The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
Managers Of the Rio Grande and
Union Pacific Are Highly
Indignant.
SIYTl FE NOW THREATENED.
Old Poky Schedule of the Southern
Pacific Compared With Up-tO-
Date Time Cards.

Manager J. a. Fillmore of the Southern
Pacific Com pany on his high horse. 1t
is whispered IN the yellow building and
told III offices Of other railroad corpora
tiOns that he viii come down. The big
men OF the Union Pacific, the Denver and
Rio Grande the RIO Grande Western and
the AtchisOn, Topeka and Santa Fe will
not take orders from the dictator in the
operating department Of the Southern Pa
citc. Hot kilograms have oeen exchanged
between Eastern managers and their San
Francisco representatives, since Fillmore
issued his uitimatum that the Southern
Pacific would not wait at Ogden for west
bound passengers from the Rio Grande
and Union Pacific. Fillmore was not sat
isiei with threatening the roads connect
ing at Ogden but went further and read
lesson To the Santa Fe. I'VE will wait for
you at Mojave thirty minutes and no
longer" said Fillmore TO the Santa Fe.
The representatives OF the connecting line
sOuth said their westbOund passenger
I, aims were heavy ard that they lad bee
delayed by bad weather. The Southern
Pacific boss replied that the trains of the
Santa Fe coming TO MOiave were not
ueavy enough to cause delay.
The ultimatum OF Fillmore, which was
published IN HE CALL OF Dec EN- ber 4 is
what caused Jne great connection and
awakened the ire of railroad men. In
that decree he said: al am tired OF these
delays and l mean TO put an end to them
right away. The fault is with the Denver
and Rio Grande. the Rio Grande Western
and the Union Pacific. When one is on
time the other Is late. The Union Pacific
is not as bad as the Rio Grande, but it is
bad enough. The whole trouble with
these lines Is that they have faster sched-
ules than they can make. 1t is all for an
advertising record. 1t is not possible tor
them 10 come through on schedule time
except under the most favorable clrcum-
stances. They ought to leave Chicago
two hours earlier. Ninety-ive per cent of
the recent arrivals mere on time was due
TO the making up OF time by the Southern
Pacific from Ogden to this city. But this
last time must stop. 1t is not sale in
winter over our mountainous and rough
sections OF road. l shall not permit it
after this"
When railroad men east of the NJ s.is-
slppi River, where the passenger business
Is conuucted on up to-date methods, hear
OF what is going on here, there will be a
broad laugh al what Fillmore considers
last schedules. His own Southern Pacific
schedule, on which 1t is not safe 10 m AXE
up the loss OF time, will strike modern
railroad men q time card OF the past
generation. Fillmore will certainly be
q
Wlnkle in the business of keeping up
with the ma ch OF events.
To allow travellers to Judge what Fill
more considers fast time The sched ules OF
the connecting roads at Ogden are given.
The distance from Denver to Ogden is
184 miles. The morning tram leavin g
Denver Is due at Ogden twenty-eight hours
ana 1orty-hve minutes later. The running
time is theref )re about twenty-eight miles
an hour. The evening train is trifie
faster, as the run is made from Denver to
Ogden in twenty-sIx hours and forty-f five
minutes or at the rate OF thirty miles an
hour. Fillmore calls this fast time. 1t
may be swift when compared with the
time made by FiIlmoTe's flyers of the
Southern Pacific
Here is the Union Pacific schedule. Let
those who delight In speed on the rail
hold their breath. TIE distance from
Omaha to Ogden Is 1895 miles. The Union
Pacific makes The run on what Fillmore
considers HRh thing schedule, in thirty
three hours. Here wonderful fl ght of
thIrty-two miles an hour is attained
Now comes the schedule of Flllmore's g
own darling, the Southern Pacific. on
which it is not safe to make up time for
the accom- 10 odatlon of passengers
Thoughts turn to Mark Twain in limo
cents Abroad" When the innocents were
told that Moses was forty years taking
the children of Israel through the wilder
sponded in astonishment that Ben HoIla-
days stage line would have taken them
through in forty hit hours.
The distance from San Francisco to Og-
den is 833 miles and the flyers of the
Southern Pacific make the file hit in thirtv-
i've hours. The marvelo Gus speed OF
twenty-four miles an hour is sustained
throughout the whole length of the line.
When the Southern Pacific waits five
hours at Ogden for the Union Pacific or
Rio Grande the speed must be increased
to twenty-eight miles an hour in order to
register ION time" at the Oakland mole
But Fillmore says: ''This fast running
must stop"
Railroad men who have studied the
schedules assert that the Southern
Pacifc's time ought TO be materially re-
duced between Ogden and San Francisco.
Instead of moping along at The rate OF
twenty-tour miles an hour and occupying
thirty-hve hours to make the run the dis
tance should be traversed in twenty-six
hours.
The day that Filmore's interview was
published in The CALL w. A. Snedaker
the San Francisco agent OF the Rio Grande e
Western, wired to f. A. Wadleigh, gem
eral passenger agent of the line at Salt
Lake, stating that Fillmore had asserted
that the Rio Grande was advertising an
impossible schedule, and had threat.
cned to discontinue future waiting. Wad-
leigh was requested to forward a state
ment showing how many times in the
month of November the Rio Grande
Western had been thirty minutes or more
late. In reply to the message Wadleigh
wired:
SALT LAKE, December A, 1897.
". H. SnedGker, III Montgomery street, Sar
Francisco: Following is RIO Grande Western
train record for month of November: No. ]
arrived Ogden on time 20 times; less than
thirty minutes late, times; more than thr U
minutes, times. Train No arr ived Ogden
on time, % times; less than thirty minutes
late, times; more than thirty minutes,
times Union Pacific re cord same period
Train No. L arrived ogden on time. 10 times
less than thirty minutes late, times; more
lot m