The San Francisco call., 1906-12-19
Gossip Of the Doings
of Railroad Men

e. L. Lomax. general passenger agent
of the Union Pacific. has notified s. F.
Booth, general passenger agent of the
same line In this city, that on jan
uary l train porter service will be in
augurated on trains 8. 4, and g..
These porters will have number Of
duties, chief OF which will be the care
of coaches and chair cars. They Will
be required to keep the cars In a clean
and tidy condition, look after ventila-
tion and lights and assist passengers
on and off the coaches. They will be
expected to perform any special duty
assigned them by the train conductor
in the interest of train service and look
after the comfort of passengers gen.
orally.
1t is reported in railroad freight cir
cles that both the Southern Pacific and
Santa Fe will in future bring west cars
measuring as much as fifty feet in
length. Up to the present time neither
railroad has brought west of Ogden
and Albuquerque cars longer than
forty-two feet. The contemplated
change is said to be due to the fact
of their tunnels so that larger cars can
be handled.
Frederick Stocker. general agent Of
the Traders Despatch, has returned to
the city after an extended trip through
the southern part of the State
F. w. Thompson, general agent of the
Rock Island. is back from trip
through the Northwest. THE pros
perity of that country is amazing" he
observed yesterday. Take Spokane
for example. 1t is going ahead mar
al IT,, Ta
Occur d'Alene mines have helped its
growth. There is an enormous build
ing boom in Seattle and also in Port
land. and the new structures are fine
steel buildings which would be credit
to any city in the country.
"Oh. yes, the people in the North are
suffering from car shortage. Lum-
bermen are complaining. The shingle
mills in Washington closed down on
December Is, under what is known as
the 'gentlemen's agreement until Feb
ruary 1S This was thought advisable
In view of the large quantity of lum-
Der products on hand, and this action
was mainly due to the fact that the
transportation companies could not
handle the product"
William McMurray, general passen-
ger agent of the Hartman lines in Ore
6Oi, with ucduqudTleTS III fOIllduos say .
the building boom has struck that city
and that very good structures are being
torn down to make room for more
modern ones. McMurray left last night
for home
p. A. Ziegenfuss. travelling passenger
agent OF the Rock Island has been on
an extended tour of the southern coun-
ties and reports a big westbound pas
senger business. Ss
e. M. Pomeroy, Pacific Coast freight
agent of the Starr-Union line. returned
last Monday night from Salt Lake City,
where he had been to attend a meeting
regarding the redistribution Of the
freight territory of his road
J. w. McClymonds, general agent of
the Armour car lines. has returned af-
ter trip of 5000 miles for cars. In
speking of the car situation yesterday
McCiymonds said: II rounded up about
1000 cars and there need be no appre-
hension on the part of orange ship
pers as to shortage. There are on
the way from the Missouri River to
Ogden and Ell Paso 1000 cars. About
100 are being received daily at Ogden
and from forty to fifty at Ell Paso.
c. r. Robinson of the passenger de-
partment of the Southern Pacific and
his bride left last night for a visit to
the City of Mexico