St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-13
Milwaukee and Omaha Roads Advise
Northern Connections Of the Bates
Via Grand Haven.
The Opinion Of the Minneapolis & st. Louis
on the Diferential Given
Other Lines.
Demise Of President Rutter Of the
New York Central--N Northwestern
Traffic Association.
Difficulty Between the Oregon Navt.
cation, Union and Northern Pa
ci1ic--Transcontin
The Grand Haven Route.

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st. Paul and Omaha roads have been carry
ing on correspondence, considering the
ACCESSIBILITY Of making low rates to points
in the East via the Milwaukee & Grand
Haven route, and how much lower they
would make the rate this way than via
Chicago. 1t was decided yesterday
between the two, and they will advise their
four northern connections, the Northern
Pacific, Manitoba, ST. Paul & Duluth, and
Canadian Pacific roads, to instruct agents
that they may sell tickets to points in the
East, via the Grand Haven route, at $2.65
unlimited first-class, 80 limited tirst-class,
and 81 second-class less than to the same
points in the East via Chicago.
This Grand Haven route has been
the disturbing element in rates
from St. Paul and Minneapolis
via the Western trunk lines for the past
ten years or more. The Minneapolis & st.
Louis road does not touch Milwaukee and
therefore can not take business from the
Northwest via the Grand Haven route, and
as the routes via this lake route are so much
less than via Chicago, the bulk Of the cheap
travel goes by way of the lake. Last
season
AN OUTBREAK WAS IMMINENT
because the Minneapolis & st. Louis re-
fused to submit to having the other two
roads make a rate east at rate it could not
make unless it cut on the regular tariff
rate to Chicago. This year the exact posi-
ton OF the Minneapolis & ST. Louis is hard
to comprehend; it withdrew from the st.
Paul & Minneapolis Passenger association
agreement principally because it under
stood the Milwaukee and Omaha roads were
i11fQnHino m TIM Ia of fi01yptc
via the Grand Haven route, and when it
was not member of any association, it
would not be restrained from making any
rate it pleased, then it would meet the rate
made by Grand Haven by its Chicago route.
Last season when navigation ON Lake
Michigan was about to open, the Minneapo-
lis Il st. Louis asked the Rock Islands con-
sent to reducing it's rate via Chicago to meet
the Grand Haven route rate. The Rock
Islands consent was obtained, but there
was another difficulty in the way. The
Grand Trunk road owns the Grand Haven
route and the line of boats from Grand
Haven to Milwaukee. BY the Milwaukee
and Omaha roads selling by this route the
Grand Trunk was benefited, as no other of
the Eastern trunk lines could get a slice of
this business. If the Minneapolis
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the Northwest, this business would have
been considerably ightened. The Grand
Trunk was giving the Rock Island nearly
all of its west-bound business and when
the Rock Island made known it's intention
of cutting rates, the Grand Trunk says,
DON'T YOU DO 1T.
OF we will boycott you and throw all your
tickets to the wall and send our agent to st.
Paul and put on our own issue of tickets. :"
Then the Rock Island considered it best not
to cut rates, and strictly maintained tariff
But this year the Grand Trunk and Rock
Island roads are not SO intimate, and the
Grand Trunk has not the amount Of bust
ness to the Northwest it did before the
completion of the Canadian Pacific, and the
Rock Island would not lose much if the
Grand Trunk did boycott it, and the extra
business it would receive by making the
same rate via Chicago as the Milwaukee &
st. Paul and Omaha roads do via Grand
Haven would be about a stand off for the
amount lost to it by the Grand Trunk.
This is why it is expected that the Mime
apolis e ST. Louis is more likely to cut
rates this year. Assistant General Pas
senger Agent Dixon of the Milwaukee road
stated that these rates via Grand Haven
were perfectly legitimate, because
the difference between the rate by that
route and via Chicago, is the rate between
Milwaukee and Chicago.
GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT BOYD
of the Minneapolis & st. Louis road was
interviewed last evening, and in regard to
the above stated that it was as yet unde-
cided what course would be pursued, and at
present did not care to indicate what might
be done, farther than to say that the differ
entail allowed the Milwaukee & st. Paul
and Omaha roads was unjust and unfair to
other roads.