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Show GERRIT FORT STOPS IN CITY ON WAY EAST Gerrit Fort, passenger traffic manager for the Union Pacific system, with headquarters head-quarters in Chicago, stopped over in Salt Lake for a few hours yesterday on his way, home from a meeting of railroad men on the Pacific coast. T always like to tell the people of the west when I am out heie.l' said Mr. Fort, "that we expect to bring more people peo-ple west next year than ever before, but this year things are changed, and we have to say we don't know what is going go-ing to be doing next year. Just now the chief concern of the railroads is to do their bit in helping win the war and all we can say is we hope it soon will be won. so we can then bring lots of people out to the west." Mr. Fort stated that there is an unusual un-usual amount of traffic being handled by the railroads now, both in the line of freight and passengers. |