Show FILLMORE IS W AM I The S P Will Mot Hold Its Trains at Ogden San Francisco Chronicle Manager J A Filbnore of the Southern Pacific Is on the warpath He declared yesterday that he will force eastern roads to change their timetables or else he will hereafter pull westbound passenger trains out of Ogden on schedule lime and leave the belated be-lated trains of other roacis In Ogden and take the full and deserved blame for their inability to make their runs from Chicago on advertised time J I am tired of these delays he said and I mean t put an end to them right here They have been occurring regularly for over three months past The fault Is with the Denver Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Western together I to-gether as connecting roads and with the i Union Pacific Seventylive per cent of the time the Southern Pacific is kept waiting at Ogden for one or the other of I these lines When one is on time the other is late I we come away from Og I den without waiting there is a howl and j to would be one howl and then the other so oeu have rt JWl I The Union Pacific is not BO bad as the I I Denver Rio Grande but it is bad enough I The whole cause of the trouble is that I those lines have faster schedules than I they can make I Is all for an advertising i j advertis-ing record I is not possible for them to i come through on pcnedule time except I under the most favorable circumstances I r1rer ought to leave Chicago two hours earlier i This subject has been a matter of con troversy between myself and the managers mana-gers or those roads for the last three months Each would blame the other but I I proved that some of them were deliberately deliber-ately lying and i sent back their several claims and left them to fight it out among themselves I have asked them to start from Chicago Chi-cago earlier but they will no nothing Now I am going to do something The Southern Pacific has been getting get-ting the blame for trains arriving here late But I know whose fault it is We get the record of every day from Og den showing just when these trains get in there Ninetyfive per cent of the recent arrivals ar-rivals here on time was due to the making mak-ing up of time by the Southern Pacific from Ogden to this city But this fast running must stop It is not safe In winter win-ter and over our mountainous and rough I sections of road I shall not permit it I I after this Our trains will come through j I on schedule time but they will not take i chances tryin gto make up for the other i roads delays beyond Ogden We might change our schedule to as to leave Ogden three or four hours later but that would bring our trains into Oakland Oak-land after the last night ferry A special spe-cial boat would have to be fun the streetcars street-cars here would not be running and the passengers would not be satisfied No the change must be made at the other end and if we have to pull out of Ogden with empty cars or with passengers passen-gers that arrive too late to catch our preceding pre-ceding regular train The Denver Rio Grande the Rio Grande Western and the Union Pacific may deny that they are to blame for all these delays but it they do deny It they are lying for I have the records here |