Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-05
BOARD ASKS FOR.
 SLEEPER
Trade Association Asks for Weekly Sleeping Car to
 California
BUSINESS MEN EXPLAIN
 HOW SERVICE WOULD PAY

The board of trade has again taken up the matter of a weekly sleeper to Los Angeles for the sum- mer months at least, and has writ | ten strong communication in the matter. This letter is sent as a re- ply to R. S. Stubbs. assistant gen eral freight and passenger agent of the Southern Pacific. who wrote 10 the board on the subject under date of June 2.
 | Mir. Stubbs' predecessor. NJ. O.
 Bicknell. had practically promised this weekly sleeping car service to Los Angeles to the Board of Trade. but Mir Stubbs questions the prac- | ticability of the proposition in his | letter He states that his office has
 been corresponding with General
 Passenger Agent Brown on the mat ter of operating such a sleeper on | west bound No. :.
 Tt appears" writes Mr- Stubbs. l that this question has been agitated to some extent by the residents ot Bisbee. Seriously, we do not believe that the operation of such a car will pay for the handling MT. Brown is satisfied that less than 90 per cent of the summer tourists travel Tn
 standard sleepers. Tickets were
 sold to California points from sta
 tions on the western division of the
 E. P. & S. w. during 1908 as fol-
 lows: June 194, July 31S. August
 34O, September 15S. Sales were
 greater in July than in any othe-
 month. averaging twelve tickets
 day.
 Speaking Of Mir. Bicknells propo | sition. MT Stubhs says: lt is not our desire to withdraw from that DO
 sition, but we feel that the propo
 sition does not possess sufficient
 merit to warrant serious considera | ton. It is very unlikely that pas sengers from Bisbee or Douglas
 would care to delay their journey al
 Benson if there is any possibility ol
 securing space on No. 2, ana ai though you seem to have secured Mr Bicknelrs consent to handle such 2 car on No. 3, there is no evidence tt show that the San Francisco onlei
 would agree.
 ] Replying to this letter. the Boar ] l of Trade yesterday wrote to MT l Saubbs, stating that there were l number of important points whic' l he seemed to have overlooked ana u , which they desired to call his atten - ,;on before the matter was finall 3 closed Attention is called to tn 2 fact that the statement of ticket D sold last year does not include tn
 tickets sold by the Southern Pacifi
 I tn nQSGanQar
 origiuatiug on the Southwestern
 who on account of holding mileaS : books or for other reasons. did nc
 nurchase tickets until they reache penson. Neither does this list i- clude tickets sold to Tucson. Phot
 nix and other points west of Bei ]. son. The board therefore feels Una
 the figures furnished by MT. Brow
 could be increased fully 50 per cen And again the travel this year
 the coast win be much greater, ov
 inc to the improved financial cond
 tions." .r
 Continuing. the letter says:
 vou will put this car in operatio e we are sure that 90 per cent Of tn It travel from here to the coast, whic S- in summer is largely composed s women and children. would much pr .t for to take the delay at Benson tna t to depend on the uncertainty z space on No. 9.
 D. We are informed on good aatno ,t ity that on Tuesday last twenty-hN B. tickets were sold to Los Anseie, d Add to this the tickets sold to Cai ,r fornia points at Douglas. Naco. Fai ,e banks, Tombstone and Benson. an .i we are inclined to think that one cs G r. would not have held one-third Of tf C party. ,, .,,,
 such car leaving Bisbee wou
 he utfliezd by all California pour ia messengers, ana we are certain Uni .a the car would prove great succe' ,s throughout the summer In fact' .e helieve that before two months al 'e over you would find the serVi' - wou.d require bi-weekiy service l ., lts.ead.- The letter continues th ,u there are but few of the ideas st Bisbee business men. and asKs !. '' ,r;aJ for at least a month