The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-07
THE TRANSFER BUSINESS.
A Plain and Vigorous Statement
by a Grant Brothers Officer.

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from the shock it sustained when tn,
Grant Brothers Company incorporated
and had the audacity to buy and run {
livery stable; but when the enterprisinl
association went into the passenger ant
baggage transfer business it seemed tt
strike to the very YitaIs of the Tribune
Almost daily the newspaper mentioned
contains contemplate and maliciou;
paragraphs and lying assertions regard
ing the Grant Brothers. In all these
the animus oozss out. The Grant
Brothers Company is composed of Nor
mons, while the old transfer company
of Mulloy 81 Paul are pronounced anti
Mormons, as is Major Erb, of the
| Walker House, the one hotel proprietor
of the city who is making war on the
Grants. Yesterday morning there ap-
peared in the Tribune specially vicious
attack on the Grants transfer agents
in which it was alleged that the latter
were insolent and insulting to travellers,
that they assaulted Walker House
guests, and so on. The falsehoods in
the article were manifest. Meeting
an officer of the Grant Brothers Com
pany, a HERALD reporter called
his attention to the item, and
asked if he had anything to
say concerning it. Laying aside the
paper the gentleman said: Yes, you
may say for US. that We understand the
source and motive of all their attacks.
l don't vouch for the statement. but
it has been told to me that Major Erb
he
Brothers, it it cost him every dollar he
owned. Well, the company includes
among its stockholders forty or nifty
are itch. They were all here, believe,
before MAJOR Erb came in sight, and
unless 1 am mistaken they will be
here when he is spending the money he
made in Utah, building up Lower Cali
fornia. You may also say that though
Major Erb and Mulloy & Paul, who
seem to think that only they have
| legitimate right to engage in the livery
and bus business, between SIS 600 and
$1,000 a year is being taken from Salt
Lake and given to the travelling public,
that sum having been paid formerly for
carrying passengers from and to the
depots. You may also say that the
proprietors of the other hotels solicited
Grant Brothers to go into the transfer
business so as to break the monopoly
which the Walker House had, the
agents for the old transfer bling train
runners for that hotel. l wish
you would say further that Major
Erb made the proposition to the Grant
Brothers that if they would let his men
run on the trains he would give his
transfer business to the Grants, his
house and the transfer company to
form the same kind Of a combination
against the other hotels as formerly ex-
listed"
us it true" asked the scribe. THAT
your agents work against the Walker?
"Emphatically yes! we solicit for
the Cullen, the Continental, the Gift,
the White, the Valley. and do our u
most to turn travellers from the Walker
and Metropolitan Our company is
human, not divine. When Major Erb
kicks us, we don't turn around, thank
him and ask him to kick again. When
he scatters his circulars through the
cars saying the Walker is the pride
of the Salt Lake public we are
careful to tell the passengers that
there are several hotels in the city with
newer furniture and better kept than
the Walker. and we name them. We
propose to continue this course, while
we remain in business, and we expect
to be in business, as remarked above,
when Major Erb is booming other towns
with money made in Salt Lake. We
are carrying passengers and baggage
free to all hotels except Major Erb's,
and when we cannot persuade travellers
to go to other houses than the Walker
Hot VT-n oh fhavN
cents each, the same price which Mulloy
& Paul ask for taking people to the Cor
tinental, Cliff, White and Cullen. We
will do this in spite of the Tribune,
of Major Erb, OF Mulloy & Paul,
and of anybody and everybody else.
Grant Brothers Company are the only
transfer agents on the trains of the
Union Pacific, the Denver e. Rio
Grande Western and the Utah Central,
They are here to stay, as witness the
elegant new stable, the finest between
Chicago and San Professionalism the
Tribune has never had the decency to
notice, though the paper processes to
want to boom the town-and they arc
here to make money. They are help
ing those who help them, and they are
not putting money in the way of those
who are doing their utmost to injure
them. AS to ungentlemanly deport-
ment on the part of our train agents,
there is no such thing. We will have
no further use for an agent who insults
traveller, any more than we will have
use for an agent who refuses to obey
our instructions to lead passengers to
other than the Walker and Metropol-
itan hotels. You will oblige me per
sonalIy, and 1 believe all our stock
holders equally we'll, by publishing
what l have said, and having done
that, let Erb and the Tribune fall TO ana
do their utmost to crush a concern
which has done more this year to boom
Salt Lake City in solid, substantial
manner, than the pompous major or
the organ of hate will ever do. -
The HERALD will say on its own &C
count, that on more than one occasion,
when the Mulloy & Paul buses have
not met the trains. at the request of
the Grant Brothers, this paper has re-
Trained from mentioning the circum-
stance; and come to think of it, the
Tribune has also failed to note those
failures, though for an entirely differ
ent motive than that which prompted
the Grants to ask that nothing be said.
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