The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-22
RATE WAR ENDED.
=.
The Southern Pacific
Ends the Fray.
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. NUMBERS OF TRAMPS COMING
They Take Possession of Trains Out
of Mojave and Are Bound
for This City.
OF TRAMPS COMING
The rate war is over.

YESTERDAY the Southern Pacific officials
lent out the ten-days notice required to all
other lines in which it was stated that on
October l the old schedule will be restored.
= The Santa Fe officials have as yet taken
no action in the matter. but it is supposed
they will to-day follow the example of the
Southern Pacific.
%. THIS result was brought about by a
telegraphic correspondence between Vice
President Croker of the Southern Pacific
and President Rhinehart of the Atlantic
and Pacific. The agreement reached was
that rates should be restored to their old
footing. and that the cause of all the trou-
ole-the matter OF side trips-should be
settled by the tive gentlemen named.
In reality the cut has not resulted in any
benefit TO either Of the two roads con-
cerued. The fact of the matter is that the
. great bulk of those who expected to 90
East 10 attend the Worlds Fair have al
:: ready made the trip, and the number
: caught by the low rate offered from South
ern California was small indeed.
The Southern Pacific Company has
couple of hundred undesirable passengers
strung along Its line between Oak land
and M0jave. The first notification that
reached tbs general Offices of the road yes
terday came from the last-mentioned
= place. 1t stated that gang of over 200
men had arrived there from the East over
the Atlantic and Pacific. and tnat the
. greater portion Of them had started north
on their way to this city.
The next dispatch came from Bakers
field. and in it the agent stated that the
trainmen were unable to do ANYTHING with
= the overwhelming number of those In the
crowd, and that the latter had simply
taken possession of the trains. He further
stated that he had appealed to tue authori-
ties of the place for assistance, but that
.: they had refused to comply with his re-
: Quest
:: The agent at Tulare next sent word that
"a big contingent OF the boXcar tourists had
~alighted at that place in search of food.
g. The citizens he said, had supplied them,
and the men were leisurely waiting the
advent Of another train bound In this d.
,recttOn.
: From Mendoza came the information
that the men had left the train before its
arrival there. the last gang getting off al
Hanf6rd.
The dispatches all described the fellows
as: tramps, and they stated that 800 or 400
more OF their Kind were behind them COM
Ing oyer the same route they had followed.
The railroad officials simply notified their
agents and trainmen to avoid any trouble
with the travellers il they were unable 10
keep them off. and it now looks probable
that in few days this city will receive an
acquisition that is not at all desirable.
Winter is coming on, and taking this
fact in connection with the widely adver-
tised Midwinter Fair, the advent of large
e. numbers of individuals may be expected.
Many of the men are probably miners and
others who have been thrown out of en-
plOyment in the Southwest by the existing
hard times. but IL is probable that large
number of them are tramps of the usual
order.
In accordance with an informal discus
sion OF the subject on Wednesday the
board of directors OF the Southern Pacific
Company, at the formal weekly meeting
held yesterday, finally adopted 10-cent
rate for fare one way, in either direction,
between San Francisco and Oakland. Ala
media or Berkeley, to take effect October
!, 1898
: General Passenger Agent Goodman of
the Southern Pacific roads is some hat
concerned about the proposed S65 80
r0und-trip rate from Missouri River points
to California points. good until April. At
frmatiYe responses have been received in
dividualy from nearly all the roads con-
cerned but as yet they have taken no con-
certed action and Mr.. Goodman is seeking
to.ascertain the cause OF delay. When
rate is decided upon they will be required
to issue notice TO the Eastern roads so
that the latter may use the new rate for
basing purposes.
F. ". Thompson, general agent of The
Rock Island at Los Angeles, and Jay ".
Adams, who occupies the same position
In that city with the Alton, were in the
eityyesterday.
a good deal of news is Incorporated in a
dispatch from Chicago, part of which fol-
lows:
THE Santa Fe has the bulge on the
Southern Pacific. There is an old contract
between the two systems which promises
to play prominent part in the matter. 1t
d. not only relates to rates, but provides that
tie Southern California road shall not ex-
tend its lines 10 San Francisco for given
NUN Der of wears.
THE Santa te has notified the South
ern Pacific if this agreement or contract
dues not hold good in one instance IL can
nor be enforced in the other. It. therefore
considers Itself free to bnld into San Fran
cisco whenever it pieases. This is one
thing which above all others the Southern
Pacific is anxious to avoid 1t will do any,
thing before it will allow any other road
TO become competitor with 1t IN San
Francisco"
Next Monday the executive committee
of the traffic association will meet, and it
is expected that some decided action will
then be taken relative to the proposed
Bakersfield road. Traffic Manager Leeds
believes that the financial stress is about
ovrE, and that the time Is prOpit0us for
energetic work Ia pushing the new enter
prise.
October Q, the twenty-seeond anniver-
saty of thG Sfsat- Chicago IRE. will be "Ch-
cag6 s!<F a. the Worlds Fair, and the
mightiest pageant that has yet graced the
red lettersdays OF the Worlds Columbian
Exposition Will be witnessed. One cent
mile has been named by the Union Pacific
as the proper rate from all points beyond
the Missouri, the saHie as will be charged
east Il that point This rate, the Union
Pacific saws. VIII bring out the people
when no other fate will. The Santa Fe
Sc pr0pnsi ion Is o. make a rate Of one fare
"a sSe round trip from points within a
radius o; 80 miles Of Chicago, ana one
cent uils from territory beyond 300
miles.
In speaking Of freight rates between
> this city and Oakland. Vice President
. Croker of the Southern Pacific said yes
terday that the rates now offered by his
company were lower than those of the
competing lines and that they would be
kept in that position. thus intimating that
If the opposition MADE cut in this direc-
tron the Southern Pacific line would 90
= still lower.
Carlisle Democrats.