Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-14
NtAH WIN i''iA w ANa
A MODIFICATION.
GREAT RUSH or IMMGRANrs.
First Fruits OF tho sale Of Hundred
Thourand Cheap Tickets.


MINNEAPoLIs, MINI, April 12.-The
movement Of 100, 900 emigrants from Eu-
rope has commenced, An of them will To-
cate In the West and Northwest. and all
will be carried from Chicago by the Chi
cago, Milwaukee aud St. Paul Railroad,
over whose line . 600 or 5000 arrived here
yesterday. It is expected that the work
of transferring them will require all sum-
mer and extend late in the fail, and that
large daily special trains will be necessa-
rily run to accomplish this. A promi-
nent Chicago railroad official, now here,
gives this explanations: "The re-
cent rate war Of the trunk lines between
New York and CHICAGO resulted largely
from the Grand Trunk and West Shore
insistingupOn the d frrential rate. This
means that ST 80 extra was asked as their
right on each New York ani Chicago
passenger, as their lines Of road were that
much longer than the competing road.
When this was denied them a wholesale
slaughter began, which resulted IN the
P.nnsylyania at one fell sw0op dropping
to 81 per capita on all passengers from
New York tn Chicago. At the same time
100000 tickets at this rate were thrown
upon the European markets, whore they
were readily taken up by the steamship
companies.
"The Pennsylvania had expected by
this cutoff -your-own-nOse act to compel
Grand Trunk and West Shore to make
this same rate, which the Pennsylvania
knew meant worse ruin TO them than 10
IT,, because each have many miles longer
pull, and the West Shore has not sufIi-
cient cars to do such a carrying business
on such short notice. Indeed, u similar
step by the West shore would undoubted-
ly have gmtted IL, and brought It 10 the
wall. To the great disappointment and
surprise OF the Pennsylvania neither
OF the opponents tcOk the bait. hut
re-pstAhlshed former rates. Thus
the Pennsylvania was left alone with
European elephant on its hands. This
unparalleled reduction enabled the steam
ship agents 10 mHk ke rate from Liverpool
to Cbica nj So 90. Now let us see what
the Pennsylvania is going to make on
each OF these cheap passengers. u costs
90 cents per capita % get them out Of Cas-
tie Garden, md another % cents for ira s.
fer Ia New York city before it can hegin
IN carry them. This leaves inst 20 cents
TO the company for I 600 miles of travel.
"Natnr ,lly, this atOf war was changed
10 Chicago when this arTaBg ment was
known aud all the Western .runk lin, 8
hpgen struggling for this business west
Of Chicago. la thi. deal the Milwaukee
road, without any effort ~ its own, played
in great luck. The Pennsylvania enters
the union depot at Chicago out Of which
the Milwaukee starts All ms trains.
when the Rock Island, Northwestern,
Chicago, BURLINGTON and Quincy, o.
any Of the other rOans asked
tor fair SHIRE of the business the Penn
eylvania (Which. by the way, is well
known among railroad men AZ being for
ever and at an places opposed 10 paying
any trautfr) very promptly replied that
II did not wish 70 puy transfer, aud would
therefore turn an the hu -iness over to tho
Milwaukee. or course tho Pennsylvania
could not % afOrd ~ pay 20 cents trausf
10 Frank Ptrmail. for that would leave
her just 30 cents 10 debt on each passen-
ger.
''rhe problem is being discussed now
whether the Milwaukee does not 'diyy'
its 81 % rate On NJ inneapolis on en- pas
senger with the Pennsylvania, which is
the only means bv which tho latter can
begin tn come ont even. But. however
this may be-, the West and Northwest
viii add 10 its population round 100000
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