The herald., 1898-06-01
NEWS OF The RAILWAYS
NO CHANGE IN THE CUT RATE
SITUATION
Time System Changed Today on the
Arizona Division of the Santa Fe.
Filling Up the Gap-Notes

There has been no particular change in
the railway overland passenger rate war
for the past two days, but 1t is liable to
come very decidedly, if the Southern Pa
citic does not modify its treatment of Its
connections at Ogden. AS it is now the
reduced rates do not apply to the Central
Pacific company which ends at Ogden, so
that all of the traffic from the cut is there
by diverted to the Sunset or Santa Fe
routes or the northern lines. The connect
ing lines at Ogden are kicking strenuously
at being left out in the cold this way and
have sent to this coast General Passenger
Agent Wadleigh of the Rio Grande West
ern to negotiate some new arrangement.
The trouble is that by using its Sunset
route, the Southern Pacific does not have to
give up much of a prorata, while via Og-
den, it would have to surrender a large
percentage of the ticket sales to the line
which would take the passengers from that
place, or Salt Lake City. to the east. There
were some initiative proposals over the
matter, but the ideas of what was right
parties concerned, that the Southern Pa
cific at once dropped the discussion and
barred out the lines in question.
forty-six per cent on the regular tariff tick
cts to the Missouri river. and the lines
east of Ogden have taken the stand. that
it ought to receive forty-six per cent on
any cut rate It may have seen fit to make,
such as this twenry-Goilar basis to the river.
On this basic rate the Southern Pacific's
proportion would be $500, but this amount
the officials claim would not be sufficient
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receiving s11 from every passenger y~o
goes east on the cut rates via the Northern
or Great Northern lines over the Shasta
route, and that amount Is held by Vice.
President Stubs to be the minimum it
could accept.
So far the Santa Fe and the Southern
Pacific are acting in the most perfect bar-
mony. Every step taken has been agreed
upon by officers of both companies before
it was announced, and the object of both
common foes, the Canadian Pacific and
the two northern Pacific roads.
General Passenger Agent Luce of the
Southern Pacific up to late hour yes
terday afternoon had not received any no.
tihcation Of any change In the situation
regarding the Ogden connections, SO it is
succeeded in his mission.
Change Of Time
At five minutes past one o'clock this
morning train No. 2, arrived at Yucca on
the Arizona division of the Santa Fe Pa
cific and the engineer, conductor, brake
men, in fact, all of the train crew took out
their watches which showed the time
above mentioned and all of them dropped
an hour out of their lives or perhaps more
accurately speaking they lived the same
hour twice, for they all changed their time
pieces back to five minutes past midnight.
and the transformation Of an entire divi-
sion of a railway of one time system to an
other was completed. This is, in accord
ance with the order promulgated some days
ago, changing the Arizona division from
"Mountain," to Pacific" time. 1t Is be
lieved that the change will simplify operat-
ing the road, and avoid annoyance to pas
sengers.
Filling Up the Gap
H. r. Huntington, assistant to President
C. P. Huntington Of the Southern Pacific.
visited the front at Surf where the con-
tractors are pushing the work of construct
ing the railway to fill the gap in the coast
line between that point and Elwood, Fri
day. He had with him Chief Engineer
HOOD. Division Superintendent Frazier
and Assistant Engineer Marsh.
Mr.. Hood stated that he had found the
work being vigorously prosecuted, and In
satisfactory manner. Instructions were
given to add forty more teams to the force
employed. and it is thought that the visit
and inspection means that more of force
stilJ vvill be nut to work.
Notes and Personals
Victor Morawietz, the general counsel Of
i the Santa Te road In New FORK Is at the
Grand Canyon, with party Of friends.
They will all come to Los Angeles before
they return to their homes.
If those steamers were being operated
now from San Pedro or San Diego, tre-
mendous lot of business could be had N
connection with the military operations at
the Pnilippne islands.
T. F. Underwood has been appointed
master mechanic at Wlnslow for the Santa
Fe Pacific. George W. Smith has been ap-