The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-07-21

heroic measure, which modern poets
seem to avoid, it is rich in passages in
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.~.. RAILROAD NEWS.
WHO CONTROLS THE B. G. r. & n. ;'-
The Pioneer Press has heretofore re-
ported that the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific had secured control of the b. G.
Z. & N, and as often its report has met
with denials from outside quarters.
Probably within the next two weeks
there will be movements which prove
the Pioneer Press was correct after all.
Arrangements are now being made by
the Rock Island for through trains be-
tween Chicago, Minneapolis and st.
Paul.-PiOneer Press. I'd.
Palo Alto Reporter.
The grading on the B. C. r. & N. rail-
road is about completed south of town,
and north of town good portion of the
work is already done on that line and
the G. NJ. & St. p. road. BY September
1st, Emlnetsburg will he the happy pos
SCISSOR Of three railroads
Palo Alto Pilot.
Work continues in progress upon both
lines of railway. A good force of men
are 1T work on each road north of town
the grades forming parallel lines, 100
feet apart, for considerable distance.
The forces will be within speaking dis.
lance for miles. The G. Nj. & St p. will
run on the west side of the B. G. r.. Il
N. until it reaches the farm Of John
Conway. about miles distant, where
it crosses the latter and then passes on
in the same direction as the other.
We are credibly informed that about
half the grading is completed on the B.
G. r. & N. between Clarion and Liver
more. and that the entire line between
Emmetsburg and Clarion will he COM
pleted this year.
Estherville Vindicator.
We rode for the first time over the
B. c. r. Il N. railway last week, max
ing the trip through the beautiful val
leys Of the Shell Rock and Cedar rivers
from Nora Junction to Cedar Rapids
and return, and we were delightfully."-
surprised to find it so complete in every
particular pertaining to q first-class
road. A splendid road bed, steel rails,
elegant coaches with reclining chairs,
and most obliging officers are features
a passenger cannot help noticing, while
their trains make the best time Of any
road over which We have Travelled in
Iowa,
TUMBLE IN RATES.
There is good news for both the trav-
cling and the shipping public. Passen-
ger rates east of Chicago are tumbling
at great rate and it seems by the fol.
lowing from the Pioneer-Press that
freight rates are to be reduced from tho
west to the seaboard, owing to the barge
system being inaugurated on the Miss
issippi. Let us arise and howl and clam
or for the Improvement. of the Missis-
sippi which will give US permanent low
freights during the season Of navlga-
ton. The Pioneer-Press says:
It is the announced policy OF the five
controlling through Chicago roads. to
carry grain as cl,eaply hereafter from
mississippi and Missouri river points
to the seaboard as it can be d0ated down
the river. This policy is what Mr.. TIL
!inghast, the acting president OF tho
New York Central, says has been ID
vising Mr.. Vanderbilt to adopt for The
past six months. In no other way can
the new opposition roads now projected
be choked off.
PASSENGER RATES.
The Chicago Times says Of the break
down in passenger rates east Of Chicago:
passenger rates have all gone to pie
ces," was the lamentation Of railway
nj al
was perhaps none too extravagant for
the OCCASION. The decentralization in
wcst-bound rates from New England
points is ascribed by railway officials to
the joint action of the Pennsylvania
and Baltimore and Ohio companies in
directing their New England traffic
over the New York and New England
railroad. and insisting that the through
rate from Boston to the west shall be
the same via that route as via the Al
,bany and Troy and the Canadian lines,
which are shorter. On July the Bos-
ton and Albany and Fitchburg roads
reduced the through rates to Chicago,
via Albany and Troy, for limited tick.
cts from $21 to $17, and to other points
in like proportion. On yesterday, tele-
grams were received at the offices in
Chicago conveying the announcement
of AL additional reduction to SIG via
the American and $14 via the Canadian
routes. This will doubtless be follow.
Ell by q: reduction from New York,
Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The ir.
regularity and decentralization are even
more marked in east-bound rates from
Chicago, st: Louis, Kansas City, and
Milwaukee,. From Chicago the rate
for first class traffic to the seabOard has
been fluctuating from $40 downward to
$l2. A person unfamiliar with the SIT
uation of affairs would he charged tar
lit price for his ticket. An intending
Traveller, with an inkling of things as
they are, can secure pa sage at his own
price. In fact the current rates in all
the Chicago offices correspond to the n
mount of money that man can afford
to pay for fare, be it little or much.
A general officer said, yesterday, that
he believed the price of a fare to New
York will drop TO SIS before the tariff is
again restored. The opinion was ad-
vanced by several that a general war
rare on passenger rates. both ways, is
now unavoidable, and that the compe-
tition will he. carried to extremes never
reached in previous struggles between
the trunk lines. The earnings Of all
the eastern lines are beginning to bese-
rious!y affected by the irregnlarity in
the charges. ss.*4.s.-.,..:.
No Hospital Needed. No palatial
hospital needed for Hop Ditters pa.
tients, nor large salaried buffers to tell
what Hop Bitters will do or cure, as
they tell their own story by their certain
and absolute cures at home.
MAPs.--We have a supply OF Mobiles
County Maps framed to hang mp. Every
Office should have one. M family
should be without this map. Keeps the