The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-26
TALK OF RAILROAD MEN
General Manager Bancroft of the
Short Line Visiting Butte.
EVERYTHING ALL RIGHT
The Ogden Gateway Will Positively
Not Be Closed-The Expected Rush
to the Klondike-Facts and
Gossip Along the Line

| the Oregon Short Line arrived in Butte
yesterday on a brief business visit to
| look over the companys business here
Mr.. Bancroft is accompanied by Super
| intendent of Motive Power ]. f. Dunn
and w. S. Anderson, private secretary
to the general manager.
| In conversation with Standard re-
porter last evening Mr.. Bancroft denied
| emphatically that there is any truth
i'll the recent circulated reports that
| the Ogden gateway will be again closed
as a result of the healing of the differ
ences between the Union Pacific and the
Short Line.
There is absolutely no truth in the
report" said Mr. Bancroft. THE gate
way was opened as "a business PROPOSE
ton. 1t has proved a good one, and
Notwithstanding any reports to the
contrary, 1t will remain open"
Mr.. Bancroft was questioned relative
to the reports recently published in
dispatches from the East to the effect
that the Vanderbilt interests had ac-
CURED the Union Pacific and Short
Line, said:
THAT was a part, or the foundation,
of the report that the gateway would
be closed. 1t was said, / believe. that
the Nanderbilts had acquired the two
roads, and as a consequence they would
be united again and the gateway closed,
Jul hiOW ilotiilii5 VI iliC
coming into control of the Short Line.
and you can say positively that the
gateway will not be closed"
Concerning the rumorS that General
Manager Dickinson of the Union Pa
cific has resigned, Mr.. Bancroft said
he did not believe Mr.. Dickinson in
tended resigning.
Mr.. Bancroft was asked il the Short
Line would increase its train service in
anticipation of the spring rush to the
Klondike. He said the subject had not
yet been considered, as there had been
no indication as yet that the travel to
the Northwest would be greater than
the present train service would accom-
| modate.
Mr.. Bancroft and party are travelling
in private car No. 5, which was built
especially for Mr.. Bancroft at the
Short Line shops in Salt Lake. The car
is a handsome one, and is admirably
appointed for the convenience of the
general manager in his trips over the
line. The party will leave for the
South again this afternoon.
A startling move in railway affairs is
announced-the establishment of through
car service from Portland to Boston,
says the Spokane Chronicle. True, it is
limited service; but it foreshadows
what was long ago predicted-the for
way system crossing the United States
from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.
General Agent Campbell of the O. r.
& N. received a circular letter this
morning from the general passenger
office of the system announcing that be-
ginning Tuesday, Feb. /, and continu-
ing thereafter. every Tuesday, through
tourist sleeping car Will leave Portland,
Ore, for Boston, Mass. The entire run
will be made in six days, landing pas
sengers in Boston the following Monday
at 3 p. IN.
+, The route chosen for the new service
is not what many railway men would
have predicted, as for a large part of the
way it cuts loose from what are known
as the Vanderbilt lines. The Union Pa
cific is left out of the deal altogether,
and the Rock Island instead of the
Northwestern takes the car across Iowa.
Starting at Portland every Tuesday,
the car will go over the o. r. & N.
tracks to Huntington; thence by the
Oregon Short Line to ogden, Utah: from
that city the Rio Grande Western and
Denver Il Rio Grande carry it into Colo
rado there it passes to the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific tracks, and goes
on them to Chicago; from Chicago to
New York the route is over the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern and the
New York Central, and from the me-
tropolis to Boston over the Boston & AL
bany road.
Railway construction in this country
by decades since 1S47 is shown by the
following table prepared by the Railway
Age: