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Show Ill HMDS RUSHED. wmm she Freight and Passenger Business Busi-ness Increases in Effort for Prcpe.redness. PERISHABLES BARRED Notice Given Shippers That Carriers Will Take No Risks on Consignments. I Special to The Tribune. i OGDEX, Aug. :;!"). The immediate effect ef-fect of the prospective railroad strike as foli in this city today was the op- j posite to a paralysis of busino-s when j freight nnd passenger traffic increased" J hourly because of the fear of crippled j transportation facilities. Freight ofri- I rinln reported that they were almost j swamped in the rush to pet eotiMn- j nients over the roads before the hour j that the recently announced embargoes j take effect. j The announcements from every' railroad rail-road ilurhijT the past twenty-four hours i produced a rush in passenger traffic, j tourists cutting short vacations in order to reach home before the break ;md : traveling salesmen abandoning their usnnl trips for the same reason. Hail- ; road officials express the opinion that j i lie effect, in the event of a s t r i k e . probably will he felt more keenly in j iho pMSsener department than in the freight department for the first few i days at leat. Notice Sent Out. Notice was. sent to virtually every ()Lrdeu shipper and posted in all railroad : offices today ah i.-ing that the 1'nion i I'acific. Oregon Short Line and Oregon- j Washington Railroad tv Navigation com- ! pany would not. accept livestock or per- ! jsJialdc freight which cannot reach its' , destination by 7 a. in. on Saturday, September Sep-tember 2. Perishable freight and live-j stock will be accepted by the Denver & Hio Crande which ,-an be delivered to its regular destination by midnight of Saturday night. The so-called ''deail" freight will be accepted subject to indefinite in-definite delay. Ait receipts and bills of lading covering cover-ing shipments made out of this city to-d:iv to-d:iv hovo this, warning to the consignee: ! ' ' Kecpived without liability for loss, ' damage or delay by strike. ' ' Several j local shippers made protest to this on i th'1 grounds that shipments made to- J tlr.y might be held, by the company in ; the local varus until a strike is declared de-clared and then damaged in trim sit, whereas the consignments would roach their destination in ample time if sent out at once. Threats were made of appeal ap-peal to the interstate commerce, com-Riif-.-iuii on the -oint. Embargo Js On. Pue to the incerf'ni.v of freight T'whinp; its I'eMinntlon if the strike is derlared, off ; in Is- of the T'uion Pacific svste-M expre-sed the opinion here to- ! dav thot virtufiMy no freight would ho j shi- pod out of Oyd on after Thursday ; riglit. One of the first deMrrsing- pf- fprts of the threatened strike was an ; enforced decision bv t lie Ogden 1 Torse t Sales company this morning to discou- ! time al sales until further notice. In: another instuv-'-e refrigerator car ser-! vice was refused for a consignment of ! peaches due in be shipped out todav to ! eastern markets. ' ! Railroad officials in charge of opera-J tion refrsed today to estimate the ex- f tent of train service that would be pos- j sible in the event, of a strike, but ail 1 were united in the belief that freight j service would be virtually out of the j ipiestion. The I'ninn Pacific svstem has j as -erf-nined ;,i format ion rs 1o how manv of its employees in the ticket office? ( !.M.y be dependc-i! upon for passenger j irt-'in service in the event of a strike.! The Southern Pacific company, as well j a- other road entering O'rn. have also procured information as to how manvi men may hp relied upon to remain in service and who of the other employees may be looked to for service as train-I men. j In spite of the prep-prat ions for, a I ftrike. off'ieinlh here cling o the belief j that something will yet happen to pre- vent the threatened walkout. I |