Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-29
Among the
Railways

| ]. n. Baldwin, general attorney OF
the Union Pacific for Nebraska ana
| Iowa, has been appointed general solicit
tor of that road, with headquarters at
| Omaha, Neb., succeeding William X.
Kelly, resigned.
! Alarmed by the rebate examination
being made. Texas railroads Will issue
no more free passes to shippers. Ac-
cording to circulars sent out the public
freight tariffs must be strictly adhered
to by all agents.
The jurisdiction of w. 3. Biddle, third
vice president eof the Chicago Rock
Island & Pacific. has been extended
over the st. Louis & San Francisco and
Chicago & Eastern Illinois. A. $.
Dodge. who has been third vice pres- /
dent of the latter roads, has been ap-
pointed assistant to Mr.. Biddle.
Chicago is now able to show statistics
that it is the greatest live stock market
in the world. In 1905. 16, ,1S0,S41 animals, !
valued at S302000 900, were marketed
there. If it were possible to have all
of these animals lined UP in single file
the line would extend 100000 miles. If
the cars that the animals were shipped
in were made up into one train it would
reach from Chicago to Los Angeles.
William A. Green, 12 Norfolk street, |
Strand, London, Is claimed to be the
only American whose entire time and
energy is devoted to the sale of Amer |
lean railway supplies in foreign coun- |
tries. Mr.. Green was for many years
connected with the Pennsylvania rail-
road and is now sole foreign agent for
several American manufacturers of
railway tools and appliances. He has
already succeeded in getting several
important railways to adopt American
methods and tools.
The Denver, Enid & Gulf having been
acquired by the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe, James n. Young has been
elected president in place of Brecken-
ridge Jones, and James f. Hurley, gen
eral manager Of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe, has been elected first vice
president. Ed l.. Peckham, heretofore
vice president and general manager, !
has been chosen second vice president. |
j. l.. Soule heretofore auditor, has been |
elected secretary, and o. j. Fleming has
been elected treasurer, the latter two
succeeding II. S. Ames, who held the
dual position of secretary and treasurer. |
Headquarters of the company, Enid, |
Okla.
Brakemen Get More Pay
The passenger brakemen of the Rock
Island have been granted the increase
of wages they asked for several weeks
ago. The announcement came in bull |
letin from Chicago. The scale had been |
$3.50 per month for runs aggregating
$500 miles and $1.17 for each extra 100
miles. The scale now is $40 per month
for runs aggregating 5000 miles, with
40 for each 100 miles additional. An
allowance is made for terminal over
time, as before. Conductors in the
passenger service for two years are In
line for freight service.
Santa Fe to Have Short Line
GALVESTON, Tex, Jan. 29.-The
Brownsville, Hidalgo & Northern pro-
ject turns out to be a Santa Fe and not
Frisco-Rock Island proposition, as
originally reported. This puts the
Santa Fe in commanding position in
the southwestern railroad construction
contest. The road will be constructed
northeast from Brownsville to San An
tonic and to Eagle Lake, joining at the
latter point the Cane Belt line of the
Santa Fe. BY this route the Santa Fe
shortens the distance between Chicago
and Kansas City to Mexico nearly 800
miles, instead of via Laredo and the
National lines into Mexico. The Hi
oalgo road will be extended south from
Brownsville along the Rio Grande to
| q point twenty miles below Matamoras.
and will then cross into Mexico. BY this
route the Santa Fe avoids the twenty
mile concession strip granted to the
Mexican Central which extends from
Del Rio to Matamoras.
The Frisco expected to extend its
Brownsville road into Mexico, but was
cut off by this concession territory
The Hidalgo line gives the Santa Fe
short line of its own into San Antonio
and through virgin territory through
which the Frisco is now building with
its Gulf~coast road.
Say Rate War Is Unjust
Local railroad officials say that the
war that is being waged by the Mer-
chants and Traders association, Mer-
chants Protective association, the
League of American Travellers and
other travelling mems associations
against paying $40 on a 1000 mileage
| hook, which is refunded upon the re-
turn of the cover. is unjust.
They say that this rebate was offered
| in the first place to large commercial
wholesale houses who desired to build
up trade In new country and that the
railroads believed that 1t would be BEN
eficial enough to them to allow a re-
duction in the price paid for trans
portation by the travelling statesmen.
The officials say that this rate has
been very much abused and that every
year the demands have been made
stronger, not only by the merchants,
but by the travelling men who do not
have to stand the expense of their own
| travelling.
The stand is taken that people must
be made to sign their names and to re-
| turn the cover or else transportation
that is bought for the sole use of one
| person would be passed around. II the
| people were honest with the railroads,
they would not be compelled to pay the
extra $40.
The railroad companies feel that they
have been very liberal with the people
in allowing them to travel for less than
the legal rate of three cents a mile In
the eastern states and that the nennla