East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-30
OPEN GATEWAY
FOR D. R. & \.
TRAFFIC MANAGERS ARE
TO MEET IN PORTLAND.
Questions of Joint Tickets via Port
land to the Sound and Other Points
Not in Hartman Territory to BE
Discussed-Efforts to Re Made to
Fix Up Joint Ticket Arrangements.

Regarding the opening of the Puget
sound gateway to o. r. & n. and
Union Pacific passenger traffic, the
Oregon Daily Journal says:
Conferences will be held between ].
c. Stubs, traffic director of the
onion Pacific and Southern Pacific.
]. N. Hannaford and ]. G. Wood
worth, traffic chiefs OF the Hill lines.
for the purpose Of considering terms
on which the Portland gateway and
other gateways may be opened to Joint
routing by these lines on transconti-
mental business.
The opening of the Portland gate
way is not local question, but in
wolves the handling Of passenger traf-
fic through the gateways of Butte,
Spokane. Wallula and other points.
and also also the division of revenues
from through tickets over the north
ern lines and the Southern Pacific on
business between st. Paul and San
francisco via Portland.
"These matters will be taken up and
settled by the heads of the traffic de-
partments," said A. p. Charlton, assis-
tant general passenger agent of the
Northern Pacific. when asked for the
version Of the northern lines as to the
closing or opening of the Portland
gateway. Portland is today in the
same position it always was as to
tourist business, and that everybody
who wants to come to Portland can
come at the same expense as former
Iy. There Is no bar to their visiting
Portland, and the only reason that as
large a number is not coming here
this month as were in evidence last
March is that the travel is much
lighter this spring.
THE travel does not exist, and Of
course it does not come to Portland.
This years colonist movement is not
starting as early as it did last year.
We expect the business to move later
ON, but 1t is not moving now on any of
the railroads, and this is the reason
that Portland is not getting as much
trdYel as IL got last spring.
Statement Of o. r. & y. and Union
Pacific officials are to the effect that
the travel is being kept away from
Portland by the refusal OF the North
ern Pacific to permit the o. r. C N.
company to absorb the local fares be-
tween Portland and the sound on
tickets sold from Union Pacific terri
tory to the Pacific northwest, as was
done last year.
AS a consequence westbound travel
through the Huntington gateway on
colonist tickets is diverted to eastern
Washington points on the o. r. G. N.
company's lines, or to Spokane where
the tickets permit Of a connection
with the Great Northern, that COM
rany having concurred in the old ar
rangement. The result Is to give
eastern Washington and Puget sound
the advantage of securing homeseek-
ers and tourists.
General Passenger Agent McMur-
ray has received from Traffic Dlrec-
tor Stubs a telegram indicating that
a way will be found TO reissue the
passenger tariffs Of the Union Pacific
system to conform with the require
ments OF the interstate commerce
commission and compel the Northern
Pacific TO accept passengers ticketed
through 10 the sound.
Mr.. McMurray does not understand
the full import of the telegram. and Is
awaiting further explanation. He
wired Mr. stubbs today for more light.
The latter replied that the question
was being investigated, and that fur
ther advices would be sent the Port
hand office within a few days.