Show IN RAILWAY CIRCLES First Quarterly Statement of Utah Demurrage Association CHARLES FRAKCIS PRIVATE CARabo Vicissitudes of a Railroad TownA Northwestern North-western View of Got Personal and General Points J W Robb chief inspector has issued the first quarterly report of the Utah Demurrage De-murrage association which shows as follows fol-lows FOR THE QUARTeR t 5 I V < f h a V s LT LAK CITY lnion Paci1cuu 10j 24G Rio Grande Vesternn 1082 lll V OGDE crn10n Paclficn 1 118 213 Rio Grande Westernn 593 1UI FRAKCIL Colon Pacilla h n 537 140 mo Grande ti79 156 SADY Union PaeUlcL u 96 160 Rio Grande Western 791 221 OtilEit STATIOSS Union Pac = fic un 319 213 Rio Grande Western 00 352 170 1otal 103i4 200 Charles Francis Private Car Car 010 which is set apart on the Union Pacific railway for tho use of the president of the road or such friends as he chooses to I install in it arrived Monday evening from the Pacific coast says the Omaha World Herald It is awaiting the orders of its first master Sidney Dillon When Mr Dillon takes the car his eyes will not rest on the mottoes which adorned its transoms in Charles Francis Adams time These sentiments were painted there some years ago by an artist friend from over tho sea who made a part of a trip with the Boston president Precisely whose sentiments they were was a matter of anxious conjecture with the subofficials of the road who were confronted by them when in response to a summons they entered en-tered the official car hat in hand and heart II In mouth But whether the artist or Mr Adams voiced them the sentiments remained I re-mained in the car until a short time ago I when the gentleman from the hub ordered them erased They read uu 00 n L GOD HATES A LIARS u l n u n u 7 l S TRUTH IS MIGHTV THEN WHY LIE I = 3 The New York president of the road will find in his car thesame stout bedstead that he used to stretch his stalwart frame upon up to 1SS5 when he retired from the head of the road Tradition has it that Mr Dil lons private car was the first to have a regular bedstead and that this was originally origi-nally a folding bed but was subsequently made rigid i Six or seven of the Union Pacific official cars are equipped with bedsteads and no one grudges them to men who have to spend a large part of their existence the road Dou bless the longest bed is that made for J R Choate when he was superintendent super-intendent at Denver Mr Choate measures 6 feet 4 inches when he stands and stretches out several inches longer when in repose The expedient of ranting two upper berths was not satisfactory and when he became the possessor of a private car it was remodeled to fit him S T Smith former general superintendent superintend-ent of the Union Pacific and now general manager of the Denver Rio Grande has allowed a motto to be painted in his car Nobody has any doubt as to whose motto It is It is characteristic of the general manager and does not need any name beneath be-neath This is the way it runs nnun uu nnnun 5 DO GOOD WHILE YOU LIVE FOR 1 1 YOULL BE LONG DEAD i I n u uu u n n u p Omaha WorldHerald Vicissitudes of a Railroad Town The order received by Master Mechanic Dunn to close the shops down as near as possible on tomorrow and retain men enough only to keep them in motion is a sad and unfortunate order not only to those in the shops but those in business in our city and a bad break certainly to our holiday trade We are sorry to hear that such an order has been received but the ways of railroading are mighty uncer inn and sometimes if not always hard to u in-n derstand Pocatcllo Herald A Northwest View of Gould Mr Goulds attitude is that of a shrewd and cautious business man But it has been demonstrated that he can be as bold in triking for an advantage as he isin habitually habit-ually cautious about encountering needless risks More certainly than those who are habitually less prudent he can be depended upon to incur any necessary expense and to be on time to meet an offering or a reasonable rea-sonable prospect of profitable business On the whole therefore it may be confidently predicted that the new turn of affairs must in the long run prove highly beneficial to this section The talent and enterprise with which this section abounds will adapt itself to the new conditions and be transferred trans-ferred from the channels of speculation to those of development It may be somewhat slower but it will be far surer There can be no serious backset There is too much of solid wealth and real merit here for that It will have simply forced our surplus of enterprise and energy into channels that V hould have been chosen voluntarily and will mark the beginning of an era of permanent per-manent and enduring prosperity Seattle FostlntclUycnccr oHoliday Rates The Rio Grando Western railway announce an-nounce that on December 24 25 31 and January 1 they will sell round trip tickets from all stations to all stations in Utah at eunde trip fare good to return until January Janu-ary 5 iSm Personal and General Tho Kansas City Car Service association will be organized in a few days This about completes the car service organization organiza-tion in Missouri The earnings tho New York Central railroad for November were 3099o81 ala decrease from the corresponding month last year of 13823 Lht The Burlington has sent out its Christmas Christ-mas card a solid sensible wellprinted calendar for the coming year large enough to be seen by everybody A map of the system is included Circulars have deen received by eastern lines announcing the withdrawal of the payment of commissions on passenger business bus-iness originating in California and Nevada All the transcontinental lines have signed the agreement It is said that during the first year of the operation of the interstate law twenty ve roads west of Chicago lost 15000000 in gross earnings and 29000000 in net and j since thenthere has been iio improvement j except as methods of pooling have been adopted The situation in the southwest has grown much more satisfactory sin ce the new association formed this year has been in operation j I It is estimated that the total amount of business involved in the transcontinental trade is about 25000000 of which aoout I a a V i one half refers California anl onethird to the Northern Pacific coast The gross amount of the business collected by Eastern agents it is said has not equaled their salaries sal-aries and office expenses because the bulk of the whole Tusiness originates at Chicago or west of there So far as the Union Pacific Pa-cific is concerned it was propospd in Boston Bos-ton before Mr Gould took control to abolish abol-ish them altogether except so fur as the Chicago and Northwestern might choose to maintain them Under Mr Goulds plan these competitive transcontinental agencies agen-cies it is understood will be merged or abolished altogether |