Show IX RAILWAY CIRCLES Percentage of Decrease in Rio Grande EarnIngs Diminishing Following is the table of earnings of the Denver S Rio Grande of last week Table of earnings for last week I 1S94 I 1S93 Freight 5 S5600j109000 Passenger A 14103 23000 Express mail etc I loTOO 16200 Total 113 1 W310C Tot 34 Decrease 35700 or 23 34100 pr cent For the ca year to late 1189394 I 189293 Freight 294S0225279S63 Passenger 1 754436 1147040 Express mal etc 47301S 6240 Total I 41754766050312 I Decrease 1874836 or 30 93100 per cent until the only earn operating expenses unt clouds ear roll by A few more days will rol chaos or either bring order out of chaos from the move already made I The public is not much worked up over that incorporation of the Salt Lake Los Angeles road of 500 miles capitalized as it is for only 100000 i There are not a dozen people in Utah that understand the real significance of the move and it will be confined and tantilizing cir within the narrow tantizing er cle for the time being I There is some talk to the effect that I the U P will lengthen the divisions 1 on the west end making the Seventh I and the I from Rawlins to Granger Eighth Rawlns Granger to Ogden Also that the shops would be concentrated at Granger so that the point is the eastern terminus of the Oregon Short Line The U P officials have been buying and surveying grounds there President Thomas of the Nashville Chatanooga St Louis railway has practically agreed to restore the old contract and schedule of wages The negotiations were carried on with representatIves rep-resentatives of the Conductors Switchmen Switch-men Trainmen and Firemens brotherhoods broth-erhoods The men however agreed to accept a temporary reduction of 10 percent per-cent pending a revival in business All the adroit questions that can be put to General Superintendant Welby these days regarding how the new traffic due between the D R G and the Gulf lines will affect the R G Wwi W-wi result in the stereotyped assurance assur-ance that i wont hurt the Rio Grande Western any The statement may well go without questioning thoug it dont carry with i much information in-formation The public does not generally know that the versatile and efficient private secretaries and chief clerks to railway magnates ar e likewise acomplished liars of the first water The more adept they are in this necessary dis simultation in guarding the privacy of officers who demand and are justly entitled the more valuable is the assistance as-sistance rendered as time is necessary I to peruse and dispatch matters constantly con-stantly before railway officials The chief clerk must smile blandly as he tells innumerable callers that the offi cer wanted is not in though he is and intends to stay if possible The md always justifies the means save hen a chief clerk through long habit fails to keep keyed up that perspicuity in faithful discount of of mind proper admissions beyond the lines guarded And yet are they a right royal set |