Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-12
RAPID RISE OF YOUNG NAN
John ". Eewlean is General Auditor
Of Great Western at SO.
GOES FROM THE UNION PACIFIC
President Burt Makes Him Head Of
h Department Of the Road
that He Has Recently
Joined.

John W. Newlean leaves the position OF
chief clerk in the office OF the general
auditor OF the Union Pacific system and
the Southern Pacific COMPANY 10 become
general auditor Of the Great Western. He
has been with the Union Pacific seventeen
years, having started as stenographer in
the accounting department when Is years
old and now, at the age Of 90. he IL chosen
by Horace O.. Burt, the new president Of
the Great Western. to become general au-
ditor. Mr.. Newlean il in New York at
present. About five years ago he was mar
ried to Miss Mae McMasters. Mr.. New
lean Is a son Of John Newiean. and his
brother. Harry Newlean, is secretary to
w. L Park. general superintendent. and
another brother. Frank Newlean, il an
Omaha musician.
MI. Newlean II the statistician OF the
Union Pacific and he established the sys-
TEN OF statistical accounts and Il was on
his figures that the unit system OF move
ment was worked out.
HarrimaR Wants Men of West.
E. II. Hartman has returned from the
south and one of his first acts was to at
tend a meeting OF the board Of directors
OF the New York Central lines. II was
stated that the business of the meeting was
merely routine. Some radical changes are
looked for now that Hartman has come
out In the open as being in control OF the
New York Central. RumorS are flying
around that he will move some OF his west
ern operating men east to improve the
conditions Of his new property and make
1t pay better dividends. Western men al
most uniformly succeed in the east, while
eastern men who are sent west seldom
get along as well.
THE Weafarp rafraaA
and ready kind, always ready TO jump out
on the line when there is trouble" said
q railroad man in talking on that subject.
eastern men like better TO sit in their Of
flces and run the road by mall
One Line stin
One railroad line in Nebraska still re-
mains In the grasp of the snow which fell
Monday night md Tuesday morning. The
ONeln branch OF tho Burlington is still in
a state of blockade. although the officers
Of the company hope to have II cleared in
a couple Of days. When the wind died
down 30 that men could be sent out II was
found that there were several miles OF
drifts on the track, fourteen feet deem IN
many places. One drift was fourteen feet
deep and 800 feet long. The three engines
pushing the wedge snowplow had a siren
uous time in working their way through
some OF these drifts. Several times the
engines and pillow stuck fact and II was
necessary to shovel them out. Near War
ham the snowplow went into the ditch.
causing more grief. 1t was also reported
that another snowplow was in the ditch
near Emerson.
G. a y. Stockholders to Meet.
Stockholders OF the Colorado & Southern
will meet In New York Friday to elect a
new board of directors and to select a sue
cessor to President Frank Trumbull. who
has resigned. George b. Harris, president
Of the Burlington, 10 slated for the position
OF president. Although some change in
the management of the road may be con-
templated 1t IL announced that these will
be gradual and no radical move will be
made.
Omaha Gets Better lob.
John C~ruickshank. who began his railroad
career with the Burlington in Omaha and
who was recently chief clerk os passenger
accounts in the office OF auditor OF the
Oregon Short Line, has resigned his posi-
ton to become an Examiner for the Inter
state commission, He Will move