Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 8 | Plan to Facilitate Handing Equipment

PLAN TO fill Car Shortage May Be Prevented Pre-vented Under New Union Pacific Process. 'nit'nrm sv-donis nf reports and dis-tnlmtion dis-tnlmtion which are expected to greatly great-ly facilitate the handling of equip-int-iit on liic lines of the Union Pacific Pa-cific svtoin haw been worked out during dur-ing the .att few dnys hy superintendents superintend-ents of transportation of tho Oregou Short Line, tho Union Pacific and tho irojon-Vn.--hinnton Kailroad & Navigation Naviga-tion company. The nicotines were held in the office of K. C. ansnn, superintendent of t rjuisimrlation of t lie Oregon Short Line, and wore presided over by G. I'.is.-onnet. assistant comptroller of I he i'nina Pacific system. The meetings meet-ings Imparl last Mon.liiy morning and cmitinne.i unti! yesterday. I'nilor the new arrangement each su-I su-I it-ri ii t i'n il en t of transportation will reign supreme on the unit lie repre-senls. repre-senls. All orders for equipment on his line must go through his office, the purpose of the arrangement being to eliminate or reduce to a minimum tho duplication of orders, which is the bugaboo bug-aboo of the car distributor, where any-bode any-bode - and even-body is permitted to order and handle equipment more or los indiscriminately. The office of the Union Pacific at Omaha is to serve as a sort of clearing clear-ing house for the three units of the svstem. The superintendents of transportation trans-portation will malte daily reports to the Omaha office, which, by this means, -will be kept in close touch with tho car situation sit-uation on each unit. f there should bo a shortage of one class of equipment equip-ment on one of the units and: a surplus sur-plus of the same class of equipment on another unit, the Omaha office will at once order the delivery of the equipment, equip-ment, or as much as may be needed, to the unit in distress. Several other things of more or loss importance in connection connec-tion with the handling of equipment were worked out at the meeting. At the conclusion of the deliberations Mr. Bissonnet took occasion to compliment compli-ment very highlv the work done by Mr. Manson and his office force in preparing pre-paring forms and data used at the meetings. meet-ings. "The meeting fast closed," Mr. Bis- sonet declared, "Is bv far the most satisfactory sat-isfactory of its kind that it has been my pleasure to attend. A number of things of "vital importance to successful success-ful and efficient distribution of equipment equip-ment have been worked out in a satisfactory sat-isfactory manner, and under the most pleasant conditions, and I am sure that the service will be greatly improved as a result. "