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Show L 'It office may be abolished. fir! Traffic Director of Gould System May jjf Go Out of Existence. The understanding now In railroad circles la (, J tnt A ' HIM. traffic director of the Gould fVi ayatetn, In the aama capacity as J. r stuhbs actn for th" Harrlman linen, will relinquish hla datlea about the first of February and y, the handling of traffic will reverl l.nck "to the general managers of the various roads, as It was I .-f .r.- ha office of traffic director was Lted ri,T Difficult to Fill Position. Ot i-ourse th! is not authoritative, but It yj. ' ' to be thi prevalent opinion among those. l,M' "fho at lenst .'.rofesji to know. The handling I t!i- trifle from a central point has never IMP n n.-rkd succe.... t,.-caue thero are sr. "" d dlveralflad Interests It a very hard matt.r to - a head for - traffic depart - r ' inent of this kind who has the nec-sarv u parlence and I? familiar with oil the condi tions and Interests ocroas the continent so na to adminlsier the affairs of the office success-Cr, success-Cr, tally. Must Maintain Relations. Another point Is made that while the. Wa-baall Wa-baall Is distinctively a Gould line. It has clnao tT-afll' arrnngenients w'th the Union Pacific and Ulaaourl Pa. Ifl. el K.1nas lty, and thePf. ( reJatlona cannot be disturbed, and under th t pe ration of their separate managers they uotiii I.- maintained, without difficulty. |