The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-05
Trying to Have Second Glass
Rates Withdrawn.
SOME RADICAL ACTION
Is Expected From the Meeting OF the
Passenger Men To-Day Other
Roads May Go the North
ern Lines One Better.

dTeaL northern TO WlthQraW their sec
ond class rates have not yet been aban-
doned, and the Western Passenger as
ISOLATION will hold another meeting in
Chicago to-day to see what can be done
about it, and the whole matter is to
be gone over again. AS the two north
ern roads refused to concur in the ac-
ton of the other lines taken last week,
the entire labor has been lost. 1t is ex-
pected that radical action will be taken
at to-days meeting. The fact that the
agreements simply to meet the north
ern lines rates, and on the rebate plan,
did not prove satisfactory, is further
evidence that lower rates are likely to
be made. 1t was stated some time ago
that western and southwestern lines
were anxious to extend the low rates
into their territory. The excuse of
President Hill of the Great Northern
for making the reductions is that there
are many acres along his line which
need settlers. Western and southwest
ern roads declare that the same con-
ditions exist as regards their territory.
When there seemed to be unanimous
action with regard simply to meeting
the competition of the northern lines to
Montana and at North Pacific coast
points, it was argued that the lines
traversing Indian Territory, Oklahoma.
Texas and other parts of the West were
willing to give up the colonization
scheme for the sake of preventing a SER
ious rate war. Now that the proposition
has failed to meet with general approx
al it is taken for granted that their
claims will be pushed.
Il should not be surprised if the roads
leading to the Northwest from Missouri
river crossings We're to meet the rates Of
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific and go them one better" said
Western Passenger man to the Chicago
Times Herald. "Of what use is it sim
ply to meet their rates and do it on the
rebate plan? Experience has shown
that the rebate plan will not work as
against a flat rate. Why should man
in Chicago, for instance, pay $50 so for
ticket, expecting to get a rebate of
$l5o. when he can purchase another
ticket to the same point by another line
for $29 fiat? He will not do it, if for no
other reason than to save himself the
trouble of collecting the rebate. It was
demonstrated in the recent fight with
the Canadian Pacific that the rebate
plan will not work as against a fiat
rate The Great Northern has started
this trouble in an effort to induce set
tiers to take lands along the line of that
road. We need settlers as badly as does
the Great Northern. We have better
lands. better climate and vastly more
inducements. Why should we not make
special efforts to get people to look at
our lands? In my opinion. that is just
what we will do. I am inclined to think
that this very reason accounts for the.
| failure of the proposition simply to meet
the competition of the northern lines on
the rebate plan. To cut below the north
| ern lines means fight, of course but
| am not certain that we are not ready
| for it,
Hereafter the trunk lines will quote
the same rates to Puget sound points
by way of Ogden, Huntington and Port
land that they do now by way of st.
Paul General Passenger Agent Hurl-
but of the Oregon Railway & Naviga
ton company announces that at a meet
ing in New York the trunk lines agreed
to quote through rates to Puget sound
points via Huntington. For several
years the trunk lines and the New En-
gland association declined to quote
through rates and sell tickets to Puget
sound points through the Ogden gate
way. basing their refusal on the state
ment that the Ogden Railway G. Navi-
| cation company had not complete line
| through to the sound. and being influ-
| enced by the objection of the Puget
any representation in business to those
| points via Portland. That objection has
now been overcome.
The postal department has issued an
order forbidding the presence of rail
road employees in postal cars during the
period of mail weighing now in prog
ress, and which will occupy two or
three weeks more. The station agents
| and baggage men do the weighing on
behalf of the roads just before delivery
in the cars, after which it is weighed by
the postal agents.
The rumor is that the Union Pacific
has decided to withdraw its cut rate to
the coast. The reduction to s25 was
made by the Union Pacific to meet the
cut rate of the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern. The route of the
Omaha road to the coast is over the
Union Pacific, and the reduced rate
from st. Paul was $3.50. If the report
is true, the rate will be restored to
$3.50 from st. Paul.
Up to March 1 the Santa Fe earned
the full years interest on all its bonds,
including the adjustments, leaving four
months in which to earn a dividend on
the preferred stock.
Tke st. Paul Pioneer Press makes
the somewhat startling announcement
that the Great Northern had reduced
its charges for birth in it's sleepers.
s25 reward to any one proving that r.
F. Mayer. 40 West Park. does not put
in the best handspring made for ST.
Watch cleaning. s1.50.
Rinehart, Rinehart.
Try the Burlington route from Butte