The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-01-16
HARTMAN ROADS
4. BEGIN A BATTLE

week by the Union Pacific railroad
there will be no longer gate" at
Denver or at Ogden. There will be
just two gates" for the Union Pacific.
One Of these Is at Omaha and tbs other
is at aKnsas City-both eastern ter
minal points Of the Union Pacific.
If the Union Pacific is able to MAIN
tain its position and keep the Ogden
and Denver "gates" closed the blow
will fall so heavily upon the other
trans-Missouri lines as to be almost
a calamity. F
4, The Rock Island line, for instance,
will lose all It's passenger business
to the far northwest; at least 1t will
lose. the haul from the Missouri river
to the Rocky mountains. Instead Of
being able to pick up passenger at
Chicago, carry him to Denver and
there hand him over to the Union Pa
cific for transport to Boise, Ida, or
Yellowstone Park, that passenger
must be handed over to the Union Pa
cific at Omaha, the Rock Island get
ing 500 mile haul instead Of one Of
1000 miles. The alternative up to the
passenger is to purchase local tick
ct from Denver to his destination over
the Union Pacific. And the local rate
from Denver would amount to more
than the through rate from Chicago,
probably.
Burlington in Same Boat.
The Burlington railroad too is in
similar boat" If Burlington has
passenger from st. Louis to Rock
Springs, Wyo., or Huntington, Ore,
or any other point in that part Of the
world, 1t cannot take that passen-
ger to Denver and there give him over
to the Union Pacific for the remain
der of the trip. That passenger must
take the Union Pacific at Kansas
City, thereby knocking Burlington out
Of the $50 miles haul between Kansas
City and Denver.
The Missouri Pacific has line from
St. Louis to Denver. But IL the Mis-
souri, Pacific picks UP a passenger at
Jefferson City, Mo-, or anywhere else
in that state destined to Baker City,
Ore, for instance, the Missouri Pacific
cannot haul the passenger to Denver
and there give him over to the Union
Pacific. The latter road must get the
passenger at Kansas City or charge
him local rates from Denver to his
destination. ~ f -''-
| II a passenger at Chicago wants to
go to Idaho Falls, Ida, and offers to
purchase a ticket over the Northern
Pacific or the Great Northern for
transfer to the Union Pacific at Butte,
Mont, he cannot be accommodated.
Ele must take the Union Pacific at
Omaha, and the Union Pacific has the
long haul. ''ft 4
The Santa Fe has a line from Chi
cago to Denver, but IL a passenger
wants to go on west from Denver
over the Union Pacific, the Santa Fe
must give that passenger over to the
Union Pacific at Kansas City and see
him go on to Denver over the latter
road, although the Santa Fe train from
which he alighted goes right on to
Denver also.
East Bound Travel
East bound travellers who formerly
were permitted to purchase tickets
over the Union Pacific to Denver. and
thence over some Of the other roads,
must now travel all the way to the
Missouri river over the Union Pacific.
They will be given stop-overs at Dem
yer by that road II they want them,
but they must 60 as far as they can
on the Hartman roads.
It Is the Rio Grande railroad that
Is hardest hit by the new order. The
Rio Grande operates between Denve,
and Ogden, and the gateway at each
end has been closed. The Rio Grande
appears TO be completely knocked out
Of the Idaho, Yellowstone Park, Ore
gofi, washington and northwestern
passenger trafilc unless the traflc orig.