The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-02
The Pioneers Initiated Into the
Eastern Style.

The Pioneers who have gathered
here to take part in the excursion
which leaves on Tuesday, can form
some idea of the energy and ability Of
the people they will find east, from
the specimens who are dealing with
them in the shape OF railroad agents
for tie various lines cast of ST. Paul.
Such working and scheming as has
been going on among these enter
prising strangers for the past day or
two. Is 4 revelation to all sober,
sLeady-goi Oregonians. Il seems
that N the last Pioneer reunion, JO-
seph Watt was authorized 1. confer
with the y. p H. r au.hor;;i.s im
regard 20 The proposed excursion, and
tU select the route y which lhe ex-
cursiunists wuu,d travel from s.; PIui
TO Chicago and thrnca :" New Iuri
The agents "f the varisus routes
agreed t. abide hs his decision and he
chose the St. raul, Milwaukee Il Chi
cago line IS the rnntc from S.. Paul
to Chicago, it being 100 miles the
shortest, and the Pennsylvania Cen
tral rs the route thence to New York
This selection was announced and the
\. +. r. r. Co. had the tickets
printed accordingly, and it Was sup
posed that the matter was definitely
and satisfactorily arranged. But this
arrangement did not meet with the
approval of one of the competing
lines, whose agent got after Mr..
Watt, and by some means induced
him tc agree that the excursion
should go from St. Paul to Chicago
oyer the Rock Island route. This
created much confusion. The y. 2.
having had tickets printed according
to the arrangement with Mr.. Wat;
were not prepared to uIake the change
he desired, and wished to have The ex.
cursion carried out on the agreed pro.
gramme. The agent who had in
duced 3ir. Watt to change his MIND
then employed = printer to get uT
tickets to suit him, ana tarned loose
his forces to talk the excUrsionists int
buying them. Postal-clrd5 had beer
sent to many of the excnrsionists tC
ascertain their destination, and tn,
runners were thus enabled To know
Just whom to address. The outlool
yesterday morning was very blue fO1
the agent of the line originally con
trac.ed with, bat he was equal to tn,
occasion, and met J. VI. Bacon, treas
urer of the Pioneers, at the depo
when he came down from Oregon
City yesterday forenoon, and accom-
) panying him and Mr.. Maxwell, til
ticket agent of the Northern Pacific
to the Portland savings bank, the lat
ter drew the $50, 800 for the excur
sionists' tickets. This settled tn
matter, as the Northern Pacific hay
ing only one kind of tickets could sci
no others, and the Rock Island agent
threw up the sponge aud withire'
from the field. To the great majorit
of the pioneers it can make no differ
ence by which route they travel frol
st. Paul to Chicago, aud certain',
most of them would prefer tn
shortest, especially as thesaccommnda
tiOns are equal i'll every respect, If II,
> superior, to those Of any other lin,
But the strife over this matter wi
show to our easY-going people no
terribly in earnest our eastern cousin
are in business matters, and wi,I civ
o them hint of what they may expect
!. too, at every turn O: their journ=
e. when once east of the Rockies. III
. !. ticket office AZ the foot of Ash sire,
was thronged with excurslunists all ia
yesterday, and there were many plea
= ant meetings of old-timc friends Z
they were buying their tickets. III
remainder of the excursiunlsts will
there tomorrow. rs tha5 il the on
place where tickets can bc obtained.
Sunday OregOniaH.