Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-24

AGENCIES DO ALL THE WORK.
All Matters, Heretofore Left TO Travel
ers Are Attended to by
Ticket Offices, 5

Oregon Short Line and Hlo SIraili ~
ticket offices say the baggage arrange
ments lnaugurated this morning are
bringing out no end OF favorable com
,nent from the travelling public. unuer
The new system the local ticket offices
take charge Of ones baggage when u
ticket Is purchased; the traveller 1ur-
nishes his or her address and pays
hauage charges, gets a check ana TUG
offices do the rest. A drayman goes
to the prospective residence. gets the
+ trunk, takes 1t to the depot, puts II
or them on the train and does all the
other work heretofore left to the trav-.
eler. When one has excess baggage the
Z charges due on the excess weight are
!. made c. o. d. at destination. The new
arrangement applies on travel between
this station and any other place In the
United States.
NUMEROUS ADVANTAGES
Upon arrivingg at destination bag
gage will be handled to q hotel or.
residence il 1t Is requested ut this end
OF the line the owner paying the dray-
age rates obtaining at whatever city
destination happens to be. The scheme
has any number OF advantages. In let
ting the railroad companies do busl-
ness with dlaying companies the best
possible draying rates will be 5enoo,yeel
be overcharged, This latter danger
does not exist to any great degree N
this city but an INSCRIPTIONS hauler
is encountered now and then. Usually
the prospective traveller leaves the car
rying of his trunk until the last min
ute, so 1t can be thoroughly packed.
This leaves the drayman absolute mas
ter OF Che situation for the citizen must
pay, he has no recourse; he has shut
off ali chance OF hiring another dray-
man through waiting until all spare
time has fled. The big advantage to
| all ! Is the railroads Willingness to
shoulder all the nuisance attendant up
on the checking of baggage. This is
one of the worst features of travelling;
it's elimination ribs the public of a
great worry.
| The only thing which can mar the.
| arrangement is some edict from the
Interstate commerce commission for
bidding it on the grounds that It t VII sll
| breed discrimination on the part of the
railroads in their patronage of dray-
men and express companies.
WOMEN BENEFITED.
To women travelling alone the scheme
offers a great relief for it Is not the
| most pleasant thing In the world for
a woman to have to bother about bag
gage. The idea that no charges are
connected with the scheme. apparently
4 held among morning newspapers, Is
erroneous Such an arrangement would
! be more than any railroad system is
doing. The modern methods adopted by
| the railroads are recognition of the
'up-to-dateness" of Salt Lake. There
| is an expreSsman t0 each business
block corner In Salt Lake and to these
| the scheme is a severe blow, as much
of their business has been in the bag
| gage line. Needless to explain the
| railroad offices announce that no favor
| itism will be shown. I'VE will employ
! the most efficient and reliable dray-
men. Anybody and everybody will not
| be employed but whoever shows us the
| most Willingness to do business quick
| ~ and entirely satisfactory to ot1r pat
rons will get the business" is the way
| the ticket officials discuss this point.