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Show SLOWER TRAINS ARE IMPROBABLE Efforts of Passenger 0Q-cials 0Q-cials to Lengthen Run-ning Run-ning Time to the Pacific Seems LiKely to FaiL NEW YORK, March 26. Passenger Officials of Western railroads are not making rapid progress 'with their general gen-eral scheme to run trains slower. At their meeting yesterday, it was apparent appar-ent that they can never react an agreement to lengthen by eighteen hours the schedule of the fastest trains between here and the Pacific coast, as was originally proposed. The plan of running trains slower-throughout slower-throughout the West has raised a storm of protest from all the important places between here and the California terminals. ter-minals. The strongest efforts to secure se-cure lower schedules are being made by the roads west of the Missouri river. From present indications, the schedules west of . Kansas City and Omaha to San Francisco and Los Angeles An-geles will be lengthened by from seven to nine hours, but practically no reduction reduc-tion will be made east of the Missouri river. This is not in accordance with the original plans for slower trains, which was based in part on a desire for retaliation re-taliation against the Western States which had passed two-cent s mile laws and other legislation hostile to the railroads. rail-roads. Operating officials of all the roads declare that the present schedules sched-ules of their passenger trains are not too fast for safety, but in order to run them on schedule they are obliged to delay freight trains, which pay much larger profits. The officials of the freight departments concur in this theory, and are also advocating slower schedules for passenger trains. |