St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-01
Northwestern Roads Come to An Agree
ment at Last On Commercial
Tickets to Chicago.
The Chicago East-BOund Freight Com
mittee Decides to Restore Rates
to the April Tariff.
Rates Governing Live Stock Ship
ments Adopted--Advance in
Flour Rates.
st. Paul and Minneapolis Passenger
Rate Sheet Revised--RaiI-
way Earnings.
Freight aud Passenger Meeting.

As announced in yesterdays GLOBE, a
meeting of the representatives of the Chi
cago * Northwestern, Milwaukee IL St.
Paul, Omaha and the Minneapolis & St.
Louis roads, was held in the Office of
Traffic Manager Clarke of the Omaha yes
terday. There were two sessions during
the day, the one in the morning being of
the freight and passenger agents, and the
one in the afternoon was meeting of
freight agents exclusively.
The morning session was the most impOr-
tant. rs at it the proposed adoption of the
commercial ticket by the Milwaukee Il st.
Paul and Omaha roads was discussed.
Those present at this meeting We're: Gem
eral Freight Agent Bird, Northwestern
Freight Agent BOyden, Assistant General
Passenger Agent Dixon and Division
Freight Agent Loughley, representing the
Milwaukee X St. Paul; General Traffic
Manager Wicker, General Passenger Agent
Hair, Assistant General Freight Agent
Knapp of the Chicago Il Northwestern;
Vice President TrueSdale, Northwestern
Freight Agent Kimball, Ticket agent Whit
taker of the Minneapolis IL st. Louis, and
Traffic Manager Clarke of the Omaha
road.
As has been previously stated i'm the
GLoBE the thought was generally enter
tanned that the Minneapolis II st. Louis has
been, since the managers agreement;Selling
commercial tickets to most any one who
called for them, while the agreement pro-
vided that these tickets should be only sold
by that company TO commercial houses.
The Milwaukee Il st. Paul and Omaha roads
brought the matter before the meeting for
discussion, lbut they had
NOT A VERY STRONG CASE,
for they failed to show where the Albert
Lea had violated the agreement. There
was only one instance that was shown
where the company had sold to a party not
entitled TO the commercial rate and that
was done through misrepresentation on the
part of the purchaser. The freight
agents were present at this meeting
70 see how the passenger agents
had been using these tickets. They cannot
be sold by the ticket agent of the Minnea-
polls d st. Louis without a written order
from tine freight agent. The Omaha and
Milwaukee roads sell mileage tickets at ?
cents per mile, which the Albert Lea
claimed was equal to the $500 rate charged
by il for commercial tickets to Chicago, and
that it could not use a joint ticket, as com
mercial men cOnld not use it direct to Chi
cage, and it would take nearly life time to
use thOusand-mile ticket up. The Albert
Lea people showed that they had main
tanned all the stipulatiOns of the managers
agreement, and the Milwaukee & st. Paul
and Omaha acknowledged they had made a
mistake and that the Albert Lea had been
selling legitimately and holding to the
agreement. 1t was agreed then by the roads
doing the accusing not to put on for sale the
commercial tickets, and the Minneapolis
consented TO sell these tickets to Chicago at
S10.25, with a rebate of S2.Oj, or $40. 80
for the round trip with rebate of S4.IO.
The meeting lasted about two hours and a
half aud then adjourned. The meeting of
the freight agents in the afternoon was
protracted one, they being in session from
noon until $50 o'clock. The business dis
cuSSed related TO rates to and from interior
points, and was of no special interest only
To the freight agents themselves.