Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-12
SIX HUNDRED NILES DOWN
This Much Of 0risnt Road iI Laid and
in Operation.
THOUSAND BY APRIL, SAYS DICKINSON
vice President OF stilwell Road
Moves His Family ana Resi-
dencs from Omaha 90
Kansas city.


operation and will have 1000 miles by
April J." said Edward Dickinson. general
manager and vice president Of the Stwell
Orient road. "Our business Is progressing
with perfect success"
Mr.. Dickinson 10 here arranging the re-
noval OF his houschcid affairs from the
old family residence on Park avenue to
Kansas City, which Will be his home. 1t
was two years ago that he severed his con-
nection with the Union Pacific as general
manager, with which road he had spent
about thirty-three years and leaving
Omaha seems 70 the Dickinsons a good
deal like tearing life cords.
Mr.. Dickinson was asked by a friend
how he liked Kansas City.
Very wen, what I have seen Of IT," he
replied. hut my work for the two years
have been with the Orient has kept me-
out on the road most OF the time, so there
is a great deal about Kansas City that
do not know"
It will be recalled that Mr.. Dickinson was
urged for long time by Arthur e. Still
well to accept the position with the Orient,
but that no hesitated, feeling a reluctance
in laying down his work with the Union
Pacific, at that lime in the throes OF
severe labor fight. He did. however, in the
fall OF 1903, after the strike had been set
tied in June, hand In his reslgnatlon-only
two weeks or less prior to the time he left
the company. On learning that he had
succeeded in getting Mr.. Dickinson, George
Gould sent n personal telegram cordially
congratulating Mr.. Stlwel upon his tri-
umph In getting such a man to manage
his new road. Gould pronounced Dickinson
the best man in the country for the place
and repeated what his distinguished father.
Jay Gould, had often said in praise Of
Dickinson as a coming power In the rail-
road world.
Crowds Hauled by Burlington.
"I can't see why some Denver people
Insist on beittling the number Of people
who were hauled into Denver during the
period OF cheap rates" said a prominent
Burlington Official 1--WE have nothing to
gain at this time by giving out false
ports. but here is the exact statement of
the conductors who had charge of the
trains There were seventy-nine trains
from the east and north which hauled
2935S people. Add to this list the Long
wood-Lyons eleven trains, with an average
OF 200 to a train and you have a grand
total Of 1,553 passengers according to the
exact revised figures from the conductors
reports.
THE operation of the trains, the making
UP Of trains in the station was nearly
perfection. The universal report is that
the visitors had nothing but praise for
Denver and that the arrangements for car
ing for the crowd were ample"
Norfolk and Freight Rates.
President f. M Robertson and a com
nittee of the Norfolk Commercial club
conferred with General Manager Bidwell
of the Northwestern Monday regarding the
relations OF the road with the mercantile
interests of their city and the tributary
territory.
'The committee was in my office only a
short time and no definite matters were
submitted or brought up" said Mr.. Bid
we'll.
1t was understood on the outside that
what the committee took the trouble to
come down from Norfolk for was to max,
a protest on certain freight rates of the
Northwestern applying to Norfolk and Nor
folk territory.
Railway Notes and Personals.
General Manager Mohler of the Union
Pacific returned from the north Monday.
j. A. Munroe, traffic manager of the
Union Pacific, and wife returned from the
General Superintendent Park of the
Union Pacific returned from the west Mon.
day morning.
w. r. McKeen, jr., superintendent of mo.
tive power of the Union Pacific, and wife
went to Chicago Sunday.
The Rock Island will bring in two cars
OF the men for the signal corps for Fort
Omaha Tuesday. These come from Fort
Myer.
Hal Buckingham, chief clerk in the
freight department Of the Burlington, has
returned from drive with Live STOCK
Agent Eyler through Wyoming.
According 10 the latest adviceS received
by friends in this city. Mr. and Mrs. H. g
Burt are scheduled to sail from Dover
October 6 Nothing definite is known as tC
the plans OF Mr.. and Mrs. Burt after theii
arrival In New York. AT last account!
they were in Austria.