Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-08-05
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If the plans of the Hartman
syndicate are successfully executed
agencies of the Union and Southern
Pacific roads in all parts of the
United States and Canada will be
consolidated, probably Sept l. Of
ficers of the two roads are now
planning to abandon the Office OF the
Union Pacific road in Chicago and
turn the business over to the South
ern Pacific agency under w. G.
Neimyer, general western freight and
passenger agent, as the first move in
this direction. Both roads now main
tain elaborate offices in Chicago and
in each headquarters a large force Of
agents and clerks is employed. This
plan of concentrating the traffic
forces of the two Hartman systems,
if effected, will also apply to New
York, San Francisco, Philadelphia,
Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Gin
cinnati, New Orleans, st. Louis.
Kansas City. Denver, Atlanta, Ca;
Havana, Cuba; Ogden, Salt Lake
City, Portland, Ore; Buffalo. N. Y;
Los Angeles, Seattle, Wash, and
many other points. Since the
financial moves this is the first
action taken by any Of the railroad
syndicates in the line of reducing ex-
penses and it is said to be but a fore
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of concentrating forces with this end
in view. 1t is said that when a gen
eral traffic advisor shall have been
appointed to look after the business
of the Morgan-Hill roads the Bur-
lington, Northern Pacific and Great
Northern, all separate agencies now
maintained by these lines in the
different cities Of the country will be
consolidated. After this will come a
general pruning of the travelling and
soliciting freight and passenger
agents. Thousands of men will be
thrown out of employment by these
moves. A majority of those who will
lose positions are men who have been
in the railroad business all their lives
and who are i'll prepared to take up
other lines of work.
The Milwaukee and st. Paul, Chi
cago and Northwestern, and Wiscon-
sin Central railroads. in order to
stimulate travel to the Wisconsin and
upper Michigan resorts, will put on
special round trip excursion tickets
Aug. 1 to 10 inclusive from Chicago
to all authorized tourist points on
their lines at rate of one fare for
the round trip. with minimum rate
of 4 from Chicago. Final return
limit of these tickets will be Oct. 81
and the rates are rendered to con-
Meeting lines for basing purposes.
The Wisconsin roads have suffered
severely thus far this season from .he
low rates made for the pan-American
exposition and to Colorado points,
asked permission from the Western
Passenger association to make half
fare rates to Wisconsin and northe n
Michigan points. AS the other lines
in the association refused to vote in
favor of the proposition the Wiscon-
sin roads decided to make the low
rates independently.
An artistic booklet. illustrated by
T. K. Hanna, Jr., the artist who has
drawn so many good things for Life,
is that recently published by the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail
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Chicago-Denver express. Mr.. Han
mas life-like groups in the interior of
the buffet dining and sleeping cars
are remarkable and the book is well
worth having for them alone. P. S.
Eustis, will mail one to anybody who
asks him for it. His address is 200
Adams street. Chicago. He is the
general passenger agent of the O., a
road whose service has acquired the
highest tone and whose Dinner train
is really model. This road reaches
not ony to the Colorado region, but
far up to the northward into
Montana.
Two parlor cars named respectively
GAINESVILLE and Beloit have been re-
ceived by the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul Railway and will be placed
at once in the service for which they
were built-between Chicago, James
vile and Madison. The cars have an
interior finish Of mahogany and are
rs feet in length. The exterior is the
St. Paul standard color. In addition
to the usual parlor, seating thirty peo-