The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-01-20
TRAIN SERVICE
Subject of Petition to the
d. & 1. R. Officials.

The question of petitioning the
management of the Duluth & Iron
Range railroad for a schedule al
lowing the evening passenger and
mail train to get into Ely an
hour or two earlier has been dis
cussed wherever and whenever two
or more people have met, and the
concensus of opinion seems to be
that the petition now in circulation
and which will be submitted to the
railroad officials will have some
effect. A petition is also being
prepared at Tower, Section 80 and
Winton bearing on the subject.
Wednesday, inside of an hour,
$50 signatures were secured to the
paper and all signing expressed
themselves forcibly in favor of the
same. Every business man ap-
preached was very much in favor of
it some even going so far as to say
things regarding the present sched-
ule which would not look well in
print and which were not very
complimentary to the road.
| One man said he would sign but
thought it would do no go good.
Why" said he, the railroad
people will only laugh at us.
They have the only road into Ely
and if you don't like their style,
why, you can walk and carry your
freight up from Duluth. AL
though all indications point that
way, we do not believe that the
public-be-damned" policy pre-
walls with the D. & I. R. If this
should be the case, now is the best
time to find out and the petition
signed by the business men and
other patrons of the road is the
straw which will tell which way
the wind blows.
Last weeks utterances in the
MINER have been freely commented
on and all subscribed to the truth
of the statements. It is the united
opinion that change would be of
material benefit to the city's bust
ness, fraternal, social and moral
life. The petition as prepared
reads as follows:
To THE OFFICIALS OF THE sDU-
LUrH & IRON RANGE RAILROAD:
We, the undersigned citizens
of Ely and patrons of the Duluth
& Iron Range railroad, feel that an
effort should be made by the man.
agement of the railroad to have the
evening passenger and mail train
arrive here considerably earlier than
at the present time and among
several reasons why this should be
done will state the following;
/. The mail arriving on the
evening train is practically worth
less from business point of view
insofar as attending to the same
the evening of its arrival is con-
cerned, owing to the early hour of
leaving in the morning.
2. Local organizations, lodges
and entertainments, are not attend
ed simply because Our people have
formed the habit of waiting for the
train and the mail. When public
gatherings of any kind are held,
they find it almost impossible to start
until about nine O'Clock or later
after the distribution of the evening
mail.
8. We feel that the late arrival
of the evening train has been the
ruination of Our social and frater-
nal life; that Our children are
being injured morally by the late
ness of the towns condition; that
our treatment in this respect is not
as it should be considering the
amount of business the road re-
ceiyes from Ely; and that if the
railroad officials will do the fair
thing by this end of the line, the
conditions could be remedied with
out causing the officials much effort
and greatly to the welfare of our
community,
I'VE are looking at this question
from a business, moral and social
standpoint and if we arerightly in
formed we can see no reasons why
the evening train can not reach
Ely no later than 7 o clock.
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