The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-18
RAIL ROADS HAVE
GREAT SPEED WAR
Great Northern and C., N. &
st. P. Are Rivals in a
Deadly Duel.
AFTER A MAIL CONTRACT
TWO WARRING SYSTEMS HAVE
EACH OFFERED THE GOVERN.
MENT TO CUT OFF is HOURS IN
TIME TO COAST,
american News Seryice)

(American News Service)
Washington. D. c., Sept. 1S.-Rival
propositions to carry the mails from
Chicago to Seattle in fifty-six hours
have been submitted to the Postofficc
Department by the Great Northern
Railway company and by the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad.
Such an accomplishment as is pro-
posed would clip sixteen hours off the
present schedule for the 2,2oO miles.
The threatened speed war has for its
reward the four-year contract for car
rying the overland mail from Chicago
for the Puget Sound country. Alaska,
and trans-Pacific ports. and from Chi
cago to st. Paul and Minneapolis. 1t
means nearly $7,OOOOOO additional rev.
enue to the successful road during the
four years following next February,
when the contract is due to be award
ed.
The connection of the Puget Sound
extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul has made it possible to COM
pete for the contract for carrying the
Puget sound mail. It's submission of
a proposal at this time, however, is
said not to have been anticipated until
| very recently, as the extension is used
| now only for freight traffic. In order
to meet the schedules proposed the
| successful company plans to run a
train exclusively for mail and express.
Proposed Schedule Time.
With the st. Paul attempting to OBJ
| tain the Pacific coast contract, the
Great Northern includes in its proposal
to the government an offer to carry
| the mails to St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The schedule submitted by the Great
Northern provides for the train to leave
Chicago at 1 80 a. M, Monday; Mime
apolis at 1865 a. M, Monday; Havre,
1927 a. M, Tuesday; leave Butte. Z p.
m. Tuesday; leave Spokane. Ills p.
| m. Tuesday, and arrive in Seattle at III
a. m. Wednesday. The mail would
also reach Tacoma at II o'clock noon
Wednesday, and Portland at a. m.
| Wednesday,.
It is proposed by the Great Northern
company to use the Chicago. Burling-
ton & Quincy railroad between Chica-
go and Minneapolis and its own tracks
between Minneapolis and the Pacific
coast
The schedule of the Chicago, Mflwan.
kee and st. Paul provides for its train
Minneapolis at S:15 a. m. Monday: Alb
erdeen at $50 p. m. Monday: Miles
City at 1912 a. m. Tuesday; Butte at
11:JO a. M, Tuesday and to arrive at
Seattle at 6 a. m. Wednesday. Tacoma
| would be reached at $50 a. m. Wed.
nesday.
| Great Northern Route Longer.
The exact time consumed by the
Great Northern would be IS hours and
10 minutes, while the rival schedule
calls for the trip to be made in ).
hours and 55 minutes.
The Great Northern route is seventy
miles longer. being 2.247 miles. while
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Is
PIT.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
train would leave Chicago four hours
earlier. but not until the heavy fast
mails on the New York Central and the
| Pennsylvania lines had arrived. and
the accumulation of the business mails
| at Chicago during the afternoon h41
been put aboard. =
In contrast with the rivalry a
North the speed war anticipq4n
carrying the mail to CaliforHi
to be dwindling. The A.
peka & Santa Fe has =
department of its with FRO.
posal recently subno cn q
train to run from Ange'