Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-15
I.terrie,c With Mr.. Cable.

Rival Roads Over q Crossing Right
Other Matters.
Iaterriesc With Mr. Cable.
Mr.. R. R. Gable, of Chicago, president
of the Minneapolis & st. Louis road and
general manager of the Rock Island, was.
in st. Paul short time yesterday. A
GLOBE representative met him and found
him in the best of spirits.
"How long is the war to last?" was the
query launched by the newspaper man.
"There is no particular war; said he.
ave are simply proposing to have our
share of the business, and we are getting
it,
"You propose to fight then. until you are
admitted to the poole"
''There is no pool on passenger bust
ness. The other roads made cut on rates
and we have met it, that is all.''
Il should think you had. little more
than met it, with your So rate to Chicago"
''We generally do, if we have a fight, go
little better than our rival. We took out
| more passengers to Chicago, last night
taan both of the other roads combined"
did you not ask admission to the pool
some time ago?"
ave made two propositions to the other
| roads relative to freight business and they
| were not accepted and don't expect that
| we will offer any more"
''What were your propositions?'
"At first we proposed to have one third
of all the business from st. Paul
| and Minneapolis, I came up on
looked the ground over and concluded that
| that was not exactly reasonable. Our ter
minal facilities in st. Paul are not as good
| as the other roads, but they can be made
so if necessary, and will be. 1t is only a
question of money. In Minneapolis we
have better facilities than the others and
finally proposed that We have one-third of
all the east bound freight business from
Minneapolis and twenty per cent of that
from st. Paul. This was not accepted and
we have nothing more to offer.''
SIS there any cutting of freight rates,
now"
Not yet. The Omaha road was not
satisfied and has given notice that its pool
| with the st. Paul road will end next Satur-
day. 1 don't know what will happen then,
but you can calculate we. will meet any
rate which may be offered by any line.
We are here for our share CT the business
and we are going to have it,
''Can you have war on east bound bust
ness and not have it extend to west
bound?''
''Oh, yes; we have an agreement on west
bound business continuing to next Octo-
Der. We had pretty vigorous cut on
west bound freight without affecting cast
bound rates.
'How can your passenger rate business
be settled unless you pool?'
''There is no especial difficulty about
that. We have always paid commission to
agents. That has been the policy of the
Rock Island and will continue to be. We
can secure our share of the business very
readily, whatever the rate may be-
"There don't seem to be much room for
commissions on So tickets to Chicago"
''Not great deal, but our agents seem
to be well satisfied and are working very
loyalty"
"You can give no idea of the probable
settlement of Matters
''Not at all. AS have already said, we
have no other proposition to make.
When the pool of the other
roads terminates every one is free
and there will probably be lively time,
but you can note it down that our company
is ready and will always secure its share
of the business. We shall not ask any ces-
sation of hostilities, but shall meet the sit
uation, as we find it both upon passengers
and freight
Mr. Cable talks very freely and conf
IDENTIFY. He had no objection to saying what
he had To say and saying it plumply.
There is very pleasing contrast between
MI Gable and good many St. Paul rail-
road men. He assumes no airs, does not
look wise and mysterious and declare that
he knows nothing, but meets a reporter
frankly, talks with him freely, says what
he desires ana leaves the newspaper man
| impressed with the idea that he has met
a courteous gentleman, who re-
cognizes that the newspapers are very
| proper public agents and that in search
ing for railroad news they are not waging
war upon the railroads but meeting a
public demand for information. The
GLOBE would be glad to have some st. Paul
railroad men profit by Mr. Cables example.
This by no means applies to all, but those
to whom it is applicable will probably be
able to put it on as easily as they can don
| an overcoat.
The Railroad War.
The railroad troubles boiled and bub-
bled yesterday as much as ever. The AL
bert Lea route was quite demonstrative
| and as full of fight as it well could be. The
placard of So to Chicago was hung upon
the outer wall, and good many were in
duced by it to enter the ticket Office. On
one window they had big cartoon repre-
senting the Albert Lea route as
carrying off the bakery. In
the other window was a
list of eastern cities and the price of get
ting there by the Albert Lea route, as fol-
lows: