, 1898-08-12
RAILROAD RUM0Rs.
ALL KINDS OF CHANGES ARE
TAKING PLACE ON THE
UNION PACIFIC.
All Useless or inefficient Employees are
Being Weeded Out-Everything to.
Be az Economically Managed as
Possible-The Road to be Shorten
ed Wherever Possible-Pusher Ser
vice to Be Abandoned.

economy as the password, there are
the Union Pacific system, says the
Cheyenne Sun-Leader. Officials, eff
ficient and reliable, who have been
drawing good salaries, have. had their
titles taken away, their salaries cut and
have been ordered to submit to the in
evitable or quit. Faithfulness, long
service and great efficiency are little
considerations with the new manage
ment. Officials and employees alike are
being given % understand that there
are other pebbles on the beach and
the road can exist without them.
President Burt consults but few per-
sons and in conducting his business
reasons with no one. Orders are is
sued and executed, not. Of course, with
out great previous Investigation and
consideration OF the contemplated
change. Oficials are not cut
down or discharged because they lack
efficiency or are o giving satisfaction
in their present positions, but because
they are not needed and because their
duties can he performed by others with
less expense to the road. 1t is the new
presidents ambition to make the I'm
ion Pacific One of the best managed
and best paying roads in the west. The
service will be improved. The train
men will be weeded out; every wreck
will be closely investigated; every
station will be managed as economi-
| eally as possible. There will be but
few highly paid officials. The brains
proper will be at Omaha.
The most expert engineers have ex-
amined the entire road. The proposed
cutoff to miss Sherman hill and Dale
creek bridge has been determined up
on. One per cent in the grade, or about
$50 feet, can be saved from Cheyenne to
Sherman. Coming back, 40 per cent
In grade can he saved. The pusher
service conferred at Red Buttes will be
abandoned. The present distance be-
k"SS" t"o 10 koulU {
miles and the grade about LOO feet.
1t is proposed by following the pass
south Of Tie Siding to shorten this dis
lance to ten miles, and the grade to
800 feet. The ravine south Of Otto and
Borie will be followed. The avoidance
OF Dale creek alone means much to the
company, although no accidents have
happened. The bridge is taken care Of
and constantly guarded at a great ex-
pense. The change will move the sta
tons Of Buford, Tie Siding, Granite
and Sherman south. The company rea-
sons that 1T could save in comparatively
short time the cost Of construction of
the new road.
Foreman F. B. Hill of the Cheyenne
shops has been supplanted by John P.
Bay OF Laramie. Mr.. Hill will take
his old Job as gang foreman.
h ONCE Of superintendent of
bridges and buildings will soon be
abandoned. II Superintendent King
stays with the road he will be foreman
Of construction.
Rumor has 1t that the office of general
superintendent Of the Wyoming divis-
lon will soon be abolished, that Super-
intendent Culross will be division SUD
erintendent, with headquarters at
Cheyenne. and MI. Baxter will be gen.
eral superintendent Of the road, and
that Superintendent Malloy will 70 to
the Kansas Pacific. The clrculators Ct
the rumor give good reasons for the
proposed change which may come to
pass. Many believe that the company
Will not dispense with the services Of
men Hike Mr.. Malloy. especially in view
OF the fact that the Wyoming division
has been managed with judgment, con-
servatism and wisdom, and better, per-
hsps, than any division on the road.