The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-09
TRAVELLING A LA HOG
MODERN PRoDlGALS TAKE PoTLUcK
WITH PORKERS.


Best of Railroad Companies-Five Dol
lars For Ride to New York on tho
Hog Train.
Railroad officials have until recently
had no knowledge of the fact that pas
senger fares from Chicago to New York
were being quoted daily for So per pas
senger and that that figure was being
made over the strong lines.
But such, nevertheless, is fact, and
this tale is told to show the railroad
people that with all of their shrewd-
ness somebody has gone them one bet
ter and not only hoodwinked them, but
has cut into the revenue of the roads
regardless Of the big associations organ
lied and maintained to prevent just
such tricks.
Any one who wants to get TO New
York while the present So rate is be-
ing quoted would be foolish to go to
city passenger office and pay out $40
for the privilege, especially as along
with the SO rate goes a car, only one
passenger being allowed to Car on this
route. While the trains on which this
cheap rate is available do not leave
from the union depots, and it is neces-
sary for passengers to embark at the
Union stockyards, that little inconven-
fence is offset by the saving of $l5.
The new way of getting to New York
for 50 bill is probably not known to
a dozen railroad officials in Chicago. 1t
can properly be termed "the hog route"
as the passengers who go by it travel
with hogs and are waybilled as hogs
Somewhere about the yards is a man
who acts as general passenger agent of
1.-THE hog route. I"
One day recently broken down, dis
sipated young fellow, who not more
than two years ago held good position
in a railroad office in Chicago, got
yearning for his home down east "
He had not cent, and none of his old
friends would fix him out with trans
portation. Finally, in some manner, he
got knowledge of "the hog route" and,
succeeding in getting an old chum to
once more lend him a five, he moved off
to the yards, and it was his departure
by this route that furnished the ma
terial for this tale.
Arriving at the stockyards and hunt
ing up the man who is making money
off this scheme, he took the fellow to
train of hogs about to pull out for the
east, opened the door of one Of the cars,
after getting possession of the man 8 So,
told him to get in and then locked him
in with the rest of the hogs.
Not much ceremony attends the send
ing of passengers by this route, each
passenger being given long black
whip to keep the other hogs off and the
waybilling of the traveller as hog,
shipped from Chicago to New York in
such and such car, being the only at
tention shown.
Strange as this tale may seem about
men being shipped out of the stock
yards as hogs, with hogs, and left to
live with them for days until they ar
rive at destination, such practice actu-
ally exists, and some man or clique OF
cheap scalpers are said to be deriving a
good revenue from it,
BY a man who knows it is stated that
several passengers leave Chicago in this
manner daily. Possibly some of them
may think that for the accommodations
furnished the rate of IS to New York
is somewhat excessive. Some day, like
ly, the employees of some New York
slaughter house, in their haste to butcher
o newly arrived carload of hogs, will cut
up passenger travelling by this route,
and then it will become unpopular.
Chicago Inter Ocean.