Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-08-20
The Problem for the Southwestern
Association TO Solve.
WOMEN AND THE STATE FAIR.
Programs Arranged for the Press
Meeting and coneress-KiIled By
the Heat = Baseball Wednesday.
other City News.

There's a lively picnic in prospect at
the meeting of the Southwestern Traffic
association at the Victoria hotel In Chicago
next Tuesday, and Texas roads and
Texas rates will cut an important figure;
~ fact these viii prove important fac
tors in the meeting and may result in
an open disruption. 1t is an open secret
that the Southern Pacific. through It's
steamship lines and water rates has
been manipulating rates, especially those
to Texas gulf ports and to Houston and
galveston in particular, and for the espe-
elal benefit of the latter two cities.
IL IS this manipulation Of rates that
VIII cause the tempest In teapot. and
which will be the casus belll at the
Chicago meeting Then the attitude of
the Rock Island is rather peculiar. In
asmueh as none Of the other roads are
able to determine just what she will
do and the Rock Island traffic men are
very busy saying nothing. The whole
outcome of the matter will probably be
a disruption Of the association.
There has been aud is now differentihl
between Galveston aud Houston in favor
of the latter, which gives the Bayou city
every advantage possessed by Galveston
by virtue of tho lottor boius loc,,o1 a,
tidewater There are also classes and
commodity tariffs, the classes being based
on tidewater as far as Houston and
Galveston are concerned, and a reason-
able Increase TO Texas common nnint4.
for instance on canned goods. rated as
efl,-cl,ss ,t,o ,orief 49, ., NJ. -.
o,.
of 30 cents TO Houston and Galveston.
on1 ~ oan,s % Tox,s oan,,,,,, H.,
u"" 90 pop's " ieA"' u",ili'on POINTS
in addition to the class tariffs there are
tackled ON about twentv.four pages of
-. 20
cuihinoui'y u"rliS' anu 'nssc VoNei hi"l's
class articles, especially those in the
fifth class of the Western Classification,
" -, -, -
among Wllch appears c'ni'eu soous' NO"
commodity tariff covering THIS has the
effect of reducing the tariff TO Galveston
...I -. ,..t,t,l ,i,,,,t,,
anu houston %" .e"','
increases Houstons diherentli'ls' put uoeS
not affect the class rates to Texas common
tariffs the Houston ditferential of 3 cents
IL Increased To - cents, and In
-, instoncos tn % ccnts. vet the
;,creose In the Honston differential does
~. L,, onv means Indicate n decrease In
~ -, 20 11ovos coninon Doints. but on
ny imt rtrSr,, t,n class rates remain the
snr,c md In no case has an increase in
Su i,S IN by rc,son of n reduction
me ulIlerehllal ~ r',,itad In a decren 20
N lle W' tes - ~, ,,aints an any article.
10 deAus ~ ti,ot Isn,t WoriL and Dal.
ne r'su t - III Nnr,h rcyns. is com.
las, as wen US ,, nl, ,n iIonston and Cnl-
PEELED 10 pay Iipu'e "
weston. 49,. .ha .-or,la
And right mere Is ios haan mn
begins. The SANTA - ,iJs cond,tion
easy anu Tesusss a., nj mad. The
Of affairs, but mas 70 II d. u sinnd and
fight. Now comes r sns 10" for Tryas bust
ness proceeds 10 line up ns t"II n,.si,, at
is at once c0hifonteu w III ~. onniying
Instead OF the cut chu5eu ~ "iI,iyinss
commodity rates 10 cerl9.l clusS ntai i,i's,s
being extended ana texas eyu,,''o w
point rates scaled uoWu III " i,,'l,, 4,
should be done m coillluyn ,if tss
order to maintain the eorrelauo 81 in,,re
it has been 50 tl iIl.,ia s,iving nor
10 the benefit OF Houston os shins ~
q less rate tnhl tlg unh 1innrr,,, jai
Is entitled, even with iief mia ~
With this condition eohlrohtils ~, We 'e
Rock island mas p2sit'NeiE, ~, "
line mp its rates in Us puniisheu thllls
IN accordance with these gun rates, aHu
as result all the other isAus Iolus
have gone up ~ the arr ana 1t Is Jou ,io,,
tni !, 'he mn va COT them back 10 the
prescribed gait. ~, ~,