Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-05
NEW SUPERINTENDENT HERE
Hardy Of the Missouri Tactic On TsUI
Of IRtrsduohsn. 2
Ex-sUpERSTrNDFNT CLARK WITH HIN
Mr.. Hardy says He Has No Radical
Changes Of Policy or
ment for HIS Department y
In Contemplation. +.
Ex-sUptRSTtNOENT CLARK WITH HIN

Though appointed only Monday as gem
eral superintendent Of the Missouri Pacific
railway, d. Hardy is already out on a tour
over the entire system. and was in omahs
yesterday. This trip Is not one OF inspection,
but OF introduction, and on the journey MIR,
Hardy Is the guest OF II. @. Clark, the re-
firing superintendent. who Is conducting
the new oficial over the line. making him
acquainted with all those men who Will
now be under his supervision.
Ensconced comfortably In the luxurious
private car which is a perquisite of the SUI
perintendent's position. the two men arrived
in Omaha from Kansas City Monday hight
The car lay In the yards at the Webster
street station all night. and yesterday the
occupants visited the different Omaha reps
resentatives of the road, and then were
carried way in their car on a tour Of the
South Omaha yards. going around by way
of the Belt line.
At 4 o'clock the car was attached to thu
afternoon train out and the new superin-
tendent and the old went on their way
around the system. They visit this western
division first Of all aud will cover every
mile of the road before returning to st.
Louis. TIL superintendent OF the different
divisions accompany them over their re-
spcctive territories, and while on this d.
vision the visitors were under the wing Of
Superintendent Rathburn. who met the car
at Kansas City.
''In our department we are doors. not
takers" said Mr.. Hardy when seen In his
car. Il am not contemplating any radical
changes in policy or management OF my
sphere Of the work. ] have been with this
road for twenty-five years and always In
this department. ! was superintendent at
Sedalie for two years past"
d you often have IL as cold AZ this up
here?" asked the Official. CHANGING askance.
nrst at the frosty window panes and then
at the heating apparatus. al did not think
you caught it this way In Omaha. Those
Baker heaters had all they could do all
night to keep us comfortable" The Mag
nolia had braved the cold blasts Of one Of
the coolest nights this winter standing un-
protected in the open yards.
Great significance has been attached to
the fact that Mr., Clark has resigned the
superintendency OF the Missouri Pacific to
take on the management OF the Choctaw
line. This has been Interpreted as mean
ing that the Gould interests intended Inn
mediate extensive improvements and addi-
lions to that system, and wanted a pioneer
rSilroader like Clark to have charge of the
work. Mr.. Clark said:
1T is true that extensions are planned.
but l will not be concerned in that. There
is a separate department for such things
on the Choctaw. the construction depart-
ment. We now have about 1000 miles OF
track. My new appointment takes effect on
February Is. The Philadelphia interests
In the road put me there"
Time Table of the Past. ,
Assistant General Manager Loomis OF the
Burlington has received from Piattsmouth
an interesting relic OF the Burlington in
the form of an Official time table for the
road printed to take effect on May II, 1874.
The entire affair is but Q single sheet OF
very light paper folded once. The two In
side pages are all the space that is de-
voted to the schedules.
At that time the Burlington in Ncbrs ska
comprised only 2S9 miles Of road. There
was a stretch OF seventeen miles between
Omaha and Oreapolis and 191 miles more
on the main line between Omaha aud
Kearney. Then a branch line from Crete
TO Beatrice made thirty-one more.
The circular shows that @. w. Holdrege
was at that time master OF transportation
and G. f.. Morse superintendent. There
we're eight trains a day on the main line
and two on the Crete branch. Plattsmouth
was the location Of headquarters in all de-
partments.