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Show Vol SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 31, 1903. 2, No. 21. PERRY HEATHS BANK. sion of the facts at the time of occur- in this particular case to wait until until September rence it would have served them to its The city dailies overlooked a juicy clientage when they were real fresh. bit of telegraph news last week. It But Truth does not belong to the Asmay not have been sent out by the sociated Press, hence it is compelled Associated Press, which would account for three of the journals not using It, but why the artists who use the scis- r. sors and raise the dates on clippings in order to fill the pages of the Telegram, should overlook it, is a mystery, in-dee- Price outside papers arrive here in order that Salt Lake may get all the news service it is entitled to, and of which the dailies are trying to deprive it. o STREET CAR MANAGEMENT. W. P. Read, superintendent aud gen- eral ed Mar-quan- Mar-qua- i - nd 1, 1901, whe he was . . over-certifi- Cents promoted to the position of general traffic manager of the Short Line, the position he is filling with ability. Mr. Schumacher is an affable gentleman who is well liked by his superior officers, associates and subordinates. He is now in the height of his usefulness and evidently has a long and prosperous career ahead of him. d. Especially when it was of local interest, being nothing more nor less than the story of the pleading of the former president and cashier of the Seventh. National bank of New York City, the financial institution of which our fellow townsman, Perry S. Heath, was a director at the time he was fourth assistant postmaster general, and the depository where he placed the funds of the government. William H. Kimball was the presi- dent and Gamaliel W. Rose the cashier. These men were charged by the Hearst newspapers with having checks, and with having certified d checks on worthless collateral. & Co., a big bucket shop, was cutting a wide swath on Wall street before the crash, and when It came every effort was made to save them from the general collapse. In ia$t, an effort to smother the entire affair was made by every one connected with the bank, and none worked harder, or gave out more suave interviews than our sage fellow citizen alluded to. But the Hearst newspapers got right on the trail of the rascality, and its corps of reporters hunted up evidence right and left, with such good effect that last week the president and cashier concluded it was all off and went into the United States court and pleaded guilty. They can be either fined in the sum of $5,000 each or punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or suffer both fihe and imprisonment. They will doubtless get a good dose each. In the meantime the firm of Ac Co. is making a violent effort to save itself from going to jail, and, according to evidence secured, has raised a fund of $100,000 to stop prosecutions with. This little arrangement was detected by the same newspaper men, and it looks as if the plan would be entirely frustrated. Why news affecting citizens of this community, as did this, is suppressed is a sort of mystery. But Truth will serve the people as best it can under tiie circumstances. Had it had posses 5 The accompanying portrait is that of Thomas Milton Schumacher, general traffic manager of the Oregon Short Line. Mr. Schumacher is just as good as he looks, if not better. He is one of the first men of the country, for he is a Pennsylvanian, where all good men come from. A long residence in Ohio hasnt harmed him at all, and he retains all of the characteristics of a native of the Keystone state. His career dates from his birth, Februaryy 16, 1861, at Williamsport, on the west branch of the He entered beautiful Susquehanna. railway service in 1879 as a telegraph operator for the Atlantic & Great Western and from 1880 to 1881 was freight clerk in the local office of the C. C. C. & I. He then tried active work in the operating department and was a brakeman and fireman on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis. It was hot long, however, be- - fore he drifted back to clerical work and from 1882 to 1883 he was engaged as bill clerk for the C. B. & Q. He made a change at that time and went to the Missouri Pacific at St. Louis, going from that road back to the C. C. C. & I. as contracting agent at St. Louis, a position which he held until 1888. From that time until 1891 he was chief clerk in the office of the general agent of the Union Pacific at St. Louis and at the conclusion of the term indicated was made chief clerk in the office of the general freight agent at Omaha. Iu 1894 he was made general agent at San Francisco and drew the salary and did the work until October 1, 1900, when he was made vice president and general manager of the Continental Fruit express, with headquarters at Chicago. He went back to his place as general agent of the Union Pacific at San Francisco and remained .there . manager of the Consolidated Street Railway company, is indeed a genius, and deserves a place in some hall of fame. His latest is the method of collecting fares between this city and Murray. The passenger ocards the boards the car at the loop and takes out his newspaper to read, or, if he be a stranger, looks out of the window at the scenery. As soon as the car crosses Fourth South, the conductor comes in ar.d says: Fare. You hand him a quarter. He solemnly returns you 20 cents, and you wonder when the company put in a conference rate for keeps. At the city limits he comes in again and says: Fare. You give him another quarter, and he again returns you 20 cents. Then, after you pass Fourteenth South he comes back once more and says: Fare. You. hand him some more money, and he takes out a nickel. Then you can ride to Murray. The same performance is repeated on the way back. Truth asked a conductor why this Installment pain was conducted, and received the reply that .it was a way r the "old man, meaning Read, had of keeping the conductors off the platform, where they might freeze to death. But it is a nuisance, just the same, and no one, save the manager of an . old-fashion- old-fashion- ed ed cars on road, running old-fashion- ed rails, with back number, methods in vogue, would think of asking a passenger to dig up three times on a short trip like that to Murray. And in any other city than this the council would not permit a railroad company, to charge more than 5 cents fare, either. old-fashion- - old-fashion- ed ed, o It is said that Kroeger, who persists in holding on to his office, is issuing processes and sending them out to be served. One, Peter Lochrie held over in the same manner, once upon a time and the rulings and decisions and judgments issued out of his unauthorized and illegal court, caused no end of trouble. These courts ought to be - self-constitut- ' ex-Justi- . ed squelched. ; d ce |