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Show THAT FREIGHT BUREAU. A number of prominent business men, including Chas. A. Quigley, C. N. Strevell, W. S. McCarthy, Samuel Weitz, J. R. Valentine, 15. F. Redman, L. D. Freed, J. G. McDonald, and S. H. Love, and others, have formed a traffic bureau which is part of the Commercial Club. The purposes and objects of the Traffic bureau are manifold and manifest. They follow: To promote the business interests of members and secure for them fair and reasonable railway rates established on such a basis as will put them on an equality with competitors wherever located. To protect its members against discrimination by carriers in any form. To encourage unity of action among shippers with reference to traffic problems. To disseminate information regarding rates, charges and changes in classification that in any way affect its members. To cultivate closer relations between carriers and shippers, thereby there-by promoting the best interests of both. To do all things necessary to bring about the objects of the ji bureau. . The principal office and place of business of the Traffic bureau will be located in Salt Lake, with headquarters for the time being in the Commercial Club, and the control of its affairs is vested in the board of nine directors. A luncheon was given at the Commercial Club a few days ago by this bureau and some remarkably interesting statistics were given showing how Salt Lake City is discriminated against in the matter of freight rates. It was shown that freight of certain kinds could be shipped from Europe to Salt Lake City much cheaper than that same freight could be shipped out of Salt Lake City to one of our neighboring neighbor-ing towns. It was shown that freight is being shipped from the eastern coast to San Francisco and from San Francisco back to Salt Lake at less cost than you could ship that same freight directly from the eastern coast to Salt Lake City. Now if Salt Lake City is ever to become a great city it must be placed on an equal footing with other jobbing points and shipping centers, and we wish this organization all the success that it is entitled en-titled to, because it seems that they are asking for nothing but a square deal, and that they should get. But in our opinion no railroad company ever granted anybody anything unless they virtually made them yield by persuasion and other arguments. From Pisa, Italy, comes an interesting account of the progress of the great Italian composer, Giacomo Puccini, is making with his new grand opera, inspired by and based on David Belasco's "The Girl of the Golden West." The book for the opera has been finished by Puccini's collaborator, Signor Sivinini, and the composer of 7 "Madam Butterfly," the first Belasco play which the famous Italian set to music, who is delighted with the work. He said : "I am confident confi-dent 'The Girl' will be a great sticcess. It will please the" people. They will like the lovers, because they arc so human, so direct, so natural." |