The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-01
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Santa Fe stock transfer books
have been opened in New York.
]. A. Gordon has been appointed gen
eral superintendent of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton.
Extensive terminal improvements at
Cincinnati were decided upon at a meet
ing of the Cincinnati Terminal associa-
ton. held yesterday in Cincinnati.
It has been semfofficiaHy announced
that E. E. Calvin will probably succeed
c. H. Markham as general manager of
the Southern Pacific company in San
Francisco.
L. S. Hungerford, assistant general
superintendent of the Pullman company,
has been promoted to the position of
general superintendent. He succeeds w.
H. Reed, resigned.
For the purpose of changing the trans
fer office from the Commercial Trust
company to the Rock Island company
office at II Broadway, New York, Rock
Island transfer books are closed until
November 8.
Effective November 1, the jurisdiction
of George A. Hancock, superintendent
Of motive power of the Frisco, is ex-
tended to cover the Third district, with
headquarters at Springfield, vice G.. w.
Smith, assigned to the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois railroad.
William J. Henley, formerly judge of
the appellate court of Indianapolis, has
been elected general solicitor for the
Chicago and Western Indiana railroad.
e. A. Bancroft, formerly general So
licitor, has been appointed general
counsel of the company.
The Transcontinenta1 Passenger as
ISOLATION has given the st. Louis ter
minal lines the right to extend the limit
of exposition tickets to exhibitors and
also to make rates for them on leaving
ST. Louis.
According to New York brokers the
next railroad contest is to be for the
possession Of the Erie. The Moores are
T.
Goulds, while Morgan and the Wander
bits are said already to have acquired
from $4,000 to 100000 shares.
George D. Totten who has been en-
ployed in the city passenger office of
the Rock Island at Chicago, has been
with headquarters at Pittsburg. Mr..
Totten has been with the road several
years.
A suit has been filed in the United
States district court by the Alton mer-
camille company against the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad COM
pany to test the interstate commerce
laws governing freight rates, and for
the recovery of 800 alleged excessive
freight on a car of sugar from New Or
leans.
H. ]. Fouts, who has been day ticket
agent at the Santa Fe station in Albu-
querque the past several months, has
been transferred to Los Angeles with
the promotion to agent Clerk Hall sue
ceeds Mr.. Fouts as day ticket clerk and
Clerk Zimmerman succeeds Mr.. Hall as
night clerk.
A. G. Robinson, general agent of the
passenger department of the Alton at
Peoria, has been appointed general
agent of the rOad at Chicago in place
of Robert Somerville, who becomes
manager of the JudSon excursions over
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul.
The transcontinental roads at their
meeting in st. Louis agreed to make
rate of $45 for the round trip from the
Missouri river to Portland, Ore, on ac-
ton next summer. This. however, will
apply only over the direct routes going
and coming. There will be a meeting in
Chicago on Monday to agree on a rate
to Portland going over one route and
returning by another.
S. o. Brooks, general freight agent of
the Pere Marquette, has resigned. H.
G. Kirake has been appointed general
agent of the Great Central system, the
name by which the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton and Dayton and the Pere Marquette
hereafter will be known. He will dis
charge the duties heretofore performed
by Mr.. Brooks.
= The appointment of the following ex-
ecutive committee was the first bust
ness transacted at the closing session of
in St. Louis E. P. Bacon, Milwaukee;
c. H. Seybt, st. Louis: r. S. Lyons,
Chicago: William Larrabee, Claremont,
Iowa: J. E. Howard, Wichita, Kan:
r. w. Higbie. New York City; w. Nc
Kenzie, Trinidad, Colo; S. H. Collins,
Fort Worth, Texas; H. B. Loveland of
San Francisco.