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Show ALL TWISTS. Traffic Managers Have Little Respect Re-spect for the Presidents of the Different Koads. Proved Unequal to the Tuk of Establishing Establish-ing Territorial Traffio Divisions. Di-visions. ASD ADJOURNED IN DISGUST. After Applying a Few Complimentary Compli-mentary Adjectives to Their Respective Presidents. Vlssionary Schemes That Should Not Be Carried Into Effect is What They 817. EVERY EFFORT THEY MADE FAILED. Thay ar All Fraction! Rallrond Man an! thaTuk Aulg-nad Thcan tl s Vain Ona. CmcAao, Jan. 17. The traffic managers man-agers of the western roads have proved unequal to the task of establishing territorial ter-ritorial divisions of the Western Trafllo association. They wero In session for three hours this morning and got no lurther than than the informal division of tbo subject yesterday. Tho reason for not accomplishing the work was that the Great Northern was not represented. rep-resented. Today President Hill and Traffio Manager Shelby wero both in attendance and yet it was found impossible im-possible to make any inatorial progress. Every effort to reach au agreement on the material points of territorial boundary lines met with objections. The upshot of the whole discussion of the matter was its reference to tho commissioners' association. Tho traffic traf-fic managers adjourned their meeting in disgust. They are all practical railroad rail-road men who have worked themselves up to their present positions by actual experience in business aod not a few were frank enough to express the opinion opin-ion that tho presidents and financial backers of the roads were visionary theorists, whose ideas should not bo carried Into effect. |