Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-12
A RATE WAR IS ON.
Its Over Pacific Coast Passen-
ger Business.
THE UNION pAcJFIC's SHAPE.
In Better Condition Than at Any Previous
Poflod-He's Al Rluhi-A New Official
An officials visll-Railroad News
Of More or Less Interest.
A PASSENGER wan.

Pacific aud some OF It's cpmpeuofs On
the Trnns-Couunenta passenger 6usl-
ness. The Chicago Herald Ia speaking
Of the situation "A il appears % chicago
traffic men seems 60 think the Union
Pacific ~ not In n position 20 success
fully battle with the Colorado hnei,
and goes on TO say Passenger men
were greatly interested yesterday. in
the exclusive account ia The Herald Of
the trouble between the Union P4cihc
aud the Atchson, Burlington liock
Island Burlington and Missouri, Denver
and Rlo Grandc. Rio Grandc Western
aud Colorado Midland. No one doubted
Il would come 90 an open tight, Ia which
the seven roads aud Union Pacific
would agree To entirely cease business
relations.
'erhe belief in this double boycott was
based on the supp0dtiOn that the Union
Pacific would cOnccdc nothing 20 the
seven lines. There can then be no re-
trent for either side. " viii simply be
a question Of endurance, or until one side
Is convinced II " getting the worst OF
II. The trouble began with the truihc
alliance between the Union Pacific and
the Northwestern. Both lines have
undoubtedly found the alliance profit
able. ns thCy have stuck TO II with no
apparent friction IL was deemed no
profitable In the beginning that both
lines preferred withdrawing from the
Interstate Commerce railway nssocin-
tion rather than give II up. Later on,
the Union Pacific made a traffic nrrnnge-
ment with the Alton via Kansas City
and naturally worked all the business
possible over It's allied lines.
"'fhrse alliances naturally brought
about counter deals Of competing lines,
aud IL was the restricting of traffic to
tlieir own allies which has brought about
the present trouble. Business to north
western points from the east was nat
urullv turned over ut Denver to the
Union Pacific by the Atchison, Burling-
tuu aud Rock Island More than that.
Union Pacific coupon tickets We're sold
50 as 20 scalp rates from Denver into
the Union pacinc's own local territory
The Union Pacific retnliated by carry
ing Oh itg cnst-bouud business to the
Missouri. aud other lines in turn be
gnn working the Rio Graude and Atchi-
SON routes 10 and from the 'acihc to
the exclusion of the Union Pacific.
IAN lines kucw the threatened con
nict was Inevitable and all were pre-
pared for t. The final blow Of the seven
lines Us 10 refuse 10 honor Union Pacific
tickets into their local territory. This
viii be- coupled with d refusal 10 honor
through tickets, Int that amounts 10
nothing as they have no opportunity of
hunoriug them now This Will undOuht-
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Interested passenger official could be
touad yesterday who Thought Il would
hurt MS much ns giving no It's alliances
with the Northwestern aud Alton. This
the seven Hines demand us Il condition
precedent to continued peace. The out
come will not be- known before November
"a. when the conference will be held"
For some time past the Union Pacific
has refused to accept coupon tickets
from Ogden aud local points west to
Portland sold In the east by other rail
roads. Thu position taken by the Over
lnnd Route hus caused row III the
railroad world which IL 'likely 10 grow
until something drops MS one passenger
man expressed H. aud the drops may
mean a general slash in passenger rates
to western points Last week a mum
her of general passenger pgcuts met IN
Denver, among thHm T.. ), Eustls Of
he Chicago Burlington aud Quincy.
John Francis of the Burlington aud Mis-.
runri, John Sebastian OF the ROcl, Is
htnd. with representatives. Of the Denver
aud Rio Grande,the Rio Grandchildren
aud other roads In Colorado and Wyom-
ing. TO sec if they could not induce Mr..
Lomnx, Of the Union Pacific to rcscnd
his order refusing Go honor coupons.
Mr. Lomn1, when iutcrrogatcd by the
Omaha Bee ~ regard TO the matter.
4nd that he did not propose 10 rccede
form bis position "a little Bit nnd snid
that any OF the other roads In the same
position would do as he has done
We always have lbcon willing TO
take coupons from Omaha west, but
when rold say The Rock Island. sells
q ticket for Portland from bloomington.
Ill.,, and gives us the passenger at Ogden
it's asking too much Of Ms In friendly
way 10 make the hanl ono Of the cases
which has uronsd the Rock Island to a
fine frenzy recently came up In rs
selling n ticket to Logan from Bloom
ingtcu, III They asked MS TO make the
haul from Ogden, and our share OF the
tarlh was thirty-iiyr cents. OF course
our agent refused to honor the coupon.
for we hnye a direct line to Portland.
and the roads engaged Ia the pleasant
paAttime Of calling us oil the hard
nance possible have TO take traffic Mn
Honolulu Yokohama and other Pacific
seaport ccntcrs Ia get them TO their drs.
tinatlons on the Pacific cnnst An ,ve
want is the haul from Omaha, and that
We propose 10 get, otherwise the roads
trying to make monkeys OF US will have
To- look after their own business ms well
as possible We are not pulling anyono's
chesmnls out Of the fire iust now. ana
~ tile meetings Of passenger men In
inc country cannot change the present
position. We hold tho key TO he aim.
hiun and don't propose TO let Il get ont
Of our sight"