The San Francisco call., 1906-11-16
Gossip Of Doings of
Railroad Men

oN~DpS AOi many years, pas Deen mace
the general manager o@the Hartman
refrigerator lines, with headquarters
in Chicago. Secrist is at present in
Los Angeles in consultation with AS
Mse,arn,o,. s,sfsns Trafic Manager z, 3..,.st O.
traffic manager of the Union Pa
cihc, and H. A. Jones. freight traf-
&c manager of the Southern Pacific,
relative to the handling of their busi-
ness. The report is that the Hartman
people do not intend to delay the trans
fer of the refrigerator cars from the
Armours, but will take them over
within a few days. so as to enable
them to use the cars for this seasons
orange shipments 1t was said at first
that the transfer would not be made
for some months and that the Harri-
man people would not be able to have
the use of the cars till next year. The
long stay in Los Angeles of E. o. Nc
Cormick is due to the arranging of
the details of the transfer.
J. A. Gill. who attends to the freight
end of the New York Central lines, has
been in Los Angeles on business con-
nected with his company. He returned
yesterday from the southland.
]. H. Pearman. assistant manager of
the Chicago, Union Pacific and North
western tourist department, arrived
here yesterday with a large party
They have been travelling over the
State.
L. C. Sennard, who attends to col
onist business for the Southern Pacific,
is in the San Joaquin Valley looking
into the colonies which have been
lately planted in that section of the
State.
L. H Long of the Southern Pacific,
who has charge of the engineering
work in Arizona and New Mexico and
also in the southern part of the State,
arrived here yesterday to consult with
Chief Engineer Hood on the new work
that is being done in Arizona
w. R. Alberger. trahic manager of
the Key Route and also of the Tide
water and Tonopah Railroad. has re-
turned from a trip to the south, where
he has been to consult as TO the traffic
arrangements of the Tidewater and
Tonopah Railroad with the Santa Fe
into the Greenwater country.
A. ]. Wells of the Southern Pacific
company's literary bureau has been
sent to Arizona to get up a new and
up-to-date handbook on the Territory.
He will be absent three months, trav-
cling over the Southwest.
Grove Ketchum, travelling passenger
agent of the Washington-Sunset route,
with headquarters In Los Angeles, has
been in the city on business connected
with the tourist travel into the south
ern part of the State.
]. Abbott. general manager of the
klamath Lake Railroad, is on visit
to the city.
W. E. Travis, general manager Of
the Oregon Stage Company. with head
quarters at klamath Falls, is in town.
c. R Robinson, chief clerk of H. r.
Judah, assistant general passenger
agent of the Southern Pacific. has been
detailed to accompany special ex-
cursion train to the City of Mexico,
which will leave here on Saturday.
The round trip rate will be $50.
Edward Chambers assistant freight
traffic manager of the Santa Fe, said
yesterday: Mr.. Ripley, our president,
was to have left Bakersfield early this
morning and was to make a daylight
trip through the San Joaquin Valley
If he has not changed his plans he
SAOutu DS III OoAAoHu SOAhS eiaAAS aotS
tonight"
L. Perry has been appointed consult
ing engineer of the railroad which is
being built by the Southern Pacific
from the town of Calexico through the
republic of. Mexico. then along the
banks of the Colorado River TO the
main line of the Southern Pacific near
the Yuma bridge H T. Cory has
charge of the work of construction.
n. r. Martin. district passenger agent
of the Southern Pacific in Los Angeles
is confident that there will be more
travel into the southern part of the
State than there has been for many
years. In speaking of the great citrus
belt, Martin said: This Improvement
particular locality. There is a steady
boom everywhere. New electric lines
are beings planned to open up new
territory, and the Southern Pacific is
also doing a great deal of construction.
The line is being double-tracked to
Burbank in order to accommodate the
increased business that has sprung up
there during the past few years.
The many friends of p Mulvihill,
who was for several years the road
master of the Southern Pacific from
Los Angeles to Yuma, will be glad to
learn that he is now a wealthy man
and has taken long leave of absence
from the service of the company. Null
vihill was one of the best roadmasters
the company ever had. He knew the
desert better than any man, and he
could tell when a cloudburst was COM
ing and used to have a gang of men
ready to fight the flood when it came
He is now living in Los Angeles, hav-
ing become wealthy through land spec
ulations. He was one of the few who
declared that Los Angeles was going
to be big city and followed up his
foresight by investing largely in
realty.