The morning call., 1893-09-17
A Cheaper Fare Yet for
This Section.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC CUTS.
Reduction From Southern California
Also Applicable to This
Territory.

railroad circles from all present indica-
tiOns.
The Southern Pacific Company has de-
cided to make the SIS reduction applicable
to this territory as well as the southern
portion of the State. This Information
was given TO a CALL reporter yesterday
by one of the officials in a position to
know.
As to the exact date at which the rate
will be put into effect the gentleman men,
toned refused to state, but as the original
cut via the southern route, goes into eff
feet on the 23d inst, it is reasonable e.
suppose that the reduction mentioned
from San Francisco will take effect at the
same time.
An inquiry at the general passenger
agents Office Yesterday failed to elicit any
Information in regard to the matter. Mr..
Goodman stated that he knows nothing OF
il, but that gentleman is sometimes reti-
cent about giving information as to
changes until they have been placed in
effect.
The reduction will make the round-trip
rate 10 Chicago SEQ instead of the present
fgure-S60. The single trip rate will be
S42 %.
The move on the part of the Southern
Pacific will set at rest all rumoTs of a pos
sible compromise of the existing troubles,
at least for some time to come. 1t also
cOnclusively proves that the company has
viewed with some degree of sOllcitude
the traffic that has followed the northern
routes, and which drifted that way through
the large amount of advertising the roads
in that territory received when they made
their low rates East, and when they were
apparently the only lines seeking TO con-
tTOl the travel going that way.
The Canadian Pacific has n0fwith
ing the disadvantage of water and rail
route combined and the additional mile
age traversed, carried an exceedingly large
number of passengers East from this terri
tory. The Canadian Pacific has done the
same, and, in fact, both roads are no
small factors in the present fight.
Mr.. BiSsell of the Santa Fe road yester-
day stated the position of his company in
the following words:
Next Tuesday we will put in a first
class rate of S35 from Mojave to the
NJ sSOuri River. We are forced TO put in
that rate. We have done nothing that
we have not been forced TO do. We will
make The same rate from Mojave that the
Southern Pacific Company makes from
Los Angeles. We are sorry to be forced
into the present situation. The rate will
be cut out from San Francisco and the
cut will also apply to every point in the
San Joaquin Valley. The nearer the
point is to Bakersfield the larger will be
the cut.
"Che reduction at Bakersfield will be
from $50 to S37 80 to Kansas City. The
rate from Los Angeles TO Kansas City is
S35. We will meet the Texas Pacific rate
over our own direct lines. The Southern
Pacific has cut the rate to Chicago from
Los Angeles t. S42 %. We will also apply
that rate from Los Angeles.
The Southern Pacific has cut the round
trip rate from Los Angeles to the Mis-
souri, River and to Chicago also. 1t is
selling a round-trip ticket from Los
Angeles to Chicago, good for sixty days,
for $40, and round-triD ticket. good 10
November 10. for S64 50. 1t is also
selling rOund-trip ticket, good for nine
months, from Los Angeles to Chicago. for
$50. Our rate from San Francisco to Kan
sas City next Tuesday morning will be
S35, plus S11 So. The present rate, first
| class, from San Francisco to Kansas City,
is $50"
The move of the Southern Pacific will
be directed, Of course, against the Santa
Fe primarily and the northern lines Incl
dentally. In making any reductions all
the Denver and other connections are, by
an existing agreement, given the same
show, as, for instance, when the proposed
new rate is placed in effect. the Chicago
and Rock Island. the Burlington and the
Northwestern will receive the same
/ amounts from the Southern Pacific for
each through passenger they may re-
spectively carry, no one road being hene-
| tlted more than the others In this respect.
The Rock Island is making q strong
effort, and one that is likely to prove sue
cessful, 10 get slice of the Southern
Californian business. That road has just
completed a line to Fort Worth, Tex,
and negotiations are now pending for
through train service TO Los Angeles via
he Texas Pacific from Fort Worth to FL
Paso and by way of the Southern Pacific
from the latter city to Los Angeles. The
new line would prove a formidable factor
in the tight, as II presents many attrac-
tions to tourists, especially over the new
route out Of Fort Worth.
Yesterday was payday in the general
offices of the Southern Pacific, and as
consequence the boys in the big bnilding
at the corner of Fourth and Townsend
streets are happy. An idea Of the number
OF employees there may be gained from the
statement that it requires between $50. 600
and $4,000 per month to pay them Off
The Irving-Terry party will leave this
city at 80 O'Clock this morning via the
Southern Pacific for Portland. They
travel in special train consisting of two
baggage cars. three sleepers and one pri-
vate car for the exclusive use of MI
Irving and Miss Terry.
Besides these cars there are four more
baggage-cars required to transport the
enormous amount of scenery, etc, belong
INK " lnO CfiupdHys lHtht 10 uiEPCLly
through to Ogden from this city, where
one OF them is switched of to Minneap-
oils and the three remaining ones 60
through 10 Chicago.
The Western Passenger Association has
put into effect a rule that hereafter ali
commissions paid by the various companies
on the coast through their local agents
will hereafter be paid only at the head
| quarters of the various companies. This
action looks as though there was sus-
Dicion lurking in the minds of the head
officials tnat all sales out in this neigh Dor.
hood were not exactly ON the square.
The Veteran Firemen, to the number of
about 100. will start on the pilgrimage East
next Tuesday morning at o'clock. They
will start out about as comfortably fixed in
all the essentials necessary to insure a
| pleasant time as they possibly could.
and that they will have their fnll mead of
pleasure goes without saying. The South
ern Pacific Company has fitted the ''boys''
up car TO carry their engine through and
also baggage-car for their exclusive use.
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