Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-19
RAT
MAR IS PROMISED.
Union Pacific, burlington and.
Rock Island, Said to be
Sharpening Axes.
AFTER SEATTLE BUSINESS Y 5. ] n $
on,srowth OF Old Quarrel Over tic
Portland Gateway Mattcr-Isio
Grandc VIII Come Iii.

passenger rate wal. i'll extent the
croatest in the history Of the railroad
world, is scheduled to occur this sum 1
,,,or according to eastern and local
minors. The contest for business is to
p Il made on eastern traffic, directly af-
rastinr the business to Portland and to
\ he exposition ut Seattle. The roads
x aid TO be chiefly concerned in the rate
war are the Union Pacific, Burlington
and Rock Island lines, including posi-
Ljy the Denver & Rio Grande.
while these rumors can not be coll
armed in local railroad circles, there
seems to be sorle ground for the iti-
pending battle for passenger business
in the recent adoption of new time
schedules by all the roads involved, and
Vice for the purpose of handling east
h crn passenger traffic, Heretofore the
\ Burlington Union Pacific and Rock Is
land have maintained two trains daily
Il between Chicago and Denver, these
v continuing on to Salt Lake via the
Union Pacific and the Denver IS Rio
tflandc. Now the roads are to install II
Bithlrd train between these points, While
as matter of fact the business on
each does not seem scarcely to justify
the present two train service. OF course
the traffic TO the exposition will be
Il greatlyin excess of the ordinary travel,
but the fact that each of these roads
Is installing Il third train indicates that
they are out for the business, each for
itself and no matter what becomes Of
Z the hindmost. y535 III Isl. a ,.s5
The cause fol. the rate struggle is
not clearly given, but ii is said to be
sort of an outgrowtl OF the old QUAR-
rel between the Hartman and Hill
forces over the Portland gateway mat
ter, in which Hill shut Hartman out
OF Puget sound passenger business. III
line with this theory, it Is up to the
Union Pacific to make the first move,
and this Will be followed it is stated, y
p by the Hill roads, and the rate war,
will BIO on. Other lines entering this
territory and carrying exposition bust
ness Will of necessity be concerned in
the big fight, and the Denver & Rio
GTantle, it would seem, is scheduled to
line up with the Fill forces against
Hartman, whereas the Rock i Island
and Chicago & Northwestern will prob
ably be in line with the Hartman
2 forces in the fray.
DELAY IN MAILS. 4
& "a siocal feature ~ entering into the
genera lineup of opposition between
tho roads develops IN the fact that
under the new time schduIe between
this ctyyand Ogden, the Oregon Short
Line train arriving from the Junction
B City, does not arrive here untilslate8in
the afternoon While the Overland
limited on the Union Pacific gets into
ogden at 1906. Thus the train under
inc new Denver 8 Rio Grande sched-&
ule which leaves Ogden at 1905 81 m !,
as entitled, according to a well informs
ca local official to carry the mail
from the Overland limited, making
tlie delay in distributing mail matter
which might be otherwise caused, ONLY
~. matter of 10 minutes AZ VI @
is strongly limited that n revision
of the revised Short Line time table
VIII be made In the immediate future. d
involving perhaps the whole running
schedule of the local service between
salt Lake City and Ogden.
The mail from the west, according
10 the same official, now gets into OE-
s ,l over the fast train at 1880 u. M
The Denver & Rio Grandc train leay-5
Ing Ogden for Salt Lake as a.55. ar
5rlyes in Salt Lake at 1855 with san
Francisco mail.
FIRST SLEEPER TO LOGAN.
5SBeginning tonight, the first sleeping
car VIII be placed in service between n