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Show RAILROAD CHANGES IN JUNCTION CITY General Shake-Up hi Hnmmnn System Sys-tem Lets Out Men and Makes Office-Boom Scarce. Special to Tho Tribune. OGDEN, April S. The general Bhake-up in tho railroad situation 13 still tho talk of the town. Ondon promises to bo the Radius" railroad center of the lntermouu-taln lntermouu-taln country. Ogdcn may he Ihc dlvlslon-headquartcra dlvlslon-headquartcra for the foilr roads, and Im-provemcnl.s Im-provemcnl.s will be made In tho Ogden yards nnd alout the Union depot. George Cunnlngha,pi, who has been yarfl-m'asler yarfl-m'asler of the Southern raclflc, is mndo general yardmaster, and now has charge of the local yards for all tho roads. Tho "Union depot Is overcrowded nnd Superintendent Superin-tendent Hilluker cannot llnd a location for nn office. Tho train agents of the vnrloutt rcada arc in a similar condition. Yard mnBter Cunningham's office has been moved from tho Union Pacific yards to a point Just northwest of the Union depot, and the freight-house for tho consolidated ronds will bo erected near Twenty-sixth street and Wall avenue. W. H. Chevera hns assumed charge of tho freight traffic for all the roads, ami Mr. Corse, who Is to be made commercial agent, will open an office uptown. Tho change, however, is tho means of reducing the numbor of men employed. Today the force at the baggage-room was reduced by four men. |