St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-07
CARRIERS HOPEFUL
WESTERN ROADS COUNTING ON
GREAT BUSINESS THE COM
ING AUTUMN.
PREPARING TO HANDLE IT.
GENERAL DISGUST OVER THE
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR En-
CURSION Chickering'S.
PREPARING TO HANDLE IT.
TOO MANY COMPETING LINES
Capital Stock of the West Side
Elevated Road of Chicago
to Be Doubled.

CHICAGO, July 6.-The Western
roads are looking for a great revival
in their business this fall. The con-
census of opinion among them is that
they are to have one of the best sea-
sons, particularly as to the trans
portation of grain, that they have
known in many years. NJ. c. Mark
ham, assistant traffic manager of the
Illinois Central, said today that he
regarded the prospects for his road
as extremely bright. The only part
of the territory touched by the
Illinois Central in which Mr.. Mark
ham cannot see a good show for his
road is in Southern Illinois, where
the wheat crop is said to be light.
j. Nj. Johnson, general freight agent
of the Rock Island, said today:
''The conditions are as favorable as
we would ask. There is every pros
pect for an immense crop of corn,
and the size of it will more than
make up for any falling away in
the wheat prospects" E. P. Ripley,
vice president of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul, declared that all
the reports received by his road
were for heavy grain business this
fall, and similar opinions were ex-
pressed by D. A. Cooke, of the Chi
cage Great Western, and Col J. H.
Wood, assistant to the general man
ager of the Alton road. The officials
of the Northwestern are SO impressed
by the prospect of good crops that
they have issued orders to have all
their car shops worked full time,
with all the men they can handle
The Burlington and the Santa Fe
preparations for handling heavy
business when the grain begins to
move.
TOO MANY TO SHARE.
The roads of the Central Traffic
association, and the Western lines as
well, are filed with disgust over the
outcome of the business to the Chris
tan Endeavor convention at Boston.
In the first place none of them has
secured the amount of business they
were looking for, and besides, the
row that has been started over the
rates demoraliZed as late as Septem-
Der Is and perhaps later. The BUSH
ness to the convention has been fully
as large as in former years, but more
roads have been after it, and when
all have to have a share the amount
that accrues to any one line is not
enough to make any material in
crease in the earnings. In fact,
when the Generalization in rates,
that is bound to keep up for at
least two months longer, is taken
into account, some of the lines that
thought they should have a good
profit on the business are now figur-
ing that they will be out of pocket
when all the returns are in. So
strong has been the feeling of wrath
over the outcome that some of the
roads are already talking about do
ing away altogether with the excur-
sion business, and devising some
other way to get business similar to
the Christian Endeavor convention.
A meeting of the directors of the
Metropolitan West Side Elevated
railway, OF this city, was held today,
at which it was decided that, as a
means Of funding the Indebtedness
and paying for construction and
maintaining the road, the capital
stock OF the company will be in
creased by the issue of $4,000, 900 OF