The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-11-22
NO HARM 10 SEATTLE.

Effect Of the Railroad Combine
on Washington Lines
GILMAN TALKS or THE FUTURE.
Washlnston Already Has Knonxh Resds
The Lake shore Feeder
Rainisr Avenue Lins.
ssWhat viii b the effect on this stats Of the
combination Of txanscontinentaI rallfcads
which ID reported to have been formed By Jay
Gaaldf" was the question asked By PosTsIN-
TKLILoENcEB reporter Of p. 81. Gilman yes-
! ter1ay.
Il aon't think Il win hurt this state or Seattle
either. Including the Great Northern and the
Union Pacific extensions, which are now under
construction. and will certainly b completed,
we shall have four transcontinental roads In
this state. That will be - many ~ we shall
ever nesd. and don't think any more VIII ever
b, built These four roads viii build branches
or scquire control of the smaller roads already
built until. % shall have railroads into every
the state. but no moro tfanscontinental roads
wall come through Warrington. These four
the Northern Pacific Canadian Pacific, Onion
Paciac ana Great Northern--will be- able 70 do
oil the business Of the state.
This combination viii check railroad build
Ing and prevent rate-cutting and will be . good
thing for that reason It II what Gould and
Huntington have been working ct for some
time. There are too many railroads RAINING
from Chicago to the Missouri river, and from
Chicago to Denver, and there are too many
roads In Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado.
The building of competing roads VIII be stopped
and fair living rates will be maintained and
rate wars stopped. That will be an advantage
to both the railroads and the shippers. Rate
wars do the merchants NO COOL. II one mer.
chant has paid full tariff rates on his goods and
rate war enables his neighbor to secure cut
rate. . cut in prices follows and both are in
tured. 1t 10 much better for them both to pay
fair living rates.''
"But would not the Great Northern DO forced
into the combination?"
no. il Is not likely. The Great Northern il 4
close corporation. the stock in which il owned
by James Hill and his family and close friends
and il not allowed to pass ont Of their banda
II has asmall capitalization and can operate far
more cheaply than the other roads which have
heavily watered stock and bonds It can there
fore afford to accept lower rates than they can"
What use do you think the Northern Pacific
will make of the Lake Shore r0ad?"
1T will be used simply as q feeder running
through the Sound country. All freight oTigi-
mating ON the Lake Shore will be hauled down
here and carried over the Northern Pacific.
Any cars coming from the East over the Cana
dian Pacific and consigned to the Northern Pa
cifc win be delivered to the latter 1t the
boundary, and hauled over the Lake Shore road.
But very little business Of that kind will be
done, for the Northern Pacific viii not solicit
freight to come over that route. The Great
Northern, on account OF its friendly relations
with the Canadian Pacific, win receive con-
siderable freight over that line, receiving It
over the New Westminster Southern or over the
line from Mission to the boundary at Sumas, to
which point the Great Northern viii doubtless
build spur.
restraining order was granted by Judge
Lchtenberg late last evening Ct the instance OF
]. A. Winner and w. Winser, to prevent the Be-
attic 4 Montana Railway Company and the San
Ffancfsco bridge Company from driving piles
and constructing . railway track along the
Sound In front Of certain property in Kinnear's
Addition, belonging to ]. A. and W. Winser.
The order 10 made returnable on November y,
and was Issued on the statement Of plaintifs
that the construction Of this road would cut
them on 6fom deep water and render their
property useless and cause them irreparable
Injury. They claim the right to purchase from
their property, and say that without vessels
having access to their mill property it viii be
impossible to carry on basiness and useless Tor
them to complete the construction Of lsrge
mill now under ways
The track Of the Rainier avenue electric rail-
way will Ill be laid today from Hills brickyard
to Charles Waters place on Lake Washington, .
distance Of seven miles. The line has been
graded from Hills brickyard mp Rainier avenue
to Jackson street. and work win be continued
thence up Sixteenth street and down Washing
In the pOwer.h0uee 1T the brickyard are al
mcst completed. The foundations for the gen.
orator are finished and the generator IL expected
any day. Most of the electrical work, including
. wire and brackets, Is here and men will begin
stretching the wires on Monday. Three cars are
on the way and the company expects to put the
road in operation from Jackson street to the
terminus on the lake by January ]. Cars wiz
run three times an hour from Jackson street to
the lake, and every six minutes down Washing
ton when that extension is finished.
The New Westminster Truth says: Wednesday
the rails were laid on the Southern railway
across the Yale road. This leaves little more
than ten miles Of the twenty-seven miles BE-
tween here ana Blaine still to finish. The work
ID now going on with renewed vigor, and the
recent fne weather has been extremely favor.
able. There il now little doubt that the ex.
pectation Of regular service between this city
and Seattle will be fnaugurased BY the LIST OF
January next There ara yet Q Juple Of bridges
to be pat in between the end OF the track and
Blaine. but they are of no great dimensions and
will not likely cause delay.
The turntable ct the power-house OF the Front
stteet cable line has been placed and the tracks
have been lowered to the level of the floor.
when the cable stops running tonight the new
depression pulleys will be put In and the switch
ct King street will be removed. It Is hoped that
this work will not interfere with the running
of cars on the regular schedule. but at the
worst it viii not delay the starting Of the cable
tomorrow morning more than an hour or two.
e. II. Warner, principal assistant engineer OF
the Lake Shore road, returned yesterday from
private business trip. and leaves this morning
for Nooksack City.
Surveyors for the snohomish, skykomish 4
Spokane railroad are camped in the mountains
They are believed TO be locating . line simply
- speculation.
7. J. Miner, manager Of the Seattle 4 Mon
tans railroad, returned yesterday from Fafrha-
ven and went to Tacoma.
BORN.
SANFORD-In Seattle, November 20, to the wife
of +. 1. Sanford, son.
AMUSKMENTx