The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-17
UNION STATION
LACK HURTS CITY
ST. PAUL GAINS WHILE MINNIE
APOLIS LOSES. e"
Ticket Agents at Outside Points Now
/ Route Thru Passengers by Way of
Smaller City Because of Confusion
Liable to Arise Here-City Poorly
+ Advertised.

Because of the proposed new. union
railway station, to secure which, active
plans arc already under way, Mime
apolis is to become the stop-over point
of the northwest for thru travel both
east and west. At present, much Of
this business is given to St. Paul, which
has a union station, and tho Minneapo-
lis has many visitors, who stop over on
thru. trips, ST.. Paul has received too
much to satisfy Minneapolis, and ali
because this city has no union station.
The reason for the apparent discrim-
ination in favor Of st. Paul in the thru
travel, especially from the west. is the
better facilities offered for changing
trains in the St. Paul union station.
Station agents thru the west, who have
occasion toS sell thru tickets east, by
ticket rather than Minneapolis. They
know that there is only one station in
st. Paul and that the traveller will not
be obliged to make transfer across
the city to another station. Mime
apolis. with it's several stations, offers
something of problem at present, The
agent does not care to invite possible
trouble by subjecting the passenger to
a transfer at Minneapolis and, to play
safe, routes his business thru st. Paul.
Where City Gains.
The new station will also remove an.
other discrimination against the city.
MANY complaints have been made to
the Commercial club and other business
organizations that it is impossible to
secure Minneapolis sleeping-car tickets
In the west, st. Paul being the only
town named. The Pullman company IS
headquarters for the northwest are
there, and because Of that fact and the
heavy transfer business at that point
sleeping-car blanks for transcontinenta
travel read to st. Paul and not to Min
neapolis. A vigorous complaint has
been registered and on some of the
newer forms Minneapolis is included
With the stopover and change of lines
bringing the, heavier business to Min
neapolls, the city cannot be ignored il
the future. 49, "a
/ One Other Reform. e. s,'.:.. 4
Another railroad reform that bust
ness interests are demanding is a wide]
advertising Of special rates to Mime
apolis and the northwest, especially
from the southeast, east, south anC
southwest, where homeseekers may bt
interested in the Minneapolis territory
minneapolis special rates at present arr
hardly mentioned, especially in thu
southwest, but special southwestern
rates are widely advertised here. Th,
lines reaching that territory are heavy
landholderss in their territory and ar,
naturally. interested in attracting set
tiers and travel. The same attention
/ is now demanded for the great Min
nesota and northwestern territory ant
for Minneapolis, the logical center O
the northwest. 49,: @.>:"- ,,qS,
Minneapolis now has the whip hant
in making demands for" recognition be
| cause of the heavy manufacturing, an,
lobbing interests that are settling here
and the immense and growing freigh
business out Of the city. With iii
business as lever, and a united move
ment, it is thought that the desired re
forms will be gained much more easil
than under the old conditions. -: