The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-11-18
0. R. & N. Bulletins S. and
$3.50 to San Francisco.
TRAIN FARES ALSO COME DOWN
The Steamboat Company Takes the Ag-
gressive TranscOntinental
Schedule May Be
Affected.

PORTLAND, Nov. 1.-THE knife was
again stuck deep and hard into Portland
San Francisco passenger rates yesterday
evening, by the o. R. & N. Co., follow
ing a slash made by the Southern Paci-
fic in the morning to Offset the cut made
by the former company Friday night. 1t
is a fight to a finch, which probably
means the hottest rate war yet see on
this coast. Both companies seem deter
mined to win, and the travelling public
will have no reason to complain, for a
time, at least, at the prices exacted for
transportation either by steamer or train
between Portland and San Francisco.
Following are the rates as announced
last evening by both companies, either
north or south bound between the two
cities:
First Second
Glass. Glass.
o. R. & N. (steamerl. Is 500 $3.50
Southern Pacific (train) 1900 $50
The railroad rates appear to be for the
fve-day train only. Friday the o. R. &
N. Co. announced reduction by steam
er from $15 to $40 first-class, and from
$3.50 to $5 second-class. The Sou thern
Pacific yesterday morning reduced its
train rate from 500 to $l5, frst-class,
and from $40 to $3.50 second-class, part
ly to meet the cut by steamer. Last
evening the o. R. & N. Co. went the
Southern Pacific one better, as the fol-
lowing dispatch from San Francisco from
General Passenger Agent W. II. Hurl-
burt, who is in that city with Receiver
Mcneil, to Victor A. Schilling, assistant
general passenger agent, shows:
LET change appear in tomorrow
mornings Oregonian, fixing the tariff at
just half what was wired last nights
and $3.50"
The Southern Pacific has not taken
action on the latest cut of the o. R. & N.
Co., owing perhaps to the most recent
reduction being made late last night. 1t
is reasonable to believe, however, that
the railroad will come down a few pegs
lower. The rates by steamer include
meals and berths. both first and second
class. The rates by train include berths
in first and second-class sleeping cars.
Meals must be paid for at eating
stations.
The slash in rates does not affect the
Portland-San Francisco business only.
Both companies announce reductions
between Portland and Los Angeles: The
o. R. & N. Co., in conjunction with the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company, is out
for the Portland-Los Angeles passenger
business by steamer, and has bulletined
the following rats: First-class, $17. so !;
second class, 11.5O. Baggage will be
checked through from either end, The
regular first class fare by the Southern
Pacific from Portland to Los Angeles is
$35. The reductions made, however, be-
tween Portland and San Francisco ma
terially affect this business, and rates
have come down good deal. Just what
rate the railroad company will esta blish
between Portland and Los Angeles to
meet the very active steamship competi-
tion is not known yet.
Receiver McNeill, General Passenger
Agent Hurlburt and General Freight
Agent Campbell, of the o. R. & N. Co.,
are still in San Francisco, as are also
Manager Koehler and Passenger Agent
Rogers, of the Southern Pacific lines in
Oregon. II is not known when they will
return. That they have had stormy
session in San Francisco, at the head