The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-08
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES
Helena's Protest Against Butte
Good Luck.
CAPITAL Is SIDETRACKED
The Great Business Center" Objects to
the New Train Service on the North
ern Pacifc-A New Circular by
the O., M. g. st. P.

Strange as it may seem Helena does
not appear to like the idea of Butte get
ting the benefit of the new double train
service which is to be put on by the
Northern Pacific next Sunday. and q
tremendous protest is to be made by
the people of that great business cen
ter against the proposition of giving
| anything to Butte at the expense OF
Helena. The Herald of that town tells
about the awfulness of the outrage:
LAS a usual thing the people of Hell
ena would be pleased with this ar
rangement for double service, but the
| idea of putting Helena on a side track,
| so to speak, is raising an earnest pro-
| test among the business men.
The new trains will be known as
| Nos. and 4, west and eastbound res
pectively. The regular trains Nos.
| and 2 will arrive and leave Helena at
about the same hours as those recently
set by the Great Northern; that is, No.
1, westbound, will leave at 7:10 p. m.
| and No. 2, eastbound, will leave at 10
p. M Of the new trains, No. g. west
bound, will arrive in Butte at 1895 a.
M, and No. 4, eastbound, will arrive at
1:55 p. M
Train No. out of SIT. Paul makes
many of the Eastern connections as
well as those of the scores of branch
lines between Chicago and St. Paul and
takes all mails from and that arrive at
ST. Paul and Minneapolis between the
hours of a. m. and 1875 p. m. This
leaves for No. l, Helena's train, only
the mails of the two Minnesota cities,
with but few Eastern connections, that
arrive between 1926 p. m. and . a. m.
When No. 8, the fast train. reaches
Logan, the junction for the Butte and
Garrison branch, the heavy and import
ant Eastern mails for Helena will be
left there to be transferred to No. !
when she comes along. No. 8 will
reach Logan about a. M. and No. l
will arrive there about p. m. or in
other words mail that should be re-
ceived in Helena by 1875 a. m. will not
reach this city until 7:10 p m, too late
for all business purposes-in fact the
delay would amount to almost "a houIs
with important business mail.
What has been said of the Eastern
mails will apply to those of the West,
eastbound, inasmuch as coast mails
will either have to lay over at Garrison
for several hours waiting for the arri-
V dl = NJ WHICH Will itdti ilNitilu
over Il hours later than mail from the
same Western points will be received
in Butte. Also the outlet for import
ant letters for the East. instead of be-
ing made at 1:55 p. M, as would be the
case If a stub train was operated be-
tween Logan and Garrison, will have
to remain in the Helena postoffice until
10 o'clock at night.
Another of the bad effects that will
be felt in Helena when this new sched-
ule is operative will be the fact that
the through mail cars, with the postal
clerks, will be on trains Nos. 8 and 4.
In other words all postal clerks making
Helena their transfer point will be re-
uuired to make their connections at
Butte. But aside from this inconveni-
ence to the clerks, important registry
matter will have to go to the depOts
without their protection,for this change
does not contemplate the working of a
clerk on train No. / any further west
than Miles City. All mails and regis
tered matter for points west of Miles
will be handled by the baggage men.
Always heretofore when schedules of
this kind have been made, stub
train has been operated between Logan
and Garrison via Helena, that make
the connections with and carry all the
transferred mails between these points.
But this new change, it is understood
does not contemplate this move and
consequently Helena will be the only
city of Importance in the whole line OF
the Northern Pacific that will receive
no benefit from the double train ser
vice.
Not only does this apply to mail, but
passengers DESTROYS of going East or
West must take the Slow or local trains
Nos. / and 2, and are deprived of TAX
ing the fast eXpress unless they first go
to Butte, or to one of the functions and
there lay over.
However vigorous protest is being
made by many of the leading business
| men, and petition is to be circulated
asking the Northern Pacific manage
ment to give Helena a fair deal
2. H. Seaman of st. Paul. the travel.
| ing passenger agent of the Chicago
| Milwaukee & St. Paul, is distributing 8
| new lot of attractive advertising mat
| ter, including a timely and valuable
| publication relating to the new COun-
| tries in which the United States have
! become interested by reason of the wal
with Spain. 1t contains large amour
| of valuable descriptive and statistiCa
| matter and large maps of Puerto Rico
Hawaii, the Greater Antilles, the Phil
ippine islands, the United States, and {
map of the world.
Another attractive piece of advertis
| ing matter is a piece of music entitled
Pioneer Limited March" after tbs
| Milwaukee's famous fast train. Tn,
march was composed by Capt. Freder
| lex Phinney. The title page of the shee
| bears the American flag in colors.
| The Union Pacific has just issued one
! of the most interesting and artist,
| publications in the way of a railroad
| compendium of information ever PLACED
! before the public. Though in the shap1
| of a folder, it is really an elaborat,
| treatise on the Hawaiian islands.
p. H. Seaman took a trip over tn
| GAYLORD & Ruby Valley road to TWil
| Bridges yesterday.