The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29
Personal and General.

.. 3. Stevens, who has been general agent
OF the Rock Island at Omaha for number
OF years, has been appointed Pacific Coast
agent OF the same road, with headquarters
at San Francisco. His appointment takes
effect january.
The net earnings of the Denver & Rio
Grande railway for the second week of De
cemoer show an increase of 81, 800 over the
same period last year.
The Missouri Pacific gives notice that the
annual and limited passes for 1899 Will be
nonored until January 10. Time. en-
ployess' and trip passes will expire with
the current year.
The New York Central and Hudson River
railroad has issued an order directing all
signal tenders to stand on the track for five
minutes after each train has passed, with
red light or flag, and after five minutes has
elapsed to stand five minutes longer dis
playing green signal. A similar method
of signaling is in use on some railways on
the European continents.
The semi annual statement of the Bur
hngton relief department, organized but
six months ago, has been issued. The
membership is now 5000 and is rapidly in
creasing. The following relief disburse-
mentS show clearly this marvellous de-
velOpment: June, S10i; July, $3.50 25;
August, S96S.60 September, S1,37550;
October, S4,742.15; November, S4,S64.15
Nearly two hundred received assistance
during November on account of accident
or illness, and two death claims were paid
1T is now definitely known that John S.
Talbot, of Kansas City, will succeed D.
G. Pridham as commercial agent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway in
Denver. Mr.. Talbot has been with the
ST. Paul for many years, and is d thorough
railroad man. Mr.. Pridham was very re
ticent about the change, but admitted that
he would remain with the company. He
is certainly losing no sleep over his future
1t is limited that a nice promotion is await
ing Mr. Pridham at some other point
Advices from Omaha indicate that G. w.
Gushing will still be retained as superin-
tendent of motive power of the Union
Pacific. Patrick Touhy, assistant super
intendent OF the Nebraska division of the
same road, has resigned. E. R Griffin,
chief train dispatcher at North Platte. is
also booked for an early withdrawal from
the service of the companyn
Sioux City, is naturally much elated
over the report that the Missouri Pacific
is to extend line to that growing railway
center from point near Omaha, about one
hundred miles distant. The assumption is
that this means combination with the ST.
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba company in
competition with the Northern Pacific and
Union Pacific, forming in connection with
the Southern Pacific another route for
transcoutinental business as well as for.an
exchange of the products of the north with
those of the southwest and south The
Sioux City Journal. which has an enthusi-
astic editorial on the advantages to accrue
from this reported combination, speaks of
the Missouri Pacific as having "a mileage
of over eight thousand miles," but the
statement made by the company itself in
the official guide shows it's mileage to be
1904 miles-which is a good deal less than
5000. although still vast indeed.