Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-04
this hatred he was never able to over.

| this hatred he was never able to over.
come.
But the incident with Dickinson was
not the only one which led to E. H.
Hartman asking President Burt to
resign for some more diplomatic man.
| With the ordinary amount of foresight
| in his treatment of newspaper men,
4 Mr.. Burt might yet be holding down
the management of the Union Pacific.
But he grew suspicious and even gar
rulous in dealing with the press.
| In the good old Dickinson days the
Union Pacific headquarters was con-
| sidered good source of news by the
reporters. The good fellowship Of
Dickinson permeated down to the low
est employe in the office, and the press
was always welcome. After Big Ed"
| left. and Burt was in supreme COM
mand. things went entirely the other
way. 1om Orr. the assistant to Presi-
dent Burt, grew suspicious. and always
greeted the reporters with the reply
| that there was nothing doing" The
/, their tired heels and injured feelings to
be turned down by the orders of Burt.
1t gradually became known that.
President Burt was against the idea of
giving the papers any news. Railroad
news in Omaha, with three headquar-
copy" and President Burt became
gradually disliked. Being shut off from
I, the headquarters, the reporters had
| time to dig up the truth about the con-
dition OF the rolling stock in the big
shops, and the manner in which the,
green men We're handling it. OF course.
| they We're absolutely barred from the
shops by President Burt's orders. but
a tired mechanic seated in cool bar
room with a foaming glass of beer that
some reporter had paid for, naturally.
told the truth about conditions in the
shops. These things finally reached
| the ears of r. H. Hartman, for rail-
road clipping bureau misses nothing
that is printed in regard to its road. A
| trainman who was good fellow "loos-
ened up" with the story of the Overland
Limited standing on a level prairie fog
two hours trying to get up steam, anS
| the story of the woman who became il@
after she left Omaha for Ogden, be%
came national property. If PresiderM
Burt had kept the boys busy cleaning
items around headquarters, the%
stories would never have been told
Finally E. H. Hartman read the6
Omaha stories until he concluded
make a tour westward himself. D.
travelled over the Southern Pacific 3
the coast. and then took the Union Ii
cific to Omaha. He looked over Il
shops on the way and when he reachg
| Omaha, it is said, his mind was MAJ
up that President Burt must go
tne ROAD would De bankrupt. MIR. HaE
riman was met at the depot in OmaM
by a delegation of newspaper meg
They told him. gently, what thee
thought of President Burt, and M
Hartman had been informed before i
! their opinion.
The reporters imediately made guess
that President Burt was to lose his
job, and that the strike of the Uniors
| Pacific shopmen would be settled by
Mr.. Hartman. They guessed right
| When, on a Sunday afternoon, il
| leaked out that President Burt was ii
resign. there was much rejoicing among
the newspaper men i'm Omaha. In thS
| report of that event the boys had theit
| revenge for Il long session of mistreats
ment. MIR. Burt had his own way, bus
| it cost him the presidency.
| This idea of having his own way, Of
| brooking no opposition, is the CHIEF
characteristic of Horace G. Burt. Therd
| is not a man in Omaha, or on the Union
| Pacific railroad for that matter, who
doubts the engineering ability Of Mr..
| Burt. They know that he has mind
and experience large enough to copel
with physical problems that mir. - NO.
| up III the digging of the Panama tn...--,
but they will tell of his experienced
with his general manager, big Ed."f
and with the newspaper boys In Oma-
| ha.
This, perhaps. is why 7. p. Shonts,
and not Horace 6. Burt. will dig the;
| Panama canal.