Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-15 | Page 2 | Rail Officials Start Move for Direct Tickets

RAil OFFICIALS START M MOVE V mn FOR J H operation Co-operation of Other Lines to Be Asked PROBLEM DIFFICULT Side Trip Arrangement Is Held Drawback I J J. T L LAmos Amos assistant traffic manager manager man man- ager agel and D. D S. S Spencer r general genera agent of ot the Union the Union Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- system are negotiating with wiLh the Omaha offices of the company compan with a aview to working out an arrangement arrangement ar- ar whereby travellers from rom the he eat east east west vet and northwest can secure tickets giving direct routing to Co Salt Lake it was as stated Wednes Wednes- da day Letters have ha been exchanged between between be be- e- e tween the local offices and I the HIP hI Omana headquarters since The Telegram several weeks ago voiced the protests of the travelling public regarding the of the side trip arrangement which it is held puts this city in the position of a branch line town Mr Ir Spencer explained that in view of the geographical location of Salt Lake with reference to the maInlines main mainlines mainlines lines of the Union Pacific the problem problem lem leni is a It difficult one excepting Inthe Inthe in inthe the ease case aOe of ot passengers going over o the Los Angeles and Salt Lake raIlroad railroad railroad rail rail- road to southern California PERSUADE OTHER ROADS ROAD However this difficulty is not ot ot in insurmountable insurmountable In- In surmountable it is claimed the obstacle obstacle obstacle ob ob- ob- ob stacle to overcome bein being that of CC persuading other roads both eastern eastern east- east em ern and western to print the direct Salt Lake routing on their tickets from points of origin where l the Union Pacific does poes not top as for instance New York Washington and Cleveland We cannot Indicate declared Mr Spencer how bow other lines should print their All AlI we we can do Is to tr try to persuade them to print tickets In ways and manners manners man manners man man- ners m mAst st satisfactory to to- the to-the the public public pub pub- lic lie It is claimed there from Kans Kansas s Om ha and other places on the the Union Pacific system It is said said however that even evell in these cases the the traffic is handled through the medium of a side trip coupon onto the ticket instead of ot having the the on the words Salt Lake appear on ticket Itself SIDE S. TRIP OFFERED Officials of the sy system tem declare that when a traveller purchases a ticket at an any point where the Union Pacific runs in the free side trIp trip trip-is Is given without being specifically asked for It is invariably at attached attached at- at to the ticket they say That such is not always the case case however howe appears from the protest of J. J Cohn a New ew Yorker who was recently in this city on one of ot his periodic business visits an anI who alio related how when he lie bought a ticket at Denver It read tead to Ogden and not to Salt Lake so that when he noticed the routing he was compelled compelled com corn to go back to the ticket office and insist on a new ticket reading direct to Salt Lake Ac According to the statement made by Mr 11 Cohn at that time it os- os sible to obtain a direct routing even where th the point of origin i is on some road not affiliated with the Union Pacific provided system provided the traveller traveller trav tray eller IS wise and Defuses to accept anything but ticket containing the words Salt Lake In such cases Mr 11 Cohn declared the ticket agents igent write the name Salt Lake on the tickets with pen arid and Ink