The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-03-24
Mr.. KRUTTSCHNlTT HERE
Sunsets General Manager Spent Yesterday
In Houston.
PARTY WILL GO 10 NEW ORLEANS TODAY
VIII Meet President Huntington
Thcrc-some Contemplated Jm-
proycmcnts for Houston,

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Southern Pacific company, headquarters
at San Francisco, arrived in Houston yes
torday morning accompanied by Manager
w. q, Van Week of the Atlantic system
who, having gone west with Vice Prosi-
don't Croker and Assistant General Traffic
Manager Hawley last Sunday evening mc,
Mr.. kruttschnitt at I'll Paso and came on
with him to this city. The two gentlemen
travelled in their private cars Guadalupe
and the Texas respectively, With Mir.
Kruttschnitt were his chief clerk, Mr..
Worthington, and his private secretary,
Mr. King.
On the arrival OF the party at Houston
the private cars were placed on a switch
In the west end of the depot yards. During
the day Mr.. Kruttschnitt, accompanied by
Division Superintendent Mulvey, visited
the company's creosoting works northeast
of the city. and the shops in the Fifth
ward In the evening he took street car
ride around the city and returned to his
car fer dinner, shortly after which time
he was seen by reporter for Tho Post.
ton, the subject of the improvements be-
ing made on the line having been mention
cd, Mr.. Kruttschnitt said that the company
had recently purchased eight Schenectady
engines with 20x2S-inch cylinders and a
steam capacity of 200 pounds, for use in
the freight service on the west end of the
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio.
These locomotives have a hauling capacity
of some 10 per cent greater than the ord
mary large engines in use on the line
and have been found TO be very effective.
Other recent additions to the rolling stock
of the company consist of three large
passenger engines and three switch en-
gnes 1000 new freight cars and 300 new
stock cars of the latest improved pat
terms On the west end OF the Galveston,
Harrisburg and San Antonio the company
is now engaged in laying some seventy
| Ave or ono hundred miles of seventy five
pound rails. This is unusually heavy steel,
the average weight Of that used by most
of the lines In this section being only sixty
| pounds, and an especially fine rosdbed Will
| be the result
A contemplated improvement which will
| be of considerable interest to Houston is q
system of block signals for the various
crossings of the road in this city. As Mr.
| Kruttschnitt expressed it, the present
| method of compelling all trains TO stor
and whistle before reaching crossings is
| absolutely safe. but a great deal Of time
! is lost thereby and 1t is to obviate this thai
the new system will be put In. Under the
| new arrangement train to which is giver
| safety signal may proceed over cross.
ing with an absolute certainty of the track
| being clear and there will be no necessit,
for delays.
Asked concerning the matter OF the pro
posed entry of the Southern Pacific int
l oil ~, al.
| question was one which was being attend
ed 10 by Mr.. Huntington in person. A
to Governor Sayers' veto OF the consolids
ton bills in which the company is interest
ed, he stated that he was not advised con
corning the future plaus to he pursue
and he did not know wlcat the result Q
the action of Texas executive would be
He had, in fact heard practically nothin
of the matter further than what he ha
read in The Post.
Mr.. Kruttschnitt was asked if any def
mite action had as yet been taken in tn
matter of the proposed fast schedule fror
Denison TO New Orleans via the Centre
and Southern Pacific and replied that III
local officials of the company had chare
of the matter and that he was not ad
viscd as 10 what disposition was to /
made of it, He understood however, this
no tangible result had been reached u
|
as to the probable effect of the recent
promulgated rules of the Louisiana con
mission on the Southern Pacific compan,
and replied that this was matter wit
which the Louisiana officials of the lr
we're dealing and that he would probab
hear more OF it ON his arrival at Ne
Orleans.
During the course of the couyersatiC
Mr.. Kruttschnitt took occasion to con
| nj hpr n1Ci r
up-to-date appearance He also common
ed on the extremely well kept conditic
of the local yards and shops and said
that connection that he was justified
: believing that the shops all over the sy
tenn were in better shape than those of al
other road in the country. This ne sal
was productive of good In several differe
directions, chief among which was I
salutary effect produced on employees.
Mr. Kruttschnitt will be Joined he
this morning by Mr.. n. p. Huntingto
first assistant 10 the president, who W
arrive in his private car from the we
on train No II, Mr.. Kruttscbnitt, NJ
Huntington and MIR. Van Week :,ill 20
to New Orleans on the train in questit
and will spend several days in the Cresce
I City on official business Mr. G. ?. Hun
= ington. president OF the Southern Paoi
company. is expected 10 arrive there du
Z, ing the latter part of the present we
or the first Of next and will visit Hou
ton and Galveston while en- route to I
Pacific cast.