The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-19
MORE ROOM WANTED.
Northern Officials Looking At
Terminal Grounds.
GREAT CHANGES PROPOSED.
General Freight Agent Moore Talks Of
the Growing Basiness-Agresment
/. with the Canadian.

party of Northern Pacific officials az
rived in the city yesterday morning on q
private car. and were shown around the
city and the company's property by /. A.
Nadsau, general agent OF the road. They
are: s. L. Moore. general freight agent, Of
st. Paul: S. G. Fulton, assistant general
freight agent. of Portland: r. w. Wilsev.
lease agent, of st. Paul; w. r. Goslyn, as
sistant lease agent In conversation with
PosT-lNTELLrcEEcER reporter Mr.. Moore
said:
s'The last time visited Seattle was q
year and half before the IRE, and the city
has changed so much since then that
hordly know it again. It reminds me very
forcibly OF Chicago, ST. Paul or Minneapo-
Iisn
Are you arranging for any extension Of
the terminal facilities OF the road?'
We appreciate the need Of increased ia
cilities in Seattle. Our business here has
grown immensely, and we acknowledge
that the Seattle merchants are entitled to
improved facilities. julie Hannaford. the
general traffic manager, and w. S. Mellen.
the general manager of the road. will be
here IN about ten days, and will go into
this matter thoroughly, with q view to ar
>~eso~~%G
business satisfactorily to the shippers.
They viii tell you more of what is to be
done than can. =
Are you arranging with the Canadian
Pacific for the operation of the Lake Shore
q Eastern road. when it comes under the
control Of the Northern Pacific?n
Yes, We expect to have traffic arrange
ments and do not anticipate any clash
lRA Ton De-
traffic arrangements with that road already
IN large part Of Manitoba and have no
serious difficulty. OF course disputes
occasionally occur, but they do not last
long.
IF this month continues as it has begun,
II will be the best in the history of the
roa(1 and the receipts will aggregate about
$3,Oo0,000 Our car-shops are worked to
their utmost capacity and still we are short
of rolling stock all along the line."
The party was last night at the Rainier
aud leaves this morning on the Eastern
Oregon for Bellingham bay and other down
Sound points
The transportation committee of the
Chamber OF Commerce has succeeded in
making an arrangement by which the rail-
way freight Office is to be kept open till s
O'Clock every evening at present, and per-
haps when the days are longer the Offices
may be open till 6, though that point is
not yet determined. This will be great
advantage to Seattle jobbers who have long
complained that between the time OF re-
ceiying the morning mail and the closing
OF the offices there was not time to fill or
ders which might come by mail and need
Immediate attention
President Adams, of the Union Pacific
who has been examining the system in the
West, writes most encouragingly of the out
look. He says that if the Union Pacific
had sufficient equipment to move the ton
mage offering. its gross earnings would be
5000 to $400, goo per month larger. He
attributes the decreased net returns in the
face of the Increased gross earnings to
damages sustained by the Oregon Railway
e. Navigation Company through heavy
SHOWS and freshets last year. In view OF
the large amount of freight offering Union
Pacific traffic men have received strict
orders not to meet the cuts of rival lines,
but TO take the business Offering at full
rates.
The upper berths of sleeping cars in
Minnesota must now be kept closed when
nnoccupied. in accordance with late de-
cision of the supreme court of that state.
The decision is in the interest of common
sense and better ventilation, and will ma.
terially abridge the power of Pullman por-
tiers to extort fees, and of conductors to ex-
ercise arbitrary power, in Minnesota at
least. 1t is an example that could be fol-
lowed in other states with increased COM
fort to the travelling public. and the bitter
lawsuit that preceded the M innesota deci
| sion has made the way easy.
| e. H. Warner principal assistant engin-
eer of the Lake Shore road. returned yes-
terday from the front. He says that it is
raining all along the line and that work is
| slightly delayed in consequence.