The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-14
WESTERN PACIFIC RAILWAY READY
FOR BUSLNESS---ANOTHER GREAT
TRANSCONTLNENTAL LINE


/ building TO suit all practical require
ments combined with an artistic char
acter. Among Mr.. Schlacks notable
productions is ST Pauls church Chi
cage, the only masonry gothic vaulted
building In this country The Deauu-
In the very nature of the case snow
sheds are usually placed on those posi-
lions OF the lines where the view Il
unObscured would be most attractive.
I ful Rio Grande station at Grand Juuc7
/ ton, Colo, was also designed by him.
AT each end OF the building the COM
/ pany mas parked plot or ground 5t1
feet long, which has been beautified
| by a competent landscape architect
The officers OF the Union Depot COM
pany are =. T. Jeffery, president, and
I c. II. Sehlacks, vice president These
men are president and vice president
/ respectively Of the Denver g. Rio
| Grande railroad and Western Pacific
railway; William OttesOn. recently SUI
perintendent of the Wabash terminal
station al Pittsburg, has been appoint
/ ed superintendent OF the depot COM
pany.
Good Men Selected.
/ In the selection OF the officials.
/ President Edward T. Jeffery and Vice
| President Charles II. Schlacks have
/ used excellent judgment. In manning
/ the different departments Of the new
/ road the executive head Of the line has
| not spared expense. Salaries have 10
/ be attractive 10 induce such men as
/ Edward L. LOmax, the new passenger
/ traffic manager. 10 leave the Union
! Pacific a road which he served in the
/ capacity Of general passenger agent for
! twenty years. and H. n. Adams
/ the freight traffic manager. and other
/ men who have served their apprentice
1 ship at the railroad bench Of expert
| ence and fitness in their various capac-
I titles.
In referring TO Mr.. LOmaX his good
/ friend. u. s. Spencer. assistant general
passenger agent Of the oregon short
Line, says; He is one OF the king
| pins OF railroad passenger traffic men
| Of the United States Good scOutt
/ Well. 1 should say yes. Custer was
/ lonely without him"
Mr.. LOmax commenced his railroad
career as a mere boy IN 1863. His first
position was ticket agent for the Bur
/ lingtOn in q little Iowa town. In 1872,
ne went with the Central Railroad OK
| Iowa as chief clerk. In 1879. he went
| TO the St. Louis & Iron Mountain as
general passenger agent. From 1855
| TO 1887 he was assistant general pas
senger agent Of the Burlington. In
1887, he became assistant general pas
senger agent Of the Union Pacific. Two
years later he was promoted 10 general
passenger agent Of that road which
position he held until about two months
ago, when the Western Pacific secured
his services as passenger traffic man
ager.
Well Represented Here.
represented in both the passenger and
freight departments. Colonel ]. A. Ben
ton the joint general agent u the pas
I senger department OF the Denver q Rio
Grande and the Western Pacific, has
been actively engaged ia railr0ading
since 1871, when he entered the pas
senger service Of the Union Pacific at
Fremont Neb., except for three years
when he was in politics ia Salr Lake.
and the Colonel says that don't count.
Colonel Benton came TO Utah in 1881
as general agent for the Union Pacific.
In 1856 he came 10 salt Lake and was
joint agent for the depot and offices OF
the old Central Pacific, now the Oregon
Short Line. He was appointed post
master OF Salt Lake in 1880 by Presi-
dent Benjamin Harrison. Two years
later he was appointed United States
marshal President Cleveland relieved
him Of the office in 1893. and after a
short term as secretary OF the Chamber
OF Commerce he became general agent
for the Denver & Rio Grande. which
position he now holds in connection
with his new responsibilities.
S. Y. Derrah, recently appointed as
I sistant general freight agent OF the en-
. tire Western Pacific line, is a native
| OF Pennsylvania. He commenced life
in a print shop with the Onerous duties
and title OF devil" He later became
editor OF a Sunday newspaper in a
/ small Pennsylvania town.
In 1880 he came west, locating at
Trinidad. He entered the services OF
His promotion was rapid. FIe came TO
Salt Lake In 1885 as freight and pas
/ senger agent OF that road. Later he
was transferred 10 Cincinnati He left
. the Santa Fe and went TO the Missouri
/ Pacific as commercial agent at Den
: yer. He was promoted TO assistant
general freight agent OF the Missouri
) Pacific at ST. Louis where he remained
4. until he returned TO salt Lake in 1901
J as assistant general freight agent OF
; the Denver & Rio Grande.
The opening OF the Western Pacific
has not only opened new epoch in
the railrOading history Of the west. but
/, it has materially changed the method
/ OF operation and maintenance and di-
verted the current OF traffic in SaIt
+ Lake, the great railroad center OF the
, intermOuntain region
The determination OF the Gould in
. terests 10 complete the last link IN its
| tranSCOntinental line 70 the coast had
the effect Of opening great railroad de-
velOpment in Salt Lake. An effort was
made three years ago 10 Ombine, in
I one station. the Rio GTande. Western
, Pacific, Oregon Short Line and Salt
Lake Route trains, making a gigantic
terminal This scheme WAS nearly
, adopted until a break came between
/ the Hartman and Gould interests. and
. the part played by the city council was
not conducive to harmonious action. so
and egress OF the Rio Grande and West
ern Pacific changed. and the ownership
/ of property for rights-of-way passed
l into other hands.
: The business men Of Salt Lake readi-
" appreciate what the completion and
opening OF this great transcOnunentdl
p line means TO them. During the few
, months that the Salt Lake Route was
out OF commission on account OF the
Z WsshOut in Meadow Valley. this city
was cut off the route OF the great
: transcontinentaI roads. The effect al
il was easily seen in local business, and
- that the opening OF this new line will
have an excellent effect in developing
1 business here there IS no question.