Show STEAMSHIP MEN FILE COMPLAINT Arrangement of Colonist Railway Railway Rail Rail- Rai- Rai way Rates Causes Inconvenience OCEAN TRAVEL IRREGULAR O O Itc at ut C Certain Times anti mil Running Nearly Empty Empt at nt Others Changes I Exported Expected Transatlantic steamship companies have made complaint to the western vestern and amid transcontinental railroads about their manner of oC making colonist rates Th The ThO tendency of o the plan pursued the they 8 say is IR to concentrate all al the lie Immigrant grant steamship business on the limited him lim dates on which imich the time reduced one one- way vay colonist rates are arc In effect in this country This causes great lo loss s Ind inconvenience to the lie st steamship I compan com corn pan panics Ie The rhe railroads allow alow the steamship companies to sell sel tickets ets at colonist Jl rates S In Europe all the time year round but these tickets are arc good in this country only for tor limited and defined periods The result is that Immigrants Immigrants grants do not buy tickets ticket wh when n U it suit suit- them to do so so but wait walt until the colonist col cil tH onist rates arc are in effect here Then Thel they come conic with wih a rush overcrowding the steamers at one omme period and lea leav In ing them empty at nt others May Iny Grant Gram Request t The request of or the steamship companies companies com corn panics is that the tickets be sold jold in Europe only between the th dates on omu which they are arc effective here and arid haw have them m made good for transportation an any ammy time hue within the time limit of the time year ear earin far farIn in which the they are sold The ht roads are now considering the tao matter and amid may decide to grant the time request The large lare Increase In pa passenger travel during the few fe weeks In March Marchand Marchand and April Apri when the colonist rates rato were wore In iii effect on all al of the transcontinental transcontinental lines was the cause of a a. general gen gen- cn- cn eral oral Impression that the time population of or orthe the time West Vest was growing at an unprecedented unprecedented rte rate Reports of ot the Pacific Pad Pac 1 fic tic steamship companies show sho however however how how- ever that some somo of the time so railed so were seeking Reeking homes across the ocean hut but it Is known that this mas as only a n small percentage |