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Show RIVAL RAILROADS WILL TAKE, INCH FOR INCH, EHCH OTHER'S TERRITORY NEW YORK, Aug. 24. The Herald today to-day says: Representatives of the two great railway systems of the Northwest that are at dagger's points about Invasions Inva-sions of each other's territory arrtred in this city yesterday. They were James J. Hill. President or the Great Northern railway, and Sir William C. Van Horne. chairman of the directors of the Canadian Pacific railway. Sir William promptly threw down the gauntlet to Mr. Hill when asked for his opinion of the letter's plan to build a Canadian line from the Pacific ocean to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in retaliation for the Canadian Pacific's encroachment oa the Great Northern'a preserves. "I don't know what Mr. Hill's plans are." salr Sir William. "Mr. Hill may be seriously planning the building of some lines into Canadian Pacific territory, and, while I am little more than an individual director in that company, now, I do not hesitate to say that two miles of line In the interest of the Canadian Pacific will be built in his territory to every mile he builds In that of the Canadian Pacific." Sir William expressed a belief that the real motive for Mr. Hill's project to build a Canadian line was the active competition competi-tion of the Canadia Pacific in through business from Chicago to Spokane, Wash. Mr. Hill, when Informed of Sir William's Wil-liam's observations. Intimated that the Canadian Pacific's interests evidently did not have a clear realization of the situation. situa-tion. "That talk about the rates to Spokane is nonsense." be said, "but I am not going to talk back. The Canadian line Is going to be built, but not by Mr. Hill, and bis friends. I am not building any railroads aa an individual. It Is a Great Northern enterprise." |
