Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-28
RAILROAD NEWS

T. X. Statelar, general agent of the
passenger department of the Northern
Pacific railroad, with headquarters at
San Francisco, Is in the city on business.
w. H. Davenport, general agent of the
Colorado Midland, with headquarters at
San Francisco, is visiting his many
friends on railroad row.
J. II. Lyman, general agent Of the Chi
cago Great Western, with headquarters
at San Francisco. is here on a business
trip.
Phil p. Hitchcock, general sgent Of the
passenger department Of the Wabash at
Denver, left the service of that road and
will be associated with the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing company in the Colorado
district Mr.. Hitchcock is one Of the best
known railroad men In the United States
and his many friend will be glad to learn
of his advancement.
c. e. Johnson, district passenger agent
of the Northern Pacific railroad, has been
i'll at his home for the last few days, but
is expected to be able to resume his du-
ties in day or two.
T. 8. Brown of the local Rock Island
ticket office, passed Christmas at San
Diego.
Orders were received yesterday from st.
Paul by j. w. Phalon, travelling freight
and passenger agent of the Northern Pa
cifc railroad, to close the office here and
go to San Francisco. Mr.. Phalon's pres
ent district is that south of Tehachapi,
but after January l. the date on which
the orders are effective, his district will
be the entire state.
D. Bowes has been appointed chief as
sistant general passenger agent of the
Salt Lake road. He will assume his new
duties January 1 and will maintain head
quarters in st. Louis.
j. A. Stewart has been appointed to a
similar position with headquarters at
Kansas City, vice ]. c. Lovrien, who as
sumes the duties OF general travelling pas
senger agent with headquarters at Chi
cago.
J. s. McNally has been appointed dis
trict passenger agent Of the Salt Lake
road His new duties will begin January
1 His headquarters will be at Oklahoma
City.
C. E. Bascom has been appointed travel
ing passenger agent Of the Salt Lake
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City. He relieves D. C. Harrington, who
has been transferred
J. N. Stroud has been appointed travel
ing passenger agent of the Salt Lake road
and will have headquarters at Kansas
City.
The weekly refrigerator car service of
the Tonopah & Tidewater railroad has
proved a great success. The road sends
out a refrigerator car every Tuesday, and
this week the car was loaded to the limit.
General Passenger Agent Peck of the
Salt Lake road Is the proud possessor OF
a woven grass water bottle made by an
old Piute Indian woman and presented
him by a Denver friend. The bottle Is an
exceptionally fine specimen of the weav-
er's art.
e. Belasco, minister of railroads for
Mexico, whose official duties are similar
to those of the Interstate commerce COM
mission In this country, arrived In Los
Angeles yesterday, and with his family Is
quartered at the Westminster hotel They
will remain for several months.
Mr.. Belasco is here for the purpose of
investigating traffic conditions and meth
| ods. Yesterday he visited Alpine tavern
| as the guest of Joseph Mcmillan, man
ager, and Thomas McCaffery, master of
transportation of the Pacific Electric
The formal opening of the extension Of
the Pacific Electric line to Glendora will
take place today and will be attended by
a celebration by residents of Glendora,
members of the Los Angeles and Pasa-
dena chambers of commerce and the Of
flcials of the line.
Special cars will leave Los Angeles at
10 o'clock this morning, arriving at Glen
dora an hour later.
More than seventy-ive members of the
Los Angeles chamber of commerce and
delegation of about fifty members of the
Pasadena organization are expected to at
tend the ceremony.
Among the Glendora extension improve
ments, Is the great reinforced concrete
bridge which spans the San Gabriel river
This bridge is more than thousand rect
in length and has twenty 50-foot spans.
Glendora is twenty-five and half miles
from Los Angeles and the present running
time is little over an hour
The associated jobbers of Los Angeles
are planning to open traffic bureau soon
after the first of the New Year. IL is pro-
posed to employ an experienced railroad
traffic man, who will look after the inter-
ests of the association and take up with
the railroads in regular order the indi-
vidual CLANS of the members and en-
deavor to obtain equitable rates for Los
Angeles in competition with other jobbing
centers.
The produce exchange and other organi-
zations of merchants will take an active
interest in the traffic bureau.
II. johnson, sales manager OF the "a
cific Creamery company, addressed the
members at a special meeting OF the pro
duce exchange yesterday morning. He
laid particular stress on the fact that tne
rate from San Francisco to Arizona
points was the same as from Los Angeles
on many commodities, notwithstanding
the fact that the distance from San Fran
cisco Is 483 miles longer.
According to local traffic men there Is