Show TO fiX P55EEk RTES Eccles Wadleigh and Burley Bur-ley Off Fo Portland SLASHING IN NORTHWEST COKPEBENXJE NECESSARY TO GET MATTERS INTO SHAPE latest Information Regarding the letter Carriers Convention at San FranciscoRailway News by Wire local Notes Traffic Manager Eec es and General Passenger Agent Burley of the Short Line and General Passenger Agent Wadleigrh of the Rio Grande Western will leave the city this evening for Portland where they go to hold a conference con-ference wIth the passenger department of the Oregon Railway Navigation company the Northern Pacific officials ind the officers of the Great Northern oad5 on the matter ot passenger traffic It appears from statements made esterday that there is a regular chacs In passenger rates from the northwest eastward Tickets are sold on the go asyouplease plan are hawked by brokers on the streets and everything pertaining to the business 13 more or less generally demoralized There is such sharp competition In eastern traffic that the agents of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern are cutting everything to bits Brokers commissions commis-sions are slashed down and the benefit given the passenger to the detriment of the CIther roads In order to meet these actions on the part of the northern north-ern lines it Is said the 0 R N is resorting to the same methods and the conference of the passenger men is called for the purpose of seeing what can be done in the way of getting matters mat-ters adjusted so this will not occur anymore any-more The same conditions which apply to passenger rates are obtaining in freight shipments only to a more limited lim-ited extent Just now when the shipments ship-ments of fruit are the heaviest the Toads can jHafford to make sacrifices and an effort will be made to settle that matter also It is believed that Mr Bccles has authority to make all arrangements on behalf of the Western West-ern and that all rates will be discussed and lined up ere he comes back L A leading official of the Western said yesterday that matters were in bad shape and that something had to be done or else all business from the west would be seriously damaged It is expected the party will be absent ab-sent for three or four days in arranging arrang-ing matters They go straight to Portland Port-land from here |