The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-13
BUTTE NEWS.
AMONG RAILROAD MEN
Considering Consolidation of the
y. P. and Short Line.
REACHED NO CONCLUSION
f. A. Wadleigh Succeeds P. j. Flynn.
Colonist Rates to Be Restored to
the Old Bass-A Tribute to
Major Dawson.
REACHED NO CONCLUSION

E. H. Hartman. who held a confer
ence with the Northern Pacific and
Short Line officials in Butte last week
and later met President Burt and other
officials of the Union Pacific, whom he
accompanied to Omaha, is quoted as
saying that he has a number of i'm
portant matters under considerati ton
relative to the Union Pacific, Oregon
Short Line and Oregon Railway &
Navigation company, but that none
have yet come to the point where def
mite conclusion has been reached. This
statement is taken by the Omaha end
of the line as having reference to and
being further evidence of a consolida-
ton of the three roads.
The host of friends of F. A. Wad-
leigh, who recently resigned a general
passenger agent of the Rio Grande
Western, Will be pleased with the an
nouncement made that he will succeed
P. j. Flynn, who has given up a num-
Der of important positions in Denver to
accept the position of general freight
agent of the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western road, with headquarters in
New York. Mr.. Flynn has been joint
agent of the Western Passenger aSsO-
citation at Denver, commissioner of the
Colorado freight bureau, secretary of
the Denver, Pueblo & Colorado Springs
local passenger bureau, chairman of
the Colorado Terminal Lines Passenger
association, and joint agent of the Den
yer bureau coal stations Mr. Wad-
leigh, it is understood, will succeed to
these various positions held by Mr..
Flynn.
So called colonist rates to California
Ia "a 81
ing prior to March l after September l,
says the Chicago Times Herald. This
is subject to the vote of two or three
lines not represented at the mass
meeting" of general passenger agents
of western lines held in Chicago last
Tuesday. This is practically restoring
the old second-class rate which was
cut to a 'colonist rate because the
Great Northerns rate of S25 to south
Pacific coast points from St. Paul could
not be ignored. Now General Passen-
ger Agent Whitney of that road has
said that he will not use the $25 rate
from St. Paul as a basis for his Cali
fornia rates, though that rate will be
kept in force for the territory it
reaches. This means a raise from $36 so
to $3.50 from Chicago to California via
St Paul and from S45 to $3.50 via the
Missouri river, and insures a fair rate
to the California lines on the winter
tourist business that will start up in
September.
Montana Railway Guide: Among
the railroad men in Butte and Montana
there is no better known man than is
Major j. E. Dawson the general agent
in this city of the Great Northern rail-
road. Not only is the major well known
in this state, but in all adjoining states
has his name gone forth as one of the
swell railroad boys of the Treasur estate
We do not desire to throw to Mr.
Dawson any 'taffy.' We are not in that
line of business, but it is admitted by
all classes of people in Butte, not only
among the railroad boys, but in every
other line of business, that for COur-
tesy and general good fellowship, the
major is not outranked by any other
one gentleman in the city. Some men
when they have risen to a high po-
stion become swelled with their own
importance until all the friends they
have ever had quickly forsake them,
while those who never We're friends
become more distant and reserved
than ever. But Major Dawson is
a man with different breeding in fact
to the poor struggling man he eXerts
himself to be all kindness. He is not
the man to refuse one a favor if it is
in his power to grant it. and many
a person has left him bestOWing bleS-
sings on his head. If all business men
We're Ike him, the world would not
be such a hard place to live in; SUM-
shine would drift through every dark
- cloud. and the unfortunate and des-
pondent man would be a scarce ar
ticle to be found. The way to study
a man, we find, is at close range and
when he is not under the limelight
Major Dawson is to be reached at
all times. He is never reserved, never