The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-26
NEWS ABOUT
THE RAILROADS.
Loose Condition OF Overland
Passenger Rates.
The Chicago and Alton Telegraphs Their
Local Office to Cut the Grand Army
Fare Tomorrow.


Army patronage for their respective lines on
the occasion of the annual encampment
which takes place at Detroit next month.
referring TO the many rates now being an
nounced by the Southern Pacific Company
for this trip, it is evident from recent ac-
ton on the part of this company and IN this
connection that its passenger department Is
all at sea as to how low a rate will be quoted
for those desiring to attend the eneampment
frtm this city. The first announcement OF
I few days ago was round-trip rate OF
S97 -, which certainly cannot be considered in
tile light of cut from the fact that
the present round-trip ticket good for SIX
months from Pacific Coast points to Kansas
City, Omaha, Council Bluffs and Missouri
River points is $50, and all lines in the Mis-
souri, River Association and Trunk line con-
necti0ns have agreed TO make the fare from
Missouri River points to Detroit and return,
q regular first class rate one way OF SIT 90.
the same TO apply for the round trip, making
the through regular tariff rate as announced
10y General Passenger Agent Goodman of
the Southern Pacific Company S97 80.
A SMALL CUT EAST OF KANSAS CITY.
At the making of this Sf7 80 rate east of
Kansas City the Chicago and Alton road
partially carried their threat of demOraliZa-
liUA INTO erect by QuCUl8 REDUCTION 10
Sl4 80, thus making the through rate from
Pacific Coast points S94 80 via the Chicago
and Alton. This rate was not recognized by
the Southern Pacific until yesterday, when
Chicago, Santa Fe and California met the
Atoms cut and instructed this company to
use the S94 90 rate via their road east of
Kansas City. To this order the Southern
Pacific Company is now complying,
and its local Offices have been mott
fed to use the rate only via the
Santa Fe east of Kansas City. Such re-
dugtiUn on the part OF the Chicago and
Alton will not necesSitate the discontinue
ance Of the Sl4 81 rate east of Kansas City
to Detroit aud return, as message received
az the LEGAL Office of the Alton Yesterday
from General Passenger Agent Charlton
announces that tomorrow further reiuc-
ton of the special Grand Army rate will be
made.
Kate FROM THIS COAST NOT AFFECTED.
While the unsettled condition of rates on
the Alton will not materially affect the price
of through ticket from this coast ii being
the policy of the Southern Pacific to tight
shy Of following in the line of demOraliZa-
ton, vet it will be impossible to announce a
better rate than the one now in force, name
Is, S94 90, unless called upon to do so ty
Missouri River lines other than the Chicago
and Alton. Passengers going from the coast,
in order TO derive any advantages from the
rate cutting now going on east OF Kansas City,
should buy the regular r0und-trip siX-month
ticket TO Kansas City and return, and then
purchase for Detroit BY this course pas
SengerS may derive not only the benefit in
rates, but gain limit on the return tickets
of six months time west of the Missouri
River, or in all traHscOntluental territory
west Of Kansas City, Omaha and st. Paul.
while, were they TO purchase tue regular
Grand Army ticket, all stOp-over privileges
would be abrogated after September LIST.
PRESIDENT CANNON on MoNOPoLIEs.
l.
Alliance has some decided opinions concern
ing railroad monOp0iies, and does not seem
IL be at all backward in expressing them.
In an address on Friday before meeting of
this organization in the Chamber of Com
MERGE he said SHOW the PEOPLE where
they are being robbed by the whole gang of
monopolistS and trusts and syndieates. Tell
them the truth about the railroad bonds, the
land grant barons and the whole nest of tax
eaters. Show them how the Union Pacific
;EalTnad gang invested S2lS 600 and peeketed
Sl47, 29S. 10. Show that the Central Pacific
Railroad gang invested So, 600 and pocketed
about S136 coo, coo. Tell them these
mlllionaiTes now owe the people $50, 900
and refuse 10 pay dollar. Show them that
we have built and paid twice the cost of
every one Of the railroads to the Pacific
Coast, and that we are paying for them in
treights and fares every i've years; that
these monster mODoDOlleS have the whole
Pacific Coast by the throat, and are choking
all our Industries TO death with their Shiny
grIp; that while they wall in the Sata On
the east and charge all the traffic viii bear.
their friends build a tariff wall across the
Golden Gate that fines vessels S10000,O00 a
year to enter and discharge their cargoes
Demand that Jay Gould, Russell Sage,
Sidney Dillon & Co. Of the Union Pacific
gang. and Stanford, Huntington and
Croker u Co.. the Central Pacific gang,
pay their debts TO the Government, as well
as their taxes to this State, or surrender
their railroads and retire from business for
the good of the State. Tell them the truth
about the tariff; that it is tax and the con-
sumer pays it; that it Is levied for the
express purpose of increasing the value of
the class OF articles upon which 1t is levied,
so that the home manufacturers can conf
pete with the imported goods"
MANAGER wADE'S EASTERN TRIP.
General Manager X. II. Wade Of the
Southern California lines, Santa Fe system.
left recently for a trip to Chicago, the ad-
miuistaton headquarters Of the company.
Concerning his visit Los Angeles paper
says: In the absence of official in formation
on the subject, some pretty close guesaes
can be made as to the nature of the business
calling Mr.. Wade 10 Chicago at this season
1t is more than probable that the railroad
official who so shrewdly manages the great
company's interests in this section is ac-
compauied on this trip by an amount of
Interesting information for President Man
Southern California 1t is mOre than prob
able that the maps, data and propositions
which MIR. Wade will carry to Chicago rep
resent enterprises which will be of exceed
ing importance 10 this region, if the Eastern
nagnateS OF tile Santa Fe system can be
Induced to undertake the construction of
o. more new mileage. Engineers have not
been stalking out so many lines for nothing,
and confidential agents have not wasted
time in feeling way for aggressive cam
ll9iUpiuu nv fht4 hip n no
can say with authority how long the Gen.
eral Manager will be absent from this city,
but it is safe to assume that his visit 10
Chicago will be fruitful OF result.
BETTER RATES WANTED FOR POTATOES
The request of local commission mer-
chants for 60-cent rate ON potatoes &c
Texas points has been laid before the West
ern Traffic Association, and decision is
expected by Monday next. The Traffic As
ISOLATION controls the Texas territory and
the Southern Pacific cannot grant the re-
quest for special cut from 90 to 60 cents
without making tangle that all the other
lines in the association would not be slow to
take advantage of. General Freight Agent
Smurr has wired the Chairman of the asso-
citation brief summary of the potato situa-
ton here. and urged the necessity of meet
Ing the case with an emergency rate for
thirty or sixty days. 1t is Mr.. Smurr's be-
LEI that the request will be granted.
One OF the assistant engineers of the
Southern Pacific from Chief Engineer
Hoods office is now at work on general
reconn distance of feasible railroad routes
extending easterly from the Oregon line
between R0seville and Redding This sur
yey will include, incidentally, the Feather
River route leading to the famous Beck
worth Pass over the Sierras, in which dis
trict Union Pacific engineers have busted
themselves during the past few years.
The San Francisco and North Pacific
Company will run another special excursion
to Ukah on Thursday next.
j. a. Fuller OF the Mexican Central Rail-
way, stationed at the City of Me xiee, ar
rived here yesterday. He reports construc-
ton matters very dull, and says that VIII lie
many concessions have been recent ly
granted by the Government for new lines,
yet capital is backward in entering a coun-
try where there exists such a strong oppo-
sition to foreign enterprise. Mexico has al
present over 1900 miles of railroad, and in
MI. Fuller's opinion, the industry has been
overcTowded.