The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-04-15
Board of Trade Does Not Like Pro.
posed Train Schedule.
Matter Discussed Spiritedly at Meeting
Held This Morning.
Proposed High Approach to Main Street
Bridge Considered.
Other Important Matters Receive Di-
reci0rs' Attention.
From Mondays Daily.

rIom mondays DAILY.
NJ G. Willard at this mornings meet
ing of the board of trade reported the
result of the conference that the commit
tees of the board of trade and the Man
kato Business Mems association held
last night at the Saulpaugh hotel with
representatives of the Chicago & North
Western Railway company. A full ac-
count of this conference is published
elsewhere in today's issue of The Free
Press. Mr.. Willard said the conference
did not by any means result in the rail
road company giving the satisfaction de-
sired. The proposed running of the seven
O'Clock morning train for the west by the
way of the old route through Nicollet
county instead of by the present new
route was especially Objectionable.
DIR. Andrews spoke of the great num-
Der of travelling men that were accustom-
ed to sojourn in Mankato and who would
have to pay larger fare between Man
kato and New Ulm on their western
trips. This would greatly injre the
city. Travelling men who were accus-
toned to sojourn at Mankato would
henceforth be more apt to board at St.
Peter and New Ulm.
Thomas Hughes spoke of the time
trains stopped at Judson and Cambria
often enough to enable the people living
there to ride to Mankato and back to
their homes the same day. Mankato thus
got great deal of trade that she does
not get now. The receipts from the
sale of tickets at Cambria and Judson to
Mankato amounted to $50 to $75 per
month under the old schedule. The rail
road company was not making a valid
excuse for not stopping any oftener at
Judson and Cambria in saying that such
stops would not pay. Under the pro-
posed scheme of running the morning
train around through Nicollet county,
people going back to Cambria from Man
kato would have to 60 to CORTLAND,
which is about mile from Cambria. The
fare from Mankato to Cambria over the
present route was fifty cents. The fare
from Mankato to CORTLAND over the
Nicollet county route was about one
dollar. The Chicago & Northwestern
seemed to be discriminating against
Mankato.
H. A. Patterson remarked that the
rate from Mankato to New Ulm via st.
Peter was one dollar. The rate from
Mankato to New Ulm via the short route
was II cents. Travelling men and others
going from Mankato to the west would
have to pay the difference every time
they went out on that morning train if
it should be changed over to the st. Pc
ter route.
Mr.. Hughes said the railroads seemed
to be fighting Mankato so as to favor
towns that were making more vigorous
kicks than Mankato was doing. 1t be-
hooved Mankato to kick good and hard.
Geogre E. Brett said the st. Peter peo-
pie were hustling and getting discrimna-
ton in their favor against the Manka-
tonians. The board should do vigorous
work. Mankato business men could not
afford to keep quiet.
John A. White expressed the opinion
that the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway company had real estate inter
ests that the company was trying to
work for at Judson and Cambria and
wished therefore to build up these places
at the expense of Mankato. If the judi
son and Cambria people could not shop
in Mankato without great Inconvenience
it would mean the upbuiiding of stores
at these places and consequent ad-
vance of real estate.
W. A. Funk thought that if st. Peter
could bring so much pressure to bear
when there was practically no competi-
ton of railroads, then surely Mankato
ought to be able to do something with
all the competition that this city had. All
shipments of freight could be made out
of tho CITY without patroniZino the Chi