The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-21
LEGAL TALENT
IN BIG ARRAY
Large Gathering of High Traf-
fiC Officials to Attend Rate
Hearing.
UTAH'S CASE NOW READY
ATTORNEYS BUSY WITH DE
TENSE TO BE PRESENTED.

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z = '"The interstate commerce commas
> sion considers the hearing TO be hetu
\ in Salt Lake one of its most import
= ant said +. Z. Clark heIHDeI
> of the interstate commerce colhIIlla-
, sion, who arrived in Salt Lake CiJy
= yesterday from Washington D. =
= Mr. Clark would not discuss the =
= coming railroad rate hearing Iufther
y than TO say that it was an import
= ant one.
Mr.. Clark viii be Joined today or :
: tomorrow by Charles j. Prouty, an
\ other member of the interstate COM
; u1erce commission. The two VIII SIT
\ in the railroad rate hearing to com
= mence in Salt Lake on Wednesday ?
= Both members OF the cOIlIillSS - Il
= have sat IN previous hearings ia 0ol'
Nh, Clark is well known in Salt =
! Lake and the west He was formerly =
a conductor running out OF OsdeI-
8 II. Babcock. traffic director Of the
Commercial club traffic bureau, says he
has vast stores of ammunition all prlmeo
and ready to be fired in what Mr. Bao-
cock says is the most important oattIe
ever fought in Utah. MIR. BapcocH Ids
his strategic plans all completed, MS
forces disposed and IS anXlously awaiting
the opening of hOSuHueS, Whlcn VIII De-
gin in the federal court room Wednesday
re1rese6tine the Commercial club traffic
bureau will present arguments TO the N
terstate Commerce commission showing
that L tab business men are COIhpgi4Su 10
pay unjust tribute to the railway Dalolls-
Armed to the teeth, the fighting SecIlons
OF the great railroads arrived IN force
yesterday and more are corning To-Day
i Some came from san Francisco, others
from New York, Chicago, Omaha ana
other big cities, where for months taey
have been preparing Tor TINS srIsgie,
lob lzn n .
entire west. In d special car from the
Pacific coast came Charles 5. Fee, gen
eTal passenger agent of the Southern IA
CifiC; q. W. Luce, general IfelSht agent
of the same system and their assistants
and associates, consisting of ii. A Jones,
- ". Durbrow W. II. Hathaway, Z. i.
Cranst0n, 6. Is. SeaIey anu 1. r, beu .I5-
min, all of whom are quartered at the
KnutSfOrd
From New York came j. c. Jeffrey,
counsel for the Gould system.
From Chicago +. c. billiard, assistant
general counsel of the Hartman system,
arrived to assist \. Il. LOOMS Of Omaha,
who is the direct representative Of Robert
:. LOVett Since T. II. H2rrlmanS de-
mise Mr.. LOVett is the man upon whom
the task of taking the great railroad or
ganiZer's place has deVOlved. MIR. Looms,
IS AR, LoVeJI assistant, VIII pear tIle
brunt Of the fight for the Hartman
system.
Railroad Forces Arrive.
Also at LLlt htlAOl are LllE LDlLUMlAl5
railroad men. all of whom are here for
the specific purpose of seeing that the
rates now in force are not changed;
j. A. Spellicy, city freight and passen-
ger agent for the San Pedro, Los Angeles
& Salt Lake railroad at Denver; I. d.
Blake of the traffic department Salt
Lake Route Riverside, Cal; j. /. Marens,
commercial agent for the st. Louis
Southwestern Railway company at Kan
sas City, No; Andrew J. butcher, traffic
director for the Hartman lines Chicago;
II. s. Baker, chief clerk of the Chicago
Great Western, New York.
Private car No. 50 of the Chicago, Bur
lingtOn & Quincy railroad brought to Salt
Lake c. G. Durham, assistant to the
first vice president; General Attorney
Hale Holden, and Attorney Edwin Spen-
Ger. Traffic Manager j. G, Woodwork
of the Northern Pacific; ". P kenneyr
assistant traffic manager of the Great
Northern, and a. j. DOnnelley of the
Northern Pacific,
The principal work done yesterday on
the railroad side was by Mr.. LOOMS and
Mr. billiard. With Mr.. LOOMS shortly
after breakfast at the knutSfOrd, they
went to the Oregon Short Line general
offices. All except +, II. Plaisted, assis-
tant general freight agent, were unpre-
pared Tor their coming.
Mr.. Plaisted has been connected with
the traffic department of the Hartman
lines for many years. To him most of
the clerical work of preparing the de-
tense of the railroads has devOlved, and
with a force of clerks he has been pre-
pa ng volumes of matter to offset the
complaint of the Utah shippers.
Resting on Arms.
Mir. Babcock of the Commercial clubs
traffic bureau calmly watched the arrival
of the enemy He had finished doing
everything he could do and was resting on
his arms.
This battle" said Mr. Babcock, sis
something like the David versus Goliath
affair. Here we have Judge Dey. a very
DnIz-
TO the pick of the railroad lawyers of
the United States. / believe he is quite
match for all of them. but when he
sees arrayed against him score of the
high-priCed corporation lawyers 7 think
he viii feel very much as David did when
he went out 90 slay the giant. Also like
David, he VIII feel his cause is just.
This rate hearing continued Mr..
Babcock, SHOULD interest every man.
woman and child in Utah. If we win, the
merchant VIII save enough I'm freight
rates TO make nice little bank account
at the end of the year
Mr. BabcOcks attention was called 10
an article in San Francisco newspaper
which attempted 60 belittIe the importance
Of the Salt Lake hearing. If ii is UNI
important answered Mr.. Babcock. why
are the biggest men of the railroads here
to right IT. They do not waste their time
on insignificant matters. When COW is
killed you Go not see anything Of either
Judges LOOMS or billiard. 1t is only
when the very biggest cases arise that
now, and they realize, as we do, that the
whole freight rate fabric of the west
depends on this decision.
This application for just rates is for
the whole people" concluded Mr.. Bah
cock 1T is not for any one particular
business. but the welfare of the entire
state and contiguous territory is in
vOlved in it: Every citizen should do what
he can TO help"
You can Sacrifice" your PROD
erty any time. You can SELL,
it almost any time if you are
even a fairly good advertiser.