' was great blanket invelop-
ing both concerns in its folds. :
But 1t seems there are wheels within wheels
in this business, and this brings US to an oc-
currence ye terday, or rather most fragrant
outrage upon the general public that cannot be
too severely denounced.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul company
advertises the arrival of passenger train at
st. Paul from Chicago daily, except Sundays,
at $50 P. NJ. These through passenger trains
to and from Chicago are largely patronized by
the people of st. Paul and Minneapolis in pass
ing between the two cities. 8
= Yesterday a few minutes in advance Of
OF the Chicago train at the St.
Paul depot, 1925 P. NJ. from forty to fifty peo-
pie, holding tickets purchased from st. Paul t.,
Minneapolis, were gathered at the depot await
ing the arrival of the train. They had not
long to wait. In fact, the train arrived some
ten minutes in advance of its advertised time.
At the depot were the usual array ST hacks and
citizens expecting friends by the tram. The
train came and it went by the depot at the rate
of twelve to fifteen miles per hour, to the con-
sternation and utter discontinue of the forty
or fifty passengers in waiting and perhaps q
hundred or more on board the train desiring to
stop at st. Paul.
What did it mean?
No one could tell, and the GLOBE reporter
started to investigate the matter. First, of
course, he went after the runaway train. His
investigation in this direction resulted in as
certaining that the train had run up to point
in the suburbs above Chestnut street. and
| about mile above the regular depot at the
foot of jackson street. They did not even have
the decency to halt at o street where passen-
gers could walk with some convenience but
stopping the train where there was narrow
and rocky space between the cars and the pre-
cipitous bluff, the passengers were notified
| that st. Paul was reached, and the multitude
of passengers ticketed to st. Paul we're com
PEELED to leave the train there, and make their
| way as best they could to their several desti.
! nations, while their baggage was hustled out
! upon the ground and left there without pro.
| lection.
| The United States mail was served
the express matter, and then the train IL
oils.
| CAUSE OF THE OUTRAGE.
Having learned this much of actual occur