The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-31
oregon Short Line Leaves poI
1t Occupied for Quarter ~
Century.
INTERESTING STORIES
OF FAMOUS CORN
Men of Millions Made G,.
Railroad Plans in Little
Back Office.

After quarter of a century tho ~,
aeii'c 'iekel office has moved firm,
old corner. col Main street. II H.
Union Pacific" as that road vs,
trst TO rent the room from tho ~
otns store who leased from Me-
ihionsoGck. chans nut the name has S'o'u' hau'
OF occupancy, although the n.' per,o'
S,iiie,d ',,i mas ever been displayed unor sa'
windows. The Oregon Short linz NUN IN
ever, ls The name OF the parent s,... now
now AS far as the local rcprcsen;;.s,,,sa1 o;s,s1 ,,a
sri, put that Is another story.
Through all the days OF tho ,a,.,-,
iration of j, V. Parker. =. r agm,nls snnlls.
ldoyt sherman. Billy" Borland 'ne'oj ny
Ghoatc, II. NJ, Clay. II. S. spence. q. q I
Eceles and u. L. Burley, the old H. H.
oiilce mas remained at the old stand -
lne Slatistician Is authority for the s,.s.
d,fia, nno noo cdreiully computed. that over Vs|
ooo, o,poo has passed over its coun,sr, NJ
railroad and steamship tickets. vii.
llttle Tor Insurance. In the good ala I
OF ticket commissions the posi,io,
clerk 10 the ticket agent was worth ~ ~
month. while the agent himself ~
n,round IN two horse rig and his mosSj
" stipend was far greater than ths,sj
the general manager OF those days
that is stlll another story.
J>aban J. kyes has presided ov,r
dcsLinieS OF the counter for aboui ,m
years and is known far and wide as
man who gets the business He ix NJ
bile and knows everyone. but No,
he was not so much SO and dIJn.t
time TO know anyone. for he and
stan were In the thro2s Of moving !
IT was hard work. They win smile IN,
the public Tuesday. however al r
Main street, and from now on the It'd
office Of the system will be located ~
In wit
moved away from the corner for II +
the fond associations OF years. Mr. a.
croft and Mr.. Burley were there 10 I
goodbye To the place and D. $. SponM
shed few tears just FOR The sake
sentiment.
Many Historical Memories.
1t has history has the old off
One. who has n memory. can recall /
evening when S. w. Eccles and J.
Reeves and Will Cunningham were cI
eted in that well-remembered upsts/
room and across the street a TriblM
reporter stood on the roof OF the
\. G. Smith building; how their MOI
ments were of such decided railroad 4.
niflcance that The Tribune had the q
story OF the year next morning. "A
then the picture changes to anothl
group of men. 3. +. Probes, the te|
graph opcrat tor. is in the center. wlI
his mind and hand alert sending and i,
ceiving, while bending over him weI
the forms Of w. II. Bancroft and s. n
Ecclcs with some others. II was IN
time OF the great rcceivership case al
the coup d'ctat pulled off that night
too well known TO need repetition.
And once again the scene shifts. on
an old table, costing probably Is ccnl
were grouped a number OF men, sue
men as the late f. II. Hartman. Wins
low 3. Pierce. Otto Kuhn. Oliver ArFs
representatives of the Standard OIL an
other great concerns. On this little wood
en- table they were counting votes a.
at the close the greatest railroad pi
chase of the worlds history was
fled, the purchase OF the entire SoN
ern Pacific by the Union Pacific. Az
the Southern Pacific minority knew mol
ing OF II until the wires were sent
from here. a
And so on through the years. LONE
would meet his friends In the back roonl
Munroe would handle big freight az
with the Utah shippers. The goyG'
ment receivers and the regular reecife
met there time after time. Abe Goal4
= brother OF Jay Gould, had his ofhcs
The little back room. In fact no psq
In the west is so fraught with hisioncI
romance OF the Overland Route than
Main street,