Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — THE RAILWAYS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILWAYS.

' The President of the Ohio and Mississippi Road states that only its interstate passes have been called in... .Robert Garrett has informed the Mayor of Baltimore that the details of the mammoth iailroal deal will soon be given to the public. The pass agent of the Wisconsin Central Railroad has given notice that members of the Wisconsin Legislature will bo asked to ' return their passes, but that the company will issue free transportation to the members and elective Stale officers. It. is said that the St.' Paul, North'.' estein, Omaha„Luke Shore, Milwaukee and North"CTfl, and Yhs'ffSiHin CThfKit TlBTe "enterecTj into an agreement not to issue any more passes,;.. .The lease of the Passumpsic ■ Road by the Boston and Lowell makes j Boston the seaport terminus of the j Canadian Pacific system, and gives to the Boston and Maine • Road con- i trol of two thousand miles of track.... j The new freight tariff from Pittsburg to ! Chicago shows a reduction of 7£ cents per hundred pounds in first-class rates, and 2i cents in three other classes, ( cal rates are unchanged.... The sale of the New York, Rutland anil Montreal Railway, to lift $350,000 in certificates issued by the receiver, has been ordered by Judge Wallai c, of Syracuse.,.. The Secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association of Chicago has mailed a letter to the General Managers of twenty-six different railroads asking if it were the railroad managers’ ultimatum that the price of commercial travelers’ 1,000niile tickets be fixed at $25 instead of S2O, as at present, and that fr o baggage be limited to 150 pounds on each ticket. Secretary H.W, K. Cutter saysif an amicable settlement cannot be reached there will he a bitter fight. low \ railroad properly has just been ! assessed at $38,000,000 for pnrposes of taxation, an ircrease of $4,000,000 over last year's valuation.