Omaha daily bee., 1898-01-08
PACIFIC EXPRESS AFFAIRS
New Directory Shows the Railroads Well
Represented.
ALL OFFICES TO BE LOCATED IN OMAHA
w. II. Carter of ST. Louis, the New
Sccretnry-Trensurcr Enters
Upon His Duties of His
ONCE.

President Morseman said yesterday tha
Thursdays meeting resulted in no change
in the directory of the Pacific Express com
pany. The seven directors who served dur
ing 1897 were reelected to the directory 70
1898. They are follows: oliver w. Mink
Boston; e. T. Clapp e. b. Pryor, E. g. Mer
riam, S. b. Schuyler, st. Louis; L. NJ. Mors
man, Omaha, and E. Ellery Anderson, cit
of New York.
The organization of the directory show
that all OF the three railroads owning tn
express company are well represented. TIL
Union Pacific is represented by Oliver W
Mink, first vice president and E. Eller
Anderson at present one of the Union Pa
cific receivers and prominently identifle
with the reorganization of the company. L
b. Pryor assistant auditor, and f. I. Clapr
secretary to the vice president and genera
manager OF the Wabash, will look after tn
interests of that company. s. b. Schuyler
assistant general auditor, and E. G. Merriam
associated with the financial and legal in
terests of the Missouri Pacific will see tha
that railroad is we'll represented on the di
rectory
OFFICIAL ORGANIZATION.
The official organization of the company
as follows Edgar NJ Morseman, preslden
aud general manager; Oliver w. Mink. vic
president; Erastus Young, general auditor
w. II. Carter, secretary and treasurer Tn
Offices of all the officers, save the vice pres
ident, will be located in this city, and Vic
President Mink is expected to be in Omaha
great deal of the time during the comm
year in connection with his duties as vic
Cresideut Of the Union Pacific railroad and 0
the Pacific Express companies, Heretofor
the offices of auditor and secretary have bee
consolidated, but beginning with today til
treasurer Will act as secretary of the com
pany. The general auditor will perform tn
duties OF no other office and it is announces
that he VIII have an assistant auditor VIII
will look after the detail work of the audtiu
department The position of treasurer is
hew one, the duties of that office having bee
heretofore performed by the president. 1t /
said that the position was created for th
purpose of relieving the president OF some o
the oveTwork with which he has hlthert
been pressed AS president treasurer ant
general manager it has frequently been SAT-
that Edgar NJ. Morseman was the hardes
worked man in the Pacific Express comCan,
headquarters and it mas been expected TO
some time that the directors would make ar
rangements for giving some of his work t.
another man.
NEW TREASURER TAKES HOLD.
w. R. Carter of ST. Louis, the newl,
elected secretary-treaSurer of the company
took possession of his new office at the loca
headquarters yesterday morning at 8 o'clock
His office is located at the south end of the
second floor on the same floor as the Offices
of the other general officers. Mr. Carter has
been connected with the accounting depart,
ment of the Missouri Pacific with head
quarters in St. Louis, for the last ten years
He is said to be an expert in the handling
or corporation finances, and was recon-
mended for his new post by George j. Gould
president of the Missouri Pacific, with whose
family he is connected by marriage. Ills is
man of about 40 years of age, medium
stature and prepossessing appearance. II,
has been in the city for several days, and is
stopping at the Millard hotel. When he came
in from the theater Thursday evening ht
registered on the hotel book: 'W r. Carter
Omaha and then remarked: 81 guess
can write Omaha after my name now.
shall be in the city for few days at least
When asked IL the report was true that he
had been elected treasurer of the Pacific
Express company, he shook his head, and
said 81 cannot tell you. l can neither affirm
or deny the report. All information about
the company must come from the president
SOME CHANGES THAT MAY RESULT.
ErastuS Young, general auditor of the
Pacific Express company, announces that he
has made no selection of assistant auditor
for that company. Mr.. Young spent most OF
the forenoon at the headquarters of the
Pacific Express company and formally as.
sumed charge of the work of the auditing
department of the express company. There
was no ceremony whatever attending the in
stallation OF the new officers
In railway circles it is generally believed
that Mr.. Young will choose his assistant au
ditor, who for the present will be acting ou
dtor from among his corps Of assistants il
the auditing department of the Union Pacific
ig ic 1pa 10 hn rAti Nf hnt
Bechel and his chief clerk. T. X. Sudborough
from the Pacific Express company. The
names most frequently mentioned in UniOr
Pacific circles as likely to be considered fol
the position OF assistant auditor of the eX,
press comCany are: George T. Crandall, trav'
cling auditor, and Robert S. Ege, chief clerk
of the auditing department of the Union Pa
cific. Both are men of considerable expert
ence ia tho auditing department of the Union
Pacific. The former has had more OF service
in that department, but the latter Is the SON
ln-law of Erastus Young and besides is recog'
nized as enc of the ablest men in the au
diting department.
William +. Bechel, former auditor and sec
retary OF the Pacific Express company, has
not been at the headquarters of the company
for several days, except for brief while on
Thursday. He cleared up his desk at the
headquarters on Wednesday, and on Tuesday
and Wednesday returned a number of docu-
ments bearing upon express matters of which
he had had charge. IAN intimate personal
friend of Mr.. Bechel's said to The Bee that
Mr.. Bechel contemplated going to Colorado
to look after rather extensive property inter
ests he holds there.
The place of n. X Sudborough, as chief
clerk to the auditor, is temporarily occupied by
Andrew j. Hunt, but no appointment to that
position has yet been announced. Among
those who are said to stand in line for promo
tlon In the auditing department of the ex-
press company, the leaders are: George C..
Metcaf and Henry II. Salisbury.