| Show RAilROAD i MEN ARE AR I DEEPLY INTERESTED IN LATEST MO MOVE Conjecture Rife Ilife Locally as asS asto asto S to Successor to General Manager Ridgway The Tho following Associated Press dispatch dispatch dis dis- dis patch from Denver is creating no end ond of comment amon among local railroad men to to- day Ly Tho Tho complete reorganization of th the S pep fer Rio Orando Grando road is near at ati 1 C i. i according to tho the most reliable in in- I obtainable in Denver and it asserted positively that President Edard Ed Ed- ard T. T Jeffery ii is soon Boon to retire retiro t-It t lt It is practically admitted by Vice Vice- Charles 11 II If who has haR returned from a II conference with President Jeffery and other Jives Jives' I of the Goulds in New York City tta hat ta a reorganization of forces is near neal fc hand band connection with this the tile name of Delano formerly president of tho the ll l iburg Terminal Railway company Jn as a possible successor to resident president Jeffery and W. W L. L Park a as a cess r to General Manager Iana er if at who is to retire tomorrow From m time to time durin during tho the last Jl r and a a. half rumors have reached rene i t I Lake ake City that Jeffery was a about out rw resign and that tho resignation f would woud be by request It is claimed By some railroad men that Jefferys Jeffery's long v ilon suit was his ability to get et d divi- divi vi fc lends especially in the time early days of connection with the road but that PS- PS l the last two or three years he had hud hadI I aid id more attention to trying to get et 1 Dividends than he lie did to the condition conditionS S i if f the tho system as far as the operating department G. G p was concerned Not All AU Harmony Over a year ago it was stated by a at t 1 r man juan visiting in this city that ll was not peace and harmony between be be- tween Jeffery and Manager 1 Rid Ridgway Bidgway ay bat at the latter had made frequent de- de ti for more mon money y with which to toi i the tho system and nd that he had v to retire unless it was forth forth- oming min Later came tho the announcement f that several million dollars donars was to be beit it in improving the thc systEm in Utah and nd Colorado and it was believed ed that S 0 the difference between Ridgway Rid way and fYi Jeffery had been patched up Now v Nowes iJ mes es the announcement that lIty r ay has bas tendered his resi resignation nation which f kes effect today V tAt At the time timo of the announcement of Ridgway's ld retirement the announce announce- S was made that President Vice J Charles harles H. H ks would act as general gen gen- feral eral manager of the road and that the Superintendents of the tho Utah and Col Col- divisions would report direct to him This was taken by local railroad mon to mean that the position of general gen gen- eral era manager a position which was ere ere- ted for Mr Ridgway was to be done i a way away ay with At that time the name of W. W iT 1 L. L Park was mentioned in connection B ith the position should the company t jeide de e to continue the office oMco of general I a Local railroad men said at ata a time and still say that they know f nothing n thin of an official nature which 5 could rould lead them to believe that Park Parkis M Ms is to go with the Denver Demer Rio Grande i that he is and has always been been- beena a Union man At the present time he is superintendent of the Union Pale Pa Pa- r. r i le fie with headquarters in in Omaha It is t bv by a majority of local rail rail- j. j f oad id men t that at shourd par Park go to the ther r Denver r Rio Grande it will nIl add conf con con- f- f to the rumors which have been f going Poing the rounds in railroad circles for ii i some iome time timo that Harriman has secured an interest in the Denver Rio mo Grande Grando GrandoS pa grid and that he is about to put one of his i S X i trusted lieutenants in charge of the tho ss ss- iS tem tern The announcement that Frederic FredericI I A Delona is to succeed Jeffery ames cames p pt 35 t lS a surprise to most local railroad men For years lie Ill was one of the right hand 4 of James J. J He entered the thet t m railroad service as a machinists machinist's helper t. t and rose rapidly until ho bo held me of the best jobs on the Hill lull a. a tem em A few years cars ago he left Hill and andr r vent vent to Gould GoulI and at nt the present time Is president of the Wabash He js is ad ad- to be one of the bi big railroad 1 en ion of the tho country countr Move of Series Serles Should the dispatch be correct corred it sim elm ly means moans that it is the first move in inmost 10 most important railroad changes hat tat has been maths made in the west since secured e control of the South South- t n Pacific It is is freely admitted that 1 f Harriman has secured an interest in he Denver Rio Grando Grande he lie has also alsoS v S J j. j t f secured e an interest in the Western Pa Pa- fc these two s systems with the others which he now controls and the railroad work which he is doin doing in Mexico would Harriman control of practically S S the entire western part of the I United States and Mexico o and would S I give o him bim the greatest railroad system ver er operated under one head in In the of the world It is admitted by byS 7 S f lose ose personal friends of Harriman that thatIs t t. is the dream of the tho little wizard to i the greatest railroad man the i orld orid has ever er known h and should the i lenver enver Rio Illo Grande Grando and the Western como come under his control his hisa d a earn eam will win be realized 1 J C C. Dailey superintendent of the theah ah tah division of the tho Denver Rio Rioz z ande aside is now in Denver where he was wasS S 1 1 fora fo conference with Vice Pros eafe Just what the nature 1 this conference is is not known lolly lo 10 lo- lo lly lIy- but there are some railroad m men n this city who are bold enough h to that it would not surprise them to ear ar Dailey had been appointed to sue sue- ed Ridgway as general manager mana er of lie road Dailey is an old member of Gould family and is said eaid to stand gh gli with the tho powers that be |
