Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-04
BIC RAILROAD MEN GATHER IN TUCSON City Has Seldom Seen So Many Men of Prominence at
 One Time.

TUCSON, Arizona, Feb. 3.-Seldom does it fall to the lot of Tucson to harbor at one time as many railroad
 men of prominence as was the case yesterday, when the chief traffic off cials of the Hartman lines and of the Fl Paso and Southwestern met in this city for a conference on traffic agree ments between their two interests.
 The Hartman group was headed by
 J. c. Stubbs, who is the director of the traffic arrangements of the Harri- man lines for the entire country h. , cluded in his party were T. A. Ora | ham, the passenger manager for the Southern Pacific in California; Chas. s. Fee, the traffic passenger mogul . for all the Southern Pacific lines; H. : A. Jones, at the head of the freight traffic interests of the Southern Pa
 cific, and A. w. Reeves, the general agent for the G. H. and s. A lines, east of Fl Paso.
 The Fl Paso and Southwestern party was headed by T. A. Scau-
 macher, the traffic manager for that system, and he was accompanied by General Agent Garnett King and Pas
 senger Traffic Manager V. R. Stiles.
 The latter party, with the excep- ton of Mir. Schumacher, arrived here
 late Wednesday morning, and the Hartman party, with Mir Schumach-
 CT, came in yesterday morning on a | special train.
 The members of the party were
 seen by newspaper representative,
 who sought to ascertain whether their trip here had anything to do with the l fight for a lowering of the freight
 rates which is being made by the merchants of the territory, and was | informed emphatically that it had
 not.
 sIn fact,'f said the spokesman, "the ! trip here has absolutely no local sig
 nificance to Arizona It merely hap
 pened that the time of MT. Stubbs
 visit to Tucson coincided with the | date which had been set apart for q | trip of the E. P. and s. w. officials to the south, and as there were traffic
 matters between the two roads which required conference it was deemed
 advisable to meet here. The mem
 bers of the party spent the entire
 morning in conference upon traffic af- fairs which concern the operations of | the two roads.
 | You may say emphaticaily, how ever, that there is not the slightest
 hint of any trouble between the two
 lines, and that the sorry, sent out from Fl Paso, that there is traffic
 war between the Southwestern and | the Hartman lines is all bosh.
 "It always occurs that conditions
 arise from time to time which make necessary the adjustment of confed erated rates. and 1t was simply this which occasioned this conference" l Said another member of the party
 '.You may say to the people of Tue
 son on behalf of Mir. Stubbs and ev cry member of the party that they {. have nothing but the kindest words to say of Tucson. It is recognized as one of the greatest towns in the
 southwest, important to transporta tion systems and thoroughly beauti ful, live, energetic and active little city The people of Tucson have ev cry right to be more than ordinaril! proud of their cosmopolitan and met
 ropolitan appearance. 3at sspali lty." | The members of the Stubbs party accompanied by MT. Schumacher
 went west to Los Angeles, while th' other representatives of the E. P Il and S. W. went south on the "Burro'
 train on business matters connected with their line.