The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-21
Mr.. HARTMAN WANTS
TRAFFIC HARMONY
Why Stubs Was Made Traffic
Director.
NEW AND INTERESTING DE-
PARTURE IN RAILRoADING.

san Francisco. June 2O.-J. c. Stubs,
vice presidert of the Southern Pacidc
railroad whose appointment as traffic
manager of the vast system of rail-
roads controlled by the Hartman in
forests was announced from Chicago.
has arrived in this city. In speaEiuE
or the innovation to be introduced iu
railroad methods by the creation of
the position to which ne has just been
appointed. M- Stubs explained the
matter by saying that Hartman has
Deen Sidg~inE for some time the
feasibility and UracJica bility of divOrc-
ing the traffic of the lines in which he
Us interested from the other affairs of
The roads. He has talked over the
scheme with the other gentlemen who
heIp tO frame the policy and direct the
fortunes of the Union Pacific and
southern Pacific. and has evolved a.
Dian which i'm Harriman's opinion,
ought To- accomplish the heretofore
Impossible task Of haTmoniZiuE the in
forests of the several Hartman roads.
AS MT. Stubs puts it, IL is a plan 10
bring about UuIhCatIsn Sf interests
with a reduction OF friction and elm
nation OF unnecessary competition.
without consolidating the properties
under one management Under this
plan one man is TO have entire charge
of the traffic of the several corpora
tf0uS, and Inn order TO effectuaily divorce
the traffic from the other affairs OF the
road. this official viii report directly 10
the board. This position Of power and
responsibility. compare BILE TO no other
I'm the history of raiiEOadiug. was Of
fered To- Mr. Stubs and he accepted
the position is an absolutely new one
In railroading- Mr.. Stubs does not
even know what title VIII be bestowed
upon him.
Il suppose" he said. chat it viii be
traffic director or director of traffic
That is a matter of detail that has not
been considered a. yet
I'm "a word. Mr.. Stubs went on to
explain. II am to be placed in entire
charge of the traftiC of the Southern
Pacific, the Union Pacific. the Oregon
Railroad d Navigatiou-and the Oregon
short Line. and I VIII report to the
boards of directors OF the several com
panies. That means that 7 am to re-
Port direct to Mr. Hartman The or
gautZatIou Is simply this. Each COM
pauy has it's board of directors, and
each board of directors has an execu-
tive COMMITTEES, presided over by a
chairman When the board of direC-
tors is in session IL is supreme, and
when the board is not in session ard
the executive committee is holding a
meeting the executive committee. is
supreme. When the executive commit
tee Is not in session, The Chairman OF
the executive committee runs things
T. II. Hartman is chairman of the
executive committee OF each OF the
four roads
THE other Hartman roads, such as
the Illinois Central and the Chicago &
Alton. are not embraced in this ar
Tangement- NY responsibilities viii be
confined 90 the lines west of the river
This is the territory within which all
the traffic troubles have existed. There
have been pools and gentlemen s
agreements and they have all failed to
solve the problem. Now Mr. Hartman
purposes to try this experiment OF
handling the traffic of the lines over
which he presides.'