St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-15
Low FARE TO CHICAGO
To Enable the Industrial Glasses
to Attend the Worlds
Fair.
An Argument and a Petition to
the Roads for Lower
Rates.

To the Editor of the Globe.
The present railway rates to and from
Chicago, while being lower than the
ordinary rates. are not sufficiently re-
duced to allow the industrial classes of
Minnesota and the Northwest to visit
the grandest sight of any age. The
White City is marvel in itself,
each building a poem, every STAN
"a beautiful in conception and blend
ing in one grand harmonious whole.
While the buildings alone are worth a
visit. the pnblic desire is greater to see
the nations exhibits from every cline.
What great and lasting benefit such a
mass OF buildings and collection of eX-
hibitS must have upon all who see them.
as an instructor to the industrial
classes, it cannot be gauged; as an edu-
Gator to the world at large nothing has
ever been seen like it. No wonder
those of the toiling masses who are
thrifty and seek to improve their minds
desire to visit the worlds fair. There
! may lie few hundred who have means
sufficient to enable them doing so at the
present railway rates, but, alas, these
are few.
The worlds fair was conceived. pro-
noted and built, not for the use of the
wealthy classes only, but mainly to
give the people chance of seeing what
the outside world was doing in manu-
featuring and producing, and by that
means educate, improve and stimulate
home industry. The action of the rail-
way companies at the present time from
here and the Northwest has not been
quite i'll accordance with the ideas of
the promoters of the fair. Rates have
been kept up by them, and, upon in
quiry, one is told there will be no reduc-
tion. While the railway companies
tighten and stitfen, the people sigh in
disappointment.
The companies are not altogether at
fault. There is considerable justifica-
tion tor the present rates. Ihe people
have made no effort to help themselves,
and with the exception of few news
paper comments there has been no
movement. No indication or sign of any
kind from the general public that. were
the rates lowered to and from Chicago
to sum that would be reasonable and
nearer to the grasp of the people. they
would be accepted in numbers sufficient
to justify considerable lowering of the
rates.
To assist the industrial classes I'D OBJ
taining cheap excursion tickets to apd
from Chicago, society Is now being
formed for that purpose, and wishes to
secure applications for cheap excursion
tickets In numbers sufficiently large that
will justify a committee of Influential
gentlemen going to the companies and
laying the petitions before them.
The petitions, to be effectual and an
inducement to the companies, require
to be in the thousands. so that the de-
maDd will permit special trains being
sent out after the ordinary trains, and
so compensate them for a reduction in
rates that will be in reach of the indus
trial classes.
These low rates will not be asked
from the companies before the middle
or latter end of August, so as to give
them every opportunity to carry those
who ordinarily travel for the summer,
OF are taking their annual summer trip,
and who can afford 70 pay the higher
fare. The object of this organization is
not TO injure the passenger travel, but
to add TO the companies revenues by
securing to them a. volume of business
that would otherwise be lost, and in this
way to secure them friendly to our Oh
ject, and by these means attain the end
we have in view.
Will you help US to secure cheap
rates? Let every one reading this cir
cular letter feel it his duty to be an ap-
plicant for visit to the worlds fair.
Don't leave it tor some one else to do.
Look upon II AS ifsuccess depended upon
your individual support. One helps to
make hundred, the hun ired make
thousand, and it Is only the thousands
that can be an inducement to the rail-
way companies to grant cheap tickets to
and from Chicago. If you are inter-
ested, please Gu. cut the slip form of pc