Show RAILROAD NOTES the union pacific aina issued orders to all foremen in its shops to make reports upon the improvements needed in departments As soon as tho reports have all been rendered an extensive and improvement movement will bo started tho shops at several places will be radically changed the union pacific is having made in the evanston shops a separator barrel to be used to catch the oil which is constantly keeping into the aspen tunnel tho flow amounts to about live barrels a week the oil will be refined and used by the company in the train vicc it is reported at astoria that the northern pacific railroad company recently offered A B II ammond for the astoria columbia luver railroad the offer is said to have been declined though alie impression prevails that mr II ammond is still considering si it the pullman company has instructed all its conductors and porters to refrain from making any noise which might awake sleeping passengers cither when trains are in motion or stopping at stations that order will be cheerfully obeyed by all conductors and porters said an old conductor yesterday but I 1 dont see how were going to suppress the greatest disturbers disturb ers of sleeping passengers the fellow who boards the train at u small station in the middle of alio night and talks in a th undertone to the chap who is with him aliese two men or others just like him are constantly riding on the trains as every patron of sleeping cars can testify if a porter tells one of those night owls to lower his voice lie is more apt to raise it and the porter I 1 may bo accused of prejudice but my observation is that travelers are far from being as considerate of each other as all railway employed emp loyes are to the patrons of their companies james J aill president of the great northern alio is in new york city and was interviewed concerning his mission here in the cast took pains to deny the report of ft combination of the northwestern roads asked regarding the statement that a proprietary company would take over a majority of the great northern eliares in order to simplify control and place alie management in a more permanent shape mr hill said lie would rather not discuss great northern at present lie emphatically denied lie biad sold out most of his interest in the erie railroad and said that was no truth in alie statement that president 1 D underwood was to leave the erie and go with the great northern air hill said he believed it was sir intention to remain alie erie |