The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-10

the restoration of the local train ser
vice between Anaconda, Butte and
Great Falls General Agent Dawson
yesterday received telegram from
II. E. Byron, the assistant general sup
erintendent at Great Falls, announcing
that the through local would be put on
again next Sunday and that Nos. l and
2 would run between Great Falls and
Anaconda the same as they did before
the recent change by which those trains
were stopped at Helena. The action of
the Great Northern in taking off the
Great Falls local was the cause for a
very general and emphatic protest.
Major Dawson took the matter up and
made strong representations that big
mistake had been made when the
through local was stopped. He had
number of theatrical contracts
on hand and found that he
could not fulfill them under
the changed time, and business
| men and legislators all made protests.
When the change was made in the
schedule on the third of the month the
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific was COM
PEELED to put on train between Ana
conda and Butte in the morning but
that will be taken off again on Sunday
when the Great Falls local will take
its place. The time table has not yet
been prepared, but it is believed that
the two trains will run about as they
did under the old schedule. No. l leav-
ing Great Falls about II a. m. o'clock
and arriving in Butte at 6 and Ana
conda about p. M, and No. 2 leaving
Anaconda at $40 a. m. Butte at $50
and arriving at Great Falls at D. m.
o'clock.
Nearly all the Northern Pacific trains
have been slightly affected by the new
time card which went into effect on
Sunday. According to the details of the
new schedule the west bound coast
train which now leaves ST. Paul at 2:15
p. m. will shorten the present running
time on the Northern Pacific forty five
minutes between St. Paul and Seattle
The east bound train from the coast
clips an hour and five minutes. 1t will
leave the coast cities at the same time
as now, but increases the speed east of
Billings, so as to arrive in ST.. Paul at
4:O5 p. M, about an hour earlier.
The gain in time on the west bound
train is made between Spokane and
Seattle, although the time along the
western part of the route has all been
somewhat differently distributed than
it is under the old schedule
Changes have been made in the Du-
luth and Winnipeg trains to conform
with the new time on Nos 1 and 9.
The summary of changes as announced
by the circular follows: Pt
r No. will leave st. Paul at 2: 15 D. n..
Minneapolis at 2:55 D. M, arrive at
Fargo 1890 p. M, Billings, 500 p.t M:
Helena $40 a. M; Butte, 6:55 a. M:
Anaconda. 1855 a. M: Spokane, APO p.
M; Seattle, 700 a. M. Tacoma, $40
n m Portland 11.5n M
East bound train No. 2 will leave
Portland at IL a. M: Tacoma, 4:55 p.
M: Seattle, 400 D. M; Spokane, 7:2O a.
M. Anaconda. S:15 p. M; Butte, 500
p M: Helena, 10:4O p. M; Billings, $40
a. M; Fargo, sos a. M; Billings, $40
Minneapolis, 1920 D. M: st. Paul, 4:05
p. M; Duluth $50 p. m.
There will be no change in the Sleep
ing car service.
Executive officers of transcontinental
lines will meet in New York to-day to
reorganize the Transcontinental Freight
association This will be the most i'm
portant transcontinental meeting held
in several years, and regardless of the
basis on which the association will be
reorganized, or rather resurrected, it is
expected that all the loose joints. in
tariffs will be frightened and comedy
shapes given to rate chaos says the
Pioneer Press.
President Mellen and General Traffic
Manager Hannaford, of the Northern
Pacific, and Vice President D. Miller, of
the Great Northern, are now on their
way to New York. and will attend the
meeting. The Southern Pacific and
Canadian Pacific will be represented
by Vice Presidents Stubs and Shaugh-
messy, respectively.
For three years the transcontinental
lines have had only the semblance of
an agreement in the transcontinental
freight committee, a f1imsy organization
devoted principally to the distribution
of tariffs and the dissemination of facts
well known to the members. The old
association was a healthy. robust insti-
tuition in it's time and did good work
1t failed on account of irreconcilable
differences between the Southern Pa
cifific and the Northern lines. The dis
turbing elements We're the New York
New Orleans line of the Southern Pa
cffic and the clippers. Whatever rates
promptly met from New York, and
there was trouble all around. The
Northern lines held together pretty
well, though at times they had serious
to adjust. The Canadian Pa
cif1c caused considerable trouble, but
is now behaving pretty well and the
north Pacific coast situation is compar-
There can never be harmonious traffic
until the entire transconti-
mental situation is readjusted and an
agreement reached by all competing
lines. This is to be accomplished at the
New York meeting unless the tangle is
too tight for the skillful fingers of the
executive officers, and then the new ar
rangement is to be perpetuated by an
association such as might have been
made openly before the supreme court
began interpreting the antitrust law
President Mellen, General Manager |
General Superintendent Kim
berly, General Traffic Manager Hanna |
ford and Chief Engineer McHenry, of |
the Northern Pacific, returned last |
evening on No. 2 from a ten days trip |
to the coast says Saturdays st. Paul I
Pioneer Press. They went to Butte on
the regular overland, and from Butte
to Lewiston over the new line on |
special. From Lewiston to Port |
and they went over the Ore
son Railway and Navigation |
inc. After hurriedly visiting Seattle
md Tacoma, they returned direct. |
Their trip had no special significance,