The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-24
AMONG RAILROAD men
Firemen Expect Concession to
!. I'll Be Made.
NO DANGER OF RATE WAR
Officials Of the Northern Roads Are Non
Committal on the Subject-Seo-.
ond-Class Sleeping Cars
on Fast Trains.

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The locomotive f1remen who have pc
titioned the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific roads for an increase
in salary have left St. Paul, leaving the
matter. in the hands Of the railroads for
consideration. u Officers of both these
roads We're non-committal when asked
as ito their intentions toward the men,
but it Is well known that the attempt
to have discharged men reinstated was
sauelched in its incipiency. It is be-
lieved by the firemen and engineers, and
was intimated by officials of both the
roads interested, that some concessions
would be made, but to what extent or
when was not known. Possibly the de-
cision Of the roads may be made next
| week.
The talk about a bitter rates war be-
tween the northern lines arising out of
the half rate fares for homeseekers and
settlers is probably withount founda-
ton in fact, says the Minneapolis Times.
Northern Pacific officials were seen yes
terday and an invariable answer was
| received to the question as to whether
there existed any cause for the state
ments that some permanent reduction
in rates might be expected in the near
future. They could see no reason why
there should be any difficulty at the
present time. General Passenger Agent
Craig was asked if there was the
slightest possibility" Of a rate fight
and he answered that, though the posi-
bility always existed, he thought there
was no danger of anything of that kind
happening in the immediate future.
If a disturbance should arise the Ca
! madam Pacific will have say in mat
tiers. 1t has been given out by GEN
eral Passenger Agent Galloway that the
500 will meet reductions, temporary or
permanent, and this has been the policy
| of that road all along. The 500 is Ca
| madam Pacific property and works in
connection with that line as it must
necessarily do.
| The key of the rate situation IS held
| by the American lines and they, accord
ing to statements given out, are con-
| tent to let well enough alone, especially
when tampering with rates might lead
to serious injury.
Referring to the adoption Of second
class or ordinary sleeping cars on the
| Baltimore & Ohio between Chicago and
Pittsburg and Baltimore and Newark
the Railway Age says: 1t t-
| The necessity of limiting the weight
| of hiSh-speed passenger trains and the
undesirability offdoing anything which
twill increase THE expense of that al
ready too expensive service are serious
objections to the Introduction of setond-
| class sleepers en- many. trains But
| there are also strong arguments in their
flavor. On SolIlet runs their! introduce
ton would not necesstate the addition
of an extra car as they would replace
one of<the two or more day coaches
| now carried; and in such cases the eX-
ira weight would not be considerable
Nor. is a combination day coach and
7 secondclass sleeper. sifnpracticable On
alInight runs at present there are pas
sengers carriedd I'M day coaches.t who
would gladly pay the small extra charge
for accommodation in these cars, while
| either for acknowledgements or because
they feel out Of place amid the too
| sumptuous surroundings, they will not
go into the regular sleeping car. To
furnish accommodations for these at a
| profit ought to be practicable.
There Is in addition the important
| matter of the agitation~for a reduction
of existing sleeping car rates. These
| rates are not too high for the service
now rendered. But the agitation con-
| tinues and grows in strength. The sec
| ond-class sleeper would furnish cheaper
! accommodation for many of those who
| now pay under protest the first-class
rates. as well as for many who will not
| pay those rates, but are disconnected
at having to travel in day coaches. BY
so doing it would rob the agitation of
much of it's force The existence of an
ordinary (and avowedly moderately
te-1r Il rr,t1,
make criticism of a higher rate for the
| tirst-class car more difficult.
| There are many objections-some
real and some imaginary-to the general
adoption of the second-class sleeper, but
| their use will become general. none the
| less and that in the not very distant
| future
| 1t is the belief of the majority of
those most vitality interested that there
| will be little further delay in the for
| NAL reorganization of the Baltimore Il
Ohio railroad company: that the receiv
ers will be discharged by the court in
| the course of a few months and that
| the property will. be turned over to It's
| new owners. Concerning this, mem
| Der Of the. committee appointed to look
| out for the interests of the Baltimore
| holders of the securities of the COM
| pany said:
The reorganization. managers OF the
| Baltimore & Ohio company are progress
| ing rapidly to a final settlement of the
| affairs of the company, and while it is
proba BILE that several months will yet
| elapse before the many interests shall
| have been settled with and the neW4se-
| curities issued, it must be realized that
almost insurmountable obstacles have
been overcome, and that the managers
| have accomplished results very favor
able to the company without disturbing
| com plications.
1T is the opinion OF those who haze
| heretofore been best post ed regarding
| Baltimore e Ohio affairs that all of the
| hCidcrs of Baltimore & Ohio securities
| Intt