The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-15
BRINGS ON A FIGHT
LAKE MICHIGAN CAR FERRY COM
h PaNY's DEMAND FOR A DIFF
PERENNIAL.
GREAT WESTERN is AROUSED.
THE OLD CONTEST OF LAST JUNE
TO DE GONE OVER ONCE
MORE.
ONION DEPOT G. A. n. BUSINESS.
Supt. Mcmillan VIII Make All the
Necessary Plans and Prepara-
tiOns Himself.

On Monday the Great Western will
get on it's fighting clothes, and then
it will be a case of the survival of the
fitteSt between that line and the 500,
with the Lake Michigan Car Ferry
company thrown in on the side. The
tariffs issued by the latter concern to
go into effect tomorrow, mention of
which was made briefly in Geographic
reports yesterday, were received by
the Great Western yesterday, and
there was some very strong talk in
the offices of the latter The old fight
of last May and June will all be gone
over again, and this time, it is report
ed, it will be a fight to a finish, with
no quarter on either side.
The new tariffs do not show any
great reduction but it is the principle
of the thing which makes the Great
Western officials hot. 1t is the idea
that a little ten-mile road, backed up
by steamboat company, can with i'm
punity disturb the whole tariff ar
rangement of the Western Passenger
association, without being responsible
to any one.
The new rates quoted are as fol-
lows: First class, SO cents; Glass Two,
43 cents Glass Three, SO cents; Glass
Four, 20 cents; Glass Five, IL cents;
Glass A, 20 cents; Glass B, II cents;
Glass G. Is cents; Glass D, 1919 cents;
Glass E, liz cents.
The history of the fight is interest
ing, although it is not strictly new.
But as the rates are those which con-
Germ Minneapolis and st. Paul only
the story is not amiss at this time.
The Lake Michigan Car Ferry COM
pany, of South Chicago, takes Twin
City freight out of Chicago, and with
out breaking the bulk on cars, trans
ports entire trains from South Chi
cago to Peshtigo on the under side of
the upper peninsula of Michigan. Here
the trains are made up again and
hauled over a short line owned by the
ferry company, to Faithhorn juno
ton on the 500, and from there into
the Twin Cities. By reason of the
lake haul the ferry company and the
500 claim the right of a lake differ
entail, and, it is claimed, they take it
without the sanction of the Western
Freight association. Under that claim
they carried first class freight between
Chicago and ST. Paul for rs cents per
hundred prior to the LIST of June last
but the Great Western met the rate
and went one better. Then the car
ferry company and the 500 dropped
again, and on the second reduction all
the lines took hand in the fight, with
the intention of freezing the ferry
company out. The combined efforts
of all the lines led to an agreement,
whereby the ferry company would
maintain the rates at SIS. cents until
Aug. Is. and, if at that time the rates
We're not found to be satisfactory to
the road and the ferry company, the
scale would be arranged with the con-
sent of all. But the ferry company
it is said. made an independent reduc-
ton to the tariffs quoted above. That
means that there will be no more
agreements, at least so far as the
Great Western is concerned. The other
lines do not appreciate the force of
the claims of the ferry company and
the 500 that they are entitled to lake
differential. General Freight Agent
Stohr. of the Great Western, will re-
turn from Chicago today, and it is ex-
pected something interesting will hap
pen the first of the week.