The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-09
BUTTE News.
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES
The o. R.. d N. Company Il
Branching Out.
WILL LAY MORE TRACKS
A Movement to Restrict Free Transport
tation on Western R~oads-Terms
OF the Agreement Are Never
Observed.

company Is also branching out. and
porated the Clearwater Valley Rail-
road company. Its purpose is to build
from Lewiston. Idaho. rear the Clear
water and Snake River junction. across
the Camas prairie to the town of Me-
nut. Idaho, and also a line from a point
of the Grand Ronde river and along
the valley of the Grand Ronde to the
mouth Of the wallowa river. Other
lines to be constructed under the new
corporation are as follows: A line
from a point at or near the town of
easterly direction TO Powder river to
its junction with Snake river; a line
from a point in the state OF Oregon on
Snake river. near the mouth of Pine
creek. thence up Pine creek and across
the divide to a point on the Powder
river: a line from some suitable point
OF Snake river, in Oregon, thence by
some feasible route to what is known
as the Seven Devils mining region, in
Idaho; a line from a point on Snake
river, near the mouth of the Salmon
river. in Idaho, theme up Salmon river
to its head; a line from a point at or
near the town of Moscow. in Idaho.
thence in a southeasterly direction to
some suitable point on Clearwater riv-
er.
This looks like business and indi-
Gates that the Oregon system Is bent
on extending its o and increasing
business by a series of branches in
northwestern Idaho and eastern Ore
gon. a country. for the most part, en-
tirely without railroad facilities.
Roads comprising the western pass
committee, organized for restriction OF
free transportation, will meet again
Nov. 30. 1t is said that the agreement
for 1899 will greatly limit the issuance
of passes. Whatever Its provisions,
however, they are not likely to be OBJ
served. Pass agreements have been
formed every yea for a decade. and II
is not in evidence that the terms of a
single one ever were strictly observed.
At the St. Louis meeting a few days
ago a committee was appointed TO con-
fer with Eastern and Southern lines to
ascertain whether they would agree to
abolish the exchange list OF time and
annual passes between the railroads
and do away with the of free
transportation, or, as far as possible.
curtail IL. All the lines represented at
the meeting agreed to issue no passes
for 1899 nor extend any for 1898 until
after the next meeting. If h propo-
sition is accepted officials viii pay their
fare. as will travelling representatives
OF the line or any other lines, inserting
the amounts paid in their expense ac-
counts. No passes will be issued ex-
cept to employees on their W lines.
In any case the complimentary list will
be cut down considerably. The news
paper side of the question was not dis
cussed. Ii was not thought that the SUI
preme court decision had any direct
bearing on a pass agreement.
Most Of the leading railroad men of
Chicago. particularly those interested
in the passenger business. dined at the
Grand Central depot on board what
certainly is the finest train that ever
rested beneath the big shed OF that
station. says the Times-Herald h
Is the Royal Blue Limited" which the
Baltimore & Ohio viii put into service
between New York and Washington
after Nov. 20. Exteriorly the cars are
conspicuous chiefly on account OF num-
erous wal window of opalescent glass
set wherever the interior arrangement
provides n of those narrow passage
ways that are found in all ~high-grade
cars. These windows. together with
tnt iAld ulACthN iOydl Dlut utCOI dllbllSs
make the train very conspicuous and
assure more than a passing glance.
The anterior of all the cars is magnih-
cent in costly woods, beautifully carved
and inlaid, and in the costly upholstery
of the easy chairs with which all are
provided. This being a day train. 1t
has no sleeping cars. The last car of
the train, a combination observation
and parlor car, Is fitted with every COM
fort and convenience. The dining car
is of the same order from a construc-
tive point of view, and has it's addi-
tional charms in the beautiful silver,
china, glass and line with which the
tables are set. The diner of the train
exhibited here yesterday is called the
waldorf" That of the companion
train is called the Astoria" Balti-
more & Ohio officials promise that the
service shall be such as to maintain
the reputation of the hostelry after
which the cars are named. The train
left here last night for Cleveland. where
1t will be exhibited.
Meetings of both the Central Passen-
ger and the Central Freight associa-
tions will be held in Chicago to-day for
consideration of the future. Reorgani-
zation or dissolution of both these bod
les Is required by the decision of the
supreme court in the Joint Traffic as
ISOLATION case. that they will reorgan-
ize Is the general thought. The Joint
Traffic association. which voted to dis
solve for good al New York on Friday,
differed from any other traffic associa-
ton In the United States in that its
whole object was the government of
rates n divisions on a certain traffic.
This the court declares to be illegal,
hence the organization a no alter
native but to quit. All other organ
izations have auxiliary associations,
such as mileage bureaus. clergy bu-
eau or bureaus for the distribution
of statistics. and the joint conduct of
these works economy for the roads be-
longing TO the associations. A clergy
bureau. for instance. Zoe for 20 roads
what each would ave to do itself IL
there were no organization. The Cen
trail Passenger and the Central Freight
associations both have such auxiliary
and there Is every prospect there
S1xo rho. thew will xvnta a. ra,rwo,Fz1