The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-12-20
FASTER SERVICE.
Omaha Road Betters Its Freight
Service.
Fast Freight From North to Connect
at Mankato With C. & N. W. Fast
Freight for West.

The Omaha road has made an i'm
portant change in its freight service
between the twin cities and points il
southwestern Minnesota and South
Dakota. 1t will accomplish the gain
of one day in the delivery of goods
from the twin cities to points in those
sections.
Assistant General Freight Agent l..
T. Jamme announced yesterday tina
the Omaha had made arrangements
whereby its own fast freight from
Minneapolis to Mankato would connect
with the Chicago & North Western S
fast freight from the east to Tracy,
MINI. Hitherto the Minneapolis
freight has arrived at Mankato too
late to make connection and shipments
have had to wait. The change is made
by shortening the runninsg time OF the
Minneapolis Mankato fast freight and
setting the fast freight from Chicago
and the east back enough to make the
connection certain. The fast freight
service extends to Tracy, where local
freights connect and peddle the ship
ments to- southwestern Minnesota and
South Dakota points. This makes it
possible for goods shipped from Mime
apolis today to arrive at most points
tomorrow, and gives Minneapolis an
advantage in the trade of this territory
over any other jobbing point.
This service has been bone of con-
Uention between the shippers and the
railroads for years. Omaha officials say
that they have been endeavoring to
make this arrangement for six years
and are consequently..much pleased at
its final contamination.
Under the old arrangement Chicago
has had the advantage in the delivery
of goods which has worked detrl-
ment to Minneapolis. A large volume
of the business in southwestern Min
nesota and South Dakota is on ship
quick orders. Although Minneapolis
was the nearest large jobb1ng center,
Chicago goods were delivered in ad-
vance of the shipments from Mime
apolis.
The North Western is the first of the
Chicago lines to announce changes in
its Chicago schedule according to the
agreement made at the recent meeting
in Chicago. General Passenger Agent
Teasdale announces that, beginning
Dec %, through sleepers will be. drop
ped from the west bound. fast mail. 1t
will leave Chicago at 6 80 p. m. and
carry coaches to Eau Claire, Wis.
North of Eau Claire the train will be
composed of baggage and express cars
only. The North Western Limited will
leave Minneapolis at o'clock in the
evening. instead-of Z 80 andsarrive..in
Chicago at 9 20 the next morning. West
bound the. limited will leave Chicago at
6 80 in the evening and arrive in Min
neapolis- at 8 the.next morning. Mr..
Teasdale says that the North Western
will announce other changes Within. "a
s-zza-a-.
short time. =
=. In order to make connections at st.
Paul, slight changes on the western
division, from st. Paul to Omaha, are
contemplated and may be announced
in few days.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
has just completed plans for extensive
track improvements on the Iowa &
Minnesota division, in Minnesota.
Work will begin early in the spring.
The big grade between Mortified and
Pennington is to be reduced and
much work will be done on the line
from Minneapolis through Faribault to
Austin. Crews will begin work in a
short time on the double tracking of
sixty miles of line on the La Crosse
division, between Portage and Tomah,
Wis