Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-27
RAILWAY UNION RUNOkED
Coalition Of Great Western tld Kansas
City Southern Reported.
srlCKNEY SAID TO HAVE GOT OUTLET
7eIief Among His own Men 10
lie Has secured Harriman's
Agreement 20 some
sort of Terms.

sort OF Termss
An interesting report crops out Of the
year-end gossip in railroad circles, al
ways prolific of timely stories, that a
coalition OF interests between the Chicago
Great Western and Kansas City South
ern has been or will be effected. SUBJ
stance is lent to the report by the fact
that Great Western officials at Kansas
City and St Joseph. in receiving their
batch of annual passes for 1906, notice
among them passes over the Kansas City
Southern. as well as the Great Western.
One of these officials who was In Omaha
a day or two ago said:
II never before had an annual over the
Kansas City Southern and do not know
what the receipt Of one now means. unless
II IL proof Of the rumor that Mr.. Stickney.
who controls the Great Western and Mr..
Hartman, who controls the Southern.
have got together on some terms whereby
one road takes over the other or both are
merged in a sort Of joint management.
couldn't tell which would be left in the
ascendency."
Stickney, II has been said, has courted
an outlet to the gulf such as might be OBJ
tanned through the Kansas City Southern.
and the balance Of opinion is he has Sc
cured that road rather than that Har-
riman has got his, IL indeed any exchange
has been made.
Omaha officials OF the Great Western
profess to be entirely ignorant of any such
deal.
Railroad Traffic Largest.
Railroads report the largest volume of
business for the Christmas holidays in
their history. ]. Il. Buckingham. assistant
general passenger agent Of the Burlington,
said,
The Burlington did the largest holiday
business In its history the business being
all incidental to the general vacation and
Christmas time. On some of the roads the
crush was so great conductors had to take
matters in their own hands and throw open
the Pullmans to the general public TO ac-
commodate the crowds which would pile
into the trains at some of the stations.
This season is hard on the passenger de-
partments of the railroads, for not only is
the passenger business large, but the ex-
press business also 10 SO large 1t delays
the trains, 1t is almost impossible to
make time with the passenger trains"
All Hopes Are Exceeded.
John Ferguson, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Northwestern arrived
men on the Lost Angeles Limited. due at
II p. m, and accompany the train to Chi
cago. Mr.. Ferguson said.
That train Is making start on the
California business far beyond our expec-
tauons for new train. While the people
of Omaha are all aware OF the advantages
of the new train, with It's shorter route to
southern California. IL will take little
time 10 exploit 1t through the east, but
when people learn of its advantages the size
of the train will then surely have TO be
increased.
This town of yours is a surprise to me
l have never visited town where could
look around and see many new and mag
nifcent buildings. especially in the whole
sale district. Reading In the papers had
given me some idea of the growth OF
Omaha but the actual seeing was for be-
yond my expectations"
Fifteen Thousand on Special.
The Burlington estimates that over Is, OOC
farmers attended the lectures on the seed
corn special which made tour of the
state last week. After a lay-over for
Christmas the special started out on its
second weeks tour Tuesday. and Judging
from the increased interest, larger corwds
will be out than attended last week. Sec,
rotary Wilson has notified Prof. Lyons
that he will spend one day on the specia
II 1t is possible for him to do SO. The gospe
Of good seed and how to plant it is one
OF great interest to the farmers who arc
beginning TO see that the professors at the
university are practical men as well al
theorists. and that the corn crop of Ne
braska can be increased II attention is paic
10 the doctrines which are taught by these
learned men.
Word has been received from Denve.
that the Colorado Midland has begun worl
at its shops at that place on three dining
cars which 20 DO placed in service
early in 1906
These cars will be the first OF the klnt
ever built west of Chicago, and will b,
finished in mahogany, elegantly upholstered
and equal in every respect to any car
put out by eastern shops. An indication
of the large amount of equipment beinl
built for lines throughout the country il
shown in the fact that eastern shop
could not guarantee the delivery OF thes
cars in time for next see sons touris
travel to Colorado. resulting in that lin
deciding to build them at their own shops
The Colorado Midland is known il
Omaha as George Vallery's road, Mr.. Val
lery, one of the best known railroad me-
in the country. having left the Burlingto,
about a year ago to assume the manage
ment OF the Midland
why Cars Are scarce.
The Railroad Gazette accounts for tn
car shortage which is now Gripping tn
traffic on the railroads Of the country b
an interesting table, which shows the mum
Der Of cars ordered last year was consid
erably less. In fact, only one-half the mum
Der built In any year since 1899. During III
last three months the car companies hav
booked some record-breaking orders 10
1907 delivery. among which are orders fror
two OF the leading railroads which alon
are larger than the whole output for 1870
The table shows the estimate made by tn
Gazette for the last seven years:
Freight. Passenger. Tota
1893 ............,..... llq SS6 S05 l2l II