Show INCREASE IS ASKED J Conductors of Rio Grande Want an Advance of 20 Per Cent Denver March H Delegates from the Order of Hallway Conductors and officials of the Denver Rio Grande have arranged for a conference during which a number of grievances are to be submitted Among other thingu the men will ask for a 15 and 20 per cent increase In pay and for the reinstatement of a number of men discharged during the last two years At a meeting betvVeon Manager Edson and the engineers and firemen it was found that the schedule of increased in-creased salaries adopted recently by the Santa Fe road and which the Rio Grande was willing to accept as a basis for the settlement of the matter is not as a whole when all conditions are considered con-sidered as much as the road now pays Railroad Notes The Wabash situation is growing interesting in-teresting Coal shipments I are falling oft with the advent of warm weather The Gould roads have placed additional addi-tional orders for rails amounting to 10 000 tons I Utah has some welcoming words loft for the Santa Fe Such a thing as too many roads is impossible The Wabash is to enter Washington D C by a cutoff from Hagerstown Md It can use the new union station In the nations capital McCreary Willard of Spokane Wash have been awarded a contract to put In several bridges on tho Denver Rio Grande between Denver and Grand Junction Colo Assistant General Traffic Manager S II Babcock of the Rio Grande lines returned yesterday from Denver where he had been to consult General Traffic Manager Hughes on matters pertaining to the department |