| Show THE OMAHA BRIDGE The Union Pacific = Mi1wau1ee Bock Island Squabble THE CONTRACT IS MOST ABSUKD Says GouldThe Government Directors Requested Re-quested its Suspension Miller and Cable Will Probably Sue OMAHA Doc SO Special telegram to Tnt HERALD The action of the Union Pacific in refusing t carry out its contract obligations is the talk of the town The Rock Island new lines through southern Nebraska and northern Kansas are almost parallel with the Missouri Pacific and the arrangements agreed upon would take the Rock Island direct to Colorado Springs while the Missouri Pacific reached Pueblo and forty miles below there To Goulds objections to having the territory of the Missouri Pacific encroached upon is therefore there-fore attributed the attempt of the Union I Pacific t head off the new line of the Rock Island at the Mississippi river I this is done the opinion that the new line of the Rock Island just completed between this city and Lincoln will become practically worthless for at least a year until the Union depot is completed and occupied oc-cupied Under the terms of agreement between the Rock Island and the old Union Pacific Pa-cific management the former company wasw to use the latters track to South Omaha I and between Lincoln and Beatrice as well as a short stretch into Denver while the Union Pacific was to have the use of the Rock Islands new line from South Omaha t Lincoln The abrogation of those agreements agree-ments virtually leases the Rock Island in the same condition it was before with the addition of over fifty miles of isolated road In the event that the Rock Island resorts to the courts to compel the Union Pacific to fulfil its contract a legal contest for perhaps two years duration would I result A recource to spanning theMis souri with another bridge would place the Rock sland under the necessity of closing the gap between the end of the bridge and I South Omaha and between Lincoln and Beatrice all of which would prove expensive expen-sive and consume much time The course of the Union Pacific it is held shuts off the promised fast trains and better service between Omaha and Lincoln and limited trains to Denver and the mountains moun-tains and keeps another eastern road out of Omaha The Rock Island is prevented from opening up its direct line from Chicago Chi-cago to Denver and must continue to travel its roundabout route which increases I the distance fully one hundred miles i General Agent Nash of the Milwaukee road made an effort this morning to cross from the Bluffs with his train feeling satisfied sat-isfied that he had isfed already sufficiently emphasized em-phasized his position hS regards the illegality ille-gality of the freeze out by the Union Pacific President Cable of the Rock Island road I was expected in the city today to take steps to enable his company to make some use of the road which it has built from this City westward It is understood that his company and the Milwaukee have engaged Messrs Poppleton and Wolworth of this city t contest in the courts the abrogating of the contract regarding the crossing of these roads into this city President Sidney Dillon of the Union Pacific is expected to to arrive in this city this afternoon Western Railroad Officials in Conference OMAHA Dec 30Special telegram to THE HEItAL1A Bee special from Chicago says A secret conference of high officials of the western roads was held today to consider their action in New York next week at the proposed organization of the new Presidents agreement Said one of the railroad managers after the meeting The agreement will be perfected and enforced I en-forced at all hazards I properly administered I adminis-tered it will cut no figure whether or not the Alton Chicago SL Paul and Kansas City roads join They could be brought to time if they attempted to make any trouble the Kansas City Ft Scott Mempais road refuses t join because was keen enough to see through Goulds plan A soon as the agreement is in force he will knock the celebrated Union PacificNorth western agreement on the head by diverting divert-ing at Denver from the Union Pacific all possible traffic to his pet the Missouri Pacific and taking it east via St Louis and Memphis The Northwestern also sees tais and i we have any difficulty in organizing it will come from the natural reluctance of the Northwestern r give up the enormous trade it has been getting from the Union Pacific We will hold another meeting tomorrow and try to agree on a plan of action for the New York meeting meet-ing Concentrating the Union Pacific Management OMAHA Dec 3OSpecial telegram to Tan HERALD The first step toward the reorganization of authority in the Union Pacific management was made today in the appointment by General Manager Clark of E L Lomaxas E as general passenger passen-ger and traffic agent of the entire Union Paciiic system Mr Lomax has had the title of general passenger agent for a number num-ber of years but under the Adams a ministration minis-tration really had jurisdiction only over tun Missouri river division of the road each of the other grand divisions of the system being supplied with a separate general passenger a ent The extension of Mr Lomaxs authority docs away with the general passenger agents of the Kansas divisions of the system The men who have held the positions affected were passenger agent of the Pacific divison Portland George Day general passenger agent o the Colorado Colo-rado and Fort Worth divisions Denver F L Lynd general passenger agent of the St Joe and Grand Island division the assistant general agents at Ogden Salt Lake Fort Worth Kansas City Pocatello and other division points I is not announced an-nounced t whatother changes will follow fol-low Mr Lomaxs promotion but it will result re-sult in the first instance in very materially Deducing the number of titled and high Salaried officials in the passenger department depart-ment Some of the present general passenger passen-ger agents will probably be retained as fiivision passenger men |
