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Show BIG TULLMAN CHANGE. Excess of Accommodations Causes Grief to Railroad Companies Unless nil signs fall there will phnrt-i phnrt-i be a general turning over In the arrangement ar-rangement of through Pullnun and tourist enrs on the transcontinental routes Not thnt Ihe Pullman service Is not good Just the orposlte foi there la at prercnt abott " per cent loo much spaci for the dallv demand explained ex-plained as follows The Southern Pacific Pa-cific tins 1 trnlns tit Ogden, three est and tiuee east Pa. h train car lies sleeping cars for a thiough run Tor Instance leaving an PranclPco a train has a flret claps sleeper for the I nlon Pacific one for the Illo Orande a tourist for the North vfHern, one foi Ihe Missouri Pacific another for the Iloston excursion nnd one for the Hur-llnslon Hur-llnslon Then there la the trl weeklj for the Rock lslvnd and one for Ihe Milwaukee While nil thee cars are falrlv well patronized nnd do good service when the get bejond the rlv cr jet it la n fact that the Southern Pacific ins to double up the train out of Oakland lo get nil the sleepers back to Chicago and in cohscquenco the Irnln is delayed On a. train recentlv leaving Pan Prnnclpco there were two sections anl sleeping accommodations for IW pas. sengeis while on the two sections there were Inn pevenis six pippengera In the Pieeiers Tills Is splendid service for Ihe public hut It is rough on the nper nting depirtmcnt anl II Is slmplj on account of the ucllve competition hy J- itern roads nil demanding a through car which eventuallj must squeeze through the Og len gntewn and over ihe high Slerrns The best diss of travelers will admit that a fresh car at termlnala would be preferable to the car used for three lo four dns. but the demand has ben for through cars and so the trnlns nre running In three sections tn haul the extra equipment Sooner or later the Southern Pacific will hove one sinndud nnd one tourist on trains 116 and 6 hetwecn Ogden nnd Snu Francisco which can he added to ns wnslon demands This would mean that nil trains would be able to make better time mil the rubilc would be served lo better ndvantnge hy this one fart The ioip elves hut nn Idea of the thiough i j j 1 1st trafllo, which Ins sud denly developed Into the bete nolr nf Ihe trainmen and operating officials Snr for these pertinent reasons It Is not Improbable that the Southern Pacific- will have to cut down the nmnl r nf sleepers nn Its trains ns scheduled and ha,e them atop nt Ovlen where Ihe other ronds can take out or bring In aa man ns thej can Naturally n portion of the public would object but when It Is considered fairly it will be seen that better service would result On the other hand If Ihe toads east of the river kiep ildlnc a tourist there will hive lo be some more Hnlns put on at Dgiicn The expense to the rnllioids Is some thing awful to contemplate as their I art of thoeleeper service Is to h ml the cars |
