The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12
BUTTE NEWS.
WILL Be DISCONTINUED
The Result of Shutting Down the
Elkhorn Mine.
THE TOWN is DESERTED
Ogden Gateway Problem to Be Dis
cussed Again-Service Stripes for
the Baltimore g. Ohio-Gos-
sip of the Roads.

Notice was received yesterday at the
Butte Office of the Northern Pacific
from Division Superintendent Horn
that all train service on the Boulder
and Elkhorn branch would be discon-
tinued on Dec. l. This is the result of
the shutting down of the Elkhorn mine
and the exodus of the people of that
town. 1t is stated that at the present
rate it will be but a short time until
the once thriving town of Elkhorn will
be nothing more than deserted col
lection of buildings. There being no
business there now there is no longer
any need of a railroad, and the North
ern Pacific will run its last train to
Elkhorn from Boulder on the last day
OF this month. It has been reported
that the tracks would be torn up and
the right-of-way abandoned, but it was
denied yesterday that the company had
any such intention. as the mines at
Elkhorn will probably start up again
some day and the Northern Pacific viii
want to use it's tracks there again.
The employees of the local offices of
the Union Pacific and Oregon Short
Line railroads have been more inter-
ested in the probable outcome of the
expected meeting of the boards Of d.
TectorS of the two roads in New York
this year than in any other meeting
since the segregation of the roads, says
the Salt Lake Herald. In view of the
fact that the relations existing between
the two roads prior to the segregation
were restored this fall, it is natural
to assume that the meeting this year
viii be the most important and far
reaching in it's effects that has been
held since 1897. 1t is possible that the
Odgen gateway problem will be thor
oughly discussed. and definite action
taken in the matter Of once more clos
ing 1T to the railroads not intimately
associated with the Union Pacific sys-
TEN. In spite of all that has been said
to the contrary there is still ground for
the belief that sooner or later there
will be a shaking up of the local Union
Pacific and Short Line offices.
Inquiries were made in New York
yesterday at the general offices of the
Union Pacific road as to the probable
date Of the meeting of the directorate
OF both roads 1t was stated that no
meeting had been held and that no
date had been fixed for any meeting of
the directors,
EARLY this fall the management of
the Baltimore &, Ohio railroad decided
that the uniformed force should be pro-
Vided with service stripes, and on the
winter uniforms each man has one or
more gold stripes on his rl~tt sleeve if
he has been in the service for five or
more years. The gold stripe stands for
v five gears continuous employment by
the company and glance over the list
develops an interesting and instructive
condition of affairs. S
The ordinary man, in a peaceful and
dneventful vocation, is seldom in con-
tinuous service for 40 years, yet on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad there Is a
hale and hearty old man, with keen,
undimmed eyes and a springy step, that
has been in the continuous employ of
the company for so years and is still
better than many men half his age
w. III. Green is his name, but every
body on the line calls him Captain
Harry" and he has a record that any
man, in any station in life, would be
. more than proud of.
NCaptain Green is probably the oldest
passenger conductor in the world. Ii
he is not he has the best record, for not
once has he been suspended from duty
Tor any cause whatever. And then, too,
he has never been injured Green was
born on Sept u, 1927, in Cockeysville,
Baltimore county, Maryland, and en-
tered the Baltimore & Ohio service
March 3, 1850, as a freight brakeman.
He was promoted in two years to
freight conductor and in 1857 was given
passenger train and has served in that
capacity ever since. He is now run
ming through trains between Baltimore
and Cumberland, Md, and wears 10 ser
vice stripes on his right arm.
Next to Captain Green, in length of
service, comes S. r. Hume who is en-
titled to nine gold stripes of five years
each. S. T. Gill and S. Riley are wear
ing eight stripes and there are seven