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Show : SCHUMACHER SMS HE WAS MISQUOTED Vice-President of tLc Western Pacific Angry Over Being Put in False Light. "Please correct something that was . published in a morning paper here in Salt Luke Frlduy morning- that I did not say and would not say hecuuso It is on Us face untrue," said Vice PrcHldcnt T. M. - Schumacher of tho Western Pacific, In the Knulsford hotel yesterday. "1 was fiuoted as saying 'that through traffic would not movo over tho Western Pacific until about tho first of June,' when tho fact is that through traffic has been going go-ing over the Western Pacific now for over six wepks. Today J received a telegram tele-gram from "Now York asking about tho ! matter, as ovldently the falso report was I wired to the east. t "The Western Pad tie may not put on i passenger trains till June, but that Is an ontlrely dlffcronl matter from 'through traffic,' which means freight. Might as i well confuse a handcar and a diner, and say that the road was going to put first " clnss handcars on all Its passenger trains - when we put on tho diners. I want tho widest posslblo report given to the fact that tho Western Pacific is open for through traffic today and has been for i over six weeks, trains running each way : dally, all carrying through traffic coming from all over tho east and going to the Pacific coast, and the reverse. Anything ! to the contrary is absurd, and never came from any one acquainted in tho slightest degree with railroading. "Wo also arc not going 'to complete any merger' either. What wo aro going to do Is Just the reverse, to dissolve half a dozen of these small corporations that havo existed on paper only for considerably considera-bly over a year. That Is only a mnttor of unimportant detail, as tho property of timer, omnnn Yil..u ivna fnlrnn nnv llu tllft Denver & Rio Grando In 1008. "Here is another Item, 'through traffic not accepted till price Is complete.' That sentence means nothing in itself and would not bo true If It did moan anything. Wo are accepting all tho Unough traffic we can get, In fact, we aro straining every nerve to get all the through traffic wo can, tho more tho bettor, and such misstatements only put stumbling blocks In our way. "Is there any truth in the rumor that tho Goulds will soon havo a system reaching from ocean to ocean, or from Pittsburg to the Pacific?" Mr.- Schumacher Schu-macher was asked. "Nonsense! At Denver the Denver & Rio Grande will deliver or nccepL freight from all other roads on equal, terms. There Is nothing and can be nothing in such a report. "Concerning appointments, I do not caro to announce any more for a. month or two yet. Mr. Nevlns Is slated for general livestock agent, but the matter is not yet made official. However, tho announcement announce-ment of It In The Trlbuno Is correct. "On through traffic from Chicago, Just what part of the rate goes to each road taking part in the haul I do not care to say at present. It Is not yet settled. Our passenger service will begin as soon as the weather permits, probably by late spring. It would not be prudent to put fast passengers on a new track In winter. win-ter. "I have had no conversation with Mr. Cutter of the Tonopah &. Goldllcld, and the "Western Pacific will not build south to get tho Los Angeles traffic. "But please correct that false report that the Western Pacific Is not open for through traffic. It Is open for through traffic and wc want all wo can got." Concerning the routing of freight, over various roads it was pointed out by a . traffic man yesterday that the shipper has the final say In tho matter, and that freight goes much as a passenger goes, over whatever routes the man who pays tho bill chooses. Thus freight might leavo 1 San Francisco over the Western Pacific, , then take tho Union Pacific to Denver ; and tho Rock Island to Chicago. If the J shipper routes It that way. Tho mere j fact that the freight left San Francisco ( over the Western Pacific would give that , road no power to sond the freight on east over tho Denver & Rio Grando or any other road thun the one specified by tho shipper, the owner of the freight. |
