Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-17
MANY RAILROAD MEN AT SHOW
High Ohicials Attend Exposition on
Railway Day.

High Onicials Attend Exposition on
Railway Day.
Railroad day at the Corn exposition drew
many of the leading western railroad men
to Omaha Wednesday and the day was
made the occasion for, the gathering of
some of the officials OF many of the roads.
No one set of men did more for the de-
velopment Of the National Corn exposition
than the railroad men who, from the first,
have done all in their power to promote
the show and to advertise the show from
one end of their lines to the other, Sew
eral of the roads have not only had all
their travelling passenger agents boosting
for the show all over their territory but
some have had men engaged in nothing
] else all summer except to boost the corn
show.
The Northwestern Of the railroads had the
largest. representation on railroad mems
day as over thirty Of the leading officials
came from Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis,
Sioux City and other western towns. Those
who arrived Tuesday and Wednesday
were:
From Chicago-H. r. Mccullough. vice
4 president; w. B. Kniskern. passenger traf-
fic agent; r. H. Ashton. general manager;
w. B. Cantillion, assistant general man
ager; c.. A. Cairns, general passenger
agent; william Bennett, superintendent
telegraph; E. e. Refts, car service agent
e. d. Brigham, general freight agent; +.
p. lyman, assistant general freight agent.
\ From st. Paul-T. j.. Clark, vice presi-
i dent; L. A. Robinson, comptroller; G.. H.
\ MacRae, assistant general passenger asenti
H. M. Pearce, freight traffic manager
]. B. Sheckan, general attorney
From Omaha-F. Walters, general man
ageI; T. M. Broden, general superintendent;
s.. F. Miller, general freight and passenger
agent; b. T. White, general attorneys G.
f. Bidwell, assistant general attorney; {.
c.. Wright, assistant general attorney.
w. D.. Beck, superintendent, Chicago;
F. H. Hammill, superintendent, Boone;
d. II. Brown. superintendent. Sioux. City;
D. H. McCarty, superintendent, Mason City;
E. q. Smith, superintendent, Eagle Grove;
+. Z. Nicoles, superintendent. Omaha; c.
H. Reynolds, superintendent, Norfolk.
The Northwester officials spent the
day In visiting the corn exposition and
inspecting the terminals of the North
western. There was no fixed program for
railroad mems day at the exposition and
everything connected with the visit of the
railroad men was of an informal nature.
Other prominent railroad men who visited
the exposition Wednesday were; w. q.
Neimyer, general agent of the Uniou
Pacific at Chicago; ]. p. Elmer. general
passenger agent Ct the Chicago Great Wes.-
ernn came, from st. Paul; T. NJ Shipley.
superintendent Of the Great Western, and
G, e. Simpson, superintendent of the trans
portation of the Milwaukee,.
mo better move can be made for this
section of the. country than a plan of In
creasing the yield of the farms said j..
p. Elmer. general passenger. agent OF the
Great Western. Omaha is In the center
of the greatest agricultural belt on earth
and is an ideal place for holding such a
show. The exposition is a great credit to
Omaha, and Nebraska. and the entire west
1t should be repeated year after year for
the farmers will soon learn what the expo
sition has to teach for their b~etterment.'