The morning call., 1893-09-27
FREIGHT CHARGES
Run1Or of an Increase on
the Ferries.
FILLMORE WIRES ROBINSON.
The Express Companies Asked to Sign
a Three Months Agreement.
One of Them Protests.

The passenger business out Of this city
Is in a state of decline. and the various
railroad agents are anXiOusly awaiting the
advent of the Midwinter Fair visitor.
Yesterday. however. little furry was
created on the street by a telegram from
Chicago tAthe effect that the Santa Fe
road will make a rate of l ceut a mile to
and from Chicago for October 9-Chicago
day-oyer all lis lines. As the Santa Fe
only runs West as far as Albuquerque,
n. Mex. it will be seen that the cut will
not affect this territory. Furthermore.
under existing conditions. it would be of
no benefit to persons living on this coast,
as the time limit will be too short.
Commencing on Sunday, October /, the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway
will, in connection with the Great North
ern, run sleeping-caTs between Chicago
and Seattle.
The Southern Pacific Company it is said
has concluded to raise its rates on freight
transported between this city and points
across the bay by the several express COM
panieS, the increase, so the story goes, be-
ing equivalent 10 % per cent over present
charges. Officials of the company are said
to have submitted a proposition TO the
express companies that they sign three
months contract based upon this increased
rate. but 1t Is alleged that Anderson &
Co. refused to do so. 1t is also rumOred
that the creek route proposes to raise the
ferIiage on teams from % cents to 80 cents,
ana vigorous protest may be expected
from the express companies and others in
teTeSted.
General Land Agent Mills returns from
| his Eastern trip to-day.
Morris Hayes, formerly connected with
the Atlantic and Pacific office In this city,
but now of Albuquerque, Is here on visit.
I. X. Stateler, general agent of the
Northern Pacific in this region, came back
from Chicago and other Eastern cities yes
terday. He says his road Is doing a big
business out of Portland. and that another
| through train to Chicago will be put Oh
next Sunday.
The recent movement of large bodies of
the 'nnemplOyed" in Southern California
from the East gave rise to the following z
telegraphic 0rrespOndence, the humor Of
which railroad men will best appreciate {:
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Sept. 81.
To ID. b. Robinson, Chicago, H.: For your
INFORM ton wish 10 say that our Mldwlnter
Fair is not open. yet we should have been ad-
ylsed u you were going to cut wrstbOund rates
on SecOnd-ciaSs travel aud not Oaded us up, a3
you did last night at MoiaVe, with 100 tramps,
who are now in possession OF a freight train, on
their way 10 San Francisco. am advised there
aIe 300 more due at MOjave in the next wen
ty-fUur hours on their way 20 San Francisco,
aud we will turn them over to the opposition
ferry. IL would please us very much If you
would cut these up In small det chments. so we
can be prepared for Them. We have always
treated you well and expect the same in return
from you, but this is not right. l speak feel
ingly. j. A. FILLMORE.
CHICAGO. Sept %, 1898.
j. 4. Fillmore, san Francisco. Cat :,Y on are
mistaken. These are not tramps, but exhibit
tors at the Worlds Falr-a few OF Theodore
Thomas disbanded band and few Populists
from Kansas. They paid ful rates over our
lines, aud under Stubs ruling just prior 10 the
late war, are entitled 10 a side ride to San Fran
cisco and thence to Denver over Jeffery's road.
l ask pardon for not advising you earlier.
ID. B. ROBINSoN.
Another story of commissions paid by
railroad agents to tcket-scalpers was afloat
Yesterday, the purport of which was that
A. l.. Marchand, who was at one time in
the ticket-Scalping business, but who re-
Gently sold out. had sued the ticket agents
of several transportation lines for commits
siOns due him, but unpaid, for securing
asSengers to travel East over these lines.
The interest attached to the rumOr lies in
the fact that the payment Of commissions s
under circumstances of this kind is eX-
pressly prohibited under heavy penalty
by the local passenger association.