The San Francisco call., 1909-11-24
&c. A. PEABODY IS
| NAMED DIRECTOR
Succeeds E. H. Hartman on
Board of the Erie
Railroad

directors of the Erie rallroad IN new
York yesterday.
John C. Stuart. general manager,
was promoted to vice president. in
charge of the operating. maintenance
of mechanical departments The
present executive officers were re-
elected.
Peabody was also elected a director
of the New York. Susquehanna and
western railroad to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Hartman. and
an executive committee composed OF
Peabody. President Underwood, Norman
B. Ream, L. F. Loreen. j. McCulloch
and G. A Richardson were appointed
William F. Schmidt, general agent OF
the Missouri Pacific, recently received
letter from the manager of the Ger
man land colony at Chicago stating
that colony of Germans had been es-
tablished at Higgins, No, and request
ing Schmidt's influence toward securing
better train service. Accompanying
the letter was clipping from the
newspaper of the city of Higgins. in
which it was advocated that the name
of the town be changed to Schlenker.
Superintendent Murphy objects to
the change" the article closes. Schmidt
forwarded the letter to the general of
fees of the company and wrote that
as his name was Schmidt he had no
objection to change to the name Of
Schlenker. H. r. Higgins. agent of the
Southern railway, heard of the appli-
cation for change of name and has
filed his objections.
The average railroad wage scale is
up to that of the fiscal year 1907. which
was a high record as to number of men.
employed and amount of competition.
The Improvement has occurred since
last June, as the year ended June 80,
1909. was much below that of 1907 and
a little less than that of 1908.
About the end of the present month
the complete inventory of the Penn
sylvania railroad will be finished. The
inventory was ordered about two
weeks ago.
! The New Haven has placed orders for
telephone and selector apparatus for
equipping the Northampton division
for telephone train dispatching. This
will be the first circuit so equipped on
the New Haven road and covers total
of "a miles, with % stations.
G. w. Colby. general agent of tie
Great Northern in this city. returned
yesterday from trip to Los Angeles.
w. R. Crow, general manager of the
freight department of the Erie railroad.
arrived in this city last night with c.
w. Colby, general Pacific coast agent
of the company. Crow is registered at
the Stewart.
The Chicago demurrage bureau re-
ports 274,ss5- cars handled last month.
against 2so,7O4 in the previous month.
and 226,477 a year ago. This is a new
high record.
What are the rates to Portland?'
asked a youth about 10 years old, as
he entered the) Union Pacific Offices
yesterday
What kind of rates?" asked Bob"
Lynas DO you want to ship some
thing or go yourself?"
Il want to go myself" answered the
boy He was directed to the passenger
department of the Southern Pacific. but
returned in a few minutes and asked
the freight rates.
Their charges are too high" he
said. "Y6u better let me have the
freight rates, mebbe they're cheaper"
Evidently the roads that advanced
freight rates from Galveston to Denver
last summer and have met with such |
vigorous opposition to the same
through the efforts of George ]. Kindel |
of Denver are not anxious for an in
vestigation by the interstate commerce
commission in response to a complaint
filed by Kindel and the Southern Ship
pers' traffic association.
They have decided to restore in so
days the old rate of $3.50. which was
raised to s2.O5. 1t is assumed that by
doing this they will remove all cause
for complaint and head off any prospec-
1--WE inquiry
Max A. Podlech, cashier in the local
office of the Santa Fe. who has been
spending his vacation-and money-in |
New York, is expected back Friday |
morning.
The $4,000 barrel oil reservoirs of
the Santa Fe at Needles and at Flag
staff. Ariz.. are to be lined with con-
crete. entailing an expenditure of ap-
proximately $500 each.
Delegations from 10 chambers of |
commerce and boards of trade of east
ern cities met in New York yesterday
to consider the new freight rates pro-
posed by railroads of the northwest as
a result of the famous Spokane rate
decision.
A committee was appointed to re-
port on a plan for the creation of
central traffic bureau to protect the in
terests of the east.
Commercial organizations of that
territory have already intervened in