, 1898-11-15
THE UNION PACIFIC
INDICATIONS NOW ARE THAT A
CRISIS HAS BEEN
REACHED.
Report That General Manager Dickin-
son Will Shortly BE Succeeded by
L. II. Hartman of the Executive
Committee-Names of Other Off
GERS Also on the List.

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Omaha, Nov. 1i.-Indications are now
that a crisis has been reached in Union
Pacific affairs. President Burt has re-
turned from a meeting of the directors
in New York and the consolidation of
the segregated lines of the system are
now practically in effect except the
Union Pacific.
This part Of the system. with the ex-
ceEtion Of its Julesburg connections,
will not be annexed by the old COM
pany. All other segregated lines will
practically be controlled from local
headquarters in the future.
General Manager Dickinson of the
old Clark management. will probably
lie succeeded shortly by some one more
in accord with the new spirit which
now controls the system.
This change, or rumored change.
would naturally involve a number of
other general officers. such as General
Passenger Agent Lomax. Master of
Transportation buckingham. Superin-
tcndent Of Motive Power and Machin-
cry Mcconnell, and a number of others,
even embracing some old-time division
superintendcnts.
The theory Of President Burt seems
to be to infuse new blood and new life
into the management of the road from
top to bottom. Acting on this theory
it is now an open ecrettha the changes
soon to he made will be sweeping in
character and affect some of the best
known men in the employ of the COM
pany.
Commenting on the above dispatch.
the Denver Republican says:
Is it true that President Horace G..
Bult Of the Union Pacific has sharpened
his AK and several official heads will
drop into the basket?
That is a question that railroad men
are asking. The rumor has been re-
vived that the president of the big rail
road corporation is DESTROYS of intro
lucing new blood into the system and
therefore he contemplates a general re-
ductiOn Of officials.
Railroad men VITO are generally post
Cd say that they do not believe that Mr..
Burt contemplates any such wholesale
changes as telegrarhic ana other re-
ports from Omaha say. 1t is believed,
however. that he will make several
changes. and in the course Of time may
remove the leading officials.
Rumor has it that General Superin-
tendent, formerly General Manager
he is to be succeeded by +. II. Harri-
man. The latter will have the title of
general manager. which will be reviv-
ed.
Mr.. Hartman is chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Union Pacific
and occupies a similar position of a
similar committee on the Illinois Cen
trial. He is a very wealthy man and is
a broker and banker in New York. He
is also a director of the Oregon Short
Line. He is a financier and withal a
thorough railroad man and is said to
possess great executive ability.
4 telegram from Omaha says that ST.
p~erintendent of Transportation Buck
ingham. General Passenger Agent 10
max and Superintendent of Motive
Power Mcconnell have had their names
placed on the list. There is consider
able doubt expressed by Denver rail-
road men as to the t~ruthfulness of this.
They argue that each man is o special
list in his line and better men would be
hard to find.
The Oregon Short Line will probably
come back into the Union Pacific fold.
This was one of the principal feeders OF
the old Union Pacific system and covet-
Gus eyes have been on the road a long
time. Ten of the fifteen directors of the
line are directors of the Union Pacific.
The Union Pacific men in the director
ate of the Short Line include Mr.. Harri-
man, Mr.. Burt. Oliver w. Mink. Oliver
Ames. Winslow S. Pierce. Gardiner NJ.
Lane, T. Jefferson Coolidge, w. D. Cor
nish, Otto II. Kuhn and James Loeb.
the latter of the banking firm of Kuhn.
Loeb & Co., which had so much to do
with the Union Pacific reorganization.
George Gould is another man interest
ed in both corporations.
1t is also said that the Oregon Rail-
way and Navigation will come back in
to the system. This is followed up with
a rumor that the Oregon Railway and
Navigation and the Short Line will be
consolidated and that headquarters will
probably. be in Salt Lake. This, in turn
is followed up with a m that Cen
eral Superintendent Hughes of the FIRE.
mont, Elkhorn and Missouri Nalley-a
Northwestern line-with headquarters
T., Omaha will hecoma paneral yunerin-