St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-22
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR EXCURSION
TICKETS MAKING SERIOUS
TROUBLE.
RESTRICTIONS REMOVED.
WABASH OFFERING TRANSPORT
TATION WITHOUT ANY KIND
OF LIMITA
GREAT HARVEST FOR BROKERS
freight Business Likely to BE as
Badly DemoraIized as the
Passengers

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-Knights Tenn
plar rates to Boston are geing from
bad to worse. Restrictions of every
kind We're virtually removed from
the tickets today by a number of
roads. The Wabash sold tickets with
a guarantee that they would be good
for return any day from now to the
final expiration of the time limit.
Under the original agreement the
tickets We're not to be good for re-
turn until August q, and had to
bear the signature of the original
purchaser. Today they We're sold
good for bearer. This simply means
that from now until the 18th the
general business of the roads will
be done at half rates, as the tickets
are good for anybody, and are as
unrestricted as any round-trip tick
cts could be. The holders are not
compelled to so to Boston to have
them executed, but may use them to
and from any point en- route. Nor
has the decentralization stopped there
The rivalry between the competing
roads is 50 keen that several of them
are shading rates so as to reduce
them considerably below one fare.
Brokers are loaded up with the tick
cts, and are being paid a big COM
mission by the roads on their sales.
The whole business is utterly de-
moralized and it is the opinion of a
good many of the passenger men
that the worst has not yet been
reached. Western roads. that only
yesterday were so confident that the
generalization on the Boston tickets
would not touch them, at least for
some time, are awakening from their
dreams. A lot of tickets sold in Col
orado We're found here today, and
evidence was secured showing a
marked determination on the part
OF the roads to stock the market.
Steps were Immediately taken to nip
the evil before it becomes worse.
and 1t is hoped the measures will be
eHectual. Each Of the Western roads
has bound itself to furnish the chair
man Of the association with a LIST of
the sales from all common points
with the numbers and descript:ons
OF all tickets sold. Under this ar
rangement it will be possible to tell
whether any Of the tickets found on
the market We're issued in an irregu-
lar manner. A daily inspection of
Nhe market viii be made while thesa
tickets are on sale, and each road
VIII be compelled to redeem all tick
cts OF Its issuance found to have been
put out in manner not strictly le-
Ultimate
HARVEST SCALPING.
Ticket brokers are boasting todav
that, notwithstanding the restrictions
placed around the harvest excursion
tickets by the Western roads. thew will
be able to do an immense business in
them They claim to have discovered
a way of getting around the restric-
tlonS so as to make the tickets as
easily handled as any that have been
paced upon the market. They make
the assertion that as soon as the har-
vest excursion tickets are placed on
sale the Western passenger business
will be in their hands.
western freight agents do not appear
10 be any more disposed than their
passenger associates to surround them
selves with restrictions that may pre-
vent their getting business for the re-
malnder of the year. 1t is predicted
that tomorrow's meeting, for the pur-
pose of reorganizing the Western
Trunk Line committee, will be a fail
ure. A number of the roads are very
hungry for business. They must have
1t, and they are not going to bind them
selves in any way that will prevent
their getting it. None of them will adj
NIT the cutting of rates, and yet all of
them say rates are being cut They all
express desire to see rates main
tanned, yet none of thsm expect to see
them maintained.