St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-14
o THE FREIGHT WAR.

No Indications OF Its Being
h. stopped-The ST. Paul & Kansas
|: City and the Burlington 81
Northern Cause the War.
Some idea can be obtained of the re-
ductfon OH rates since Aug. from an
examination of the figures. The de-
crease in first-class rates from Chicago to
+ Omaha and all Missouri points ON first
classmates has been over 66 per cent,
and on the others almost as much. The
reduction on Northwestern rates to st.
F Paulaha been 1879 per cent. The re-
bductionS in other directions have been
l. quiteas heavy, lumber. live stock and
packing house products having been
cut SO per cent, and no one article eX-
cept grain has escaped. The Chicago
papers charge the trouble wholly to the
st. Paul IL Kansas City and the Bur
lington & Northern. The Tribune
says:
There is no prospect that the man.
ayers meeting at Chairman Faithorn'S
office next Tuesday will be able to stop
the fight. Peace cannot be restored as
long as the Burlington q Northern and
Minnesota q Northwestern Chicago,
st. Paul q Kansas City road continue
to act independently, and the managers
of these roads say they will not attend
Tuesdays meeting. General Manager
Stone, of the Burlington & Quincy, who
returned from the East yesterday. says
his company has not changed its posi-
ton regarding the Burlington & North
ern, and it has no power whatever to
dictate to that road what course it shall
pursue; therefore it cannot guarantee
the maintenance of rates by that road
as required by the other Northwestern
lines. Vice President Harris, of the
Burlington d Northern, says the present
war is doing no harm to his company
| and its business and revenue are stead
lily increasing. The principal traffic of
his road is flour and grain, and the rates
Oh these articles have not been reduced
between Chicago, st. Paul and Mime
apolis. and there is no prospect that
they will be. 1t therefore expects to
be able to stand the war as long as any
other road"
PARCELING OUT THE STICKNEY SYSTEM.
The Chicago Times has interviewed a
good many big railroad men, some of
whom think a settlement cannot be
reached without Remembering and par
ceiling out among the older lines the
Stickney system. Hear him:
Zone Western president says-and his
opinion is entitled to great weight--that
Willie IucTe lldy Dc temporary COmpTO-
misses, there never will be solid peace
or a possibility of permanent good ull-
Outstanding until three things are ac-
cOmpliShed-the reorganization of the
Wabash system, the consolidation under
one management-and that the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy-of the Chicago,
Burlington Il Northern. the Hannibal &c
st. Joseph and the Kansas City, st. Jo-
seph d Council Bluffs lines, and the dis
memberment and parceling ont among
the older lines OF the Stickney system
Chicago, st. Paul d Kansas City. His
reasons for this are patent and need not
he explained, but it will be admitted
that if the war is to continue until all
this is accomplished, it bids fair to run
much longer than year. The two first
possibly might be reached within rea-
sOnable time, but to bankrupt the Chi
cagO, st. Paul & Kansas City, backed as
it is by unlimited English capital, is not
to be thought of as a near event. The
official is rather radical in his views, but
he is not alone in holding them"
+ The above was shown to Mr.. Hanley,
who smiled and remarked that he did
not know before what carnivorous
and bloodthirsty railroad crowd the st.
Paul u Kansas City railroad people had
got into, and that in his opinion the
other roads would have mighty inter
eSting time of it carving up and parcel
ing ont the ST Pant 4, Kansas Citv road