Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-28
UNION PACIFIC AFFAIRS.
RUSSELL SAGE TELLS OF THE PROCEED.
INGs OF THE BOSTON MEETING.
He Thinks That NJ. Adams Went Out OF
His Way to Attack the Management
in His Speech of Retirement-A Change

He Thinks That Mr. Adams Went Out OF
His Way to Attack the Management
in His Speech of Retirement--A Change
Necessary.
NEW YORK, November 27.-It is quite
evident that the Gould-Sage party, which
yesterday went into power in the Union
Pacific affairs, did not enjoy the farewell ad-
dress OF Charles Francis Adams. Mr.. Sage
was seen last night after his return from
Boston and said:
1.-THE meeting at Boston took just the form
that was planned for it. The directors were
unanimous in their actions and expressed
for securing harmony between the various
great railroad lines in the West, These
plans were made the chief order of business
after the change in the management had
been brought about. The accomplishment
OF this purpose will now be the settled pol
icy of the road. 1t is true as has been said,
that the call for 4 meeting of the Presidents
of the transcontinental lines awaited only
the action OF this meeting. That call Will
now be issued and the meeting will be held,
suppose, next week"
MR.. ADAMS REMARKS UNCALLED FOR.
'What do you think of the attitude taken
by Mr.. Adams in retiring from the board?"
was asked.
THE tenor of Mr. Adams address was
almost uncalled for, responded MIR. Sage.
"There had been no public criticism OF his
management made by any one of the direc-
tors, Notwithstanding the fact that he was
running the road to rIin. A change in the
management was simply necessity to save
the property, and Mr.. Adams speech was
piece of spitework. I did not hear 1t my
self, as 1 was not then member OF the
board. Some OF those who had been his
own directors denounced it as a most
unhandsome thing, and were disguised at
the display Mr.. ADAMS made of himself.
One said to me: 1T is shameful fact that
Mr.. Adams has been trying to run this
great property by means of lot of women
typewrlters and doTen or so Harvard grad
yates, who knew no more about railroading
than a backwoodsman. The new members
of the board were a necessity to save the
road from ruin that must have come with
in year.
RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS CONDITION.
''Mr. Adams said in his address," con-
tinued Mr.. Sage, THAT he has been Presi-
dent of the road for seven years, and that
during that time the actions of the Board
of Directors have been in every case unan-
imous. That is simply saying that Mr..
Adams has been the Union Pacific and is
responsible for its condition. In that case
he should just explain how it comes that
the payroll was increased by 1000 names
in nine months: what personal interests he
had in the Kansas smelling works in favor
of which a discrimination was made in the
rates for shipping bullion, and half dozen
other matters that might be inquired into.
We are not taking hold of the U nion Pacific
for the fun of the thing. 1 am in it not Tor
pleasure or financial profit but to help to
save the property. The condition OF affairs
was such that we had to take hold. Now
all the directors are in sympathy with the
plans laid down by l1r. Gould"
"What does Mr.. Adams mean by his fire.
quent referepces to the political connections
OF the Union Paci6c?"
"That was another piece of spitework.
Mr.. Adams saw that he could not maintain
the system and he does not seem to want
anybody else to. That is the only construc.
ton can put upon the several passages of
this address that relate to the political as
pect of the rights and relations of the Union
Pacific system
When told of the report that the party
had taken three private detectives with
them to Boston, Mr.. Sage avowed emphati-
cally that there was not a word of truth
in it.
THE NEW MANAGEMENT.
S. H. H. Clark, Vice President and Man
ager of the Missouri Pacific road, said last
night that he had been summoned from st.
Louis by Mr.. Gould, but could not say
whether or not the management of the
Union Pacific system was to be offered to
him.
Coils P. Huntington was at his office
yesterday after a six weeks absence in Cali
fornia. He was so busy that he was unable
to spare the time for a discussion of railroad
matters. He expressed his sympathy with
any measures that might result in an i'm
provement in railroad rates and added:
"The people among whom have been for
few weeks are exceedingly happy and con-
tented. 1 was told that California has re-
ceived $50, 900, 900 from its green fruit trade
this season, and 1 know that the failure of
the fruit crops at the East has been a
bonanza to the Pacific coast. When any,
one suggests anything about railroad sub
jects 1 can only say that 1 have been away
SO long that know nothing about them"