Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-11
THE SCALPERS
Roads Entering St. Louis Seek
Injunction Against Ticket
Sellers.
ROCK ISLAND OPENS NEW LINE SOON
Joliet and Northwestern Railway
Latest Road to IncOr-
pOrate.

| All the fOduS CcHttIIiS III ~ A@Chi'
have brought suit for an injunction
against the city ticket scalpers doing
business in that city to restrain them
from buying, selling or handling the
return portion of nontransferable
tickets which were on sale from Sept.
20 to Oct. =. inclusive, for the EXPOSE
| tion allotment ceremonies. The suit
also includes similar forms of tick
cts to be used for the exposition in
1904.
BY agreement with the exposition
management and strong appeal
from the committee on ceremonies
the railways granted the low rates
from a radius of $50 miles from St.
Louis, including Chicago. Cincinnati.
indianapolis, Burlington, st. Joseph,
Kansas City, Memphis, Nashville and
Louisville. These rates were made
to attract crowds to st. Louis for
the allotment ceremonies and carni-
val week. From a large portion of
the territory a special form of ticket
was adopted for this occasion. 1t
was a nontransferabIe signature
ticket, which merely required the
signature of the passenger.
BY the manner in which the scalp
ers have taken advantage of the tick
eft the railroads have become con-
WINGED that unless they can be pro-
tected against the scalperS they will
have TO demand higher rates. which
would Inconvenience the people and
seriously affect the attendance at the
fair.
New Lines to Twin Cities
The Rock Island will abandon its
line to Minneapolis and St. Paul via
the Minneapolis d st. Louis Nov. >,
when it will open up its new line over
the Burlington. Cedar Rapids & Nor
| thern division. On the same date the
Illinois Central will open up its new
route to Minneapolis and st. Paul via
the Minneapolis q St. Louis from Al
bert Lea. Over this line il will run
a fast wide vestibule train, which
will leave Chicago daily at 6 p. III. and
arrive i'm st. Paul at $40 the next
morning. Returning the train will
leave st. Paul at 7:1O p. III. and arrive
in Chicago at $3.50 a. IN.
New Railway Is Incorporated
Secretary of State Rose at Spring
field yesterday licensed the incorpor-
alton of the Joliet d Northwestern
Railway company. with main offices
at Chicago. and with capital of
$500, 600. The line is to be construct
ed from Joliet in a westerly direc-
ton to Newark, Kendall county. and
from PIattville, Kendall county. in u
southerly direction, to Morris, ILL.,,
from Plattville, in a northerly direc-
ton. to Plano, Kendall county; from
Aurora, Kane county, to Sandwich.
De Kalb county. The incorporators
and first board of directors are: w.
X. Newton and +. III. Young. of York
vile; f. q. Young, of Bristol, and S.
+. Overhiser and j. j. Rogan, of Chi
cago. Nothing is known about this
contemplated road. and the opinion
| is that the intention is to build an
electric road between the points
named.
Rest for President Leeds
The report that the physicians of
| President William b. Leeds. of the
Rock Island, had ordered him to Hot
Springs, Va, for a complete rest from
| the cares of business has given his
friends and railroad associates some
concern. The step is said not to in
dictate an alarming condition OF
health, but to be taken by the physi
clans as a precaution against bad re-
suits which may come from too
prolonged continuance at his work.
The health of President Leeds has
not been as satisfactory as his
friends could wish, it is said, since
the performance of an operation just
before the last annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Rock Island.
His mental and physical energies
have for months been given largely
to the task of carrying on the great
work of the reorganization of the
company.
Rock Island Stock.
A financial writer in Wall street has
this to say of the manipulation and
contrast of the stock of the Rock
| Island:
1.-THE shrewdness of the Rock ISL
and people has become a subject of
very general discussion in the Wall
street community. Their scheme of
finance whereby the high priced and
virtually cornered old Rock Island
stock is made into low priced shares
within the reach of ordinary persons
is likely to be followed by other
eminent fihanciers. notably those of
the Gould-Rockefeller party. where
fore the advent of the new Rock ISL
and securities and their reception
by the public once they are listed on
the stock exchange are of deep in
terest to the various groups of rail-
road people that have similar prob
lens to solve. Here again the acute
ness of the Rock Island people is to
be remarked. They have permitted
the new Rock Island shares to re-