The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-03-19
The Dismemberment Of Pere Marquette
Dismembermeht May be Either Complete or
Partial-Either Kind is Public Calamity

Partial-Either Kind is Public Calamity
be forecose-lPARTtAL If
Judgment No positively what going to happen But we know
rnn W F1 sos Ros' and we know
The underlying bonds do the whole but are mort
the the Chicago West Michigan the
Detroit Grand Rapids Western and the Flint Pe Marquette having
for over year because the system
The bondhoders now demanding their interest on their security
will follow with subsequent loss to the state
BEAR THESE FACTS IN MIND
available freight business
The demand for equal all the system each day the
different sections of the road As the demand
of the and then from another these
mahaed like conditions and the onuh of traffic For
durnng the there extraordinary demand
beans etc and then shifts to the Thumb district to move hay sugar bs
This alone OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT important the business
and aScFn cAs h %5s; Of rA S
the Marquette from other
lines three important ermnaChso Toledo Buffalo.
This valuable facility will be reduced than
Detroit Grand Rands Western will be limited to its Detroit terminal and
will
does not that small road good
mnas? This terminals added
SET BACK TRANSPORTATION FIFTEEN YEARS
TRANSPORTATION facilities will be set back fifteen the where
they when the consolidation if
was good raroadmg " tie together these three roads, situated they
whereby their combined and available
SLOWER S4' SERVICE EAST s1r'SO 0 "S FS'f marquette
Shipments east from the branches are delivered at Buffalo "a hours
example
from the St Louis section of the Saginaw and
through expedite freight;
City sections Grand Ledge
the Handled by Independent lines this business would
The
by the direct Frontier would
connections movemen delay many
branches where through eights the they lines
all the delays incident thereto The Thumb
and Of Chicago That business would
terminals Saginaw where only
terminals with the Michigan Central
NJ Today
Thumb into Grand Rapd
there through Chicago service for the udngton and Mtee sections with
SYSTEM HANDLING WOULD ABOLISHED
BAD BLOW TO COAL TRADE
The Saginaw valley has built
fuel trade the Web" territory The located old
NJ system provides distributing
this coal Michigan under traffic conditions which largely
delivery less efficient service valley Of
large portion Of this trade because added delay The
before the organization the opened the for the
SERIOUS LOSS IN TERMINAL FACILITIES
Dividing the that the Detroit Grand Rapids
would be without locomotive shops and would have yards Grand Rapids
which would be blow
Central has this time facilities
w. and the road would have terminal
the old NJ which Rapids way go
SOME SERIOUS BUSINESS DISADVANTAGES
Many low grade commodities a strictly
basis for road has and when such commodities
through made by adding the
from iemock Bay City The
This G. R. W. and
! F. P M with 40 cent rate Hemo Saginaw and
Saginaw Bay City through of so The
apply making logs and bolts and
such as brick sand gravel crushed stone FLEETWOOD and
You should
the division of the would
appreciate the Importance system
of Importance is transit privilege enioyed
Grand Rapids Saginaw Big Rapids Reed City
The mileage there embraced in
IT'S GOOD BUSINESS
SYSTEM INTACT
The Pere Marquette Railroad Michigan institution
which citizen has direct interest because reaching