Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-04
TIE RAILROADS


! s. w. Eccles. assistant general traffic
manager of the Oregon Short Line has
( resigned his position with the road to
/ take effect on February Is. He has ac-
/ copied the position of general traffic
manager of the American Smelling and
refining company which has control of
all custom smelters in the United States
and Mexico. His headquarters will be
in New York city. Mr.. EccleS has been
general traffic manager of the Oregon
Short Line ever since the organiza ton
of that company in 1897 and was prior
to that time assistant general freight
agent for the Union Pacific with head
quarters at Salt Lake. His successor on
the Oregon Short Line has not yet been
named.
The travelling freight and pass <lger
! agents and other railroad solicitors are
not the only employees who will lsse
their jobs as a result of community
ownership, says a New York core
spondent. Even the ticket agents are
being considered as candidates tor the
AK. n scheme is under way whereby
various ticket offices would be consol-
dated in all important cities. One joint
ticket agent, with a few assistants
could do the work of many in this way
Instead of l2O or more ticket Offices
along Broadway, in New York, q dozen
or one, for that matter, could be made
adequate. And the trend of railroad
events points in that direction.
1t is estimated that $500 railroad en-
ployes of all descriptions in eastern
territory alone are slated for dismissal
within a year. The saving in salaries.
rent and decentralization of rates is es-
timated at nearly s1O,ooo.ooo.
The railroad world is changing very
rapidly. and only the very big and the
very little man is sure of his job
4 very prominent Northwestern rail-
road man, who has been in New York
city some time. says:
The public need not be worried about
community of ownership. 1t is as log
zeal and inevitable as industrial con-
solidation. The ultimate effect of the
one will be the ultimate effect of the
other. and there are many wise men
who believe that that will be govern
ment ownership Without being SO far
into the future we can easily see what
the immediate effect will be-economy
in operation stability of rates and
cheaper accommodations for the public.
Only the big favored dealers need fear
1t is time they We're put on an equality
with their smaller competitors In
short, community of ownership means
fair play for the people-something they
have never fully enjoyed since railroads
We're built.
Another class that trembles is the
supertiuous employe. In the end he will
be better off if compelled to become
producer"
At O'Clock Thursday afternoon the
Great Northern freight department
ceased to receive shipments at the
Union depot in Spokane, and with the
close of the days business all connec-
ton with the o. r.. & N. or Union
depot service was declared at an end,
after almost ten years of joint traffic
relations in this city. All shippers We're
notified that future shipments, both out
going and incoming, will be received at
the new Great Northern depot
Agent E. G. Fleming began business
with full corps of clerks. TIE new
offices have been fitted up temporarily
with borrowed tables, chairs, desks,
etc., hut the new furniture is ordered
and is now in St. Paul awaiting ship
ment to Spokane.
Mr.. Fleming's office force will consist
of the following: F. NJ. Fortune cash
Ter: &. G. McEachran, chief clerk w,
McFeeley, revising clerk; A. S. Sven
son, assistant cashier; J. p. Campbell,
bin clerk; J. NJ. Gibson warehouse
foreman, and Byron A. Stimmel, check
clerk. All the clerks are from the force
of the Union depot with the exception
Of Cashier Fortune, who comes from
Havre, Mont Where he OBLIGATED in
that capacity for Mr.. Fleming when
the latter was agent at that point. There
Will also be four platform men 10 ham
die freight, two of whom will come
from the old Union depot force.
The dividing up of the Union depot
force leaves the Q. r. & N freight Of
flee in charge of Agent Erwin,. with
the following corps of clerks: F. w.
Baker, car accountant and chief clerk:
w. w. Montieth, assistant cashier and
collector; H. M. Lambert, bill clerk,
who take the places of those going with
the Great Northern, and H. c. Switzer,
cashier: II. c. Burton, revising clerk;
II. H. Warner, o. S. G. clerk; E. r.
Ennis. assistant revising clerk; George
Stlmmel, warehouse foreman; l.. G. lie
Compile, day OPERATOR and Robert Gray.
night operator.
L. Il. A. Price, an attorney Of New
York and receiver of the Northwestern
railroad, partially completed line
from Huntington down the Snake river
TO Billiards. landing. in Oregon. where
is located the big Vaughn mine. is clos
ing up the affairs of the road, which
has just been discharged from receiver
ship by the United States court.
He says the road will be completed
by eastern capitalists and not by the
Q. r. n. as was generally supposed,
though the latter may get it if it pays
for it. AS the Vaughn mine was pur-
chased by Pennsylvania people some
time ago and the final payment made
last week. it looks like they were be-
hind the new railroad deal
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