Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-10-07
DEsEREr EVENING NEWS: MONDAY, OCTOBER Z, 1901

ager for the Rio Grande system leli
here yesterday for Denver.
Some important developments may be
expected from the Hartman meeting
here on the 18th OF this month.
Norris Palmer. an Oregon Short Line
section hand, fell from a push car near
Eureka yesterday and dislocated MS
hip. lie is at ST. Marks hospital,
II is said that Messrs. Bancroft and
Calvin and other railroad men of san
Lake and Pocatello are Interested In 4
company which has struck an oil gush-
er In the Fossil fields Of Wyoming.
The street railway superlntcndants OF
the United States are holding their an
nual meeting in New York ard w. Z.
Read Of the Consolidated Railway q
Power company of this city Is among
the attendants.
While quite a number Of conference
visitors left for home today. the rail-
roads expect the greater number of OUT
going passengers to travel over their
llnos from the middle 10 the end Of the
week The conference traffic has been
very heavy,
What with rebuilt cars and new cars
which are continuously being received
from the factory the local street rail-
way company IL accommodating hne
equipment for transit service. All tine
new cars are OF the combination style
and vestlbuled, insuring n measure OK
c. nifort heretofore unknown TO the sur
feI1ng motorman.
General Manager Dickinson Of the
Union Pacific has annulled the order
requiring freight crews TO run from
North Platte TO Cheyenne The men
complained that the run was too lons
and the concession was made by MI
Dickinson after conference between
himself and q grievance committee
from the locomotive engineers ana
fromen's brotherhoods.
Laramie Boomerang: Within the past
month over 1000 men employed along
the line Of the Union Pacific balastlns
and improving the track have been dis
charged and shipped out Of the state by
employment agencies. The line Of the
road between Cheyenne and Green Rlv-
er has been brought into very fine con-
dItion. Any other efforts at reduction
OF time through construction will have
to be made west of Evanston and east
OF Cheyenne
Henry II. COPYRIGHT, one Of the most
widely known railroad men In the West,
is seriously III at the Lakeside hospital,
Chicago, where he recently submitted to
the amputation Of HIS left leg at the
Knee. Six months ago he retired from
his position as chairman OF the West
ern Trunk Line committee on account
of poor health A few days ago II was
found he was suffering from embolism
Of the leg, and that gangrene had set
In in the foot. Owing to his age, Ga,
his condition was serious.
A telegram has been received at San
Francisco from President Hartman Of
the Southern Pacific company inform
ing the general officers of the company
that he wished all OF them TO be present
at a conference that is to be held at
Salt Lake, October 18TH The telegram
announced that President Burt Of the
Union Pacific and j. c. Stubs, traffic
director OF the Hartman roads, would
both be present at this conference. II
is supposed that the principal business
taken up will be traffic affairs.
There has been started rumor to the
effect that the Rock Island is going to
southern California.
The opinion of Charles T. Yerkes, now
in London, regarding English railways
is that they must be taken In hand by
Americans and worked In their way, or
else they viii be laid down under the
enormous capitalization and wasteful
methods, A mass of tables issued by
the government this week on railways
in the United Kingdom In 1900 Is nigh
ty unpleasant reading for the share
holders. showing increased working ey-
penses, out Of all proportion with the
Increase In receipts. OF the total paid
up capital of e1.l7G,OO0 900. Is per cent.or
e1S7 900. 900 is due TO nominal additions
on consolidation, conversion and dlvls-
ion Of stocks. The average rate Of div
idend is only 3.i5 per cent, as against
3.67 per cent in 1889. 1t Is the realiza.
ton of these shortcomings which has
induced the departure for New York OF
several prominent officials Of the
Northeastern Railway company, in
Guiding George Glib, the general man
ager, and Mr.. Burt the traffic man
ager, who sailed on the White Star
line steamer Celtic yesterday, the OBJ
ject of their trip being a months study
of the American railroad system.