The Topeka state journal., 1911-07-17
THEY Join HANDS.
President Nudge of Rock Island
and Storey of Santa Fe Here.
On Their Way to Nudge Fishing
Grounds.
BOTH ARE OPTIMISTIC.
Anticipate Big Crops and Also
Good Fishing.
Both Satisfied With Showing of
Their Roads.
9TH ARE OPTIMISTIC.

H. U. Nudge, president of the Rock
Island Lines, believes in his railroad
and is a hard man or competition, but
when he wants to go fishing he takes
the Santa Fe.
At any rate he did today. With W.
B. Storey, jr., vice president of the
Santa Fe. President Nudge came to
! Topeka at noon and left early this
afternoon for the mountains near
Santa Fe, N. NJ. Here without the
worries of chief clerks and secretaries
and without the flare of the trouble
some pink kilograms these two rail-
road heads will tramp up and down the
mountain streams caring only for the
Sparkling trout and the fact that
leak might break out in their hip boots.
OF course they had to stop few mo-
snents in Topeka. Whenever Mr..
Nudge or Mr.. Storey come west they
make for Topeka, figuring on at least
nine holes in golf at the Country club.
Today they lunched with a few Santa
Fe and Rock Island officers including
General Manager Sweet of the Rock
Island and General Manager Kouns Of
the Santa Fe.
The fact that it was raining and
spoiled their golf chances didn't worry
the railroad men today-they thought
more about what this rain in Kansas
would mean to the revenues of the road
when the corn was gathered in Septem-
bec.
For twenty-five years President
Nudge has fished on his place in New
Mexico. He owns a mountain roost
out in this country and every year he
has spent a large part of his summers
there attempting to rob the streams of
their inhabitants
What success have you been hav-
ing?" he was asked.
We'll, I tell you" beamed the big
president as he stood or the station
platform allowing the ten million dol
lar rain to trickle from his straw hat
to his broad shoulders For twenty
five years I have been fishing in those
streams and it seems that the fish get
phazed the supply
But this year
This year am going to try a new
scheme" he said .'Mr. Storey and I
will spend two weeks in those noun
tains We are going to combine our
efforts in ridding these streams Of
fish. We will be alone all that time
and I am looking for a surprise among
the finny tribes in New Mexico"
1t was hard matter trying to talk
business to the two officials. Vice
President Storey was altogether too
would mean so much to the crops and
President Nudge coud talk nothing but
fish" and the vacation in New
Mexico.
On being questioned concerning the
showing that would be made by the
Santa Fe in the fiscal year report,
Vice President Storey said he did not
know of the possibilities
we have not compiled our annual
report and I am not acquainted with
what showing we will make he said.
L don't look for any startling report
and on the other hand I am not ex-
lpecting a loss"
Concerning the rumor thai the Santa
Fe would make the Topeka shops a
freight car building institution, Vice
President Storey said:
The Topeka shops have more
! freight car repair work than they can
handle now and I know that there will
| be no effort to attempt construction
work here. This is a rumor that has
/ not reached my ears-I know Of nc
| foundation for it,
/ Mr.. Storey was optimistic over the
new outlook for crop conditions The
recent dry weather has caused all west
ern railway officials to worry over the
1 prospect for crop movements this fall.
But the heavy rains that have visited
/ the southwest in the last week have
revived the spirits.
President Mucge was in his usual
| spirits-history does not record a cloudy
day on the Nudge horizon
Our fiscal year report is not quite
! finished but we have an idea what il
/ will show, he said 1T is neither a
good showing nor Il poor showing but
we are satisfied considering what we
have had to contend with
1.-THE recent rains in the Rock Island
states has given promise for a good
crop yield. If it keeps it up like this
the Kansas farmers Aill be a happy
set of men.
THE Rock Island is spending con-
siderable money in Kansas now in i'm
provements on track work. Next year
| we will spend more. We will not begin
to make our budget plans until Oc-
| tober, so 1 am not able to give out
anything On our plans for the future y
The two officers left in President
Mudge's private car for the west early
! this afternoon.
! The fish in the New Mexico streams
| have but a few more DAYS to enjoy their