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Show i;! DOUBLE TRACKING 1 COMPLETE BY 1915 M SAN FRANCISCO, March 1. That !Jl the double tracking of the trans-conti- 5fcg nental lines of the Southorn Pacific Je and Union Pacific railways will be fjfij completed In time for the opening of fjj the Panama-Pacific International cxpo- $8 sltlon, was the statement made by fa President Robert S. Lovett. of the Har- rlman lines on his arrival here. Mr. Lovett declared that the dccldon to cjouble-track was the result of business growth and independent of the choice I of San Francisco as the place for hold- $JZ! Ing the exposition. The work will lis 3& prosecuted, according to Mr. Lovett, SV, In sections and distributed over such H a period that no stringency will be IKS caused by the expenditure of quch a -TO large sum. The actual work will be In -Hi' j charge of Vice President E. E. Calvin fW at this end of the lines and Vice Pres- jti ldent Bancroft at the eastern end. Tj President Lovett stated that the iit rate decision of the Interstate Com- 'M 4 merce commission wuld have no cf- Ml 'cct uP0n tne P'ans f tne lines nov Ut j under his control. He admitted that "I some Investors had been frightened 4 by the decision, but said that only a j0 j series of such decisions could harm 2 J the railroads. That the sobsr busl-,ti busl-,ti ness sense of the country would pro-Mi pro-Mi vent such a series was the declaration of the railway head. |