The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
PAUL SHOUP wins
HIGH PRFFfRMfNT
Resigns to Accept Newly Great
ed Office Under Direction of
William F. Herrin
Frank E. Batturs VIII Succeed
to Position as Assistant Gem
eral Passenger Agent

We'll earned and substantial prefer
ment has come to Paul Shoup, one of
the ablest and most successful men
of e. II. Harriman's railroad stan in
California. At the first of the year he
will quit the Southern Pacific passenger
department and will thereafter give
him time and energy to the conduct
of Harriman's large and diverse in
terests in California not directly re-
lated to the Southern Pacific Though
Shoup will be subordinate only to Will
liam E. Herrin, chief of the Southern
Pacific law department., he will have
nothing whatever to do with the legal
or political affairs of the Southern Pa
cifc. No title has been fitted to his
new post as yet, nor indeed has the
scope of his duties been clearly de-
fined. His Office viii be on the eighth
floor of the Flood building.
SUCCEEDED BY BATTURS
Shoup will be succeeded by +. E. Bat
turs. at present general passenger
agent of Morgan's Louisiana and Texas
railroad and steamship company, a
Hartman property
Shoup entered the service of the
Southern Pacific in 1891 as clerk in
the office at San Bernardino. His abiI-
ity was so marked sthat when the little
narrow gauge road between Riverside
and San Bernardino went into the
tically in charge and it was the first
time in the history of, that line that it
showed the ability to pay its way.
While the young railroadman was
working double shifts at railroadng
he employed his time at night coach
ing young men in mathematics, and
whenever he could find spare time
wrote short stories for the eastern
magazines, (which were accepted eager
ly. 1t is said by those who should
know that if Shoup had devoted his
time to literature he would have made
a great success as novelist.
From San Bernardino Shoup came to
San Francisco and entered the passen-
ger department of the Southern Pacific.
1t was owing to him that the various
primers on pruneS and other fruits
were printed by the hundreds of thou
sands and distributed through the east
by. the Southern Pacific.
PROMOTION SOON CAME
Promotion came quickly and he was
sent to San Jose as district freight and
passenger agent. He was there for a
few years and made so great reputa-
tion for himself that he was offered
the presidency of one of the Garden
Citys leading banks. He then went to
Portland, when ]. c. Stubs decided
that the freight department wanted
stiffening in the northwest.
One week before the fire he was ap-
pointed to his present position. He
has done much toward advertising
California in the east apd has been
frequently spoken of as one of the best
friends California has in the railroad
company
Frank Z. Batturs. Shoup's successor.
has been trained in the Southern Pacific.
He is Californian by birth. SO years
old and is noted for his happy DISPOSE
tion. He is always smiling and has
the faculty of making and keeping
friends. His ability attracted the at
tention of f. o. Mccormick, who is
always kindly disposed to young men.
and Batturs got his first chance at a
meeting Of passengermen in the east.
He acquitted himself so well that he
was shortly afterward promoted to be
general passenger agent of the line he
is with now, with headquarters in New
Orleans.