Show t v SHORT k LINE EARNINGS November Showed a Great Increase SL Over Former Months For the month of November 1S9D the Oregon Short Line gross earnings were 57S10S770 an increase S7S11S06 over November 1SOS For the live months S ending with November the gross reached 372JG5070 an increase of SllJ OlfiSO during the same period in 1898 November I 1S99V showed the largest S sro s for any November In the roads history The great Increase is best hon by comparing S108779 in 1S99 5J and 467773W In ISO I or nearly CO percent j4 per-cent Increase In live years S DISCUSS CUT RATES c Passenger Officials Again Try to Make Settlement Boston Jan Twenty I or more rail L load lines East and West were represented repre-sented In the conference of passenger igentB t In this city today at the ollleo of Q lie New England Passenger assoeln ion Included In the gathering were LI rproscntallvoB from the Canadian Taclilc Santa Fe Northwestern Hock Hand Great Northern Southern Pack Pa-ck Union Pacillc Central Pacific and tunic lines he long standing troubles over rail red rates was the question which the crforonco had been called to discuss Fc months the socallod standard and dlcronllal lines have boon cutting ra > 8 to the Vest and points on the r 10 Me slope The New England Pos fcoir iHHoeiatlor haa been the one to co lnJes rl cut rates aio via Montreal and < e 25GO from 13 Boston to Colorado oumon points 2GGO from Boston to S California common points and 3370 prom Itoston rol to Pacific coast points 1 J l ho COTtC8t all day today centered on a u the rofu nl 1 of the differential lines out 5 of BnKion io ibtiiulon the authorized Nleml They hold tint if the stand 1 tml llTu5 had allowed itS other lines S the dllferonllal to which they were en titled rates would Imve bum kept up S The qutHtlon of tourist car service I van also taken up during the forenoon I session The whole afternoon was spent in ilk Au Eastern and Western committee com-mittee was appointed to investigate and report upon the subject after It t hnd been given a full discussion and iu t l p I m without reaching any practical prac-tical result the conference ndiourned to meet at 10 a in Monday next at the j 5 WaldorfAstoria New York k |