The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-09

Hear We, hear We, hear We, all man.
ner Of men who have hitherto ridden
about the country on passes! 1t don't
go in the future. When you want to
ride within the borders of this state
you will have to pay fare. No more
free passes go.
This was one action taken at the
meeting of officials held in this city yes
terday afternoon, at which were pres
ent Vice President Oliver Mink, who
arrived in the city yesterday morning;
General Manager Dickinson, Traffic
Manager Munroe and General Passen-
ger Agent Lomax of the Union Pacific,
General Manager Dodge, Traffic Mana
ger Babcock and General Passenger
Agent Wadleigh of the Western, Gen
eraa Manager Bancroft, Traffice Man
ager Eccles and General Passenger
Agent Burnley of the Oregon Short Line.
1t was decided that there was but
one thing To do, and that was to obey
the law. we could do nothing else, -
said one Of the officials present. When
it was stated that even the street rail-
way companies were compelled to fore
go the pleasure of giving free trans
portatiOn, then we had to succumb
There viii be no free passes given IN
til the law is repealed, save to officials
of other roads in the interchange of
courtesies, the usual half fare permits
to clergymen and the reduced rates al
lowable under the law to objects Of
charity and other persons specified
But the pass question was not the
only one debated at the meeting. In
this subject Traffic Manager Hughes of
the Denver & Rio Grande was not in
il, but on other matters he was strictly
1t appears there is a considerable
amount of trouble over the traffic of
the northwestern country, both passen-
ger and freight. There is an unsettled
feeling over divisions and commissions.
The rates of division on traffic through
the ogden gateway do not suit the
Union Pacific folks, and their PROPOSE
tons for settlement are not entirely
satisfactory to the heads of the de-
partments of the Western.
And with that for a topic the officials
debated matters yesterday. It wasn't
an oratorical contest by any manner of
means, but there was degree of earn
estness about it which commended it.
When night settled down upon the
scene the people were still talking, and
no decision had been arrived at, gen.
orally speaking, although a few matters
had been practically adjusted. How
ever, the party is going to be here for
few days, and ere they take their de-
parture there will be something done.
Nj, Burt visited the local offices of the
Union Pacific yesterday morning and
was pleased with everything he saw.
He was introduced to all the attaches,
including the bard of Bitter Creek
whose railroad poems have been COM
mente7 upon of late so extensively.
The art department of the paper
across the street was seriously dis
cussed yesterday by the visiting Off
Gals. It appears that wire got crossed
during the making of the pictures of
some of the people who were here. Mr..
Dickinson, who never smoked a cigar
in his life, is depicted in the act of
encountering the first stages of nico-
tinian NAL de mer, from the effects Of
q ''twofer," which he holds in a par
TALLY consumed state, while Bob Bax-
ter, the only clerical looking party III
the aggregation is hooked up with all
the paraphernalia of a Hebrew peddler
of suspenders. Superintendent McCon-
nell, whose stature is slightly below the
average, is portrayed as a giant of i'm
mense stature, with feminine proclivi-
ties, in the act of asking Baxter if his
hat is on straight. Mr.. Burt wears a
panied expression. as if he was think
ing to himself, "Oh why, oh, why did
they ever elect me president of a road
like thiS?" On the whole the collection
was as near a reproduction of some of
the work of the Fliegende Batter as
could be expected from this section of
the wild and woolly west.