The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-01
HIGH RAILROAD OFFICIALS RE-
PLY TO THE b. OF T.
The Highest Officials Cannot Be
Present, and There Will Therefore
Be NO Banquet A Resolution
Against Recognizing the lndepend-
ence of Cuba Laid Cver-A Bill
Prepared to Ensure Correct Weights
and Honest Scales.

At the meeting of the board OF
trade Monday, Secretary Chap
man read the following letters, which
he had received:
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 18th, 1896
Mr.. CHAS. A. CHAPMAN,
Secretary Board of deCOmmittee
MankaGo, MINI.
DEAR SIR beg to acknowledge
the receipt of copy OF resolutions
adopted by the Mankato board OF
trade, Dec. 18th, 1885, expressing the
qualification of the citizens of your
city at the completion Of the new line
of the Omaha company through Man
kato and the erection Of union pas
senger depot on the river front.
l join in congratulations upon the
completion Of the work. The natural
difficulties of the undertaking were
enhanced by opposition which would
have been much more serious but fol
the intelligent public sentiment, to
which it was opposed, and L trust,
now that it is completed within, /
believe, One-third of the time named
in the right of way ordinance, with
every promise on the part OF the rail
way company more than fulfilled, that
the citizens who were willing to as
sumo, without eXacting specific pro.
misses, that the railway company was
acting in good faith and would follow,
under ordinary circumstances the
spirit of any agreement TO which ii
was party, will now stand fully vim
Dictated, and those who were opposed
to them will acknowledge their mis-
take.
If the course of the Omaha company
had been otherwise, it would have
been the first instance within my
knowledge where it failed to
keep faith with any commu-
nifty to which it had, directly or by
implication, passed it's word.
l personally regret that my engage
mentS are such as to make it imprac-
ticable for me to attend the banquet,
to which you honor me with an invi-
tation. Yours very truly,
EDWIN w. WINTER.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. %, 1896.
GENTLEMEN-Abse nce from city
has delayed reply to your kind invi-
tation of 18th, with copy of resolu-
tions of Board of Mankato attached:
1t is with no little pleasure and
i qualification that we are permitted
lin this way to know the efforts of @.
st. p. M. & o. officers to comply with
| expressed wishes of people of Manka-
is are so thoroughly appreciated, as
! it was no easy task to undertake, in
in these depressed times, work that
was to draw SO heavily upon the
treasury of this corporation.
Now, as to proposed banquet and
reception, which, under your reSolu.
tion, in rendered sat such time as
will best suit their convenience, pro.
vided that they themselves can be
present." Knowing, as 1 do, that the
two more prominent railway officers
to whom copies of this resolution were
forwarded have been obliged, by other
engagements, to advise you of Their
inability to attend, feel that to en-
courage your people in trouble and
expense of providing for entertain
ment ofrsuch local officers as we have
here, may, under circumstances, be
improper, as none of us feel prominent
enough in railway affairs to warrant
any such efforts on your part, and al
are as much gratitied by expressions
of good will set up in copy of your re
solutions as we could possibly be by
any exertions in the banquet direction
that could be made, and inclined tC
take the will for the deed; and more
than this, many officers at these head
quarters are, at this time of year
likely to be absent. and without pre-
Stunning to answer for them, fee
doubtful about securing very
large delegation of our representative
officials, though if, with your wei
known hospitality and broad manner
of doing things, your people must in
dictate in this way your feelings in re
gard to improvements which were
really due you, by reason of your Ions
forbearance with our line as originally
located and the large business which
we enjoy at your hands, we, on ou
part, will endeavor, in our modest way
to comply with your requirement.
and Oe represented as best we can a
such reception and banquet on an.
date, after 10th prox., you may name
believe, however, am we'll enough
acquainted and closely enough il
[ touch with business and representa-
tive men of Mankato to be permitted
to advise that, as neither Mr.. Hughit
NOR Mr.. Winter can be present, you
will allow local officers of this railroad
J ito accept, in lieu of proposed banquet
the resolution copies, which clearl
6ndicite your good will and friendli
mess for Ghis corporation as any form
Akalities can possibly do, you alread
II having on file, over signatures Of off
= GERS above named, their most cordia
appreciation, as you now have thos
q of the writer.
Yours truly,
w. A SCOTT,
General Manager.