The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-16
Discussing the Question.

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The press OF the country is busy
just now discussing the receivership
question. showing the Importance that
is attached to the subject. The
Omaha World-Herald has this to say
of the men appointed by Judge Mer-
rift as receivers for the Utah lines:
John VI. Egan.
Just at present the receiver-eXpect-
ant of the Short Line is the most
taiked-about man in western railway
circles. John NJ. Egan was born
March &c, 1913, at Springfield, Mass,
and entered railway service May, 1868.
Since hat time his service has been
as follows: To April, 1867. m%achinist's
apprentice, Illinois Central railroad,
at Amtay, Ill; also, September, 1866,
to March 1867, message boy; April, 1867,
to April, 1868, clerk in freight OOce,
and July 1869, to December 81, 1863,
clerk in engineers office of the same
road, as follows: Clerk in engineers
department, fourteen months; assist
ant engineer, one year; division en-
gineer twenty months; chief engin-
GERS assistant, fourteen months. On
Southern Minnesota road, January,
1877, to December, 1881; eighteen
months as chief engineer, eight
months as assistant superintendent
and twenty-five months as superin-
t ndent, January l, 1882, to Septem-
Der, 1886. general superintendent
western division Canadian Pacific
railway; September, 1886, to February
/, 1888, general superintendent of st.
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba rail-
way; February 1, 1888, to September
Q. 1890, general manager Chicago, st.
Paul 4 Kansas City railway; Septem-
Der 9, 1890, to 1898, president and man
ager of the same road, now operated
by the Chicago Great Western rail-
way.
w. H. Bancroft.
William H. Bancroft, who has been
appointed joint receiver with Mr..
Egan, is one of the best known rail-
road men in the western He
was born in Newburg, O., October 10,
1888, and began his railroad career in
April, 1856, rs an operator for the
Lake Shore, and he remained with
the company in that capacity for five
years. In 1861 he went with the Erie,
and remained with that road for eight
years as operator, dispatcher n
agent. In 1869 he came west and be-
came a train dispatcher for the Kan
sas Pacific, part of the Union Pacific
system. He was dispatcher, superin-
t%endent's clerk and train master until
1872, when in October of tina year he
became assistant superintendent of the
Santa Fe. In May, 1875, he was ap-
pointed superintendent of the st.
Louis, Lawrence & Western. In 1873
he was the chief train dispatcher of
the Missouri. Kansas & Texas. He
occupied the position but a few
months. when he resigned to become
superintendent of the Denver & Rio
Grande. He remained IN rnis position
with h Rio Grande until August 10,
1884, when he resigned to become the
receiver of the Rio Grande Western,
which position he ably filled until the
end of the ~receivership, which was in
1886. He then became general super
intendent of the road. Mr.. Bancroft
next changed to the Union Pacific,
which was three years ago. when he
became general superintendent of the
Mountain division with headquarters
in Ogden. He is an able railroad man,
and has had charge of this most diff
cult of the Union Pacific divisions,
which he has managed to the entire
success of the company. The noun
tain division of the Union Pacific in
cludes the entire Short Line road, in
to all of the line III the state
of Wyoming. 1t is the most important
on the system.