The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-09-23
Gossip Of RaiIwaymen

He annual meeting of the Cali
fornia Association of Traffic
Agents will be- held at the Sea
Beach hotel, Santa Cruz. Saturday and
Sunday, September 25 and IS. and al
ready the local men have begun to
make their arrangements. The San
Francisco members Will leave the
Third and Townsend depot at O'Clock
Saturday afternoon on a special train.
Besides the usual amount of routine
business that Is to be attended to there
will be the election of officers, then
there will be dance, several suppers
and. according to several railroadmen
given to that sort of thing. joy rides.
The party will have exclusive use of
the Sea Beach hotel, but owing to the
closed season meals will be served at
another hostelry farther up town.
More than 100 San Francisco traffic Of
ficers will leave on the special.
The outgoing officers of the associa-
ton are:
Edward H. Torpey, F. ]. Harrington,
Charles N. Fisher. 81. E. Jarman.
George g. Fraser, v. NJ Smith. Warren
f. Hoiten and F. w. Prince.
The San Pedro. Los Angeles and Salt
Lake. road has secured Offices at $50
Market street and after October 1 will
belong to the ground floor" aggrega-
ton.
The first work to be done by the
Northwestern Pacific, according to A.
<t<ax. IF
a tunnel near the end of the present
line. just above Willets. 1t is expected
that work will be started within the
next few weeks, but no actual word
to that effect has been received in
this city.
1t is reported that three railway
schools are to be established In Mexico
with the approval and partly under
the auspices of the National railways
of Mexico. The purpose is to give the
students thorough grounding in the
fundamentals of mechanics, train
handling and locomotive operation
The members of the Transportation
club are looking forward to pleasant
evening to be held in the clubrooms in
the Flood building early in October.
The clubs smokers have always been
a success and the entertainment COM
mittee, composed of Billy" Webster
and Bode Smith, has assured the MEM
bership that the coming entertainment
VIII far surpass any of the former
ones. both in quality and quantity.
1t is estimated that the damage to
the railways of Mexico from the recent
floods has amounted to 100000. On
the Monterey Matamoras line more
than 100 miles of track and is bridges
are reported to have been washed
away.
w. B. Storey .Jr., chief engineer of
the Santa Fe at Chicago. has been
elected vice president. in charge of
construction, and w. E. Hodges. gen.
eral purchasing agent at Chicago, has
been elected vice president in charge
of purchases and stores, both with Of
fees at Chicago. These promotions are
effective October l. The present sys-
tenn of designating the vice presidents
as second, third and fourth will be
discontinued, and they will hereafter
be distinguished by the departments
over which they have Jurisdiction.
Information, not confirmed, has
drifted around railroad row to the eff
feet that preliminary surveys are be-
ing made for a line from Eureka, east
to upper Sacramento valley, at or near
Redding or Red Bluff, a distance of
about 125 miles
E. A. Hornbeek, general manager of
the San Diego. Cuyamaca and Eastern.
has been appointed general manager
of the San Diego and Cuyamaca, with
Office, at San Diego. This company has
bought all the property of the San
Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern.
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One hundred and twenty-three auto
mobiles were recently shipped in one
trainload from Detroit to Minneapolis.
The shipment required Al 36 foot cars,
three automobiles to a car.