Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-09
SOME RAILROAD TOPICS,
GOULD AND HUNTINGTON STILL
WORKING AT THEIR TRUST.
The Present Management Of the Santa Fs
Objects to the Scheme-The Wizard
and the Wicked Partner Elaborating
Large Plan.

Large EIdu'
President Allan Marvel, OF the Santa
Fe, and party are expected to appear be-
fore the chamber OF commerce this morn
ing, at IL O'Clock, to meet informally
that body and the prominent citizens Of
the city, for the purpose OF holding a
pow-wow about matters OF mutual in
terest.
THE RAILROAD TRUST.
Mr.. Goultl's railway trust, which is
termed the New Western Railway Traffic
association, appears to be doomed. The
reason is said to be the opposition OF the
Santa Fe, a special dispatch from Chi
cago to Che San Francisco Examiner OF
Saturday saying:
s'The prospects OF the successful
launching Of the Western Traffic associ-
alton are growing more and more
dubious. sS
"The Santa Fe has practically blocked
the provision for competitive traffic, the
most important feature OF the plan, by
refusing to make up the deficiency due
other lines by diverting the freight to
them at Kansas City, as ordered by the
arbitrators Of the tonnage pool.
GIN passenger affairs the Santa Fe
has also wilfully violated the pledge by
disturbing the rates between st. Louis
and Chicago in connection with the
Jacksonville and Southeastern.
! "Chairman Finley has issued an order
that the Santa Fe must no longer honor
tickets OF the Jacksonville and South
eastern, but it is believed that the order
will not be obeyed, and the result will
be the Santa Fe's withdrawal from the
Western Passenger association, in
which case it cannot be member of the
Presidents association, and it is freely
predicted that unless the Santa Fe
changes its policy the Western Traffic
association will never be put in opera
tion."
Another dispatch from New York rel
alive to this matter says:
.'The New York Sun says that it is an
open secret among their intimate asso-
ciates that although Jay Gould and G.
p. Huntington, representing respectively
the Missouri Pacific and the Southern
Pacific systems, gave their assent to the
agreement which is the basis OF the New
Western Railway Traffic association,
the agreement did not win their entire
approval. 1t did not 60 far enough to
suit either of them, but they accepted it
as something in the right direction, sim
ply because it was sort OF compromise
measure upon which all Of the compa-
MES represented at the conference at
Mr.. Morgan's house could agree.
"Mr. Huntington's views were consid-
cred too radical for immediate adoption.
Mr.. Gould's plan was referred to the
commissioners of the new association.
Since the association was formed neither
of these railway managers have aban-
doned hopes of ultimately perfecting an
alliance between the railways west OF
the Mississippi which will reduce the
evils of competition to minimum. 1t
is said that Gould and Huntington have
bad exhaustive statistics prepared look
ing 10 the c0nsolid OF the Missouri
Pacific, Southern Pacific and Atchison
systems under the control of a single
operating company. A good deal OF pro-
gress has been made, and the work does
not lag because Mr.. Gould is absent from
the city.
Executive officers of the Southern
Pacific system have been summoned
from San Francisco to take part in the
work, and it is trustworthily stated that
Senator Stanford has given his support
to the scheme"
A committee of five trainmen called
upon General Superintendent Fillmore,
of the Southern Pacific, on Friday, and
asked the heads of the Southern Pacific
company to meet them and grant hear
ing OF their grievances. They were in
formed that it would be necessary to
reduce the grievances to writing and
present them to the company. This
was done yesterday and meeting will
be held today.
The Southern Pacific is still strug-
Cling with the ticket-scalping thorn in
the flesh, and an attempt will soon be
made to have law passed rendering
th6 h6Hbusiness illegal.
A change has been made in the sleeper
travel connecting with the Central Pa
cific at Ogden. Instead of going over
the Union Pacific and Wabash the cars
are run through from Salt Lake to st.
Louis, over the Missouri Pacific. jay
Gould is the author of the change.
The ruling of-the supreme court in the
Drummond case against the Southern
Pacific railway has been received. The
gist of the entire opinion is that con-
tract ticket is not negotiable, and that
anyone trying to ride upon such ticket
who is not the original holder can be
put off the train unless he pays full fare.
These contract tickets have on them
statement whereby the purchaser agrees
that if the ticket be presented by any
other person than himself the conductor
can collect full fare and take up the
ticket. The decision cites this agree
ment, and is signed Zane, chief justice
Anderson, Judge, and Muir, judge.
There is story to 9he effect that the
retirement of G.. v. Bogue, chief en-
gineer OF the Union Pacific, is due to
the fact that the company and the South
ern Pacific have entered into an agree
ment not to build into one another's
territory. This also is the reason al
legged for the cessation OF work on the
Milford Phoebe branch to BaratoW, as
the local company threatened to build
from Winnemucca, New, to Silverton,
Or, and SO bid for northwest trade. A
much more likely story of the retire.
ment of Mr.. Bogue is that the Union
Pacific is retrenching as hard as ever
and Jay Gould prefers to let others
build railroads for him and then buy
the stock.
The Southern Pacific has now secured
almost the entire right of way from
Santa Margarita to Elwood. Work is to
be commenced within ninety days, and
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