Show I ST PAULS THROUGH CARS I That System Placed on an Equality With tho Northwestern Line I Arriving In the city yesterday were many officials of the new Chicago Milwaukee i Mil-waukee SI PaulUnion Pacific t Southern Pacific through passenger route the details of which have been I going the rounds of the press for come weeks past In the party were President Presi-dent A J Earllng General Manager JH R Williams General Passenger Agent F A Miller and General Western West-ern Agent F JtNasli of the Chicago Milwaukee it St Paul Profildcm Burl Superintendent of Transportation Buckingham Mechanical Superintendent I Superintend-ent McKeen Chief Engineer Berry Superintendent Su-perintendent Park jAPslstint General Passenger Agent Fort of the Union Pacific Traffic Director Slubbs of all the Harriman lines VicePresident Krutl < chnltl PaKjcngcr Traffic Manager Mana-ger McCormick Freight Tralllc Maim t ger Snroule Superintendent of Transportation Trans-portation Richardson Mechanical Superintendent t Su-perintendent Small of the Southern I Pacific The ofllclald met for convenience 4 J conve-nience In this city In the directors room of the Short Line and decided on the through service via the Chicago Milwaukee St Piul 1 as follows On trains 1 and Overland Limited J t firstclass sleeper Chlrapo to Oakland i On trains 3 and I flrstHass sleeper I and one tourist car Chicago to Oakland a Oak-land One tourhit Chicago to Salt Lake G r 4 One chair car Chkairo to Denver = On trains 5 i und 0 firstclass sleeper Chicago to Oakland Chair car Chlca E co to Salt Lake J 001 This places the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul on an equality with the i Chicago 8 Northwestern the latter t4i t road having for years had the monopoly c monop-oly of tho Union Paclllc business It lI t brings the St Paul more In touch with D the local situation and gives Its local commercial agent Claude S Williams I I more work and additional responsibilities UI 3 responsibili-ties with the outlook that his oflicc will have Increased force and better i facllltlos for handling passenger traffic The St Paul will put on an additional train between Chicago and Omaha J thus giving It throe trains each way t between Chicago and the Missouri river I er It will also have a J through I car from Chicago to Denver via the Kansas Kan-sas City gateway and the Union Pa clflcThere r There has bcon much speculation as t to the causes of the new arrangement 1 and the possible outcome It has been paid that It means a break between the I I Union Pacific and the Northwestern but on the other hand It has been argued ar-gued j by I the Union Puolllc that the St Iii L fJ Paul being a short line and a strong Ul line at Omaha Is entitled 1 to the same 1 treatment as Its competitors It has t also been said that It WUH done to prevent pre-vent the Gould lines from goIng In with the St Paul If so then the gateway gate-way has not been closed yet for UIL Y I Gould lines Imvo still the Chicago c Great Western to tie up with The Illinois jW Illi-nois Central getting the worst of It stY from the Union Pacific at tho river l to may also be relied upon later for a l Could connection The Rock Island IK tied up with Its new El Paso agreement ucE with the Harriman lines and the Burlington crl Bur-lington Is held down by the Northern Securities so they aro out of It f But the Northwestern IH tho Ktrong Nit t and now It IB made angry so It would not be surprising If that great system were to co In with the Gould 1 luncH for the overthrow of the Harriman Harri-man people The ralltjl7V ld 1 IK full I of surprises and JtfvouW hot I much I of a surprise trvspu ven tho Illinois Central or the Northwost t vn former allies of Harrlman turn aeniiIBt that fiyatcm for u new connection |