Show I RAILROAD NOTES Tho The Oregon on Short Lino folder announcing an an- flouncing the rates to Yellowstone par park was issued from the tho press yesterday The company offers three kinds of excursions ex ex- to the tho park The first cnn can be bema ma made e in five days at a cost of 55 tho the second is for four days and costs 1750 and the third j is for three days I I at a n cost of ot 25 25 This is for time timo actually actually ac nc- ac- ac spent in the tho park and does not pot include the tho timo time going OIn to 10 and coming coining from the park j 1 C It C Superintendent E. E Sten Stenger er of tho the Rio Grande Western is expected home from the tho east tomorrow C C F. F S. S Yeo district freight ht aud and passenger pas a agent of the tho Pennsylvania lines at Denver is visiting Salt Lako Lake City ou on business C C 4 C Plans for the tho second and third story of the new Oregon on Short Line per ger er station are aro expected to arrive in inthis inthis inthis this c city tv Saturday As s soon as the plans reach hero the tho work will fill Le be pushed with all possible ible speed C i C 0 G. G S. S Minot Minor chief rate clerk of the tho Salt Lake Lako route at Los An Angeles cle is in inthis inthis inthis this city on business T. T 1 M. M Sloan assistant general freight a agent ent for tho the Salt Lako Lake route passed through Salt Lake City yesterday en route to Chicago C C C J. J P. P Harvey traveling freight 8 agent nt for the Rock Island went to Provo this morning on business C C C CAn An important meeting of tho Commercial Com Corn mercial club commit committee e on railways and transportation is bein being held at the club building this afternoon The object of f the meeting is to try and find out if tho west is to bo affected by a 3 raise raise in an frei freight ht rates such as is proposed in the east ast Representatives of tho the Oregon Oreon Short Line and tho the Rio Grande Grando Western West West- cm ern orn 63 say eay that they have received no information information information in in- formation as to a n. proposed raise raise of freight rates in the west Members of the committee stated this I morning mornin that if they could secure definite deft nito nite information that frei freight ht rat rates 8 I would be raised in the west they would oppose any such move The following of the committee are present at tho meeting this afternoon Samuel Weitz wholesale grocer chairman T. T L. L Doran Dora wholesale grocer E. E F. F Hanna Han Han- anna an- an na merchandise broker J. J M. M Hayes smelter C. C H. H Lindley wholesale liquors and ci cigars cigars- S. S H. H Love traffic manager Z C C. M. M r. r I I. I F. F S. S Murray urray lumLer lumber lum lurn- her ber P. P L. L Pearl wholesale drugs drus C. C A. A Qui lo local representative of Brothers Ford Ferd Strouse I furniture C. C R. R Valentine mattress and bedding H. H W. W Walker of Walker Brothers H. H J. J and aud E. E J. J Owens Owens Ow Ow- ens cna merchandise brokers It a ir C Vacation seekers who rho arc aro looking for information in re regard ard to names of hoI hotels ho- ho I accommodations rates etc eti at many Rocky mountain resorts are now bein being supplied by tho the page passenger er department department department depart depart- ment of the Denver 13 Rio Grande railroad railroad rail rail- road rond with their latest publication entitled en titled Hotels and Boarding Houses which contains full Lull information on the subject 0 0 C I The complaint which has in preparation for the last year char charging n discrimination in freight rates against tho great groat manufacturing cities of the I west in favor of tho the cast t was as filed tiled wi with th the tho interstate commerce commission I. I Saturday by tho the Chicago o Association of Commerce Recently the Receivers and I Shippers Shippers' association of Cincinnati filed a similar complaint and the Business Busi Busi- I ness floss Mens Men's fen 5 Ica league e and the tho Merchants Merchants' exchange of St. St Louis aro are expected to lo join the fight Tho The facts to bo be used arc tho same Bame as those used in in the o original i caso case brought rou ht and won twenty years a ago o. o At that time the interstate commis commerce commission commission commis commis- sion sion hold that tho the rates from Chica Chicago o and surrounding territory in comparison compari son with those into the tho southwest from K New ow w En England were 3 per pcr cent cx ex The railroads earn carried cd that else ease into the United States supreme court and there succeeded in winnin winning out tho the I court holding that the commission had hadI no power to enforce a finding or rate I E. E E E. Betts ear car service ece ce agent of 01 the the he Chicago o Northwestern says sas that if railways were honest in n their dealings I with each other foreign cars would bo he returned to their owners promptly and the per diem rule would be bo a tory system As they never nover deal fairly with each other in his bis opinion it IS 13 necessary to enact laws compelling thorn them to do so and imposing a fine lino for neglect The low ton mileage e obtained from frei freight ht cars in tho the past two years he attributes to great reat density of traffic which necessarily caused a slower movement of freight trains In regard retard to the complaint that railways rail ways have not bought a n sufficient number num nurn- ber of cars Mr fr Botts Botta believes that the thor they had too many cars and t too lO few engines to move them them and that if there were a larger proportion of locomotives there thero would bo be a more moro rapid movement of cars I C Something novel in effecting a prompt movement of fast frei freight ht has been introduced on the International Great Northern It is known as the tho red ball system Each car for fast delivery is placarded with a hU largo e ta tag containing a red ball baIl The tag is notice no no- tice tico to the switchmen and yard employees employees employees em em- alon along the line that the car is to tobe be rushed through h. h The car receives receives' a certain number of destination in the billin billing The superintendents superintendent's s 's office keeps close watch on tho tIn movement of all the red ball c rs The system will lJ be bo used for tor perishable perishable perish perish- able ablo and ana other freights which It is d de desired desired sired to handle quickly and will fit tit in with tho the two through fast schedules adopted recently between St. St Louis and Galveston C a Q The International Railroad General Foremen's association holds its fourth annual convention in Chicago 0 beginning beginning begin begin- nin ning May ay 25 An excellent program prop has been prepared and the convention promises promises promises prom prom- to bo be largely ely attended Railroad mechanical officials and foremen are arc welcome to the convention and to take part cart in the discussions Th The Tho object of the or organization is is to promote the tho mechanical rne- rne branch of railroad service |