| Show T BIG PULL CHANGE I lI Ttit Exceso of Accommodations Causes J AccommodCtors LI 1 Grief to Railroad Companies Unless a nigns fall there will shortly s short-ly be a general turning over In the arrangement ar-rangement of through Pulman and It tourist cars on the transcontinental 1 Ill routes Not that tho Pullman Ge leis le-is not good Just tho opposite for thereIn E there-In at picecnt about 75 per cent too i much space for tho dally demand explained ex-plained as follow The Southern Pan 1 Pa-n eRic has six trains at Ogdcn three west and three east J3ich train cart I I car-t ries sleeping ears Cor 3 through run FC For Instance leaving San Francisco a train has a flreiflaps sleeper for the i Union Pacific one for the Rio Grande a tourist for the Northwestern one for c the Missouri I Pacific another for the tzL Boston excursion und one for tho Burlington Bur-lington Then there II the trloekly i for the Hock Island and one for the a itllwaukce While all those cars are r 4 fairly well patronized and do good u service when they get beyond the river riv-er yt it Is Q fact that the South r 1 Pacific has to double up Ihe train out of Oakland to get all the sleepers back to Chicago and In consequence the train I 1 delayed On a train recentls leaving San I b Franc co there were two sc < tons and f sleeping accommodations for 300 passengers > pas-sengers while on the two sections there were but ncventysix passengers in the sleepcrs This is splendid service for I r the public but it Is rough on the operating oper-ating department and It la simply on account of tho active competition by Ji Eastern roads all demanding a through car which eventually must squeeze through the Ogden throurh gateway and over t the high Sierra The best claM of travelers will admit that a fresh car at terminals would be preferable to the car used for three to f lour days but the demand has been for through cars and so the trains areA are-A running In three sections to haul the extra equipment Sooner or later the Southern Pacific Pctc will hnve one standard and one tourist j on trains 3 4 I G and C i between Ogden v and Sar Francluco which can be added to rH Qc lcm demands Thin would ote mean that all trains would he able to i make better time and the public would uL DC served to better advantage by this one ncl 7 The above given but an Idea l of the J t through tourist traffic which ha sud denly developed Into the bete nolr of the trainmen and operating officials Pit Sot for these pertinent reasons It In 1 P d not Improbable that the Southern Pacific t Pa-cific will have to cut down the number of BlccpejB on Its trains as scheduled and have them clop at Ogdcii where J the other roadn ea take out or bring w In as many as they can 1 k Naturally n portion of the public 1 fr would object but when It Is I considered fairly It will be seen that better service would reuult On the other hand If tho road east 0 the river keep adding n tourist there will have to bo soni j uCi rnore trains put on nt Ogden l The expense to the railroads Is some thing awful to contemplate us their part oC th sleeper sorvlrs Is to haul the cars |
