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Show HARRIMAN IS BOUND TOWIN He Is Planning to Gain Direct Entry Into Seattle Seattle, Wash., March. 21 Harred by the Noithern Pacific from routing paBsenger traffic directly into Seattle I via Portland, E. H. Harrlman Is planning plan-ning to gain an early and direct entry into Seattle from Chicago, Kansas ' City, Omaha and other middle western west-ern cities, by means or trattlc arrangements ar-rangements with the Chicago, Milwaukee Mil-waukee & Puget Sound railway. Tho plan includes tho construction this summer of enough of the projected North Coast railway in central Washington Wash-ington to enable Harrlman trattlc rrom the west to be routed over the Stra-born Stra-born road from Walla Walla to a con-rection con-rection between the north coast ana toe Milwaukee near Yakima. Reports from central Washington, where Hill and Harrlman interests are struggling for the mastery in the Columbia Co-lumbia river ba&ln, prove that the new Harrlman plan is feasible from both a traffic and operating. point or view. The reports are predicated on the statement unofficially given out some time ago and first printed March 1, that Harrlman and Milwaukee Interests In-terests are financially backing the North Coast It is said the latter road will be ready to operate trains aoross the Columbia river bridge rrom a point near Klona to Walla Walla, where Harrlman will be well entrench-, entrench-, ed before October 1st. Balked In his effort to force . the Northern Pacific to enter Into a trattlc arrangement, whereby passengers routed to the Puget Sound from Har-riman Har-riman territory to Seattle, could pass the Portland barrier without buying tickets there and re-checklng baggage there, Harrlman has appealed to the Interstate Commerce Commission tor ' a rule forcing the Hill line to grant 1 his demands. The case Is soon to be heard In Chl-i Chl-i cago. |