The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-21
HIS VISIT A SHORT ONE
President Was Only Twenty Min.
utes in Butte.
THE MONTANA CENTRAL
A Lot OF improvements Are to Be Made
Through to Chicago From San
Francisco Without Change
Lively Bridge Building.

President James ]. Hill Of the Great
Northern kept his promise to visit
Butte. He came yesterday and stayed
just 20 minutes, just long enough to
take coal and water. President Hills
special got in at 1870. The president
stepped off on the platform, shook
hands with Major Dawson and asked
how things were in Butte. Receiving
reply that they are away up, Mr.. Hill
remarked that he wanted to see the
Montana Central by daylight, stepped
back on the train and was whisked out
of the city. With Mr.. Hill were d.
Miller second vice president; J. ]. Hill.
jr., third vice president, and General
Superintendent Frank e. Ward. w. M.
Hyams of the Boston & Montana COM
pany accompanied the party to Great
Falls.
Major Dawson explained President
Hills brief stay by saying a lot of i'm
provements are being made on the
Montana Central, that the old 15-pound
rails are being taken up and replaced
by S0-pound rails, together with lot
of other work. and Mr.. Hill wanted to
see how the road looked. AS he could
not remain over till to-day, he decided
to go on in order to get over the line
to Great Falls by daylight
Pat Scanlon of the Milwaukee, who
has been in the city the last few days,
left last evening for Billings. Mr.. Scan
Ion said yesterday that his line has in
augurated a weekly through tourist car
service from San Francisco to Chicago.
Hereafter people going east via the Mil
waukee can, if they desire. catch the
tourist sleeper at Ogden on any Sun
day night and go through to Chicago
without change. The car goes via the
Rio Grande Western and Rock Island
from Ogden to Omaha and from there
to Chicago over the Milwaukee.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune,
some pretty lively bridge building was
done recently in Colorado. The Tribune
says:
The bridge that was burned at Rifle,
Colo, during the night of Sept. 5, on
the Rio Grande Junction railway, was
rebuilt in q hours. The structure was
1875 feet in length and 40 feet high. Two
gangs of 40 men each were put to work
at 9 o'clock the next morning. and at
o'clock the following morning train
passed over.
There are many uniformed employees
of the Baltimore &c Ohio railroad who
have spent the better part of their lives
with the company, but very few people
are aware of their length of service
and devotion to duty that has made
them valued men. Vice President and
General Manager Underwood will short
ly issue an order, providing for service
stripes for these men, that the public
may know of their faithfulness and
ability.
A gold stripe will mean five years of
Gt ri Q
Some of the Baltimore & Ohio conduct
tors will be entitled to from seven to
nine gold stripes.
The company will also furnish con-
ductors, brakemen and baggagemen of
all classes with badges, so that they
may be easily distinguished by those
unfamiliar with the service.
Work of laying steel on the st. An
thony branch of the Short Line is pro-
crossing in a most satisfactory man.
ner. according to the statement of Cen
eral Traffic Manager Eccles in the Salt
Lake Herald. About a mile and a half
of track has been laid from Idaho Falls
and beginning with to-day the work Of
getting down the steel will go ahead
with far greater rapidity Chief En-
gineer O'Melveney thinks that the road
will be completed by the first of next
month.
Railroad statistics are produced to
show that not less than $4,000 persons
took advantage of the low rates af-
forded by the G. A. r. convention at
Philadelphia, of whom $4,000 were vet
Grams. A great many travellers took ad-
vantage of the low rates to New York
which prevailed at the same time, and
are not included in the Philadelphia
business. The Pennsylvania carried to
Philadelphia $4,000 veterans and 125,0ot
visitors; the Philadelphia & Reading
transported 1000 veterans and 10000
visitors, and the Baltimore e. Ohio con-
veyed 25, 900 veterans and 10000 visitors
making a grand total of $4,000. This
enormous traffic was handled without a
single accident.
Mart Adson, travelling passenger
agent of the Duluth, South Shore & At