St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-28

tinental lines. 1t appears that Presi-
dent Van Horne has tipped his hand
and announced that his line will soon
have a transcOntinental line through
st. Paul, by means of the completion OF
the connecting link between Caring
ton, N. D., and Moose Jaw, OH the main
line of the Canadian Pacific. The Chi
cago Herald makes the announcement.
and commenting on the new factor, re-
marks that the furry caused by the
Great Northern's rate reductions will
be signing zephyr in comparison to
the blast which will strike transcon-
tinental rates on the completion of the
Canadian Pacific line.
The situation is worth the trouble of
consulting the map. At Sudbury, on
the main line of the Canadian Pacific, is
the present branch line connecting the
Duluth, South Shore d Atlantic and
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie.
The latter. with the line to Sudbury,
forms practically an air line to st. Paul
and Minneapolis. From Minneapolis
the Minneapolis. st. Paul 81 Sault Ste.
Marie. or ''Soo." as it is more Familiarity
called. extends almost in an air line
through jamestown, where it crosses
the Northern Pacific. 1t was the origi-
nal intention to extend this branch to
Regina, but some. Overreaehing real
estate men became so clamOrous in
their demands that the mole feasible
route to Moose Jaw was selected. About
year ago the extension passed James
town, and the Canadian Pacific people
have industriously promoted the i'm
preston that construction has been tenn
pOrarily abandoned. 1t was only by an
unguarded remark of President Van
Horne as to what he would do to the
Great Northern when his line was com
pleted that the fact becomes public in
this way. There is exactly as much love
between Presidents Van Horne and Hill
as between two game cocks locked up
in the same coop.
After September. then, we have the
Canadian Pacific, Great Northern and
Northern Pacific compe ting for busi-
ness between st. Paul and the Pacific
coast points as far south as San Fran
cisco and perhaps to San Diego. Dur
ing the winter months at least the
Canadian Pacific will run all its
through business over the new line |
from Moose Jaw TO Sudbury via st. |
Paul. abandoning, except for local busi- |
ness, the old line via Winnipeg and the |
northern shore of Lake Superior. 1t |
claims that this line will be more than |
100 miles shorter between Puget sound |
and st. Paul than the Great Northern, |
which in turn claims to be more than |
100 miles shorter than the Northern |
Pacific. The government backing the |
subsidies of the Canadian Pacific will |
fully Offset the low capitalization of the |
Great Northern. The Northern Pacific
also has had a recent infusion of vigor-
Gus blood in the persons of the Rookie
fellers, who have gone into the North
ern Pacific with the full knowledge of
its financial condition aud the de-
to see it through any diff
Guilty.
1t will be battle of giants when these
roads get at each other. From present
indications it looks like case of the
survival of the fittest. 1t has just de-
yeloped that the Northern Pacific has a
shot left which will equaliZe matters
between 1t and the Great Northern.
About so per cent of the Great North
and the DakOtas within a
lew hundred miles of st. Paul. Not
more than 55 per cent of the Northern
Pacific's business is from this territory,
Is local traffic has had a longer time to
Increase on its line west of this territory
han is the case with the Great North
,rn. The reductions so far have been
Ill west of this territory, and are prob
IDLY down to hard pan as far as paying
Qualities are concerned. In case of any
urther freight-rate reductions the
Northern Pacific will remove the seat of
var to the territory adjacent to st. Paul,
where the Great Northern will los 50
,er cent to the Northern Pacific 55
,er cent.
The Great Northern proposes to have
un with its competitors for awhile,
owever. This morning it put into ef-
ect passenger rates of S41 first class
nd S26 second class from st. Paul to !
ian Francisco. These rates include {
erths and meals on the ocean trip from
eattle 10 San Francisco. The reduc-
ions make the rate about cent mile,
nd are distinctly below the non-paying
oint. 1t is the fact of the ocean con-
ections of the Great Northern which
as disturbed the Canadian Pacific the
lost. President Hill may by this time ! !
ave completed contracts for running