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This the Great Northern R. R. did last week. If a corporation can be sorry, Great Northern must be sad to see President Ralph Budd go (he sails June i for Mos cow). He knows every part of his com pany, has tended it tenderly. Indeed the announcement at Chicago read: "The invitation to go to Russia was extended to Mr. Budd by the Soviet Government be cause the topography of the Great North ern Railway is said to greatly resemble that over which many Russian railroads...
Northerns. Another important event of the railroad week transpired at J. P. Morgan & Co. when President Ralph Budd of Great Northern, President Charles Donnelly of Northern Pacific, President Frederick Ely Williamson of Burlington, and Arthur Curtiss James, largest Great Northern stockholder, met to discuss means to merge Great Northern and Northern Pacific as proposed by the I. C. C. Awaited for many years, this merger is now held up by the difficulties, financial and legal, attendant upon the two roads divesting themselves of Burlington stock, against which they have issued bonds...
Such a decision pleased nobody. Ralph Budd, G. N. President, Charles Donnelly. N. P. President, declared that the G. N. P. had to have the C. B. & Q. to reach Chicago from Minneapolis, that it was the eastern pivot of the whole merger. Sena tors and congressmen from the northwest flayed the juncture of these two roads, insisted that it would reduce competition in that territory to the vanishing point...
...their unceasing consolidation battles. Last week they smote a new chord on their lyres, began a new canto of the railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last week sat Charles D. Mahaffie, Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these persons came before Commissioner Mahaffie either to support or to denounce the building...
Engaged. John Marshall Budd, Yale senior, son of Ralph Budd, president of Great Northern Ry., and Frances, daughter of Stanley Hale Bullard (Bridgeport manufacturer) ; at Fairfield, Conn...