The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-29
THE GOLDEN GATE SPECIAL.
The Time TO be Reduced-Gould and
His Eye-The p g Clean
Sweep.

sanguine than ever that such would be
the case. "And you may look for the
bombshell sooner than 1 first init
mated" he said. 1.-The Utah Central
directors meet on the 10th of next
month, and if there is anything in the
rumors that you have heard and pub
lished lately, it will be developed
within very short time there
after All guesses or surmises that
are INDUCED in, however, as to who will
be retained and who not, are decidedly
premature, and one might just as we'll
make guess as 10 what the verdict of
jury would be.
THAT CLEARING HOUSE PLAN.
The project for railroad clearing
house covering in it's transactions the
operations of the great western lines,
says the Boston Traveller, seems to be-
well received by all who realize that
war of rates means in the long run loss
to the shipper as well as the stock
holder. A war of rates, a period of wild
eating of rates, right and left, eXhausts
the present resources of corporation
and places besides a mortgage on its
future earnings. When the war has
reached the stage of exhaustion the lines
usually come together and form joint
tariff which is arranged for the purpose
of compelling the public, by paying
higher charges thenceforward, to make
good the losses entailed upon the rail-
roads by rate cutting. The possibility
of an end of railroad anarchy by the
adoption of some such project as that
outlined will be welcomed in its en-
tirety even by those who may crIticise
its details.
THE CHICAGO, KANSAS & NEBRASKA.
General Ticket and Passenger Agent
Sebastian, of the Chicago, Kansas &
Nebraska, has issued the following cir
cular, which is addressed to coupon
agents west of Denver, Colorado Springs
and Pueblo: "The object of this cir
cular is to advise that tickets sold by
you reading via our line to Kansas City
will be accepted to st. Joseph, or vice
versa. The same rule applies On tickets
reading east of points above named;
that is to say, ticket reading to points
east of Missouri River via St. Joseph
will be. accepted via Kansas City, or vice
versa provided, OF course, that both of the
points named above are terminals of
cline east of the Missouri River over
which the tickets read"
CUTTING DOWN THE TIME.
1t is now said that as soon as the
Chicago roads change their time tables
an event that will probably occur on
January 18th, the Golden Gate special,
with connecting trains, will make the
run from New York to San Francisco in
102 hours, and from San Francisco to
New York in 104 hours-in other words,
in four days and six hours-a fact that
would have been looked upon as fan
tasy of disordered brain had it been
suggested a few years ago as being
among the possibilities. The only
thing that has stood in the way OF the
perfect success of the vestibule train as
been the lack of good connections.
When the schedules are changed there
will be very little time lost en- route and
it is believed that eventually the cele-
bratsd Jarret-Palmer record will be an
every day occurrence. 1t is said that
Pullman is now negotiating to put
yestibule train on the Southern Pacific
road between Los Angeles and San
Francisco, to connect with the Golden
Gate special. Pullman's original plan
for running the Golden Gate special
was to have the train run daily between
Omaha and San Francisco. It is now
said that if travel improves on the
special to any great extent this plan
will be carried out, though it is hardly
likely that each train will be OF the
same elegant standard as that now run
ming. Some of the roads east of 1.-The
river" have had their old style Pullman
cars turned into vestibule cars and it is
likely that the same plan will be fol-
lowed on the Pacific roads.
GOULD AND HIS EYE.
The most feasible Gould rumor,
which is gaining general circulation in
western railroad circles, is TO the effect
that the president of the Missouri Pa
cific has an eye on the Chicago, Santa
Fe & California line, the Chicago divi-
sion of the Atchison. Mr.. Gould has
always been anxious to connect his
Missouri Pacific system in direct way
with Chicago, audit is well known that
the Atchison' g extension to Chicago has
been uhprOHG0DIS TO CnaG SysCemi Inc
Chicago, Santa Fed California line ex-
tends from Chicago to Kansas City,
distance of 45S miles, and its connection
at Kansas City with the Missouri Pa
cific would make Mr.. Gould in posses
sion of loEg-sought direct feeder from
Chicago to the great system of the west
and southwest.
THE FREIGHT CLAIM AGENT.
To be a successful freight claim
agent, says an exchange, man must
thoroughly understand the entire
freight business of his own road-and
as many more as possible-must be
affable, pleasant, firm, unyielding, able
to convince others of things he does
not believe himself-an all around
athlete. familiar with the grain, live
stock, provision. grocery, hardware and
dry goods trades. lawyer, lightning
calculator, and able to sell a lot Of
worthless trash for enough to pay a
claim amounting to its original value
and have sufficient left to cover freight
charges. There are several other things
he must know, but these are the most