El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-02-06
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W. j. Black has become general pas
sepger agent of the AtchisOn, Topeka
& Santa Fe, and the general passenger
office of that company will be removed
from Chicago to Topeka, together with
a large force of employees.
A. Rodman, an employe of the Santa
Fee at Ration, who had his foot frozen
during the last cold snap, had to have
three toes amputated. He has imprOv-
ed rapidly, at the hospital at Las Vegas
so much so, that DR.. E. B. Shaw will
let him go home in the morning.
About fifty persons passed thrOug h
Las Vegas recently on passenger
train, for the lower mining camps OF
New Mexico, e. passenger or two hav-
'ng stopped off at Springer. These
people are availing themselves of the
cheap excursion rate offered by the
Santa Fee company to miners and pros
pectors. They had round-trip tickets,
at one cent mile.
Paul Morton, the Santa Fee vice-pres-
ident, has some ideas about Kansas and
the western country, and among them
is one that the resources of the terri
Tory on his line must be developed and
that the Santa Fe road should take a
prominent part in such development.
1t has already done more in that di-
rection than has any other agency.
The San Francisco and Oakland
Local Passenger association will be
called upon at its monthly meeting to-
morrow to investigate a charge OF rate
cutting that has been preferred against
the Southern Pacific company. The
case is attracting great deal of atten
ton in local railroad circles on account
of the circumstances and the enormity
of the otfense charged, and the inveSti-
cation promises to be an interesting
one.
The Southern Pacific company has
in the past exerted all its influence
and persuasive powers to prevent the
decentralization of overland passenger
rates out of San Francisco and ad jacent
territory, and ato be now accused of
cutting rates, and that through a ticket
scalper, whom all the lines of the
Trarscontinental Passenger associa
tion are pledged to taboo, has proved
a sufficient prOvocation for an almost
9 esS amount of comment on MontgO-
merry street.
S A. Perkins, city ticket agent OF
the Santa Fe, has secured what he be-
lieveS to be conclusive evidence OF the
Southern Pacific company's guilt in
the matter of rate cutting. He sent a
suffer- to the Office of A. Ottinger, a
ticket scalper, on Market street, to
purchase a ticket over the Sunset
Route 10 New Orleans. The ticket was
purchased through Ottinger at the
Southern Pacific company's office, the
passenger paying the full tariff rate of
847.50 and being furnished by Ottinger
with a rebate order on a correspondent
in New Orleans. The rebate order was
sent to New Orleans and cashed, and
since no other line but the Southern
Pacific figured in the transaction it is
deemed pretty good evidence that the
ticket broker IN question must be re-
Giving commis sions from the Southern
Pacific company.
Wee President j. G. Stubbs Of the
Southern Pacific company, when seen
yesterday denied the existence of any
deal or arrangement between the com
pany and any ticket broker. He ad-
mitted, however, that the Atlantic sys-
tenn of the company, embracing the
lines east of Ell Paso. was paying CON-
missions to agents. 1t has been sug-
gested that the ticket broker has been
taking advantage of this commission in
some manner that remains to be eX-
planned. In any event some company
or gent has been guilty of a serious Of
Tense, and it is more than likely that
some fines will be imposed as a result
of the investigation.
Thr Southern Pacific has named a
rate to San Francisco, on account of
the meeting of the Young Peoples So
ciety of Christian Endeavor to be- held
there July I, 1897, which is based upon
the rate of the nine-month round trip
tickets, being one-haif that rate, plus
81. This applies only to the Atlantic
system of the Southern Pacific. The
tickets will be on sale June -, D, %,
80 and July l, 2 and ), the going trip
to begin only on the date of sale, with
privileges of stop over at Colorado
common points, Cheyenne and New
Mexico.
The D. & r. G.. has put on straight
passenger train between Trinidad and
Denver, leaving Trinidad at l p. M,
and arriving in Denver at $50 p. m.