St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-29
INTO WEST ST. PAUL.
The St. Louis Building Spur Track
and Freight Shed on the West
Side.
Commissioner Oarman Makes Known the
Revised Percentages For the West
ern Association Lines.
Flour Rates From Northwestern to
Eastern Seaboard Points De-
mOraliZed.
Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin
Central, Resulting in the Re-
election of Directors.
1T WON'T BE LEFT.

election of Directors.
1T WONT BE LEFT.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis West
St. Paul Terminus,
The Minneapolis & ST. Louis has been
making some quiet, yet rapid, movements
in the last few days, of which West St.
Paul will receive the first benefit. AS was
announced exclusively in the GLOBE
Wednesday morning, the Minneapolis & St.
Louis company has made arrangements
with the Minnesota e Northwestern to run
freight trains over the latter's line from
Waterville to West st. Paul to commence
Monday, June 1. Yesterday large force
of men and twenty-five teams were set to
work by the Minneapolis & ST. Louis COM
pany in West st. Paul to construct branch
line from the main line of the Minnesota d
Northwestern above the water tank to a
commenced to erect The branch
will be quarter of mile
long and will run across blocks
Is, II, "a and IS of Bazille and Rob
erts' addition, and blocks 3, s and Z of
shed of the Minneapolis & St. Louis will
be directly opposite Robert street and about
three hundred yards from the river. The
company will have the grading finished and
track laid by Sunday, and trains will be
running over it on the Monday following.
FREIGHT FOR ST. PAUL
will be brought across the river by a trans
fer line, which the ST. Louis road will put
on as soon as they begin operating. Work
was commenced, as before stated. on the
freight shed yesterday morning, and by last
night great progress had been made. 1t will
be about 200 feet long and 40 wide, built Of
wood.
In regard to the matter published in the
Pioneer Press on yesterday regarding the
paralleling of the Manitoba road by the
Rock Island, the Minneapolis Evening
Journal thus gives the snap away: Two
men, whom we will call Jones and Smith,
were discussing the credulity of the railroad
reporter of the Pioneer Press, when wager
was made as to the colossal proportions of
yarn which could be concOcted and ''got
intO' that paper. Jones and Smith accord
ingly invented the yarn, and Jones under
took to secure it's publication. Accord
ingly he went to Brown, in st. Paul (whom
he knew would run to the P. P. with it,,
and told him the story in secret. The
scheme worked. Brown rushed to the p.
P.'s railroad reporter, the reporter swal-
lowed the whole story and published it,
Jones won his bet, and Brown and the
reporter are to-day being numerically
guyed for having possessed to such mar
velous degree all the essential elements of
the sucker.
NO RATE WAR PROBABLE.
That the barring of the Minneapolis &
st. Louis railroad company from st. Paul
will ultimately result in war on rates is
not considered probable as times are too
hard and money too scarce to use any
other than the ordinary means to reduce the
company's revenue. The Minneapolis &
st. Louis is member of the Northwestern
Traffic association, and the percentages for
each line in that combination have been
fixed, and the Minneapolis 6 st. Louis
doesn't care whether or not it takes any
through business from st. Paul. All it
cares for is it's local business and passenger
traffic, and most of the latter it will hold,
for most of the points on its line are only
reached directly by that road itself and pas
sengers who wish to travel by that line
from ST. Paul can go by paying the Mani
toba or Milwaukee & st. Paurs local rate
between the two cities. A war lasting a
week, two weeks OF month would re-
duce the earnings of any company more
than the net earnings of the business from
st. Paul would amount to. Officials of
the Minneapolis & St. Louis appreciate
this fact, and will be very cautious and
weigh every point well before it precipitates
rate war, and nine chances to one it
will conclude that a war of rates will be
disastrous to it's finances, and uphold tariff
as strictly as the other Eastern trunk lines,
both on freight and passenger business.
The New Percentages.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, May Commissioner George
L. Carman of the Northwestern Traffic as
ISOLATION to- day sent out to managers OF the
lines embraced in that pool the new per-
centages awarded by Arbitrator George M.
Bogue. They are as follows: To the Rock
Island & Peoria road 1 per cent.
of the gross revenue on west-bound
business, and to the Chicago, ST. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha road per cent. of
the gross revenue on the same class of
traffic After this allotment is paid, the
gross revenue remaining shallbe pooled and
divided as follows on West-bound business:
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, 34a per
cent; Chicago & Northwestern, 30M per
cent: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific, 81
per cent; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
13 per cent. On east-bound business to
the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha road, deducting live stock balances,
4 per cent. of the total gross revenue, the
remainder to be pooled and divided as fol-
lows: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul So
per cent; Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis
& Omaha, 32]s; Minneapolis & st. Louis
BIZ. The percentages in force up to the
date of this new award were as follows:
After the allotment Of the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha, and the Rock Island
& Peoria railways had been paid, the gross
revenue was divided as follows: West
bound Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, Sc
per cent; Chicago & Northwestern, 49,;
Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific, 80; Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy, 10. East
bound, Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul, IS; Chicago, St. Paul, Min
neapolis & Omaha, 35; Minneapolis q
st. Louis, &c. The managers of
a majority of the roads interested are out
of town and their opinion as to the new
deal could not be obtained. In west-bound
business the st. Paul loses a per cent.
the Northwestern gained a per cent, the
Rock Island loses a per cent. and the Bur-
lingtOn makes gain of per cent.
wisconsin Central Annual.
Special to the Globe.
MILWAUKEE, May 2s.-The annual
meeting of stockholders of the Wisconsin
Con+roI roilrood WAC hold i'm this city to-day