| Show HERBERT WILL WILLi ARRIVE TODAY TODA Y i t Manager of Rio Grande Lines Inspects Western t EMPLOYEES KEPT GUESSING I 4 t WHAT WILI WUL BE tI HADE E 4 I J M J Herbert manager r of the Bio Ro Roth Giare th GI v I S e system is expected to arrive in ill n nV V Salt ke today on h h tint first visit to i the th city since he e was WIlA w appointed to his pres pre present present I ent mt pOtIon position Mr Herbert erbert is at present engaged in a tour tout of inspection over the theM M tem stem He spent yesterday on the San Sea Sanpete Sante I pete te branch accompanied riled by General Superintendent dent Welb WeIb lb Assistant Traffic I Manager Mana r Babcock and Chief Engineer Yard The special train tran bea ng the party I spent last Jagt at Thistle Junction Employees of ot the mad road are indulging la lii a large amount of speculation s over the significance if any of this trip of the th ne new manager His trips tripe over the tb tbD Denver D nver Rio Grande have resulted in an ant several t changes and the Utah railroad I men are if jf similar results will follow fonow on the Rio Grande Western Conditions ft are different on the two roads made however and d there r is a feeling that tibo the Utah men mn have i ave reason to e feel f safer than those on the D A R G GOn GOn GOn On the Colorado road the principal changes haDges have been in connection with tho th Pueblo yards The congestion of traffic fit fic there has lasted asted for years and more than han one has gone down before this problem Mr H I l bert rt has hold of it energetically and introduced averal reforms chief among which has ha ba been the appointment of a superintendent of terminals who wilt will devote practical his lIis entire en time to keeping traffic moving L through Pueblo bI The RIo Tho Grande Geande Western has han no such I problem The road Toad H ii in good shape The greatest fear on the part of the Western W tern employees is that changes j I ilI be made on the ground of economy The policy of General Velby elby lisa IMS been to pay good wages wa hire bIr only experienced men in the o operating ting I department and to expect a sen service ice as near perfect as human effort can make ke keIt it There in is I no seniority every man I stands on OIl his merits m There T ere is a fear fearin in income come rome quarters quarter that the new management I I 1 will seek seep to hold down IOWa wages and to in increase Increase Increase crease the amount of work for each employee f putting It on a II basis akin TO tG that of the th Great Northern a road that thatis I is ar from popular with railroad men menThe menThE The principal ground for this fear is that General Manager Rumell Harding Hardin Hardina was nas a up to three years ago aar general su of the Great Northern Men Ken who vho know the records of Mr Harding and aDd Mr fro Herbert best however say aT that their policy polky will not beof bel be of the cheese cheeseparing I paring flaring kind and that few changes eba if Ifa any a iy of consequence are to be antici anticipated But even these tb persons admit that they are era merely Iy guessing |
