Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-02 | Page 9 | Silk Train is after Record

I SflD I I Will Race Through Salt Lake 9 I on Way to New York From 9 I San Francisco. I I SUCCESS MEANS RAW SILK 3 TRAFFIC FOR W. P. ROAD is ? Gould Lines Hope to Put Train ! on R. I. Rails in Two and One-Half Days. i Special to The Tribune. SAN FRANCISCO. March 1. A special ;k (inhi loaded with raw silk lhat arrived ft on the steamer Chiyo Maru Tuesday morning left the Oakland molo on the Western Pacific at ;". o'clock Wednesday afternoon In an attempt to break the rcc- ord between ibis city and New York. Passenger schedule time or better will he made for the entire distance. The wonl has gone out over the line to keep iv the track open for the special, and the !k most competent engineers of the roads handling the train arc to he kept in readiness to lake the train from the va- rloiiH tlhisioii terminals. ; To Pass Through This City. The silk will go from this city to Salt Lake Ollv on the Western Pacific, over the Pernor & Rio Grande to Pueblo, the i Rock Island linos to Chicago and into ; New York over the lines of the Erie. ' If ih Western Pacific silk special, the ( first of this new line, beats the, record, !U means that nearly all the raw silk destined for Now York and other eastern points will hereafter go vla.thc Toyo Kiren Kaisha and the Western Pacltlc. J The Western Pacific and Denver & Rio ij (irande officials hope to have the silk ;$ on the rails of the Rock Jsland in less than two and a half days. The time for ti the remainder of the trip depends on I the Rock Island and Erie. Every rall-- rall-- road official In the country Is watching i the time of I he train with considerable 2 ;I interest. . .v Compotitiou Cause of Rush, if It ha always been necessniy to race !f east with the raw silk immediately after j k has been landed In this city because ft of th competition from the Suez canal ; I'oute. Since the racing has been in-t. in-t. augurated the Suez route has lost, all 5 the raw lll: shipmems to New York, s! and it is for the purpose of holding this X business that the silk trains are given f p.'jssenger schedule. The Southern Pa-'$ Pa-'$ clfic and Union Pacific have, heretofore j handled all the silk business through tills jl port Ii: conjunction with the Pacific Mail 1 stenmship company. Since the divorce "f of the Pacitic Mail and the Toyo Klsen i Knisha ihe Western Pacific has entered the Held for the silk transportation to New York, and a special effort will be made lo best the Southern Pacific's time. The Hill lines and the Chicago, Milwaukee Mil-waukee & St. Paul have, also been com-' com-' pelltors for the silk transportation out i of Puget sound ports, and the records made by the silk specials of these roads may also be broken. Lovett in San Francisco. Judge Robert S. Lovctt, head of the HarrJman lines, arrived In San Francisco at noon Wednesday on his inspection trip over all the main lines of the company. com-pany. It Is expected that Judge Lovett will spend two or three days In San Francisco. It Is not known at the headquarters head-quarters of the Oregon Short Line whether Judge Lovett will visit Salt Lake City or only make a short stop at Ogden. Railroad Notes. 0 T. C Davidson, general baggage agent for tho Salt Lake Route, is in this city on business. Douglas White, industrial agent for the Salt Lake Route, has returned to Los Angeles after a four-day business trip to Salt Lake City. '