Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-31
DEEP CUT IN COAST RATES
Union Pacific About to Declare Lower
Figures from Chicago,
FIRST SHOT IN A LIVELY sNRmIsH
Thirty-Tbree Dollars with stop-Over
Privileges IL the Price Talked
OF Now for the Cali
fornia Trip.

California Is under consideration and very
probably will be adopted by the Union
Pacific which is more than likely to create
q lively skirmish among western lines.
The rate is s33 from Chicago to California
points.
Upon the adjournment Of the recent
Transcontinental association meeting at
Colorado Springs the Union Pacific pas
senger ~oficials turned their attention to
an aggressive policy in the line Of pas
senger transportation and the same atti-
tude is displayed by other transcontinental
lines. II became known in official circles
about that time that a low rate contest
was among the early possibilities. and 1t
IL said that each road there and then de-
termined to be the first to lead In this
particular.
This aggression was stimulated when the
threatened collapse Of the Immigration bu-
reau was thwarted and the AFFAIRS Of the
Western Passenger association materially
strengthened by the entrance Of the North
ern Pacific and the Great Northern and, as
was intimated at the time, a strenuous
race for business was at once indicated.
II is o~1icially stated that as far as the
Union Pacific is concerned little doubt sur
rounds the formal announcement OF this
rate by that road and that within a very
lew lays ~ plbHbhlAAOA - " hNh NNS
schedule a continuation, in a measure, Of
the rates Of last March and April, keeping
them in effect until November /. The
rates will involve stop-overs in California
towns and corresponding reductions Will
be arranged east OF Chicago.
women stenOgraphers.
The issuance Of an order by President
L. F. Loree Of the Baltimore & Ohio pro-
hibiting the employment Of any more
women stenographers by tina company re-
wives interest in the question locally,
where It was agitated a year CT two ago.
The Union Pacific is the only headquar-
ters in Omaha where female stenographers
are employed and but a limited number
are at work there. The Burlington head
quarters employs but one woman In the
building and she is the hello girl" so
that IL will not need to give the matter
any attention.
1--WE have a few women stenographers
and they are all right as stenographers,'
said a Union Pacific official, but when II
comes to a question Of hiring male or fe-
male stenographers the former are by far
preferable for several reasons. often 1t Is
necessary for a man to be at his office In
the evening, in which event he can readily
have his man stenographer come down, OF
ne may be late ana Irregular in his hUurs
when the man can be asked to fill any pos
eible breach. Always the man is better
naturally, for emergencies than the woman
and this should be the case. Then the maj
can be used when necessary for a clerk. and
there is no denying the fact he grasps the
technicalities and routine Of the railroad
business better than the member Of the
fair sex. But there has never been an!
order OF that kind issued from this ONCE
and since the agitation some time ag'
against hiring women l know that tw'
women at least have been employed as ste
nographers. and they are good workers too
Heavy wheat Harvest.
The Burlington reports a very heavy
whea harvest along its route. On th'
northern division. where the grain is al
cut, some In the stack and some threshed
the yield is placed at from twenty-five Il
thirty-eigh bushels per acre; on the south
ern division it ranges from fifteen to thirty
nve, on the western division from thirty
i've to forty and the Wyoming not less thai
twenty bushels to the acre. while tn,
Cheyenne line reports a yield from thirty
1--WE to forty-hve, the heaviest of any. Dat
are reported generally good, but on tn
southern division they were SO badly beatel
down by the heavy rains as to be UNIT 70
anything but fodder.
Scrip Bureau Opened.
The Transmississippi Exchange scri
bureau, under the management Of w. X
Cundin, has been formally established 4
the Pacific express building. 1t is the pur
pose of this concern to sell tickets, by tn
issuance OF scrip. cheaper than has eve
been done before here. The standard rat
will be ~ cents a mile except on branc
lines in Colorado.
Railway Notes and Personals.
w. ]. Robinson, station superintendent o
the Burlington, has returned from a trip I
San Francisco.
General Manager Bidwell of the Ere
mont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley, has gon
10 Chicago on an official trip.
M. J.. Corcoran OF Chicago, general pas
genger agent for the Grand Trunk line,
mingling among local railroad men.
Frontier days at Cheyenne, August
and 2S, are being arranged for by the raj
roads, which will make special rates.
carnival CT western sports, in which IN
native cowboy and red man will be I'll