, 1888-06-06
BURLINGTON OFFICERS.
A Party of Prominent 20" officials
Visit Cheyenne.
Interesting Interview With Superin-
tendent Calvert.
Towns Near Cheyenne to be Doomed
by the Road.

A party of Burlington officials high in
authority were in Cheyenne a few hours
yesterday. Theydined at the club, viewed
the city from Ex-Governor Warren's
barouche and departed for Denver over
the Union Pacific branch with all practi
cable haste. The occupants of the SPLEEN
didly appointed special car were: G. E.
Perkins, president of the Chicago, Bur
lIngton & Quincy Railway company; J..
@. Peasley, vice president; G. w. Hol-
drege, general manager OF the Burlington
& Missouri; I. E. Calvert, general super
intendent; A. Campbell, assistant general
superintendent, and Col. H. B. Scott,
town lot agent for the entire system.
General Superintendent Calvert left the
party at this point and returned to Omaha
via the Cheyenne & Burlington last even
ing. All wished to remain here several
days, but pressing engagements de-
manded the presence of the officials else
where.
A LEADER reporter was fortunate
enough to secure an interview with Mr..
Calvert during the g%entleman's %sojourn in
the city and found him even more genial
than the ordinary railway official. He
spoke without reserve of the status of the
strike and other current matters.
Mr.. Calvert said that so far as the com
pany was concerned the great struggle be-
tween the corporation and its employees
was at an end. I'VE have been harrassed
and hampered by this deplorable occur
renee" he said, ''and are still frequently
annoyed, but honestly believe that the
worst has passed. Like the engineers,
the company has been frequently misrep-
resented. Our volume of business has
not decreased, but there has been a d.
intuition of receipts and earnings on
account of rate wars. The general bust
ness depression, and more especially the
failure of crops in agricultural regions
trayersed by our line-and the 20" is a
farmers road-has contributed in a great
measure to swell the false alarm that the
system had been abandoned by its pat
rons The business has not been done
simply because it did not exist"
NO." continued Mr.. Calvert in answer
to a query, "the ex. Reading employees
have not come to our rescue with that
unanimIty which the general public has
been led to believe. By actual count
there are but thirty 20" locomotives
manned by Reading engineers. We have
many Eastern engineers on the road now.
A large number have left lucrative situa-
tons to come West.
While we have plenty of engineers we
are somewhat short on motive power. A
large number of locomotives had been
contracted for prior to- the strike and will
be delivered in a few weeks. A few en-
gines have been disabled by incompetent
men and several have been injured by
malicious persons. All reports to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, but one locomotive
has been burned.
What are the prospects for an extern
sion of the Cheyenne & Burlington in the
near future2" asked the reporter.
very poor. Tracklaying has been
abandoned o. roads already graded and
extensions are in the dim future. This is
one of the far reaching effects of this la
mentable strike. But for this unfortunate
occurrence we would be laying rail S in
many localities"
"How soon will the Cheyenne & Bur-
lington become a mail %route?"
Just so soon as the contract can be
secured, and negotiations are now pend
ing. We are more than anxious to enter
this branch of the United States service
and the people along the line are clamor-
ing for mail facilities"
"Will any of the Cheyenne & Burling-
ton towns be 'boomed2'"
"They will be extensively advertised
and inducements will be offered to settlers
when the proper time arrives. Lots will
soon be placed on the market in nearly
every town on the line"
What is,the o. going to do for coal
west of the Missouri"
eve, of course, look to Wyoming for
that product and realize that we will not
be disappointed. We are already some.
what familiar with the resources OF the
territory, and, as every one knows, the
road has only just entered Wyoming as
yet"