The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-24
FARMERS LATEST SCHEME
FOn CONTROLLING THE IMMIGRANT
BUSINESS


Nave ss Big Commissiou. ms The,
Please Tor Turning Over lmmisrsnts.
The Passenger Commissioner OF the Trunl
Limo Association has q new scheme on foot FOL
controlling the entire immigrant business from
| New York to San Francisco. which. II carried
| through. will make the outside agents OF the
First wardwonderwher their next days dinner
is coming from. The Commissioner thought
while ago that he would be able to bottle ur
the business another way, so That independent
lines like tho Southern Pacific Old Dominion.
| and Canadian Pacific would have to como into
the pool. or lose all their business.
| At that time Gen. O'Beirne was acting Com
missioner OF Immigration. Col Weber being In
| Europe. Mr.. Farmer held out many in
ducements to Gen. O'Berne. The latter was
| to make this and that improvement. and the
| agency was to be virtually under tho control
| OF the Government. Secretary Foster Ia also
said to have liked the idea. Gen. O'Deirne
was to hive tho appointment OF the Joint
| agent and oil the assistants. besides the
| handling of the baggage. In return for this
| all tho immigrants wore to DO turned over to
the Clearing House. No hotel runners or out
side agents we're to be allowed within gunshot
OF the landing station. Gen. O'Beirne scorned
tho idea that lie might have trouble in carry
Ing out this plan.
AHC Aaosou8eE SOuullbblOuSE OF INC CTuNk
lines. equally confident. invited the trans
atlantic steamship companies to q conference
to SEQ what relations should DO continued be-
tween tho railroads and the steamship lines:
and whom the latter snubbed the Commits
sioner he is said to have informed them that
the trunk lines intended to control tho railroad
knew it.. Ii the steamship companies wanted
60 tsaive the commission which they had been
lad betsr hurry and to
BSs sS %t1 s tho
ss Joint agent WITH a $1,000 salary and 9 bie
charge. and i, Is. said that he viii give Ill
agents S 1nn all railroads an equal chance with
pool the monopoly Of the IMMIGRANTS.
This may account for pr. Farmers change
70 Az Up a new deal. What do the Steamship
es have ghe' sYs y TO @ans e
bargain na fer the immErants in bulk at so much E
o tEe 1 f
entire business and the Steamship companies
must must promise not to have any doalings with
Five. ten. Of fifteen dollars on Pacific coast
want said e stenmsb any nn 4estSraN we
quite ts%ptqtiSn isntpt.2 BIT y VIII viii
pe the result Here Ii the Old Dominion and
tina. I sshss gsd ~. Us s $iS NIX
AnG WIZ r E stand tss
S fGvf as sH liz tho and run he
would have to stand their share. and il they
ignored him. and the result was the trunk limos
We're money out OF pocket for many months.
business at this end he thinks that he can
route the entire business to the Pacific coast
and kill the outside agency business. He is
:" or course We will not go into, any such ar;
throughout tho country who ticket passengers
over overt the ROAD which pays them the best com
rcsd @s Hh not %h h @
resent ser pnmber Of lines and they are entitled
Rs G2niFS and
{S Ss or more a,n S Wills ,hs M Mrs. p9s
trunk lines had some Experience n paying lib lib
Sral eommissions; to their sorrow Two Of the
for the privilege. MI Doane was Instructed to
taks n% M beane ala so
Tho story is that he paid nearly the ful! pas
ss r f saa 9be
agents were serambling for the immigrants,
and when Mr. Doane came around and heard
;, We won't ia K about the commission now.
You lust turn the passengers over to US and
'hsfss ss M4f aak Bc slc to Chicago
The dsveiSpms mt Of the new scheme will be
srn lines are coming East to fight the trunk
lines with big commissions. as described else
where.