Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-05-05

this hatred he was never able to over
come.
But the incident with Dickinson was
not the only one which led TO Il. III.
Hartman asking President Burt TO
resign for SONS more diplomatic man.
With the ordinary o of foresight
In his treatment of newspaper men,
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 a good ource OF news by the
reporters. The good fellowship OF
Dickinson permeated down to the low
est employe in the office, n the press
was always welcome. After big Ed
left. and Burt was In supreme COM
mand, things went entirely the other
way. Tom Orr, the assistant TO Presi-
lent Burt. grew suspicious. n always
greeted the reporters with the reply
that there was nothing doing" The
boys knew better, and il didn't help
their tired heels and injured feelings to
be turned down by the orders OF Burt.
Ii gradually became known that
President Burt was against h idea of
giving the papers any news. Railroad
news in Omaha, with three headquar-
tiers. constitutes a large part of the
III ain II ~ -
gradually disliked. Being shut of from
the headquarters, the reporters had
time 10 dig up the truth about the con-
dition of the rolling stock i'm the big
shops, and the manner i'm which the
green men were handling 1t. or course
they were absolutely barred from the
shops by President Burt's orders. but
a tired mechanic, seated in a 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 T.. RI. Hartman, for a rail-
road clipping bureau misses nothing
that is printed in regard 10 it's road. A
trainman who was a good fellow "loos-
ened up with the story OF the Overland
Limited standing IN a level prairie for
two hours trying TO get up steam. and
the story OF the woman who became i'll
after she left omaha for Ogden, be-
came national property. If President
Burt had kept the boys busy cleaning
items around headquarters. these
stories would never have been told.
Finally Z. III. Hartman read these
Omaha stories until ne concluded to
make a o westward himself. He
travelled over the Southern Pacific TO
the coast, and then took the Union Pa
ciic to Omaha. He looked over the
shops on the way, and when he reached
Omaha 1t is said, his mind was made
up that President Burt must go or
the road would be bankrupt. Mr.. Har-
riman was met at the depot in Omaha
by a delegation of newspaper men.
They told him, gently, what they
thought of President Burt, and Mr..
Hartman had been informed before of
their opinion.
The reporters imediately made a guess
that President Burt was to lose his
job, and that the strike of the Union
Pacific shopmen would be settled by
Mr.. Hartman. They guessed right.
When, on a Sunday afternoon, ii
leaked out that President Burt was to
resign, there was much rejoicing among
the newspaper men in Omaha. In the
report of that event the boys had their
revenge for a long session of mistreat-
ment. Mr.. BURT had his own way, but
il cost him the presidency.
This idea of having his own way, OF
brooking no opposition, is the chief
characteristic OF Horace G.. Burt. There
is not a man in Omaha, or on the Union
Pacific railroad for tina matter, who
Burt. They know that he has a mind
with physical problems that might come
UP IN the digging OF the n canal
but they will tell of his experience
with his general manager, big Ed
and With the newspaper boys in Dina
ha.
This, perhaps is Why Il. p. Shonts,
and not Horace G. Burt. will dig the
Panama canal.