The San Francisco call., 1906-10-31
Gossip of Doings of
Railroad Men.

fnlI h- Goruon, general agent OF the
Washington-S Sunset Route. says that his
company is to inaugurate something
new in tourist cars, and that it has
placed with the Pullman people an or
der for several fourteen section tour
list cars with smoking rooms. These
cars are to be run between here
and Washington City and will be
ready for use by the middle of No
vember. They promise to be popular
with the public, as heretofore when
ever q man who travelled in a tourist
car wanted to smoke he had to go
into one of the day coaches.
resident engineer of the western di-
vision Of the Southern Pacific. He was
formerly on the coast division. Drake
takes the place made vacant by the
death of G. NJ. Farley, who was acct
dentally killed at Nixon several weeks
ago when on an inspection trip.
w. H Phelps, who was assistant
resident engineer on the coast division
of the Southern Pacific, has been pro-
NOTED to resident engineer of the same
division, taking the place of r. M.
Drake. His appointment is effective
on the first of November
E. Q. Mccormick, assistant traffic
director of the Hartman lines, is ex-
pected to arrive in this city today.
1t is said that he has been with Gen
eral Superintendent r. H. Ingram
through the Imperial country and that
is the reason of his delay in coming
north.
C. W. Hibbard, special agent of the
Southern Pacific in Los Angeles, has
been on visit to the city.
F. NJ. Thompson of the Rock Island
has returned from his trip to the
southern part of the State.
r. A. Murray, city passenger agent of
the Great Northern has received notice
from his head Office that the Great
Northern has arranged for an accom-
modation train to be run daily between
Spokane and st. Paul This will give
some idea of the business that has
lately developed in that country" he
said when speaking about the North
west. This gives four daily trains
passing through Spokane to st. Paul.
This accommodation train is really
local. as it will stop at every spur and
crossing. 1t will consume two and
ne-haif days time. The distance is
longest local run in the world"
c. NJ. Knox. commercial agent of the
Southern Pacific at Santa Ana, is on
a visit to the city. Knox says that
Orange County is going ahead wonder
fully and can lay claim to being the
banner county of the State. The grow
ers there expect to ship 300 cars of
celery out of Santa Ana this season.
j. A. Munroe,' freight traffic manager
of the Union Pacific, is expected to
arrive in this city next Friday.
s. F. Booth of the Union Pacific left
yesterday for Nevada.
President w r. Alberger and Vice
President Phil K Gordon of the Trans
portation Club. are busy making the
necessary arrangements for moving
into the Flood building. The club will
occupy rooms on the mezzanine floor,
facing Market and Powell streets. 1t
is to have room reserved for the
members in the restaurant which is to
be run on the ground floor. The men,
bers expect to be in their new quar-
ters about the middle of December or
about the same time as the different
railroad offices will be leaving the
ferry building.
Bode K Smith, travelling passenger
agent of the Gould lines, was in Fresno
recently and while there he attended
night in honor of Gillett. Smith says
the Republicans of the county are
betting that Fresno will give a Repub-
lican majority of 100.
The passenger department of the
Southern Pacific announces that it will
make roundtrip rates to Denver to the
American National Livestock Associa-
tion and Western Livestock Show
which is to be held in Denver from
January 81 to 26. The rate will be s55,
and the date of sale will be on jan
uary II and Is and limited to February
10. The early date of sale is to enable
people to attend a meeting of the wool
growers. whose convention is called for
January II and IS.
F. L. Donahoo. Southern Pacific ticket
and freight agent at San Jose, was in
the city yesterday
r. B. Torbert, of the passenger de-
partment of the Pennsylvania system
in Washing gton City. has been on a tour
of the coast and left for Portland last
night.
W. S. Palmer, general superintendent
of the northern division of the South
ern Pacific, is on a tour of inspection
and is accompanied by T. r. Jones'
superintendent of the Sacramento di-
vision, and Thomas Ahern, assistant
division superintendent at Dunsmuir.
w. Wilde of the Union Pacific has
the management of the As
toria office of ]. Lindenberger & Co.
foreign fish packers. The headquarters
of the company are in Berlin. The
concern has packing houses at Black
Diamond, Eureka, on Puget Sound and
in Alaska. It's largest plant is at As
toria.
NJ. c. Junlzins has not resigned from
the Ell Paso Southwestern. as was re-
ported, but will remain with the COM
pany. =.
T. M. Schumacher, traffic manager
for the Ell Paso Southwestern and all
the Dodge interests in the Southwest,
says that Arizona is as yet in its
infancy as far as its mineral interests
are concerned. His road does on enor-
nous business with the coal mines in
the northern part of Mexico and with
the big copper mines in southern Ari-
zona. Schumacher says 1t is not a