Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-28
SIXTY WILL Be ACE LIMIT
Another Detail Of Union Paoifo's Pension
System Leaks Out.
OFFICIAL CHANGES ON THE MILWAUKEE,
Burlington Buys Property ut south
Omaha for Purpose of Making
West Entrance to the
Cattle Chutes.

By a process a good deal like drawing
sap from a rock through a glass tube the
particulars Of the Union Pacific pension sys-
TEN, to become effective about the first OF
the year, are leaking out. II has been
learned that instead Of 65, the age for PEN
sioning employees fo- being incapacitated
is to be SO. This will have the effect Of in
creasing the pension rolls. As has already
been published in The Bee, employees must
have spent twenty years Of continuous serv-
ice with the company.
AS the negotiations between the Union
Pacific officials and strike leaders pro-
gress and a settlement begins to appear as
a possibility within the near futue. interest
is all the more aroused over what effect
the pension system will have on the old
shopmen who struck. Will their absence
from the shops for six months deprive
them OF the benefits OF the pension under
the provision that the service must have
been continuous? The general impression
is that IL will not. 1t is understood Presi-
dent Burt favored the pension system
largely as a means of getting rid Of the
Oldest men in the shops, but it was not
President Burt who brought about this
innovation. President Hartman OF the
Southern Pacific and head Of the entire
system. is responsible for IL. The system
will be extended throughout the Harri-
man system OF railroads, comprising Is, 900
miles. When this system is in vogue 1t
will make IS, 900 miles of railroad in the
United States under the superannuated
plan. Other roads take care Of their aged
and incapacitated employees in other ways.
1t has been reported that owing to some
hitch in the details the Union Pacifc's
system will not be ready for operation
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be effective soon thereafter.
For the purpose of making a west en-
trance to the cattle chutes at the South
Omaha stock yards the Burlington has ac-
CURED block 352 and exchanged thirty feet
of Thirty-sixth street for a widening of
thirty feet Of Boyd street, along which it
will build a double track that will connect
with the new track built by the stock yards
company.
This step is taken by the Burlington in
line with the movement of the stock yards
company to meet the enormous demands
which the constantly increasing business
imposes. With but one entrance on the east
TO the stock yards, serious COMPOSITIONS of
live stock are inevitable. The stock yards
company has made a large financial ap-
preparation to enlarge the capacity OF the
yardage to a degree adequate with the ex-
listing demands. The double track to. be
built by the Burlington and the new en-
trance on the west, 1t is believed, will af-
ford all necessary relief.
Milwaukee Appointments.
Three changes and appointments, effective
January l, have been announced by the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul.
w. B. Davenport Is appointed division
freight and passenger agent, in charge of
the Des Moines division, with office at Des
Moines, to succeed A. B. Caswell, resigned.
J. A. Macdonald is appointed division
freight and passenger agent, with headquar-
tiers at Mason City, Ia, to succeed w. S.
Bratt. His territory will comprise the Iowa
& Dakota division, except the line south OF
Marion Junction. to Running Water. S. D.,
and that portion of the Iowa & Minnesota
division south of and including Austin,
MINI.
o. F. Waller is appointed division freight
and passenger agent, with office at Aber-
deem. S. d., to succeed ]. A. Macdonald, as
signed other duties. His territory will COM
prise the James River division and that
portion Of the Hastings & Dakota division
west OF %Ortonville, MINI.
w. S. Bratt is appointed commercial
agent. with headquarters at 80 Campus Mar
titus, Detroit, in charge of the Michigan dis
trict. to succeed o. f. Waller.