Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-05
The Vanderbilt Roads Reflect
tie Heads Of the Sew
eral Houses.
Probability Of a Rupture on
Cattle Rates in South
ern Kansas.
Remarkable Progress Of Con.
struction Of thu Canadian
Pacific Railro I'D.
A Special Tobacco Train Chewin g
Distance on the Southern
Route.
THE VANDERBILT ROADS.

THE VANDERBILT ROADS.
New York, May 4-The board of
directors OF the New York Central,
Lake Shore and Michigan Central
roads met to day at the Grand Cen
trail depot and elected the following
oficers:
For the New York Central & Had
son River road-Chairman of the
board of directors, Cornelius Wander
bilt; president, James II. Ritter;
first vice president, Charles @. Clark;
second vice president, Chauncey M.
Dspew; third vice president, j. Fl
Hayden; assistant to president, j.
T~illinghsst; treasurer, V. W. r ,sse-
ter; comptroller, Isaac p. Clambers;
secretary, K. ID. Worcester.
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern -
Chairman of the board of directors,
VIM. X Vanderbilt; president, John
Newell; Vice president, secretary and
treasurer, e. d Worcester.
Michigan Csntrsl Railroad company /:
Chairman of board of directors. Cor.
nslius Vanderbilt; president, 81. B
Ledyard; Vice president, E ID. Wor-
oester; treasurer, Henry Pratt.
1t will be noticed that while Van.
derbilt ~retires from the presidency and
his Joni from the vics presidency, I'M.
der the new bylaws the position of
chairman of the board of directors 10
created with general supervisory pow.
ers. Under this arrangement Cor
nelius Vanderbilt becomes chairman of
the New York Central and Michigan
Central boards, and VIM. X Wander
bilt remains president of the Nickel
Plate road and becomes chairman of
the Lake Shore directors. Each of
them is also a member of the board OF
directors of the company If which his
brother Is chairman. The plan re-
lieves Vanderbilt and his IONS Of de-
tail work and devolvss it upon those
who have been actively engaged in 1t
hsfore.
e. ROW ON CATTLE RATES.
ST. LOUIS, Mo May 4-The bone
of contention In the meeting of the
Southwestern Association, held here
last Wednesday, turns out to have
been q determination on the part oil
tho st Louis & Sao FrAncisco road &c
make q lower rate on cattle from their
new stock yards at Rcd Fork, -four
miles beyond the Arkansas river, II
Indian Territory, to St. Louis thar
has been charged by the Atchis IN,
Topeka and Santa Fe fromI Hume
well or Caldwell, Kansas, which have
h1retofore been the chief shippins
points for texas cattle. The matter
remains unsettled.
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC.
WINNIPEG, May 4.-Tae Thunde
Bay branch of the Canadian Pac!f
railway, extending from Lake of TIT
Woods to Lake Superior, a distance o
800 miles, has been transferred from
tho Dominion ~goveTEmsnt to the Ca
madam Pacific syndicate. General Su
perintendent Egan, on behalf of tn
latter, formally accepted the road frou
the contractors and to-day issued tn
necessary order for Its operations
The line from Winnipeg to Primo
Arthur's Landing, Superior, Is 43
miles and will BIS made by EXPIRE,
trains In "a hours.
CoMMERCIA D%ICrAToRs.
CHICAGO, May 4 "A settlement
the trouble between the eastboun'
trunk lines and the board Of trad
seems ~ far off as before. The cas-
bound agents to day refused to subm'
to arbitration the case which cause
the Misunderstanding.
SPECIAL FREIGHT.
ST LOUIS, May 4-The speeds
freight train which left here last nigh
for San Francisco via the S.. Louis
San Francisco road, arrived at HaI
sted, Kan, at eight o'clock to nigh
making the run OF 497 miles In twenty
one hours and five minutes, the fast
est one on record for the distanct
From HAlsted the train will go Owe
the Atchlscn, Topeka & Santa Fla I
Damipg, thence by the Southern Pa
ci6c to San Francisco. The train cor
sists of sixteen cars, each carryin
40, 600 pounds, eleven of them lade
with tobacco from this city, and it
pledged to run through at the rate
twenty miles per hour.
REMARKABLE RAILROAD BUILDING.
OTTAWA, May 4 In the common
tonight, Sir Charles Upper made Il
annual statement regarding the pr
press of construction of the Canadis
Pacific railway. He said he had bee
assured by the company the lii
would be completed and trains RI
ming from Montreal to Port Mood
British Columbia, over Canadian 70
ritory. by the end Of 1886. Tot
length of line between these point
2S75 miles. OF this 1,479 Is col
pleted. Total cash paid the compal
by the government up to date So 62i
900. Land handed over, 1872
acres.
STRIKING R~AILRoADERs.
ST.. PAUL, May 4.-Sfx hundred
borers on the Manitoba railway, /
tween Minneapolis aud Lake Minr
tonka, asked for q raise from 81 90
sT5 per day. The leaders In t
'ft.r this morning threw down tn,
bis and declared no n should wo
until the advance was made. Tn
then 8, arted down the track, stoppi
men who were at work and taxi
theII implements. All oars were r
of the track. Further threats W,