The morning call., 1893-08-17
The Southern Pacific May
Cut Prices.
ROUND TRIP TO CHICAGO $50.
New Points in the Situation Across
the Bay Southern Pacific
Boats Delay Freight.

Fair travellers from points beyond this
Mississippi River, residents In this State
. in particular had about Giyen up home
that the Southern Pacific would make any
material reduction.
But now comes statement from an
authoritative source that reduction i:
contemplated, and, in fact. is reas onably
sure OF being put in force, but the officials
OF the foregoing route will not say just
when action will be taken, 1t will be q
source OF considerable pleasure, however,
to prospective tourists to the Worlds Fail
!. to know that relief is even partially prom
ised.: -: = d.
The reduction contemplated is in the
way of an $50 rate to Chicagn and return.
which is practically $40 rate: each, way.
: The. prescott rate for the round trip is
/. 1898 70, and S5I Is for one way. A COM
paTison of the figures ill show the extent
of:tte pro ba bic reduction.
:: Third Vice President Stubs SAID, when
speaking Of the matter. that the SUBJECT OF
. redncedIates to Chicago came I'D IN Con-
: nection with a discussion of like rates to
the Mtdwintef Fair. 1t was thought TO be
possibly advisable TO make areduction to
; east-bonnd: passengers as veil as west
8 bound in case any change was made. and
=: the rate contemplated was slig BIT. advance
T.: Overcome fare for the round trip. p
=: Mr.. Stubs himself did not seem to be
an enthusiastic advocate of the proposed
change. as Ills remarks on the subject
showed that he believed the reduction
would not prove a good business move.
: He believed that those who In tend visiting
the fair will 20 Just as quickly at the
S93 70 rate as they will at the $50 one, but
the. to Jrst who has to put. up the hard
cash may look at the matter in different
light.
1t is claimed by the attorneys of the
Southern Pacific that under the old law
all roads were prohibited from charging
: fare for passengers from one point to an
other: in q :city's limits, but that. under
the new code that clause WAS repealed
The Southern Pacific system is at present
operated under the old law, but by vote
of the board of directors or the stock
holders the road can come underline new
code and thereby relieve itself or. the OBJ
noxi0us obligations. The only objection
tothls change Is that there certain ad-
Yantages under the old law. that the conn
pany would loseif it were operated under
the new code. and it does not wish to sar-
render them If il can be avoided.
A high official of the Southern Pacific
said yesterday, however, that one. of two
steps: would certainly be adopted, the road
would either: be operated under. the
amended code or the system of, English
coaches would be adopted. -.
w { are at determined TO at least mar
tally eliminate this deadhead trafic.U
said FirstV1ce- PresidentC rocker when dis-
,cusslng the matter yesterday, sand have
discussed every Imaginable plan suggested.
but whatever course the company may
: decide, to pursue, there VIII be no action
taken at present. The present system of
running trains seems TO partially. at least
meet the. requirements of the situation,
dnd " hateVer action we may take in the
future will not be done hurriedlyN
:: z. E. Newton, agent OF. the Burlington
at Fort Madison. accompanied By his wife,
is IN the city.
= The. fact of the: Northern Pacific road
going intOtbe hands Of a receiver will; It
~ sald by Ptneials of the road at this; point,
make no: change In the present force of
employees or materially affect the repre-
Sc natives here in any way.
=. ~: Black Ryan, attorney of the Southern
Pacific tax department., has gone TO
.AriZ9na TO appear before the Territorial
Board Of Equalization asa witness in. the
matter of. the roads taxes in that locality.
: At the meeting of the. Local Passenger
Association yesterday an effort was made
to eliminate paragraph in the agreement
by which mem berS Of that body are gov
.erned whereby agents of roads are pro.
hIbIted from promising passengers chair
car privileges when the road in question
does n OF have a service of that character
The effort was engineered by: representa-
ttVes of.roads which do not give chair-ears
and was directed against the. Denver and
Rio Grande route, the charge being made
that that road had been making promises
of this character when it did not give the
services. AN Investigation cleared the Rio
Grande people OF the lWputatlon,.~ ..s.:'-
:: The freight ferry steamers of the South
ern Pacific road seem to:Gave been running
in a haphazard sort Of fashion of late at
least and the firm: of Trobach 81 Bergfn
on n1icsion "A he
suffered from the dilatory. course pursued.
The firm has been receiving large shin
ments of fruit from Nacayille and vicinity
which came in on the train ARRIVING at
Oakland at / A. NJ. reaching the city at
4 A. NJ.
Steamers going north refuse to receiye
freight after 9 A. M, and recently; the
fruit has been delayed on the other side of
the bay until too late for the up-going
steamers. Friday the firm entfoned had
a large shipment to make. which arrived
in Oakland all right. but the Transit han
gone to Baden with a load of stockand the
ThoTougbfaTe was off at Mare Island with
a load of Government stuff, consequently
the fruit missed shipment by the boat up.
One noticeable feature about the feeling
of the people in the San Joaquin Valley
toward the proposed new railroad is that
the project has: no enemies, or at least
none of sufficient inheritance to make
themselves heard in the general acclaim
with which every mention of the new
route is received.
j. Several gentlemen from the valley were
interested and interesting callers at the
Office OF Traffic Manager Leeds yesterday.
In speaking.of the right of way and the
necessary grading to be done, members Of
this party were confident that large pro-
portion, If not all, of the work of grading
"oulu be done by the people along the
route Tor very nominal cost, and several
OIL me gentlemen went so far as to say
Lhat most of the work would willingly be
done free of cost
In this connection Mr. Leeds said yes
terday that the estimated cost Of the road,
fully equipped and ready for business.
bad been placed at from Sic. 900 To $50 900
per mile. which estimate includes ihe
right-of-way and grading. Ii had been
agreed by the projectors of the road thar
as a starter the SUN OF $1,000. 600 would
= be necessary. NaH the Company would
not ask supporters of the new route To do
the grading for nothing, but suppose fhev
were TO consent TO take stock In the en-
terprise in payment fer work of this kind
on the same basis that it was to be sold 10
cash subscribers. This would be bril-
ilant starter. as is illustrated by the fol-
lowing facts: The road as proposed is
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