The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-09-11
LOCAL TRAIN SERVICE
HEARING ON THE 18TH
WALLACE WANTS MORE TRAINS;
KELLOGG HAS ENOUGH
MULLAN NARROWED.

The board Of trade luncheon last
Monday was largely attended. the
actual number present being 81 COM
pard with Al the previous week. AT
the business session the chief subject
Of discussion was the curtailment OF
train service by the Northern Pacific
between Wallace and Burke and
Wallace and Mullan. Chairman
Sullivan and Secretary McAllis-
ter stated that upon being advised
that the curtailment would be made
they wired the state utilities commits
sion protesting against 1t. In reply the
commission stated that the service
should not be changed without the
sanction of that body, and that the
case would be heard at the sitting Of
the commission In Wallace on Sep
TENDER IS to consider the discontinue
ance Of the Bug" service on the O.-W.
II. & N. The subject brought out a
general discussion. which included a
statement from c. NJ Grubbs agent of
the Northern Pacific, who gave the
reasons which led the company to cur
tail the service. These summed up
amounted to this, that the collapse Of
the passenger business had rendered
the service impossible as a business
propositions that the reduced service
was maintained under a steady loss,
but that the company was evidently
willing to stand this until conditions
improved as an obligation to the pub
lie. The discussion disclosed that the
sentiment Of the board Of trade was
that the service should be maintained
as formerly, but that a satisfactory
compromise might be affected If the
railroad company would restore the
Saturday night train from the canyon
The matter was finally referred to the
, traffic and industrial committee with
instructions to confer with the com.
pany with the view to satisfactory
adjustment.
Up To Utilities Commission.
Evidently the utilities commission
communicated with the general Of
flee of the railroad company regard
ing the change in the train service
for since the meeting of the board of
trade it is learned that the general
superintendent at Livingston and the
the division superintendent at Mis-
soula have advised that they will ar
MI
the following day with the utilities
commission. when the entire matter
will be threshed out and finally dis
posed Of. The commission is coming
here to have hearing on the Bug"
case, and it is expected that general
Officers of the O.-W. r. & n will
also be in attendance The business
men of Wallace will be represented at
from the board of trade
Kellogg Has Too Many Trains.
According to the action taken by
the Kellogg Improvement association,
that progressive city is pleased that
the accommodating Bug" no longer
serves the public between Wallace and
as n resolution was adopted
advising the public utilities commits
sion at Boise that the service of the
gasoline motor between Wallace and
Kellogg is no longer necessary or
beneficial to the interests of Kellogg
,n account of the jitney service hav-
ng become well organized and inn
proved since the removal of the motor
ar" Thus while all other cities are
for more trains and i'm
proved passenger service, the smelter
,ity occupies the unique position Of
having all its wants satisfied in that !
aspect. The protest of the Kellogg (
'eople Is a novelty, no doubt the first
Il its kind ever filed with the {
Utilities commission. They should not
top with the Bug they should also
SIX for the elimination Of one of the ,
spokane trains, and then when the '
itney service is further improved and
rganized, why not ask for the dis /
of all passenger train /
ervice? Kellogg should do her bit in 2
the ever-growing railroad 1
elicit. 3
A Voice From Mullan. 3
But if Wallace and Kellogg people 4
mink they have grievance, one with '
OF enough trains and the other with
10 many let them read this tuneful
lie of woe describing the condition at
Julian. as told with fine irony by the @
iitor of the Mullan Progress:
This new schedule punches the
aims so that there is every oppor- b
unity for the railroad company to lie
Ike care of the heavy t?) travel from Ct
yallace to our city. If the Missoula tt
ain is crowded in the morning our al
'allace friends can step right in the el
cal which is waiting for the over dl
Dw. Or II the conductor don't ap- al
,al to them or the brakey don't pl
himmy' just right, all that is neces- SO
ry is to take the other train. And m
the afternoon, after they have milk al
our boostraps dry, the two trains
e here to serve them on the return