The San Francisco call., 1896-11-18
HINTON HIGHLY HONORED
His Ability Causes Him to Be Selected
for Position of Great
Trust.

Trust.
E. II. Hinton, who for three years past
most ably represented the Panama Rail-
road Company IN this City has been elected
a member of the board of administration
of the Southwestern Traffic Association,
on the recommendation of the Southern
Pacific Company. The news of this good
fortune for Mr.. Hinton came in dispatch
to The CALL from st. Louis, the headquar-
tiers OF the association. Mr.. Hinton con-
firmed the announcement yesterday in an
interview, in which he said:
1t is true that have been elected by the
sociated lines of the Southwestern Traffic
Association as member OF the board of ad-
ministration of that body. / had many years
experience with the lines of the Southwest
and particularly with the traffic affairs of the
Texas lines. II was not unnatural, therefore,
tn at / should wish TO return TO field with
which was so familiar, and when vacancy
occurred on the board of administration OF
the southwestern Association a short time ago
applied for the place. The association has
paid me he compliment of electing me- said
election requiring the unanimous vote of the
interested lines.
AS TO the agency of the Panama Railroad
Company here DO not know what will be
done. The Panama railroad officials have said
nothing to me about my successor.
Mr.. Hinton has already forwarded his
resignation to the Panama Company and
la bors on Saturday.
The position he is expected to fill is one
OF the most important in the railroad
world OF this country. 1t is only within
the past year that the great railroads of
the country have adopted the idea of
boards OF arbitration. whose duty it is to
pass upon the tariffs of the com panies in
terested and thus prevent destructive COM
petition. and at the same time avoid any
contravention of the interstate commerce
law which prohibits pooling.
On the board OF the Southwestern
Traffic Association there are six mem bers,
and Mr.. Hinton was elected to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of J. Waldo.
Among the roads in this association are
the Huntington properties, known as the
Southern Pacific, San Antonio and Aran-
eas Pass, Houston and Texas Central and
the Morgan line of steamers; the Gould
lines, known as the Missouri Pacific; the
81. Louis. Iron Mountain and Southsrn,
Tsxas aud Pacific and International and
Great Northern; Hetty Green's Texas Md
land, and the Fort Worth and Rio Grande,
st. Louis and San francisco, Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe, Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe; ST. Louis Southwestern. Forth
Worh and Denver. The association has juris-
diction of all business originating in or de-
stined to any point in Texas.
The new mem ber of the board has had
q long and successful experience in rail-
road traffic business. He was formery
general freight agent of the Texas Pacific
for FIVE years.
This position he held from 1887 to 1892.
Early in 1893 he came to this CITY as the
general agent of the Panama Railroad
Conn pany, and so well did he look after
the interests of his company that, as one
OF the prominent railroad men OF this Cjtv
remarked, 'he kept the water boilinp
about the Pacific Mail Steamship Com.
pany."
1t is the general opinion among the
local railroad representatives of Eastern
lines that it was the acumen and ability
Mr.. Hinton displayed in holding up his
company's end in the contest which was
lot years waged with the powerful Pacific
Mail Comp pany that drew the attention of