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Show WILL PUT STOP TO THE EXCURSIONS Tourists Can No Longer Travel Under Personally-Conducted Plan. CHICAGO, Nov. 17. The Tribune today ays: The California lines have by an order issued yesterday put a stop to the personally conducted tourists' excursions which have been flourishing in that field for years. Not only will a large number bf railroad conductors, probably 113, whose salaries average SKW u month each, lose their positions, but at least one tourist tou-rist excursion bureau, which makes a specialty of personally conducted tours to California, will be driven out of the business. busi-ness. During the day the connections of the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific and San Pedro lines were notified that hereafter these roads will not accept tourist cars containing contain-ing personally conducted parties, and they will not even take the cars which started out as personally conducted parties, even If the personal conductor Is not on the train during the haul over these lines. The reason given for taking this action Is that travel to the Pacific coast has become so common that travelers generally gener-ally are familiar with the way. They say that the railroad officials themselves can care for the passengers Just, as well as the personal conductor. Thero is not to be any Interference with the high-class excursion, which, though personally conducted, con-ducted, travels In a first-class Pullman sleeper, the restriction being laid upon the tourist cars only. |