The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-02
PRESIDENT sTICKNEY, OF THE
GREAT WESTERN. CALLED THE
PLOTTERS DOWN.
POINT OF RAILROAD LAW
RAISED By THE SOUTH ST. PAUL
CHAMPION FOILS THE
PLAN.
STOCKHOLDERS MUST MI
Can BE Carried Through-NOt
Until February.

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the Chicago Great Western, sets his
brain to work he usually compels other
people to respect it's workings, as other
Northwestern railroad magnates dis
covered yesterday, for the second Or
third time during the past four months
Mr.. Stickney does not want the Min
nesota Transfer Packing company to
remove to New Brighton in Mime
4apolis territory. Mr.. Stickney is backed
up by the interests of his road and the
people of st. Paul at large. And not
wanting the deal to take place Mr.
Stickney set his wits to work to pre-
vent it, and the result of his prelim-
mary cogitations were seen in the spe-
cial meeting of the Minnesota Transfer
company, which was held yesterday in
the office of General Manager Scott, of
the Omaha road. Mr.. Stickney check
mated his opponents, and although he
has not succeeded as yet in ditching
the project, he gained time in which
to arrange for the final conflict.
The directors of the Minnesota Trans
fer company expected to come to some
definite conclusion yesterday, but Mr..
Stickney was on hand with a coup
which effectually blocked progress at
least for the time being The eight
roads comprising the company were all
represented, some by two or three Of
the higher officials There were pres
ent: James J. Hill, president of the
Great Northern; w. P Clough, vice
president Great Northern; A. B. Stick
ney, president of the Great Western;
S. c. Stickney, general manager Great
Western; John r. Hastings, superin-
tendent Chicago, Burlington & North
ern railway; A. J. Earring, vice presi-
dent Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul
Railway company; A. G. Bird, general
traffic manager Milwaukee road, and
P. M. Meyer, secretary OF the Milwau-
kee road; w. A. Scott, general manager
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha railway; HI. F. Whitcomb, gen
eral manager Wisconsin Central rail-
way; s. j. Collins, general superintend-
ent Wisconsin Central; r. B. Tweedy.
chief engineer Wisconsin Central, and
Edwin w. Winter, president of the
Northern Pacific road.
The staunchest friends Of the scheme
are said to be President Hill. of the
Great Northern, and President Winter.
OF the Northern Pacific. Aside from the
proposition of removing to New Brign-
ton, the project carries with it the ac-
QUESTION of the Belt Line road, and the
consequent improvement of the trans
fer facilities which are said by the Of
hclalS OF the two tranScontinental syS-
TENS to be sorely inadequate The
fact that the Belt Line was implicated
III the deal gave Mr. Stickney an ex-
cellent opportunity to make a clever
point, and so strong were his argu>
ments that the other officials were
compelled to take cognizance of them
Mr.. Stickney, through his attorneys,
stated that under the laws Of Min
nesota one railroad company could not
purchase another railroad property
without the legal consent Of a majority
of the stockholders of the purchasing
road. Such vote must be taken, he
said, at regularly advertised and
called meeting. No such meeting had
been held and, therefore, the legal con-
sent Of the stockholders had not been
obtained. There was no getting around
the point raised by Mr.. Stickney. The
announcement of the objection by the
president of the Great Western precipi-
tated general discussion of the mat.
ter which lasted for several hours. AS
a result, Mr.. Burt, of the Northwestern
read, offered a resolution calling a
meeting of the stockholders for Feb 2.
ana the resolution was adopted. Thus
Mr.. Stickney gained two months time
IN which to prepare for the final bat
tie. The fact that Mr.. Burt offered the
resolution calling the stockholders
meeting is looked upon by the people
interested as an evidence that the
Northwestern system is in favor of the
deal. There has been some doubt upon
this point until now. The only road
now in doubt is the Milwaukee, which
has interests in both cities.
A committee was appointed to in
quire fully into the project and report
at the future meeting. The committee
Clough, of the Great Northern; Vice
President Earring, Of the Milwaukee,
and General Manager S. C. Stickney,
of the Great Western. The makeup Of
the committee is said to be satisfactory
to all parties. Mr.. Clough is in favor
Of the project. Mr. Stickney is opposed
to it, and Mr.. Earring is supposed to
be wholly neutral in his position up
to date.
The committee will have plenty to
do before the meeting in February
The volume of business at the South
st. Paul yards, the size and capacity
of the New Brighton plant the condi-
tons and prospects of the market, and
the need of enlarged transfer facilities
are some of the points the COMMITTEES
will consider.
Mr.. Stickney says that the mere fact
that the motion to call a meeting of
the stockholders was unanimously car
ried does not imply that the deal will
be finally contaminated by any means.
The Great Western has purely business
reasons for not wishing the removal of
the plant to New Brighton. That line
secures three-flfths or more of all the
traffic between South st. Paul and
Chicago. 1t is said that out of 40, 900
cars which went from the yards to Chi
| cago last year the Great Western
carried $4,000. This statement. how
ever, is denied by both the officials of
the road and the stock yards officials.
Mr. Hill said after the meeting: 1.-The
time has come when something must
be done to enlarge the transfer facili-
ties in and around the Twin Cities.
At present, transferring is carried on
at three different points and the service
is unsatisfactory and inadequate. Ad-
ditional facilities in the midway dis
trict are imperative, and as the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific
originate most of the freight which is
handled at the transfer, they are de-
| termined that something must be done,
| if the roads do 1t themselves
In connection with this agitation the
Minnesota Transfer Reporter contained
| an article few days ago which the
| Minneapolis Journal of Monday. re-
| produced and gloated over editoTially
The article and editorial were called to
/ Gen. M. D. Flowers attention yester-
| day.
81 believe the article was published
with the intention of influencing the
railroad officials present at yesterday
meeting, in favor of the removal said
| Gen. Flower. and 1 further believe
| that the Minneapolis Times, which re-
! produced the article and the Mime
apolis Journal, which printed an edi-
torial in commentator of it, were
simply keeping up their notorious tac-
ticc of inillripp CT Pa11l 1lnon each and