Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-30
RAILROAD MACNATES CONFER
High Officials Of Milwaukee Road Here 70
Consult Union Pacific,
DISCUSS TRAFFIC TO PACIFIC COAST
Question of whether Milwaukee VIII
NRun Through Trains over Union
Pacific Tracks ~ 20 BE
Determined.

An important meeting OF railroad officials
was held yesterday at Union Pacific head
quarters. Those present at the conference
are: J. c. Stubs Of Chicago, trafhc d.
rector Of the Hartman lines; President A..
]. Earling, Vice President A. G. Bird, Cen
eral Passenger Agent +. A. Miller and Cen
eral superintendent J. n. Barr Of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, all Of Chicago;
President Horace G. Burt. r. L. Lomax,
general passenger agent; J. A.. Monroe,
general freight traffic manager. and William
A. Kelly, general solicitor for the Union
Pacific.
The object Of this conference was to fix
passenger schedules for the Union Pacific
and the Milwaukee under the provisions Of
the new traffic agreement recently entered
into by these two roads. The contract by
which the Milwaukee is to run through
trains over the Union Pacific to the Pacific
coast, II It chooses. has been approved and
confirmed. and is in fact now effective. but
there remains a vast amount OF work to be
done in the adjustment Of the combined
schedules.
May Not Take All Privileges.
While the contract specifies that the Mil
waukee shall have the same rights and
privileges extended to the Northwestern or
any other road entering into similar agree
ments with the Union Pacific, II is not yet
certain that the Milwaukee will see at to
avail Itself of all these concessions, es-
pecially that OF running its trains on to
the coast. Some obstacles are still in the
way Of fixing the schedules so as to make
this arrangement mutually profitable.
It may be deemed expedient for the
Milwaukee simply TO run through cars
instead Of putting on entire trains. The
volume OF traflc will be a determining
factor In this problem. AS has been shown
before, IL the Milwaukee puts on through
passenger trains II would mean the extern
sive enlargement Of the service from here
to Chicago and passenger officials have
been quoted who deprecate the wisdom Of
such a plan. The traffic is thought to be
not sufficient TO Justify doubling the train
service between here and Chicago and that
is what must be lone II this plan is car
ried out without some changes.
The conference yesterday did not take
up the freight question, since there
seems to be little to adjust along that line.
Through cars are already in service for
freight and it is believed these matters are
already in a satisfactory state.
President EarIing Talks.
President Earling, after the conference
ended, said: 'Our deliberations today were
merely preliminary to an arrangement OF
train schedules and other details that will
be attended to later. The plans are incomr
plete and will not be perfected at this time.
We have been assured by the Union Pacific
people that our traffic arrangements with
their road will be made as satisfactory as
the arrangement the Northwestern has had
for some years"
General Passenger Agent Miller said:
I'VE win hold another meeting soon,
when we expect other representatives of
the Southern Pacific, as we'll as the Union
Pacific, present. Mr.. Stubs was the only
one from the Southern Pacific today and he
is not familiar with the operating depart
iment. At this meeting we will decide the
amount of the additional equipment to be
supplied by each road. Our affairs are in
such a shape that it will require time to
settle all the details. We can say now
that the new train service will not be in
stalled before January L..
The Milwaukee officials left for Chicago
at 2 o'clock.