The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-18
HILL SUPPORT WITHDRAWN
FROM SPOKANE APPLE SHOW
Reason Given is That Only Large Fruit District the
Great Northern Will Not Be Represented President
Does Not Care to Contribute to Advertising Com
munities Which Are Not on His Line
James ]. Hill and President Louis

James ]. Hill and President Louis
Hill of the Great Northern Railway
company will not lend their influence
nor contribute any money to the Spo-
kane Apple Show this year 1t has
become known that both the Hills are
displeased to learn that Wenatchee
is being Disseminated against by the
apple show management in the mat
ter of grading rules. That fact is the
sole reason for the non-support which
the Spokane enterprise will receive
from them until this matter is ar
ranged to the satisfaction of We
natchee.
In the past James J. Hill has con-
tributed 81 200 to the apple show
at Spokane each year, also valuable
prizes. But more than all else of
benefit to the apple show people has
been the moral support of the vener-
able founder of the Great Northern
system as we'll as of the hundreds of
officials throughout the country. Now
all this is to be withdrawn.
The first indication of the position
of the company in this difference be-
tween Wenatchee and the apple show
trustees, was shown by NJ. J. Costello,
western traffic manager at Seattle
In an interview he plainly stated
where his sympathies lie. 1t is now
known that Secretary Rem Rice then
wrote to President Louis Hill and
tried TO make an explanation. Word
is being whispered about now among
railroad officials that the apple show
secretary received a very plain state
ment of the position of the Great
Northern. He was told that the rail-
road is interested in the apple show
only as an advertising proposition
for the benefit of communities on it's
line; that Wenatchee is the only
large fruit. growing district on the
natchee is not represented in the
show, the railroad has no further in
terest in it no matter what the rea-
son of the fact may be.
There is no denying the fact that
Spokane is beginning to feel the eff
feet of discriminating against We
natchee. Overtures of peace have
been forthcoming in various ways
from that direction. But it is we'll
nigh impossible now to rectify the
mistake Hence the trustees and
Secretary Rice are endeavoring 10
spread the story that they had Moth
ing to do with the grading rules.
They say that when the Wenatchee-
protest was received, the whole mat
ter was then put up to a vote OF all
the carload exhibitors and the COM
mercial clubs hitherto represented in
the show, and that they would
change the rules to suit the Wenat-
chez protestants provided they
should be given the endorsement of
two-thirds of these exhibitors. With
much gustO Mr.. Rice is telling that
the vote was evenly divided and that
the trustees had no power to make
any other ruling than in accordance
with this vote. He always fails to
mention that the Wenatchee Com
mercial club was not allowed a vote;
nor were the five carload exhibitors
from this district If these had been
extended the right which belonged
to them, the result would have been
quite different. One of the trustees
privately acknowledged this fact to
a Wenatchee man, but added that the
show could not have been pulled of
this year unless Wenatchee be given
this handicap. Other districts are
to compete if put on an
equal footing with Wenatchee