Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-06
TRAFFIC ALLIANCE STANDS
Agreement for Through Service of Milwau.
kee Over Union Pacific Complete.
EARLlNe GETS EVERY CONCESSION ASKED
Facilities Equal to Those En-
JOyed by Northwestern and Will
start Through Trains
First of Year.

THE traf1c alliance between the Union
Pacific and the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul whereby our road secures the same
facilities for through service to the Pacific
coast as the Northwestern, is consummated,
approved in every detail and will go into
effect January l." said F. A. Nash, general
western agent OF the Milwaukee. who has
Just returned from Salt Lake City, where
~cficials OF the Union Pacific, Milwaukee,
youthern Pacific and the Oregon Short line
net and perfected this important agree
rlent tentatively entered into in October.
I'VE will begin running our trains to the
coast over the Union Pacific the first of the
gear without fall" said Mr.. Nash, land
will continue the service without Interrupt
zion under this compact"
Mr.. Nash was shown a story printed in a
Chicago paper to the effect that this traffic
alliance was in peril, owing to the failure
of the two roads to agree on the essential
"details Of the train service, and that the
alliance was therefore in danger OF being
abrogated. The story went on to say that
the Milwaukee had demanded a through
train Just the same as the Northwestern
has in its Overland Limited" and that
after tentatively agreeing to this the Union
Pacific later receded from it's position and
wanted to compromise the matter by al
lowing the Milwaukee merely through cars,
one to Denver, one to San Francisco and
one to Portland, whereupon the Milwaukee
announced that II 1t was not given the con-
cession it demanded 1t would make trouble
for the Hartman road. The story inti-
mated that this trouble meant that the MIL
waukee would proceed to carry out its
threat OF building a line Of its own to the
coast or e~ffecting a traffic alliance with
some other road.
THAT is a fake, pure and simple" en-
phatically declared Mr.. Nash. There is
not the least truth In hat story. I was
at the meeting in Salt Lake and can speak
with absolute precision in saying that every
detail. from the minutest to the most es-
%sential. was perfected and the agreement
mutually accepted and commended. The
matter is entirely complete, and all that
now remains TO be done is for the Milwau-
kee to begin running its trains
Mr.. Nash frankly disclosed what will be
OF most general interest when he said:
1--WE got every concession we asked fol"
At the meeting in Salt Lake at which this
agreement was finally perfected were these
o~ficials:
President Burt, Superintendent Bucking-
ham, Assistant General Passenger Agent
Fort OF the Union Pacific; ]. C. Stubhs,
trafio director OF the Hartman lines; Vice
President Crutchschnitt and Trafic Man
ager Mccormick OF the Southern Pacific;
President Earring. Vice President Bird,
General Manager Williams and General
Passenger Agent Miller Of the Milwaukee
and oficials from the oregon Short line.
President Burt and his associates are not
expected back for several days.
Exclusive Mail Trains.
report which is said to have emanated from
reliable sources, create exclusive fast mail
trains out OF Nos. l01 and l02, which are
now fast mail and passenger trains COM
blned. The passenger coaches are to be
dropped, according to the report, and the
trains run with Just enough cars as ac-
tually will be required 10 haul the United
States mail, as was done some years ago.
whether this change, II 1t goes into ef-
feet. will bring about any further innova-
lions in train service is not known. Moth
ing can be learned at headquarters to war
rant the statement that IL will. II is un-
derstood that at this season Of year the
Union Pacific. like all other roads, can ac-
commodate It's passenger trafic with even
less train service than IL Is running and
this being the case, the curtailment OF
these passenger coaches will have no ma
teriai effect upon the passenger service. II
Is reported that this innovation Is to be-
come effective Sunday. but this is not GER
tain.
Railway Notes and son
J. p. Barrett travelling passenger agent