The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-15
Sentimental War Continues
With q Vengeance.
.onT roa kLoNoiKE TRAVEL.
s. -, Tickets sold ~ SIS. Chieago
- 90 and New York NJ e3S-Low
~.ee. Made TO Missouri River
xhe Cfrcnftous Routes, Bst DE-
,eet Lines Not Yet Participating
n,.was ~ the Local O0ees.

-. transcontinentai rate war consinu-
= vss,srday AZ fese! heat. aad late in the
sss,rooa Chicago tourist tickets reached
- vsfh ST. Paul selling at Sls and New
80 n f3s This Is the biggest cut yet
~An. IN any one day. and was occasioned
= re moving OF KIotdike travel East
-,a The local counters are all maintain
- tariff. but the work OF the war is be-
~ actively superintendent by brokers and
sssstae AGENTS. OF whom there Is now an
.Sundant supply. Including many faces
ssra6re 20 local railroad circles. That the
=, i on and wilt continue unit. one or
- ether of the lighting lines concludes
] 4 hss had enough. and calls on the pas
sr.xsr departments to stop the fight. all
ssree So Tong as the instructions held
- shr local Offices remain rs they are the
sseuafior will be one of war To the death.
Whsn the offices opened yesterday morn
~ the rates prevailing were: 81. Paul.
n. Chicago, 800: New York. $40 Thirty
I'D Klondiksrs were to have he'd a meet
- II the DilIer for the purpose OF organ
.rins 10 20 Eas; In a body over the line
o1erfns the lowest rate. When the meet
- vas ready to be called. large number
a outside ticket men were at work among
them. and the party became demoraiized.
when II was found that IL could not be
h6sd together. the leaders gathered as
,rany as possible. and sixteen accepted
rte over the Northern Pacific az ST. Paul
"a Chicago SIC and New York az. To
tAose who went into Missouri river terri
t1ry the 81. Paul basing rate, with con-
pseilnx line rate to destination added, was
nede OF the other members Of the party
4 portion was secured by the Great North
n al the same rate, and a few remained
e1ss to see II something better could no.
. had. Before the overland pulled out
q least three Chicago tickets were sold
Il e and st. Paul offered al SIS
While the rates now in effect cut to
Missouri river points. the oregon Rail-
rad & Navigation and Burlington still
refuse to be drawn I'm. and are allowing
TIE business to go by the circuitous
fuutea rather than make a cut them
Seives. Tho Klondike business. they say.
i the only one that win 20 by the long
hnis AZ the present reduced rates, and
ihls class OF travel Is about over. Prob
sAiy seveuty-five kiondikers left on the
cut rates yesterday. and railroad men
~ there IL not more than that number
now here. including thirty that will ar
I'VE today
Ne one will state that they believe the
var will soon be- over. but many are
uther Inclined tn think that before tho
tolbie is settled s.4stbound tickets will
u cut 10 the bedrock reached In Sep
ember. 1898. when the American lines
sound UP their fight to force the Cana
Gan Pacific To abandon It's s. differen,ial
kstxeen FIRST and second-ciass business,
md put IN SO to ST. Paul. SIS To Chicago
md IS 10 New York.
During the afternoon both the Great
uerthsrn and Northern Pacific Offices
HeseSted q busy appearance. Not only
vsfe there present the throngs that were
esaiiing themselves OF the new cuts TO
Ae East but good crowds OF others con-
umplatng q trip were on hand TO watch
0e ticket market tumble. The man and
~ partner who is holding off for few
afs, knowing that tickets TO Chicago
Vi seon be- purchased az the SO rate.
va In evidence. and until the outside
utkes men tumblea to him. caused them
much wasted breath. All sorts of ques-
ions were piled outside the doors Of the
hyelved offices and on the streets.
Hardly half afi hour during the day but
Tie question was asked the agents:
What are tho tickets worth nowr" and.
VIII they go lower today Ticket
men vouchsafe the assurance that rates
are At bedrock now. In the hope OF get
Hnx the kiondike business to move as
sassdlly as possible. With this out OF
he way. an understanding. IL is believed,
can b. more quickly reached II Ia not
Believed bedrock rate WITH remain In
lofce very long, for at this season there
not enough business 20 sustain IL.