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Show PARK IS UiBLE 10 EXPLAIN CUT Union Pacific Manager Cannot Tell Why Reduced Time Between Be-tween Ogden and Omaha. f New York. Teb. 21. Wm. L. Park, general manager of the Union Pacific railway, admitted on the witness stand today that he could not explain wh ythe schedule of the Overland limited between Omaha and Ogden had been shortened to 30 hours and 15 minutes last Sunday, as agalnut 3.1 hours, which had been maintained since 1907. Mr. Park wan testifying at a continuation con-tinuation of tho governments suit to dissolve the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger. Tho governments attorneys at-torneys have sought to show that slower tlm has resulted from the merger mer-ger in that competition was destroyed, de-stroyed, and the necessltv for fast competitive schedules obviated. Witnesses Wit-nesses for the road, on the other hand, have asserted that physical conditions were responsible for the reduction of the speed. Vice-President Knittschni'.t was questioned along this line last week, and the federal lawyers took Mr. Park over tho same ground today. It was then that he admitted that the recently changed Overland limited schedule had been made as well as in the schedule of a fast Union Pacific Pa-cific mall train. Between 1000 and 1907 the Over-lands Over-lands time from Omaha to Ogden was between 30 and 31 hours. This Jumped to 33 hours In 1907 and to this 30 minutes was added last year. "Can you explain why the time of your crack train Increased when your line had been shortened "0 miles and curvatures and grades improved?" asked the government counsel. "Ever since 1900 we have had slow orders, van log from ono to six hours, largely on account of the building of now bridges, ballasting work, etc., which made U absolutely necessary to lose time. The shortening of the line was only in miles on tho Union Pacific proper.' said Mr. Park. William David Lincoln, car service ageut of the Union raclfic at Oranha. and James P. OBrlen of Portland, Ore,, vice-president of the Oregon Railway & Navigation company, were witnesses today. |