The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-27
Want FAST TRAINS
Business Men Protest Against Re-
sumption Of Slow Service to
Chicago.
North Westerns Example May Keep
Other Roads from Following {.
Milwaukee's Lead. 'sS

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i, Business men and others whose;
duties or pleasure carry them to- Chi;
scago frequently do not take kindly at.
za.ll5to the Milwaukee's Frightening of
the running time of it's limited train one
hour, or to the prospect that the other
roads may follow suit next Sunday,
or later. @
The action of the Milwaukee last
Sunday in making the leaving time
Of the Pioneer Limited from Mime
apolis one hour earlier, thus making
it a thirteen and a half hour train
is objected to seriously.
G. S. Cairns said: THE roads are
going to do that, the they? It's a
shame and an outrage; that's what I
think, Of it, ~. z4.& !@s#
Colonel Frank M. Joyce: Whats
the use Of returning to antebellum
fdays and making *fourteen-mile-a an
hour. trains? That's slower time. than
IS made out Of Chicago to Omaha,
Kansas City and other places"
F. E. Smith: ut is a decided back
| ward step. From s. to 8 o'clock Is
about right. Twelve hours Z
t.. c.. M Way: Il don't know how to
rum railroads, but I shall be. disap-
pointed if the change is made. I run
down to Chicago frequently, but for
my own benefit I'd like to make it in
| twelve hours" $3.50 ~,.~ IL. ~...
/ W. VI. ANyC. IL ID d OcCh " oil " oISp
and ought not to be tolerated, If it
can be avoided. Some effort ought to
be made to avoid it,"
SO far, the North-W Western line has
| not evinced any disposition to length
en- it's running schedule. That line and
| the Milwaukee have carried a large
share Of the Chicago business and
with such a strong. line as the North
) Western Z. maintaining the shorter
NJ Schad111a Ofhar Chica oro Hines wifi ~
doubtedly hesitate before introducing
more leisurely trains. 10 '--N.-~~.-...-' ..
W. Rather Slow Than Late. .
1.-THE Milwaukee can't make the
time. It is better for the trains to
have thirteen and-a-half hour
\ schedule to Chicago and be on time
than to have a shorter running
I schedule and be late" This is the ex.
cuse for the heightened time put into
Sunday. as given by one Of the Mil.
yankees men. 1.-THE running time is
half an hour better than it was las
winter when the schedule the winter
thru was fourteen hours. If the Chi
cago arriving time were made later
that would cause trouble, but wha
| business man cannot5sleaYe Minneap
! oils at S-o'clock as well as 8 in the
evening? = understand that the Other
roads will get out "a new card Sun
day" -. ~; ,'.s,.sI. .~-, III g
Because travel to Chicago on al
lines had dropped off before the Mil
Waukee heightened its time, it is i'm
possible = to discover what advantag,
: the short time lines have had the pas
few days. Z. -. =. s.-.-.. -. --+- H.,
The general understanding to tn
contrary, it. sssnot the river division
which bothers the Milwaukee road
but the other end OF, the line, TIL
, train out Of Minneapolis average
sEeleven to, thirteen cars. At sChicag
t the trains have Increased ITO sixtee
J.. cars generally. ~
: ,..1 The Pioneer generally leaves Mir
!. neapolts thus: One light and heat, on
mail, one express, one baggage, on
J buffet, two compartments, two >sleeI
ers, one chair, one smoker. At I.
Crosse a sleeper Is added. At Ne
Lisbon a sleeper is added. At Mi
a Waukee sleeper, diner and parlor ca
Is added and the Milwaukee sleepe
is dropped. This makes avery heav
train for fast time in the winter. Ofte
extra sleepers are added before tt
train leaves Minneapolis. ,,,s.,,ai
Under the new schedule the. Pionee
leaves at and arrives at Chicago
/ $3.50 a. M; the fast mail 1925 trail
,. from Minneapolis arrives in Chicag
s at 11:55 a. m. The Milwaukee mali
n tains fast time with the fast mail
r but this. train carries, only four ma
a cars, two sleepers,aa baggage,sa coac
and two sleepers, and this number
It never Increased. -.