The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-22
SCHUMACHER SAYS
He WAS N|SQUOTED
Vice e-President of the Western
Pacific Angry Over Being
Put in False Light.

please correct something that was
published in morning paper here in Salt
| Lake Friday morning that ! did not say
face u untrue 't said i'd vice President 7. 7. NJ,
Schumacher of the Western Pacific, in
the Knutsford hotel yesterday, Il was
quoted as saying that through traffic
would not move over the Western Pacific
until about the first of June when the
fact is That through traffic has been 60
ing over the Western Pacific now for
| over six weeks. Today ! received n tele-
gram from New York asking about the
matter. as evidently the false report was
wired to the east
The Western Pacific may not put on
passenger trains till June. but that is an
entirely ditIerent matter from through
traffic which means freight. Might as
well confuse a handcar and a diner, and
say that the road was going 10 put first
class handcars on all It's passenger trains
when we put on the diners. l want the
widest possible report given TO the fact
through traffic today and has been for
over SIX weeks, trains running each way
daily, all carrying through traffic coming
from all over the east and going TO the
Pacific coast. and the reverse. Anything
TO the contrary Is absurd. and never came
from any one acquainted in the slightest
degree with rallroading.
1--WE also are not going ito complete any
merger either. What We are going TO
do is just the reverse. to dissolve half
dozen of these small corporations that
bly, over year. That Is only a matter
OF unimportant detail. as the property OF
these companies was taken over by the
Denver & Rio Grande in 1908,
Here is another item, through tranic
not accepted TIL price is complete That
sentence means nothing in itself and
would not be true II Ii did mean anything
We are accepting all the through traffic
we can get, in fact. we are straining
every nerve 10 get all the through tranlc
we can. the more the better, and such
O "a Hing hOckS
in our way.
rs there any truth in the rumor that
the Goulds Will soon have system
reaching from ocean to ocean, or from
PIttsburg to the Pacific?" Mr., Schu
macher was asked.
Nonsense! At Denver the Denver &
Rio Grande will deliver or accept freight
from all other roads on equal terms. There
Is nothing and can be nothing In such
report
Concerning appointments. do not care
to announce any more for a month or
two yet. Mr., Nevlns is slated for general
livestock agent, but the matter is not yet
made official, However, the announce
nent of II In The Tribune is correct.
"On through traffic from Chicago, just
what part OF the rate goes to each road
taking part in the haul do not care TO
passenger service will begin as soon as
the weather permits, probably by late
spring. II would not be prudent TO put
fast passengers on new track In WIN
II have had no conversation with Mr..
Cutter of the Tonopah & Goldfleld, and !
the Western Pacific will not build south |
to get the Los Angeles traffic.
But please correct that false report |
that the Western Pacific Is not open for |
through traffic. 1t Is open for through |
traffic and we want all we can get
Concerning the routing of freight over |
various roads IL was pointed out by Il |
traffic man yesterday that the shipper |
has the final say IN the matter and that |
freight goes much as a passenger goes.
over whatever routes the man who pays
the bill chooses. Thus freight might leave
San Francisco over the Western Pacific,
then take the Union Pacific 10 Denver
and the Rock Island to Chicago, IL the |
shipper routes IL that way. The mere
fact that the freight left san Francisco
over the Western Pacific would give that
road no power TO send the freight on east
over the Denver 6 Rio Grande or any
other road than the one specified by the
shipper, the owner OF the freight.