| Show Personal and General H A Sheppard general agent of the Alton is with Alon us Otto Faas traveling passenger agent of the Santa Fe is in Salt Lake The Rock Island resumed its fast train service between Omaha and Chicago Sunday Sun-day and makes the run in seventeen hours Last week thea Pullman car company hipped from itsjshops 119 stock cars for the Atlantic and Pacific ten box cars for the Bee line and twentysix passenger cars Ohio and four baggage airs for the Baltimore OhioI is an open secret that the magnates of the Southern Pacific are very much dissatisfied satisfied with the present financial status of the company Huntington and his associates arc calling for economy They propose its it-s said to materially cut down their staff of mployes at the general offices Two hundred excursionists passed through Salt Lake on Sunday and Monday eastbound Those arriving on Sunday were shown the sights by the agents of the Grant BrQthers company Mondays arrivals ar-rivals saw what they did of the city from rat tie 1 < K L passenger uepot It is said that the Pullman Palace Car company has received assurances that the contract for the secondclass sleepers on the Northern Pacific will be signed this week and then the Union Pacific and other con peting lines will not have to run these sleepers without extra charge The guaranteed salary of Chairman Walker of the InterState Commere Railway Rail-way association 2oODO per annum for three years sounds somewhatstiff in days of general railroad retrenchment but chairmanships of all tn large associations command princely salaries Commissioner Fink receives 25000 Chairman Blanchard 18000 Chairman Waldo 18000 The Rock Island railroad company has begun running into Colorado its free tourist car service with nearly all conveniences of the palace car including porter hair mattresses pillows blankets towels soap etc When made up for the night the fourteen four-teen sections are partitioned off with sliding panels and curtained with heavy damask draperies Tables attachable to the sides of the interior are provided for each section I I is rumored that the Missouri Pacific is considering the advisability of building zn extension from Omaha to Huron Dakota and that Jay Gould contemplates visiting Omaha soon to look over the projected route This movement is said to be iromped by a desire to handle the large I amount of grain from the northwest which now goes to Duluthand Chicago which Jay Gould is seeking to haul over the Missouri Pacific to St Louis Heretofore Western Union telegraph wires have been supported upon two lines of poles extending from Omaha to Ogden They are now substituting larger and stronger poles and making ono line of poles carry all the wires This change has been completed as far west as Laramie and the poles are now being set in Evanston and yi inity Tho new poles are painted white and present a much more substantial and neat appearance than did the old ones The railroads have complied with the wishes of the South Omaha stockmen and done away with the weighing of live stock and decidedto resort permanently to hand hug live stock by carload lots The failure of the Kansas railway commission rescind its action in ordering the weighing system in that state abolished has led to this determination deter-mination and the railroads have decided de-cided to abandon the weighing system at Omaha South Omaha Plattsmouth and Nebraska city and at all local points west of the Missouri river |
