The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-16
MADE THE MILWAUKEE GIVE UP
GOOD MONEY FOR IT'S
TICK ETS.
ONLY THE GREAT WESTERN
BEL no BE FIRM IN IT'S OP-
POSITION TO THE
POOL.
Crop Reports and Summer Tourist
Rates Are the Most Conspicu-
GUS Com ponents.

The Chicago lines were waiting yes
terday to see If the 500 line would
make a reduced rate of $1,000 to East
ern points in favor of the st. Paul
school teachers and OTTER trade, but
late yesterday afternoon the 500 had
made no announcement to that effect,
and it is believed they will not put in
the rates on account of no business in
sight. The Chicago lines are authorized
to meet the rates If they appear.
Yesterday passenger men breathed
easier. 1t is generally believed that the
generalization is at an end. Rates
which have been demorallzed for the
rast two or three weeks were generally
restored.
This condition, however, was not Sc
cured without exacting a promise from
the Milwaukee line that it. with the
assistance Of Eastern lines, would clear
the. brokers' offices in st. Paul and
Chicago of all the tickets which had
been improperly secured Saturday and
Sunday. That meant that the Mil
waukee would have to redeem all the
tickets from the brokers' Of course
the brokers were in it for the money
in sight, and probably compelled the
Milwaukee and the Eastern roads to
pay good prices for the tickets. A
number of Eastern lines positively re-
fused to accept the tickets secured via
the Milwaukee, when it was learned
that the brokers were handling them.
1t was believed yesterday that the
Wisconsin Central and the Minneapolis
& st. Louis would agree to join the
Western Passenger association This
would leave only the Chicago Great
Western outside The chances would
then be better for success in inducing
the latter road to join. If this proves
successful, then the end of the present
troubles is in sight.
The feeling of the Eastern roads
against the Milwaukee & st. Paul over
the tickets it has placed on sale in
st. Paul and which the Chicago scalp
ers snatched up with the result Of
cutting the east-bound rates between
Chicago and New York and Boston. is
very bitter. Some of them declare
themselves in favor of refusing to
honor the tickets under any considera-
ton. The Milwaukee & st. Paul early
in the day announced that it was will
ing to take the tickets off the market
and set about pulling them in. Chair
man Caldwell, of the Western Passen-
ger association, also had men out after
the tickets, and it is thought that by
today, at which time the agreement
of the Chicago-St. Paul roads to main
tain rates goes into effect, no more
Of the tickets will be found on the
market. The clearing up process is
not to be confined to the Milwaukee
&, st. Paul by any means. All the
other roads have to have all of their
cut rate. tickets off the market. They
start in with a new clean bill OF health
While the efforts Of the executive Of
f1cers of the Western roads to get the
outsiders into the Western Passenger
association have proved futile for the
time being, they have not abandoned
the fight. The outcome depends very
largely on how the rates are main
tanned under the agreement, which
goes into effect tomorrow. If it is, a
success there is not much doubt that
the Great Western and probably the
Wisconsin Central will join the asso-
citation. The action Of the st. Paul in
cutting the rates to the east angered
the officials of the Wisconsin Central
greatly, and they refused to take any
further part in the meeting after they
knew what the st. Paul road had done