The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-12-13
NEW RULES FOR BAGGAGE.
They Will Go Into Effect January LIST
Next.

New rules for the handling of bag
gage will become effective on all roads
west of Chicago and east of the Mis-
souri, river Jan. 1.
These regulations provide for the
checking of 100 pounds of ordinary
baggage with each full rate ticket and
seventy-fve pounds with each half
rate ticket. No pieces of baggage ex-
cest that belonging to foreign immi-
grants weighing over $50 pounds will
be accepted or checked. Bicycles and
tricycles will be checked subject to
the rules for excess baggage a charge
being made for every fifty pounds.
This rule will not prevail in states
! where laws require the checking of
bicycles and tricycles free. Baby car
riages go-carts and baby sleighs will
come under the bicycle rule.
Only the regular allowance of first
class tickets will be checked on passes,
whether this transportation is held by
employees or others. Excess baggage
will be subject to charge per 100
pounds of not less than 10 per cent of
the highest first class limited fare. A
charge of 90 cents will be made for a
lost check.
Dogs may be carried in crates when
provided with collar. chain and tag.
Bodies of dead persons will require
one first class ticket for the person in
charge and one first class ticket fol-
the corpse, no half fares to be accepted
in any case, and the movement of all
corpses must be governed by an excess
baggage check.
No order for the forwarding of bag.
gage is to be recognized except from
officer conductor or baggageman. In
urgent cases passengers will be allow
ed to open their baggage en- route.
Present arrangement of passenger
train schedules between Chicago ant
the three important western gateway
st. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City
has been called in question by tn,
management of the st. Paul road. Al
the result of the position assumed
by the st. Paul company, meeting O.
executive officials of the lines extend
ing between Chicago and the gateway
named have been called for Dec. 10
when the entire situation caused BY
the faster time between Chicago ant
st. Paul will be discussed. The Cal
for the meeting was the result of ,
meeting of the executive officials o
the Chicago-St. Paul line held thi
week. 1t developed early in the meet
ing that the st. Paul officials would
not agree to consider the question a
viewed from Chicago-St Paul stand
point alone. On the other hand, tn
ST. Paul'people do not insist upon an,
remedial measures claiming that tn
Chicago-St Paul situation is due t.
the North Western officials and not t.
any action by themselves. Attention
was called to the fact that the reduc
ton in the time of the "Overlant
Limited" by the North Western mad
it possible for travellers to get t
Northern Pacific coast points by usin,
the Omaha gateway in faster tim
than by using the st. Paul gateway
and that there is no.reason why Their
should be any restriction between Chi
cago and st. Paul and not one between
Chicago and other western gateways
1t was generally conceded, however
that something would have to be don
to give the weak lines between Chi
cago and st. Paul their proportion Q
the business, even though it be at tn
, expense of the public in the way of re
} duced accommodations