The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-21
g. 2. Work Train and Freight
Train Wrecked.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
There Ia Trouble Ahead-The Pas
seBger Agents ia st. Louis
A Prospective Strike.


tons of steel rails at Pitlsburg
he travelling auditor of the Union
Pacific is again in town. 1t is scarcely
the fair thing to order check-up on
the boys so soon after the election.
S. F. FENToN, of the Utah & Nevada,
leaves for Omaha this evening, where
he goes on business. He will probably
go as far east as Chicago. Mrs Fento1l
accompanies him.
The last of the Utah Central survey
ors, who have been out on the expedi-
ton under Joseph A. West and J. Few.
son Smith, reached Milford yesterday
on their return, and will arrive in Salt
Lake this morning.
PASSENGER conductors running on the
Baltimore & Ohio road are no longer
required to give personal security of
So, COO for their conduct, but are being
bonded at IS per annum in the Ameri-
can Surety Company, New York.
I. A BENTON, of the Union Ticket
Office. has returned from the east. He
says all are talking of Utah, and par
ticularly Salt Lake. Inquiries were nu-
merous and were promptly answered.
He looks for big rush in this direction
within very short time.
THERE is a good deal of talk about a
prosp' ctive strike of telegraph opera
tors on the Santa Fe system, says an
exchange. The grievance, as given by
the operators, is that they cannot stand
a reduction of wages, contemplated by
the recent order issued by the president
of the company.
The cause for the abandonment of
tie Union Pacific trsin on Monday was
q costly wreck, which occurred at Rock
Greek station. While a work train was
returning to Laramie it collided with
freight train No. %, pulled by two en-
gines. One engineer was fatally injured
and ten or tvs I've laborers on the work
train slightly hurt. The engines were
completely demolished. The wreck
blocked the road, trains being delayed
twelve hours.
1T is said that the striking engineers
of the Burlington & Missouri in Lincoln
have been waiting in vain for their last
three months stipend from the Ma
tional Brotherhood, according to one of
the papers of that city. The money
was expected Immediately after the
Baltimore convention. bit while engi-
neers in other cities have been paid
the Lincoln members have not. About
| seventy-6ve Brotherhood men are be-
! ginning to fear there is screw loose
somewhere.
ABOUT seventeen years ago the Union
Pacific ran train something like the
one they propose to put on now. 1t
was Pullman train, made few stops
and quick time TO Oakland. Ithad the
barber shop attachment and all i'm.
provements that were modern in those
days. 1t only took on passengers at
North Platte and Cheyenne after lesv-
ing Omaha, and was doing large bust
ness. 1t cut into the Central Pacific
traffic. aud they said it was cutting
their road to pieces because their rails
were light, and it was withdrawn.
THERE IS TROUBLE AHEAD.
The Omaha Bee gives the following
interview with Burlington striker:
They can say what they like, but
there's going to be big trouble On the
roads before long, and you can put it
down that the Burlington isn't going
to win this strike. I'm so sure of it
that I'm putting in my winters coal
now. and if you have any friends tell
them to do the same. Just ask any of
tee have been doing since the conyen-
ton. 1 know of one, a chairman, who
hadn't time to stop over at his home,
but went out west to confer with the
men out there. Of course, they keep
silence"
WHAT MAY RESULT.
Union Pacific officials expect that by
spring the Golden Gate special train, to
run solid between Council Bluffs and
San Francisco will be followed by q
Pullman train, to run solid between
New York and San Francisco, with one
car from Boston, and there is specula-
ton as to how the train is to be run II
1t goes via the Pennsylvania line to
Chicago, the route west will in all
probability be oyer the Burlington 81 d
Rio Grsnde; if by the New York Cen
trail, Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern to Chicago, the route west will be
over the Rock Island and Union Pacific
lines. That there will be such train is
not doubted. An arrangement is pend
ing between the Southern Pacific and
the Santa Fe foe through trains from
Chicago to the Pacific coast. The re-
Vival of this through fast scheme sug .
gests the old European-Asia express
project which was so persisteL tly
talked of year or two ago.
THE PASSENGER AGENTS.
J.H. Bennett, of the Denver 81 Rio
Grande Western, will arrive home this
evening from st. Louis, where he has
been attending the joint meeting of the
general passenger agents, which was
held for the consideration of measures
calculated to prevent the frequent de-
moralization of east-bound passenger
traffic from the Pacific coast, and for
its more economical management.
Speaking of this meeting, an eastern
exchange says the decentralization of
passenger business among the railroad
lines is more general and wide spcesd
than it has been before in years, and
the fight that is being waged is, in the
opinion of railroad passenger men, one
of the most singular ever known. This
is more particularly true with regard to
immigrant business. By a single stroke
of the pen revenue which amounted to
thousands of dollars per day has
been entirely cut off from the