St. Paul daily globe., 1886-06-02
CAUSED BY THE LIMITED.
The New Northwestern Fast Trains
Precfpitate Rate War.
Jay Gould Said to Desire to Ruin Texas
Pacific Stockholders.
War to the Knife.

War to the Knife.
An open and slashing fight has been be-
gun between the Milwaukee & ST. Paul and
he Rock Island and the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern. Mr.. Dixon, as
Sistant passenger agent of the Milwaukee
road, Yesterday received long communica-
tion from A. V. FL. Carpenter of the same
road explaining the whole situation. Mr..
Carpenter received letter from j. E. Han
negan, general ticket and passenger agent
of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North
ern, in which he charges the Milwaukee &
st. Paul with making comparative rates
from Council Bluffs to Chicago in order to
force the Rock Island to discontinue it's ac-
tive support of the Albert Lea route, and
to drive the Albert Lea route out of
competitive business between Chicago and
st. Paul. Mr.. Hannegan then says that
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
will therefore, on June 1, name reduced
first and second-class rates from its juno
tion points with the Milwaukee & St. Paul
in Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota, to CORE
spond with the limited rates of $11 and So
from ST. Paul to Chicago.
In reply to this Mr. Carpenter writes
letter calculated to carry the idea that the
Milwaukee & St. Paul road is ready for an
attack of the description intimated and
that OF the two it is rather impatient for
the music to begin. Mr.. Carpenter says it
Is no new thing for his road to be attacked
in this manner, but that it is so familiar
with this style of warfare that it causes no
particular attention, and adds that the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road can stand
before the world and point with sat
isfaction to its record in the mat
ter of maintaining rates, and a con-
servative policy in managing its traffic
affairs" In proof of this he refers to its
participation in the Chicago, st. Louis &
Missouri river passenger agreement, en-
tered into December, 1884. He further
says:
You say the Chicago, Rock Island g. Pacific
railway is "a line heavily interested in Council
Bluffs and Chicago business That is no
doubt true. This line (the Milwaukee s. St.
Paul. is heavily interested in Chicago, ST.
Paul and Minneapolis business, in, at least,
double the proportion that the Rock Island
road is interested in Chicago and Council
Bluffs. The Milwauee & St. Paul was the
pioneer road between Chicago, ST. Paul and
Minneapolis. 1t is the short line and the best
line between those points. The Rock Island
or Albert Lea line is 120 miles longer than the
line between Chicago and St. Paul by the
Chicago, Milwaukee s. st. Paul road. The
the lines heavily interested in Chicago and
Council Bluffs business afford it the same
protection it asked between ST. Paul and
Minneapolis, where the cream of its business
lay, but was contemptuously refused any
such protection.
THE LIMITED TRAINS.
Mr.. Carpenter then makes the following
statement in regard to the limited trains to
Chicago. which is the real trouble in the
matter:
This company has been urged, for several
years, to put on faster trains between Chi
cago, st. Paul and Minneapolis, or to shorten
up its time on one of its trains then running.
The amount of business between the two
cities tnecessitated the hauling of so many
cars on the two through trains in each direc-
ton over this road, that we could not well
shorten up the time of either of those trains.
We were then urged to put on q special fast
train, limited, to accommodate the business
between those cities, and for the purpose of
accommodating that business, and also the
business of prominent local points on this
line between Chicago and St Paul, and also to
relieve the pressure upon these other trains
this company put on a train as desired We
were Informed by the Albert Lee route peo-
pie that that would be considered in the light
of red rag shaken at bull, and would be
the signal for a general Generalization of
rates by it (the Albert Lee route), because it
could not begin to make any such time. 1t
is the first time in the history of any business
enterprise, that 1 am aware Of, that
party already occupying field
and having the facilities to do business Salts
factorily and on easy terms, has been required
to abandon all such advantages and adapt il
self and its method of doing business to the
capacities of parties having inferior qualifica-
tions, and especially is it the first time that
railway company having SO much advantage
in distance and other facilities, has been re-
U11i tO friU
conform in every respect TO the capabilities
of inferior lines, subsequent corners into the
field, in order to maintain peace. The Chi
cago, Milwaukee e. st. Paul railway is not
endeavoring TO force the Albert Lea route to
GO out of competitive business between Chi
cago and st. Paul and Minneapolis; it has
only utilized its natural and legitimately ac-
quired advantages to give the public service
commensurate Herewith, and if the doing
thereof makes it Improbable for inferior lines
to do business between those points, this COM
pany cannot afford to ''help OUT such IN
ferior lines, nor can it afford to longer holdin
abeyance the use of its advantages as afore-
said but proposes to give the public such
service as Its needs require and our abilities
permit.
A dispatch from Chicago received last
night says that the Rock Island announces
cut in its first-class rate from Chicago to
st. Paul to 81 in retaliation of the cut of
GHo MHWduhto % oI' L tttu Iodu oIl pdSSeu-
ger rates.
On the other side the Milwaukee G. st.
Paul has made the following rates: From
ST. Paul to Chicago still IS; Chicago to st.
Paul So, with a rebate of $3.75, leaving the
net rate $4.25. In addition to this the
Milwaukee & St. Paul has struck the Rock
Island in the most vulnerable points by
making the first-class rates from Chicago to
Rock Island $3.4O reduction of S1.75; to
Davenport $3.40, a reduction of $375: to
Cedar Rapids S4.75, a reduction of $2 80;
to Sigourney $3.50, a reduction of So. 70; to
Des Moines S6.75 frst-class and $3.50
second-class. reduction of $4.4S on first
class and S3. 10 ON second-class. All this
is done in addition to promptly meeting the
cut of the Rock Island road to common
points in Iowa and Minnesota.
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