The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-02-11
GrilIing For the Great Western
Read: Merchants Along
Line Complain
From saturday,s Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Many complaints are being received
at the Commercial club office con-
corning the discrimination of the
morning express service on the Chi
cago Great Western railroad. This
has affected large territory tribu-
tary to Mankato, and interested par
ties are greatly disappointed at the
u taking away of this very necessary
~. convenience President Charles I
Taylor of the Commercial club yes
terday received telephone call from
a merchant at Madison Lake, protest
"a, ing vigorously against the cutting of
On the express service. He stated that
IL he could not now obtain Mankato
-, bread, and unless the service was re-
stored he would be compelled to get
his bread from Faribault. A local
florist also telephoned saying that he
/, had lost two good orders for flowers
49, that day owing to the fact that there
80 was no morning express service. A
number of other complaints came in
to the Commercial club office yester-
40 day and today, and it seems that very
many business men are seriously in
convenienced including the fruit COM
missioners, ice cream manufacturers
and other shippers. In order to as
certain if anything can be done tc
~ have the express service restored and
}. also to ask for train coming into
.. Mankato during the forenoon and
leaving in the afternoon, so that the
merchants may not lose the trade
coming in from towns on the line,
p President Taylor has appointed the
following committee of investigation:
sg H. A. Patterson, chairman; Fred
u. Kron, A. NJ Stein, Elmer Nelson, T
81, Roebke.
IT, Complaint of Freight Rates.
Today the Commercial club re-
p. ceived a complaint from Mayer Broth
r~ ers' company concerning the discrim-
ination being made in freight rates
to the Pacific coast, in favor of Min
neapolis and against Mankato. The
freight on tractors by carload lots
from Minneapolis to Seattle as shown
by the tariff sheet of the Omaha line
is ~ cents per hundredweight, while
the rate from Mankato is 81 cents
this rate being made by adding in
the car rate from Minneapolis to
d. Mankato of u cents per hundred
weight and this notwithstanding the
fact Mat freight consignmentS from
Mankato to the Pacific coast over the
Omaha road never move an inch
= toward Minneapolis. There is a SIM
90 liar discrimination on tractors in less
ri than car lots. The Minneapolis rate
is 81. 60 per- hundredweight and the
Mankato rate $1S67 This seems 2 /
rank injustice toward the Mankato
tractor industry and gives an advan-
tage tC the big factories of Minneapo-
lis In order to see what can be done
to rectify this injustice President
no ]
composed of F. z. Crandall A. w |
Anderson, Otto Kammerer, who will
work with General Manager Hatcher |
of the Mayer Brothers company. It /
is hoped that satisfactory result will
r. be accomplished.
Funds For Teachers.
President Taylor also appointed L
l.. Wood, John B. Richards and Pro-
lessor NJ. w. Deputy a committee to
~ raise funds to meet the deficiency of
= the program committee of the South |
ern Minnesota Teachers association |
: which it is expected will be about /
SIS or $50. /
- Fred w. Kruse, Andrew Flo and
Frank G. Thomas were appointed 9
committee to consider the desirable /
itys of forming an "Ad Club" in Man. !
= kato, and report at a future meeting
va of the club.
~ Secretary Soaring of the CONNER
& cial club today received a report from
~. Secretary Gibbs Of the Sioux Falls, |
Commercial club in regard to the |
tractor demonstration held in Sioux
- Falls last summer. Mr.. Gibbs states |
-, that the demonstration held in Sioux
B., Falls last year was a success and
ts proved of considerable commercial
value 1t cost about 81 300 The Sioux
Falls Commercial club had seriously
considered having a similar demon
stration this year, but it was found
that a number%of the manufacturers
10 of tractors have entered an agreement
to form a tractor circuit, starting in
% the southern states and working
north, holding demonstrations in one
go city Of each state They asked the
20, club TO put up fund of $4,000 to be
spent at their direction and the club
felt that it was not warranted in
making such an expenditure, espe-
NJ cially as the promoters wanted the
money spent entirely under their own
-, direction, so it was decided not to
have the demonstration this year
~ The secretary of the ManKato Com
mereial club has written the commit
tee in charge of the tractor demon
40 stration, and if $4,000 or a sum any
- where near as large is asked it is
fn likely that the Mankato Commercial
club will decline to make application
for a tractor demonstration to be
a held in this city.
rs From Saturday, parry.
.a Frank Schaffan, who lives alone on