The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-01
Mr.. winchell will become president of

Mr.. Winchell Will become president of
the ST. Louis & San Francisco.
1t was semi-officiaIly stated this
afternoon that negotiations for a sep
aration of the Rock Island and the St.
Louis & San Francisco railways had
been satisfactorily concluded. An of
nouncement was expected later in the
day.
Official Statement.
New York, Dec. 1.-The following
official statement was given out:
1.-The Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
G:fic Railroad company of Iowa today
sold and delivered to B. F. Yoakum
Louis & San Francisco Railroad COM
pany, representing the controlling in
crest and being all the shares of stock
which the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific Railroad company has heretofore
owned in that company.
"a meeting of the board of direc-
:ors of the Chicago. Rock Island &
Pacific company was held this morn
ing, proper authority was given and
the transaction was later in the day
closed"
tOne of the reasons of the sale was
the legal advantage. if not necessity,
of a separation of the Rock Island and
Frisco properties, a question having
been raised both by the federal and
certain state governments as to the two
roads being parallel and competing.
.'The Rock Island and Frisco rail-
ways will henceforth be operated as
separate properties. there having been
a complete legal severance of all rela-
tions heretofore existing between them.
Notwithstanding this, the friendliest
feelings exist between those in con-
troll of the two roads and it is. in
tended that they shall be operated to
the mutual advantage of both, wher-
ever it may properly be done.
"At a meeting of the board Of
directors of the Chicago, Rock Island
&, Pacific Railway company the fol-
lowing were elected as the executive
committee of the company:
sd. G. Reid. w. H Moore, ]. H.
Moore, F. L. Hine, r. A. Jackson, H.
U. Nudge, E. S. Moore.
"The following officers were
elected:
committee; R. A. Jackson. vice chair
man of executive committee; H. U.
Nudge, president.
"The meeting adjourned until to-
morrow for the election of additional
officers and the transaction of other
routine business.
AT a meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the ST. Louis & San Fran
cisco Railway company, held this morn
ing, the following were elected as the
executive committee: B. F. Yoakum.
Edwin Hawley. B. l.. Winchell, James
Thayer, Thomas H. West.
1.-The following officers were elected:
"B. F. Yoakum, chairman of execu-
tive committee; B. L. Winchell, pres
dent
1.-The meeting adjourned until tomor-
row for the election of additional Of
f1cers and the transaction of other
routine business
Mr.. Nudge, now president of the
10 (<aly Tr1rr Il
of a railway man who has worked his
way up through the grades to his
present position. His career as
railroad man has been one long Sc
ries of phenomenafleaps up the rail-
way ladder until he has reached the
one of the greatest railroad systems
in the world.
Mr.. Mudge's story of success is well
known to most railway men. Until
he went to the Rock Island he had
spent almost his entire life with the
Michigan, in 1856. He came to Kan
sas in 1874 and commenced his rail-
way career with the Santa Fe at once.
He started on the very bottom round
of the ladder, taking a position as
water boy.
When he started in this work he
had nothing but the education of a
common school. After he had grown
out of the water boy age he started
in as a common laborer and learned
telegraphy at odd times. He would
study the profession outside of work.
ing hours and he would stay up
nights practicing on his crude in
struments. He finally secured a
position as telegraph operator and
worked at this job for two years.
Next he became a brakeman then
a baggageman and for the next seven
years he was a conductor or. both
freight and passenger runs. After
| this valuable experience on the road
Mr.. Nudge accepted a position as
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