Opposes Competitive Road - IC into Milwaukee

St . Paul Line endeavors to keep Illinois Central out of Milwaukee.

Milwaukee, WI. Sept 8 - the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railroad will make every possible effort to keep the Illinois Central out of Milwaukee.  This was today when the Milwaukee Southern Railroad, the line by which the Illinois Central Road hopes to get access to this city, tried to secure condemnation in a court of a right of way through the southern part of the city.

The Illinois Central plans to build a line into Northern WIsconsin, and is understood to be reaching out for a share of the northern Michigan ore traffic.  In such an event its lines would reach from the Gulf of Mexico to Lake Superior, but the roads which already have terminals in MIlwaukee will fight the project.

When a tract near a city park was asked to be condemned for a right of way, two local officials of the St Paul appeared in court to protest and asked the court to refuse to permit the building of the road, saying that is construction would impair the beauty of the city park.  The court took the application under advisement.

New York Times  Sept 9 1903.