Show WEST VEST EST PROFITS BY RAILWAY WARFARE I Action of Harriman System and Allies Means Means' Colonist Rates V Will iII Prevail EASTERN LINES OPPOSED Would Increase Revenue at Expense of of Men Who Seek Homes H Here re I II I After Arter months of bitter warfare I. I quietly carried on between the passenger pas pus enger departments of Eastern and ani Western Vestern railroads the fight for low colonist rates has been boen won by b the West The low rates have been the means of oC bringing brins thousands of ot Easterners Easterners Easterners East East- erners to new homes In the West Vest and have been one means of populating vast areas The fight for tor low Jow rates was begun by the tho Harriman system the Chicago Northwestern and the Chicago Milwaukee l AS St. St Paul Every line running east ea t of oC Chicago stood tood out against the low rates rate Powerful Powerful Powerful Pow Pow- erful commercial interests were behind the Eastern roads From advices received re ed ceI In local offices It Is now certain that the colonist rates will be continued con conS and that special Inducements will be made mad to next spring Mean Menn cm 5 Much uch to West cof It has been the tho custom for tor man many for tor the Western Vestern Passenger as assocIation association association as- as In conjunction with nh the tho passenger passenger passenger pas pas- associations of ot the Eastern states to grant special low rates at certain seasons season Nearl Nearly all these rates were of oC the tho colonist class and read for tor one wa way only Western Vestern roads ran tourist sleepers to accommodate the and brought thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of ot permanent residents to the West Rates as low as 25 from ChIcago Chicago Chicago Chi ChI- cago to the Pacific coast were mado made at nt various times These rates enabled enabled enabled en en- persons of the tho most limited means to make a trip West cst Tho The West Vest offering as It does docs great possibilities pos pos- for tor the was the great gainer by the special fares tares To 10 put an end to the exodus to the tho West est the Eastern roads attempted to tomake tomake tomake make the conditions governing g passage passage pas pas- sage sago on colonist rate rote tickets so stringent stringent gent ent that nobody would buy such transportation The first effort made was to eliminate nato nate from pa passengers passengers' privileges the tho use of standard and tourist sleepers and reclining chair choir cars As AB travel under such conditions would work a avast avast avast vast hardship the Eastern associations thought the death knell oC of colonist rates had been sounded Nobody r but immigrants would travel in da day coaches across the continent argued the tho Eastern passenger men V Sell Next Spring I It was as at this juncture that the Harriman Harriman Har Har- I riman traffic departments stepped In Inand inand In and demanded a modification of ot the conditions They also demanded the theold theold theold old privileges with some ver very slight changes for the For months the batto was waIf waged silently with the lt Western estern roads won Announcement has been made that all aU Western Vestern roads will sell seU colonist colonist col eel onist tickets next spring under the old conditions with the slight change as asto asto asto to checking baggage Evidence of the volume of or traffic from the colonist rates has been had hadin in the enormous travel el over ovel the Rio Grande during the thc last few tew weeks Every Ever da day the rates are in effect the trains running into Salt Sail Lake from the East comp come in In two and three sec see s |