St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-30
Boycott Attempted to Crush
the Competition Of Sault
st. Marie Road,
But the st. Paul Chicago Lines
Find Themselves Miser-
ably Left.
The 500 Will Without Doubt
g Run a Train Into De-
trOit.
Not Only That, But Has Cut
the Rate to S16.25 for the
Round Trip.

The 500 will run train into De
trolt on Saturday night; if it does not
90 over the Michigan Central it will go
over another line. And more than this,
the rate will be but Sl6.25."
Thus spoke w. s.. Thorn, city ticket
agent of the 500, last evening in an
swer to the question what his road pro-
posed to do in view of the action of the
Michigan Central in declaring that it
would not honor tickets issued by the
500. This action by the Michi-
gan Central was unexpected
and the 500 claims is one of the means
the st. Paul-ChicagO lines propose to use
III their fight against the new road, no
tice having been given few days ago
that the roads running to Chicago would
meet any rate made by the Soo-Cana-
dian Pacific combination.
The Michigan Central bombshell, as
it is termed by the st. Paul-ChicagO
lines, notifies the public that the tariff
issued by the Minneapolis. st. Paul IL
Sault Ste. Marie company, granting
rates for the round trip between Mack
NAV City and Detroit, has been issued
without the consent and against the
protest of this company" and adds
further, that such tickets will not be
honored and that no cars will be at
Mackinaw City to receive such paSSen-
gers.
What will the 500 do now? is the
question that Assistant Passenger Agent
Thorn answered as is stated at the be-
ginning of this article. Although it has
not SO announced the fact as yet, the
probability is that the 500 has already
made a combination with the Grand
Rapids d Indianapolis, although the
competitors of the 500 declared that
that road will refuse to enter into any
such agreement, and make the predlc-
ton that the
LOng-Threatened Boycott
against the pugnacious 500 has at last
arrived. In this event there will be
rate war to certain points inaugurated
at once that will be long drawn out and
fierce. In some respects the SOO-Cana-
dian Pacific combination is invincible,
and the only way Tor the st. Paul
Chicago lines to head it off is by work
ing OH the Boston & Maine, New York
Central and other connecting lines to
institute a boycott as the Michigan
Central has done. Unless some ar
rangement of this kind is made the 500
cannot be downed.
The action of the Wisconsin Central
and Milwaukee roads yesterday in rails
ing their rates to Detroit to Sl7.75, the
old rate of the 500 and the present rate
of the Burlington, was intended as a
pacific move, as will be seen from the
following interview with Assistant Cen
eral Passenger Agent Dixon, of the Mil
waukee:
I'VE have raised our rate to Detroit to
Sl7.75 instead of the sum of the locals,
S16.S5," he said in answer to question,
land the Wisconsin Central will do like
wise. The Omaha will also sell tickets at
the same rate. AS this rate is the same as
that of the 500, there is now no necessity
for that line TO further reduce it on account
of the Milwaukee, at least"
The action of the Michigan Central is
the cause given by the 500 for the cut to
S16.25, and, if this is true, the boycott
has not been productive of any good as
yet. How this contest will end is I'M
certain, but there are certain other
features of the fight that are interesting,
because they must certainly lead to i'm
portant developmentS-indeed, it is pre-
dicted that the st. Paul-Chlcago blind
pool will break before the
500 Is DOwned.
There can be very little unity of
action in the fight against the 500 as
long as the decisions of Chairman Fin
ley are thrust aside, as they are at pres
ent by the lines that are making
rates to Detroit by way of
Milwaukee. On account of its
small share of the June business the
Burlington was designated by Chair
man Finley as the official route to De-
trOit, and the only one authorized to