Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-13
MAY START WAR IN RATES
Wabash Makes Big Out in OhiCagO-Esv
York Fare.
EIGHTEEN DOLLARS FOR ROUND TRIP
Also Makes Great Reduction In Round
Trip Fare Between Omaha
and New YOrk-Kansns
Corn Crop.

New passenger rates and train schedules
were announced by the local ONCE OF the
Wabash yesterday under orders from the
general ofices in st. Louis which
create more thar ordinary interest, es-
pecially among the lines east Of Chicago.
A sharp rate war becomes imminent by
this action Of the wabash, for which no
reason Is given other than the road desired
to take the initiative in this direction.
The round-trip rate of SIS from Chicago
to New York is the one which is expected
to stir competing lines and precipitate a
trafnc conflict. The fare is to be in use on
July II and 81 and August I and IA, with
a twelve-day limit for the return. These
are the same days selected by other trunk
lines for their excursions TO Atlantic City.
This announcement is made suddenly and
will greatly surprise eastern competitors
Of the Wabash.
In connection with the Chieago-New
York rate a fare Of 1866 from Omaha to
New York and return, good on the same
days as the former rate, is announced by
the Omaha ofice. This is likewise an ex-
elusive rate.
The changes in Its train service which
the Wabash announces are these; St
Louis Express, leaving Omaha at 5:55 p. m,
Will neTGdlLtI arrive dL ol. IOulS u . u msi
making a gain in time Of forty minutes
The same train will leave Council Bluffs at
9:15, instead Of 10 q. M, as heretofore. A
new train has been put on from 'Maryyille,
Mo-, to Brunswick, Mo-, leaving the former
place at 1880 a. m. and reaching Brunswick
at 11:55 a. m, and returning, leaving
Brunswick at $50 p. M, arriving at Mary
vile at 1855 p. m.
Corn Blooms I'm Kansas.
A number Of Missouri Pacific men were
around the local ONCE yesterday. e. NJ.
Cannon, comercial agent at Atchison, is in
the city on oficial business. Mr.. Cannon,
who is a very close observer OF the crops
and rated among his railroad friends as one
Of the best judges of good corn and wheat,
has this to say of the condition OF those
cereals in the Prairie state:
I'VE will have the largest corn crop In
many years. Corn is simply leaping and
bounding down in old Kansas. The pro-
longed wet season did not injure or re-
tard its growth, but 1t helped to develop It,
and now, with such weather as this, a per-
feet crop may be looked for. l really don't
believe Il will need any more rain to in
sure an abundant yield.
"As to wheat, / am sorry I can't say as
much, but 1t is a fact that wheat has been
hurt by the constant rains. Harvest ID
backward and much that has been cut Is
moulding or %sprouting, and, Of course, that
is a loss in either case. But at any rate
Kansas may have a very fair wheat CROP
New Port on Gulf Coast.
The Rock Island road is considering the
advisability of establishing a new port on
the gulf coast. In view Of this fact, II has
been said that the projected line which the
Rock Island will build out of Fort Worth
will not terminate at Galveston, as was
originally expected. There is said to be
no doubt about the construction Of a gull
line, and the authority Of Vice President
and General Manager Hovey of the Chicago
Rock Island & Texas that contracts fol
the projection will soon be let is offered to
substantiate this statement.
The report that the Rock Island had wor
Its fight for the possession Of the Virgins
Ferry company has been practically con-
frmed. The company Is said to have ex-
pended $4,000, 900 in winning this tight,
bringing the total cost for control Of this
property up to SO. 1000, 900.