Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18
TO 0BLlGE THE G. A. R.
The Pittsburg and Western Leads on
an $11 Rate, Round Trip,
OR A CENT A MILE TO MILWAUKEE,.
It Will Make Difference of Hundreds at
the Encampment.
OTHER ROADS WILL MEET THE RATE

If the railroads in other parts OF the coun-
| try refuse to make rate OF 1 cent per mile
to the Grand Army Encampment at Mil
waukee, Pittsburgers need not stay away on
that account The Pittsburg and Western
road has made the first break, and will &C.
cede to the requests of the G. A. R. veterans
from Pittsburg. The various railroad asso-
Citations declined repeatedly to make
such a low rate, and it was prac-
| tically settled that the encampment
would be failure. The delegates and
only those who could afford it intended to
60. As the railroad fare is quite an item
with the majority of the old soldiers, they
felt very sore that the general managers re-
fused to make less rate than cents per
mile. Many of the G. A. r. in Pittsburg
had given up the trip; but the announce
ment of a cent rate on the P. & W. road
will revive their hopes. 1t comes, too, in
the nick of time, for the encampment will
begin next week.
When asked about it yesterday, General
Passenger Agent G. w. Bassett, of the
Pittsburg and Western, said: "Yes, it istrue
we will make a ceIt-a-mile rate for the old
soldiers to Milwaukee. The distance to
Chicago is 45S miles; from Chicago to Mil
waukee IS miles, making the entire dis
tance from Pittsburg 553 miles.
SIX CENTS THROWN.
"At cent per mile the rate would be
$11 o6 for the round trip, but We will make
it the even S11. The tickets will be good
from August % to September z. In addi-
ton, by applying to the special railroad
| agent at Milwaukee, the time will be ex-
tended 30 days to give the boys an opportp-
nifty to take advantage of a number of cheap
side excursions.
''To prevent the scalpers and brokers from
getting in their work, and to discourage
people who would buy tickets and only go
to Chicago, we will make 50 rate to the
latter city for the same length of time.
The special train will leave next
arrive at Milwaukee 1890 A. M. Monday
morning. From Chicago the train will run
| over the Chicago and Northwestern, I
think, to Milwaukee, and their share of the
S11 rate will be 81 IS, so that the Pittsburg
and Western receives only IS As per ticket.
'The same rate of cent per mile will be
made for the G. A. r. in Southern Ohio.
General S. H. Hurst, the Department Com
mander, has selected the Baltimore and
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton and
Monon roads out of Cincinnati, and the
Pittsburg and Western, Wheeling and Lake
Erie and the Baltimore and Ohio from
Pittsburg as the official roads; but we had
made our rate before we had heard of this
action. have already
CONTRACTED WITH THREE POSTS
in Pittsburg and Allegheny on condition
fha Mt % 10 anl he ho
Pennsylvania Company has bargained with
Post 128 at the same rate we would make,
and of course the Ft. Wayne road will
meet us.
"Will the rates go lower? No; that would
be impossible. The rate is as low as we can
make it must say that the G. A. r. has
treated us fairly. When 1 broached the
subject to some of the posts they, expressed
willingness to stand by the road that is
willing to help them"
General Passenger Agent A. e. Clark, of
the Lake Erie, said yesterday he was wait
ing to hear from Northern Ohio, and until
the Cleveland rate had been determined he
could not say what the rates to Milwaukee
would be over his road.
The list of delegates from Western Penn
sylvania to the National Encampment of
the G. A. r. are given below. Among the
post organizations from this vicinity that
Will dIteDu IN u DOuy Will De 1Zo. OF Ale
gheny, which viii take $50 members via the
Fl Wayne Railroad. About that many
more, including the delegates representing
Western pennsylvania posts, will go on the
same train, accompanied by the G.. A. R.
Band, and will form an escort to National
Commander Stewart. The delegates are as
follows:
Thomas Sample, delegate-at-large: j. B.
Brown, Cory, Pa; A. P. Burchfield and Hugh
Morrison, Allegheny; w. P. Atkinson, Erie;
Pittsburg; John o. Wiley, Oil City; Q. M. Car
lin; Braddock; F. x. Patterson, Freeport;
Albert Moore. Sewickley; George s. Shattuck,
Meadville; w. B. Kroesen. Etna; James Peters,
Latrobe; William M Jordan, Mt. Pleasant
Alternates-H. ]. Chandler, Rochester; A G.
Watson, Beaver Falls; G. l. Lutten, Johns
town; J. N. Lewis, Oil City; Jacob Soffel, x s.
Rees. John Harvey, Pittsburg; F. A. Weaver,
Meadville; John W. Walker, Meadville:
William Hart California; John g. Nichol,
Allegheny: F. R. Fieck. Allegheny; N. P. Kins,
ley, Franklin;A A. B. Richey. Butler; r. s. Davis,
All