Show Palatial Opera Train I The Southern Pacific company under II Pwllc comJan lie personal direction of Maurice I Gran haw arranged a palatial special I train for the Grand Opera company on I j I its tour of the West Including a stop at Suit Lake on December Jill The I e train will consist of Jive standard I Pullman sleapers the private car Grasrnere one diningcar two tourist In which cars and fight baggagecars all the scenery and properties will be carried The train will have to run In two sections The Oregon Short Line and Union Pacific handle tho train in Utah after the Southern Pacific delivers deliv-ers It at Ogden The train left New York November 2nd and left New Orleans Or-leans yesterday morning for California direct The only cities favored on the I i tour are Los Angeles San Francisco Salt Lake Denver Kansas City Lincoln Lin-coln Minneapolis and then New York There are 200 people In the company Railroad Notes Some of tlis Short Lines new cars will be along next month More cars of the Utah Central have been sent to the Sumpter Valley road I The usual holiday rates will be made this I year and the railroads are looking for a very hen travelS IAn I S I-An Interesting statistical volume IE I I j the Interstate Commerce commissions report for ISM covering full statistics of the railroads of the United States I The Rio Grande Western Southern j Pacific Union Pacific and Oregon I I Short Line are running more freight S crews than ever before in their history I I his-tory The Grau special makes 7053 miles on Its I tour of which the Southern I Pacific I r gets the long haul of 3391 i miles over Its own tracks from New Orleans to Ogden to which can be added 211 miles over the Minneapolis St Louis or a total of 3003 miles for a haul credited to Hawlcys office In New York The Union Pacific haul Is 1193 miles The other roads have short hauls A Burlington man hal C few prosperity pros-perity ligurr to offer Nearly a year ago a new scale of pay for switchmen was made cfTrriiw Before It went Into effect coy switchmen who worked thirty onedays In the month received G5 57 for their labor Now they re I celve SS04S Under the old scale night switchmen received 7151 while now they receive 80 ll Day foremen received re-ceived S7750 but now they get SO 12 while night foremen received under the old scale 33 They now receive I J95SS The aggregate amount paid out to laborers In the Lincoln yards this month will greatly exceed the amount paid out one year ago Nebraska State Journal I Journal |