The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-22
IT'S ONE HUNDRED.
At Last the Fare Is Set to
Chicago.
WORLDS FAIR ROUND TRIP.
Five Companies Have Combined and
Eastern Agents Are Reduced to
Utter HeIpIessness.

Telegraphic advices from Chicago re-
ceived at the headquarters Of the Southern
Pacific Company yesterday state that after
many days Of controversy the Worlds Fair
rates between San Francisco ami Chicago
have at last been settled.
Round-trip tickets, good for nine mon tbs
from the date of purchase. will cost 500, or
$40 less than the present regular rate.
OF this amount $50 is charged to The Mi s.
souri, River and $40 from there to Chicago.
Single trips will cost $50 10 the Missouri
River and $50 to the Windy City.
Only FIVE roads have combined in making
these rates, namely the Union Pacific the
Northern Pacific. the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe, the Southern Pacific and
the Rio Grande Western and Denver and
Rio Grande railroads.
All the other roads refused to join the
combine. and the five roads mentioned were
finally compelled 10 act Independently or
abandon all chances of reduced rates.
The particulars OF the agreement were
not mentioned in the dispatch, and il is not
as yet known whether people buying round
trip tickets have their choice of roads COM
ing and going, but it is presumed that the
tickets will be good on any Of the five roads
in the combine.
Downtown among the agents of the East
ern roads, the news of this cut OF rates
spread CONSERVATION when is became
known, because for days past the ever
active tcket-Sellers have assured every
caller that there is no hope for any reduc-
ton and that the old S1I0 rate would pre-
vail.
This means war" said one of the prom
inent representatives of an Eastern road,
and then he added that he did not know
what to do about 1t until he heard from his
headquarters.
Most Of the agents are glad the cut is only
S10 because at first it was presumed that
the rate for the round trip would be $50
and for some time 1t las been quite habit
among the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES co erIe OF
ticket-selleTs to make bets on the final re-
suit of the many attempts to establish a
Worlds Fair round-tTip fare.
The only agent who acted promptly as
soon as he heard Of the $40 reduction was
N. NJ. Stern Of the Canadian Pacific Com
! pany, who at once issued orders to reduce
the figures of his company $40 so MS to
| meet the cut
Rouud-trip tickets to Chicago. via the
! Canadian Pacific, are rated now at SIPS
| but after Tuesday next, when the cut rates
! go into effect, they will be Sl15.
OF course none of these changes take
| place until April % because the combine
| had to comply with the rules, which require
| three days notice to be given TO the In
terstale Commission when rates are re-
duced.
There is but little doubt expressed among
| the local agents that the 500 rate will
| eventually have to be recognized by all the
| transcortinental roads except the Canadian
! Pacific. which latter always charged higher
rates on account of the much larger ierri-
! tory they cover between here and Chicago.
Within very few days 1t is thought that
matters viii be regulated, so that there will
be no rate war al all, it being in the opinion
| of the men who know an utter impossiblity
! for the Eastern roads 10 refuse 10 come 10
| terms.
The original dispatches announced only a
| qnadruple combine, nos mentioning the Rio
Grande roads al all, but Agent Snedacker,
! who represents the latter. received advices
| later on to the effect that bis company has
| Joined the combination.