THE OMAIIA DAILY ffEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1904.
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STORY OF THE USION PACIFIC
'It is Told Abbw by Trunk Spearman In a
Ifagatin ArtioU.
BUILDING THROUGH MOUNTAIN AND DESERT
Umw EidaNr) Raced Against Time
WU1 Ratlom Waited for June
tlea taat Would fnlte
Ocraa aad Oceaa.
Ths story of the building of the Union
Paciflo never lnnra Its fascination. It baa
been told over and over, and yet is alwaya
aa entrancing aa the beat work of fiction.
It la told anew In the current Harper s
Magazine apparently from data furnished
by General O. M. Dodge to Frank 6 pear
nan, over whose name the article appears.
The most Interesting parts are here repro
duced: "General Grenvllle M. Dodge, who waa
chief engineer of the Union Pacific, and in
charge of construction during 1866 and
thereafter, still survives, a Nestor In the
honorable company of American construc
tion engineers, and his name will always
be coupled with the work of putting the
first railroad across the Rocklra. Ills
reminiscences throw a pretty side light on
Lincoln's decision concerning the easP-rn
terminus. General Dodge In 1S58 (aFslgnlng
the date from recollection), after a summer
of engineering reconnatscarcea west of the
Missouri, camped with his party at Council
Bluffs. Abraham Lincoln at that time was
visiting the Bluffs. lie heard of General
Dodge's return and of his surveys and
sought him out Bitting with the mountain
engineer on the porch of the hotel, Lincoln
held him for two hours or more and drew
from him the facts he had obtained, and
his opinion as to the beat route for a rail
. road across the continent and the possibil
ity of building one.
"In 18C2, while In command of the District
of Corinth, Mississippi, General Dcdgo was
ordered by Grant to proceed to 'Washington
to report to the president; Lincoln had re
membered the talk of 1868 on the hotel
porch of Council Bluffs. The question of
the eastern terminus for the newly au
thorized railroad was then a national ques
tion. In General Dodge's opinion there was
from an engineering viewpoint but one na
tional route for a railroad to cross Iowa,
the Missouri river and the great plains.
The route proposed by Mm was that along
which ths Union Paciflo was afterward
built. It offered the advantage of a great,
open road from Omaha to Bait Lake, flOO
miles of It up a single valley that of the
Platte. This, In turn, led to the natural
pass over the Rockies, the lowest In all the
range, and to the continental divide at a
point where It lay In a basin 600 feet below
the general level Instead of on a mountain
summit. Any engineer, In General Dodge's
opinion, who should fall to avail himself
of so rich possibilities should have hlfl
diploma tsken from him. In designing the
Missouri river terminus as he did Lincoln
acted on these views.
Made Tosnlble by War.
"The political aspect of extending gov
ernment aid In the building of the first con
tinental railroad must alwaya remain an
extraordinary feature In our national legis
lation. 'The civil war alone made auch a
tep possible. The period had rudely
brushed aside constitutional and laissez
faire legislators and reasoning and the men
who stood In cqngrcss for action went In
thla case to the other extreme. The build
ing of a Pacific road had every war argu
ment In Its favor. Buch a line. It waa
urged, would bind California mora closely
to the northern interest and would enable
the United States more promptly to repel
any attack on the coast ports. Moreover,
It would enable the government easily to
control Indian 'outbreaks among those
tribes still unreasonable enough to object
to being exterminated.
"It must not be forgotten, however, that
during the gloomy days of the civil war
. Indian outbreaks, whether Justifiable or
t not. were serious matters to a government
: v:' struggling to maintain itself; and an argu
ment Beaming iriviai now mignc nave
seemed serious when people were excited
or depressed by every rumor and portent.
Even In 1847 Oeneral Sherman regarded the
completion of the Paciflo road as an end
to the Mormon question, and It was the
real beginning of the end.
"The very name used by congress In
creating the corporation 'The Union Pacific
Railroad Company,' implies a reflection of
the union sentiment of tho civil war period.
The use of the word has) been ascribed to
the 'union' of various corporations and
plans In the project But there is un
doubtedly more than this to It By far
the most powerful arguments In favor of
the road were the war needs of the govern
ment The word 'union' waa everywhere
foremost In the thought and speech of the
day and federal action waa meant to come
aa a final answer to the demand of nearly
twenty years for national legislation on
the Paciflo road subject; to the foes of the
union It was flung as an evidence of con
fidence and strength on the part of the
republican party and Its union administra
tion. But of the burdens carried during
those days by Abraham Lincoln there is
no more pathetlo glimpse than this, that
In the midst of the profound anxieties of
his struggle to preserve the nation he was
required by congress to determine the de
tail of the proper track guago for the
Paciflo railroad. Nor will It surprise any
one conversant with the legislative spirit
of the war period that after President
Lincoln had lung and painstakingly con
sidered the subject and decided on a track
guuge of five feet, congress cheerfully and
at once passed a law changing the guags
to four feet eight and one-half Inches.
Financing the Enterprise.
"The act of 1862 was supplemented by a
second act In 18G4 containing more liberal
subsidy provisions and under this charter
the Union and Central Paciflo railroads
were built The coterie of capitalists who
undertook the enterprise believed that their
chief profits would come from the construc
tion rather than from the railroad as an
Investment, and In order to Insure these
to themselves they acquired the charter
of the Pennsylvania Fiscal agency a name
afterward changed by the legislature of
Pennsylvania, at the Instance of George
Francis Train, to 'The Credit Moblller of
America,' and the Credit Moblller not only
constructed the Union Paciflo, but made
for Itself and a number of American states
men tho most sensational record of a long
and exciting day of plots and counterplots
in Pacific railroad history. For the begin
ning of construction much work had al
ready been done. General Dodge had
crossed the Missouri river as early as 1S53
In the Interest of projected Iowa railroads
which sought to ascertain where a Pacific
road would' be "likely to fix a Missouri
river terminus. Until the civil war General
Dodge was busy with reconnaissances and
surveys.
"When he entered the service Peter A.
Dey took It up and In 1S.62 put regular
parties In the field on the first range of
the Rockies, called the Black Hills, and
over the Wasatch range, under a son of.
Brlgham Toung. These surveys extended
from the Missouri river to the California
state line and Included 25,000 miles of
reconnaissances and over 15,000 miles of
Instrumental surveys. They were made al
most entirely under army protection, but
despite ull precaution men were scalped by
Indians.
"Ground for construction was broken nt
Omaha, with a florid speech by George
Francis Train, December 2, 1863, and actual
construction began on the Union Pacific
very early in 1S64. Lcland Stanford, on
January 8, 1S63, had turned the first shovel
ful of earth at Sacramento for tho Cali
fornia end of the undertaking. In nine
months the Omaha enthusiasts had com
pleted the first eleven miles of one end of
the transcontinental line. The Calif ornlans
had come to a standstill with thirty-one
miles. Thus the race started slowly, but
at its end Jack Casement was laying seven
and a half miles of Union Paciflo track
between sun and sun.
Route Long Famous.
"The route the new road followed from
the Missouri river had long been famous
on the frontier. Spaniards had probably
reached what la now Nebraska as early as
1541, but It was more than 100 years later
when Indians on the Mississippi described
to Father Marquette the course of the
Missouri, and his map showing the Platte
flowing Into the Missouri is still pre
served. ' White men In 1739 explored the
Platte as far as the present city of North
Platte, In Nobraska, and French traders
made a highway of the river for more
than ICO years. The expeditions of Lewis
and Clark, close upon the Louisiana pur
chase, opened the country to American in
fluence and St Louis became the greet
outfitting point for the adventurers and
traders who penetrated to the remote
regions of the northwest.
"In 1832 Captain Bonneville camped under
Chimney Rock, and, penetrating Wyoming,
skirted the Wind River mountains. Ho
was the first white man to take a wagon
aoroas the continental divide on the line
of the future railroad. Here the Mormon
pioneers began their long Journey to their
unknown home beyond the mountains, for
Fremont's narrative had decided Itrigham
Young upon this great undertaking. Along
the Platte, year after year, were strung
the wagons of the Forty-niners, and In a
calm made sweet by the blossom of the
wild plum rose the cams Ores of the pa
tient homeseekera following the overlaad
trail.
"But the valely scenes changed when the
railroad contracts were let The grading
camp made a rough companion to the
aulet outfit of the emigrant Civilisation
now really coming, advanoed In Its mask of
vice the characterlaUo of Its rise and de
cllne. The grader, the gambler, the crimi
nal and the adventurer moved together
across the plains with the tough town, til
outlaw and the vigilance committee. The
forks of the Platte were reached ty the
tracklayers at the cloFe of the second sea
son's building. 1866. but before these tlrt
24a miles were coincided some conception
of the enormous difficulties of the under
taking had dawned on the promoters.
Obstacles that Were Overcome.
"The Union Paciflo waa building across a
desort with a base at Omaha, that waa
likewise beyond aVallroad connection. The
engine for the Omaha railroad shops was
dragged across the country from Des
Moines, The Central Pacific, building
from the western coast was competed to
get everything except ties by ship around
the Horn or by way of Panama. Marine
Insurance was upon a war basis, and tho
capital of the Callfornlans was eaten Into
by indemnity tolls. The Union I aclflo
lacked even the tie supply afforded the
Callfornlans by the Sierra Nevadas, and
was compelled to skirmish hundreds of
miles up and down the Missouri river for
ties and bridge timbers. Moreover, the
Indians of the plains had already filed
their protest against the novel invasion.
Before the rails had been laid 200 miles
from the Missouri river Turkey Leg end
his Cheyennes swooped down on Plum
Creek, scalped a handcar pilot, derailed
the freight train following and with the
englneman and fireman burning In the
wreckage plundered the box enrs and made
away, heavy with booty.
"Amid these difficulties construction pro
ceeded with such materials as could be
brought up from St Louis and St. Joseph
during three months of water transporta-
! tlon, but on November 7, 1867, the last rall
' road link east of the Missouri In the trans
continental line was completed. William
B. Ogden had pushed the Chicapo & North
western railroad Into Council Bluffs, and
that road, then as now, a powerful ally of
the Union Pacific, began pouring track ma
terial Into the Council Bluffs yards, giving
the latter road an actual railroad base for
Its supplies. It was needed. The Central
Paciflo party, taking advantage of the law
of 18GG, which opened the continent to a
race between east and west builders, was
bending every effort to get to Salt Lake
ahead of Its eastern competitor. During 1867
General Dodge had already pushed the
Union Paciflo to Cheyenne, In Wyoming,
which, after November 14, became the win
ter terminus.
"The whole country now awoke to the
contest that the Union Paciflo and the
Central Paciflo Vera entering upon.
Which should reach Salt Lake first and
which should win the big government sub
sidies, ranging through the mountains from
t64,0C0 to 296,000 a mile?
Stupendous Oampalirn Planned.
"The Union Paciflo chief engineer, after
a New Yoifc conference during the winter
of 1867-8, returned to Omaha, called bis
staff around him, and laid out his plans.
These centered upon Ogden, Utah, 602 miles
west of the end of the track, as the ob
jective point for 1868, and Humboldt Wells,
216 miles west of Ogden, for the spring of
1S69. Preliminary lines had been run, but
no final location had been made west of
Laramie City, where town lots were sold In
April, 18G8. General Dodge had already
solved the vital problem of the pa" across
the Rockies by getting lost ono afternoon
In the Black Hills if It is fair so to describe
the accident which led to the remarkable
discovery. For over two years all ex
plorations had failed to reveal a satisfac
tory crossing of this secondary range,
known as the Black Hills, which, on ac
count of their short approaches and their
great height, la the most difficult of all
ranges to get over. On this occasion Gen
eral Dodge, returning from a Powder river
campaign, leaving his troops, with a scout
and a few men rode up Lodge Pole creek
along the overland trail and struck south
along the crest of the mountains. Indians
beset the little party before noon And got
between them and their trains. Holding
the Indians at bay with their Winchesters,
they retreated. It was nearly night when
they finally escaped the enemy, and mean
time they hnd rlddnn down an unknown
ridge that led out of the hllla and clear to
the plains without a break. That night
General Dodge told his guide that If they
saved their scalps he believed they had
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From Major H. Glafcke, Ex-Secretary of
Bute of Wyoming, now U. & Internal
Revenue Collector, residence Cheyenne,
Wyoming:
CHEYENNE, WTOMINO, June I. 190S.
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found the crossing of the Black Hllla
Over this pass the trains of the Union
Paciflo run today .
Race Becomes Exeltlag.
"Winter caught the builders at the foot
of the Wasatch range, but it no longer
stayed them. The spirit of the fight had
got beyond that, and the frosen earth
waa dynamited like rock. Track was laid
serosa the Wasatch on a bed covered with
snow and Ice, and one of General Case
ment's track-laying trains, track and all,
slid bodily oft the Ice Into the ditch! Even
the Mormons roused themselves, and under
Brlgham -Young's exhortation turned might
lly Into the race. In railroading then, aa
In politics later, the watchword was.
'Claim everything,' and the Central Pa
clflo people astonished the eastern builders
by filing a map 'claiming' to build as far
east as Echo, some distance east of Ogden.
"The two companies had 20,000 men at
work. The Casement brothers of the
Union Paciflo construction forces rose to
the occasion. Eastern newspapers were
carrying dally headlines, 'The Union Pa
ciflo Built Miles Today." In the be
ginning a mile a day was considered good
work, but the Cascmenta had long been
laying two miles a day and now were
working seven days In the week and every
hour that light gave them, and they
crowned their supreme efforts by laying In
one day nearly eight miles of track be
tween daylight and dark.
"The Central Paciflo people meantime
stayed not for stake or stopped not for
stone. They had fourteen tunnels to build,
but they did not wait to finish them. Sup
piles, . even to engines, were hauled over
the Sierras, and the work was pushed
until In the spring of 1S69 the opposing
track-layers met at Promontory, Utah,
The moment at which the law had de
clared a junction must be made had ar
rived. Driving the Last Salko.
"On May 10, Leland Stanford, governor
of California, and president of the Central
Faclllc, and Durant, Duff and Sidney Dll
Ion of the Union Pacific assembled with
their friends to drive the spike that was
to Blgnalize the completion of the great
undertaking. A little company of regular
soldiers with a garrison band from Fort
Douglas preserved the military atmosphere
of the long struggle. The Mormons, who
had helped so faithfully with the roadbed,
were thero, and the coolies from San Fran
Cisco and the Irish track-layers from the
Atlantic seaboard faced each other. Straw-
bridge and Reed, the rival superintendents
of construction, placed under the rails the
last tie of California laurel. Spikes of
silver and of gold from Montana, Idaho
and Nevada were presented and driven Into
It, and Dr. Harkness, on behalf of the
great Paciflo state, presented the last spike,
wrought of California gold.
"The country waa waiting for the coming
moment. Telegraph wlrea everywhere had
beenallenoed to repeat the blows of this
silver maul which were to ring from the
little valley In the Sierras to end and end
of the United States. The first engine
from the Pacific faced the first engine
from the Atlantic,, and amid the sllenoe
of uncovered heads the governor of Cali
fornia and Vice President Durant of the
Union Paciflo drove the laat aplke.
Pnbllo Joy Unmeasured.
"From tho stages of theaters and on the
first pages of newspapers particular an
nouncement was made of the celebration
to come on the next day. The rejoicing
In San Francisco reached the extravagance
of a kermess. In the bay the shipping was
bright with bunting, and between gaily
decorated buildings processions of jubilant
citizens marched all day. What matters It
that we know now the electric current
suffered a stage fright, and the ring of the
sledge on the last spike could not bo made
to repeat beyond Omaha? Is It not enough
that the chief operator was equal to the
occasion and drove the heavy blows In dig.
nlfied clicks at the telegraph offlje on the
Missouri river? What is of consequence Is
the way In which the clicks were received
the blows repeated at Son Francisco on
the great bell of the city hall, and cannon
booming with the last stroke off Fort Point,
and on Capitol Hill In Omaha 100 guns
following the explosion of bombs and
screaming of steam whistles. Capitalists,
prominent citizens, volunteer firemen and
horaeshoers could still walk happily in
one tiresome procession when the last
Paciflo railroad spike waa driven. Grant
took the newa In the White House, Chi
cago turned out a parade four miles long,
New York was saluting the Pacific coast
with salvos of artillery, Trinity chimes
were ringing 'Old Hundred,' and Trinity
voices were chanting 'Te Deum' when the
earliest transcontinental line was finished;
and In Philadelphia the old bell was ring
ing in Independence hail. For American
railroading surely those were the golden
day a"
THE NIAGARA FALL) HOUTE.
To New York, Boston and the East.
The Michigan Central has four splendid
through trains dally between Chicago and
New York and Boston. Two run via Ni
agara Falls, stopping Ave minutes at Falls
View. Ten-day stopover at Niagara al
lowed on all through tickets. Chicago
ticket office, 119 Adama street; central sta
tion, lake front, foot of Twelfth street.
RELIGGIOUS.
The dean of Rochester Is the tallest
divine In the Church of England. He is 6
feet 3 Inches In height.
Kev. Dr. John Robertson, the well known
and successful Scottish evangelist, la
preaching In Brooklyn under the auspices
cl-the Christian Endeavor.
Rev. Dr. Charles H. Leonard, denn of
the Tufts College of Divinity school, has
reached the age of 82. He has been with
the Medford (Mass.) Institution since 1869.
Brazil has now thirty-one young people's
societies of Christian Endeavor and six
Junolr societies. They have a national
union, local unions and an admirable Chris
tian Endeavor monthly In the Portuguese
languuge.
The Presbyterians of America are cover
ing the empire of Corea with mission sta
tions and numerous native churches. They
have a total force of 100 foreign workers.
Dr. W. D. Reynolds, preacher, linguist and
translator, Is devoting all his time to trans
lating the Bible into Corean.
The Salvation Army now has three colo
nies In successful operation. One colony is
in Ohio, within twenty miles of Cleveland;
the eecond Is in the valley of the Salinas,
near the Bay of Monterey, Cal., while the
largest and most successful of the three
colonies is at Fort Amity, Colo.
The American Sunday School union hsa
recently completed eighty years of work
for the neglected children of America. The
work of the union Is undenominational and
Is helpful to the churches in every state.
The number of teachers and scholars en
rolled in the schools organized by the so
ciety during the last year was 97, W0.
Rev. Victor A. Schnell of Terre Haute,
Ind., on Thursday last observed the thirty
eighth anniversary of his ordination to the
priesthood. He has been described aa a
Frenchman by birth, a German by paren
tage, an American by adoption, a aoldiur
in the union army by patriotism and a
Cathollo by divine calling. He ia a pastor
of an Irish congregation.
J. Plerpont Morgan has. It Is aald. In his
Sossession a cone presented to the cathc
ral In Asccll, Italy, by Pope Nicholas IV,
for which he paid fiX),000. '.'he cope disap
peared in 1902 while repairs were being
made in the cathedral. The Italian gov
ernment Is endeavoring to ascertain what
Mr. Morgan will do with property which
he acquired after It bad been atolen.
Rev. Joseph Luccock of the Aabury
Methodist Episcopal church, Milwaukee,
has notified the executive board of the
church that he wanta hla salary cut from
Il,2u0 a year to 11,000. The reverend gentle
man, who went to Milwaukee from Coving
ton, Ky., not long ago, aaya he tRkee thla
action because ne does not think the
church can afford to pay the larger salary.
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Arabian Curtalns-IUsh grade, hand-made cur- 7.7g
tains in tho new color, price, per pair
Arabian Curtains Mounted on heavy French net,Q QQ
extra wide border, large corner design, per palrv"v,x'
Arabian Curtains Usually sold for $22.60 and $26.00. ws
bought an unusually large quanUty and bought them
from a manufacturer who was changing his 'J BtQ
account so we can sell the $6 value for, pair." tw
Cluny Curtains with linen lace edge, wide 3-Inch O OR
double net on edge, per pair mzrj
Cluny Curtains, French net, full site curtain, 3.05
S-ln. double net on edge, per pair .
Cluny Curtains, white or Arabian color, with 5.00
edge and insertion, per pair
Other values $8.75, $8.75 up to $30.00 per pair.
Brussels Curtains We bought a large lot of these cur
tains and are selling regular $5.00 values, 3 Qg
at, per pair
Brussels Curtains $25.00 and $30.00 flaxony, the best
curtain mnde, made on the finest net IJ SQ
money can buy, special, per pair
5-inch Bobbin" white or Arabian 13C
per yard
54-inch Bobblnefr-'white or Arabian, extra HSc
heavyfper yard mm... .-
96-inch Curtain Bwlss, dots and stripes, 12aC
per yard . -.... a w
A good extension rod, extends from 30 to 64 lOc
Inches, at w
A good window shade, 8x8 'feet, 25(f
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OMAHA BOILER WORKS
The Bee Building has just installed two immense oilers to
take the place of its old equipment. These boilers were made in
Omaha, and are the work of the Omaha Boiler Works, Mr. John
K. Lowrey, Proprietor, 12th and Izard Streets.
The accompanying picture shows the boilers before they were
ready to be placed. These boilers are of a special design, which
is the result of years of experience and study of Mr. Lowrey, who
is recognized as one of the expert boiler makers of the country.
Each of these boilers has a capacity of two hundred horse power.
They are designed to carry a pressure of one hundred fifty pounds
and are built of unusually heavy steel to meet this demand.
This particular type of boiler is adapted to meet the requSre-
ments of large power plants, and has tome new features, which
make it more efficient, than the old type of boilers, where large
loads are carried. The same boiler can be made in units from one
hundred to five hundred horse power, as the necessities of any
particular plant may require.
Visitors to the city during Ak-Sar-Ben week are invited to
call at the Bee Building power plant, which is in the rear across
the alley from the Bee Building, and inspect these boilers. They
are now in operation and any one who is interested will be given
an opportunity to look them over thoroughly.
ESTABLISHED 1836.
TELEPHONE 43.
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WALL PAPER
House, Sign and Decorative Painter,
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