The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-06-21
CUT RATES TO CHICAGO,
The Union Pacific Announces
Round-Trip Of 5000 to GO
Into Effect To. Day
Great Northern slashes Trans
continental Rates Again, Out
ting to San Francisco.
Com m modify Rates Aseglnn.
ing june ~.

II took the Union Pacific almost ten days
sonaer than IL did the Northern Pacific TO
get into condition TO most the Great North
ern ont in passenger rates. But yesterday
General Passenger Agent Lomax aoslnsd
General Agent Wilson that the road Vas
not only Ia the fight. but that for = starter
it would give its rivals = elancinC upper
cut by making 4 round trip rate TO shs
Worlds fair Of SG6. 20-thrss dollars And
eighty cents below the present tasid. II
also cut She ~round-tTip rate bstwsen Helena
and Missouri river points frem goo 70 30.
Il viii DO noticed that she Union Pacific
does mot mako any n way cnts. the r.
dustions being only on r~ound-s.ip business
BY this means IL saves it, local rates. ana
~ the Same time. 10 far A. Worlds fair
business Ia concerned, Il 'strictlv Ia w.
with its competitors. These reduced rates
on the Union Pacific 20 into eject to-day.
Just what the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific folks will do about The Union
Pacifc's action ID hard to say; bat thsss are
rumors and hints of scalp taking to come
compared to which the rates now In e6sct
are not worth mentioning. II the night
keeps up some one must lie down or
chromos will he offered by the various lines
to induce ! eople to accept fyes rides to The
Worlds fair with meals aud berths thrown
in. The reason Is this. The Great North
ern has no tourist ~sleerers ON IT, lins. while
the other roads have. These s!sspsrs are
upholstered, clean, comfortable and we'll
served, and for all the practical purDssss
Of q sleeping car are fully % good % ths
Pullman palace cars. The principal Off
ference between the two classes 10 shat
the tourist car lacks some OF he Gid
ing. plating and caivinR Of the Pul!msn.
the panss Of glass may not b 20 lares;
instead Of finished In oil, the hang
incs did not cost quite 20 much per
yard, your shoes do not receive such IN
immaculate polish, your netRhbore are not
70 languid, and that black rascai Will at the
end of the journey condescsnd to accept q
silver tip, whereas on a Pullman he will
make you feel as il you are out Of your
proper station II the color of the ooin ID not
yellow.
10 ride in the Pullman to st. Paul frsm
Helena costs So, in the tourist sleeper $2.2b.
and plain. practical people, whose good
to think that in these hard times they
couldn't earn s. a day easier than By fore
going the pleasure Of sleeping above or be-
low q bowling swell. whose snoEs would
probably be no more enchanting than shas
Of a plebian. since he hnds that he can
sleeping with ~second-class people, he nat
urally tried to find out what it was worth te
sit among them during the day time, and
learned that by buying a second class ticket
he saved $15 il he does not antend TO re-
turn, or $40 il he does return. Ih0 result
twenty hard dollars Is worth more than three
days. organizations posing, bought . Sec
ond. class ticket and got practically frat
class accommodations. In this way he got
to 81. Paul for $27.7 70. although the NOM
inal frst-olass fare. including Pullman.
was Gas.
Prssidsnt Hill, OF tho Great Northern.
said that eight or nine people out of ten
travelled this way. but he has no tourist
cars, and cannot initiate the other roads in
this respect. However, he runs bis own
palace sleeping cars, and 90 he said to the
other lines: lyon ave putting people into
vt. Paul in arst-olass shape for IH27.25. l
will cut tho Arss-class rate from $40 to $25.
and thus try to put us on All equ.lity-"
The Northern Pacific met this ont, 10
that the situation save for the lower rates
10 practically tho same as it was before the
tight began. The next move Mr.. Hill will
probably make will be to make a second
the same time cut the Wo Ids fair round
trip rate.
An Associated press dispatch from Chi
cago last night announced that tbs Great
Northern pot the knife again yesterday
ipto transcontinenlal rates by announcing
q rate of SOL frst.olnss and $33'sscond-
class st. Paul to San Francisco. This in
cludes berth and meals on steamer from
Seattle to San Francisco. This will drag
the Union Pacific deeper into the hight IN
loss that road is prepared to sacrifice its
Portland business. Yesterday the Asohi.
son announced that 1t would put into effect
at once a round trip rate of one and one
third fare from Texas points to Chicago
ard soAarn