"PENNSY" MEN ARE HERE
OFFICIALS OF BIG EAILROAD SYSTEM STOP ON THEIR SIGNIFICANT INSPECTION TOUR OF MILWAUKEE SYSTEM.Pennsylvania railroad officials, as guests of the Milwaukee road, are inspecting Minneapolis today. They arrived at 6:30 p.m. yesterday and at 10:30 tonight will leave for Duluth. St. Paul will entertain them after 6:35 p.m. Wednesday. This is part of a general tour of the northwest which be gan Monday morning at Chicago. Sioux City, Omaha, St. Louis and other cities are to be visited.
E. W. McKenna, assistant to the president F. A. Miller, general passenger agent E. S. Keeley, general freight agent, represent the Milwaukee road. The Pennsylvania officials in the party are: John B. Thayer, with vice president George D. Dixon, freight traffic manager James B. Wood, passenger traffic manager. Officers of the Pennsylvania lines: Joseph Wood, second vice president D. T. McCabe, freight traffic manager E. A. Dawson, manager Union Line. Chicago. Officers of the Erie and Western Transportation company: E. T. Evans, vice president, Buffalo John E. Payne, vice president, Philadelphia.
Taken in connection with rumors in the railroad world as to the future relationship of the Pennsylvania-Milwaukee line to the transcontinental situation, the trip of the Pennsylvania men is believed to have considerable depth of meaning. The inspection trip will take in all parts -of the Milwaukee system, particularly that which would be involved in a thru line from Atlantic to Pacific.
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Minneapolis Journal - May 2, 1905
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