The San Francisco call., 1909-06-24

I EI HAVE made up my mind and
nothing will shake my resolu-
ton" said E. Black Ryan yester-
day. "It is as the laws of the Medes
and the Persians, irrevocable."
Now, Black" observed Charley
Wilder, fresh from the professional at
tentions of lady manicure on the first
floor of the building, don't be rash"
Come with me. and in the pres
ence of witnesses, pledged in glass
of buttermflk. 1 viii repeat what I
say"
Il solemnly vow" began E. Black,
that l will never resign again. Never
as long as 1 live. What is the use?
My work has doubled, my correspond
euce has grown, and Jere Burke has
the title, while I have the labor"
Queer" said John Augustus Gill, who
overheard the vow, what a difference
there is in working for a Hartman
line and the New York Central Ie re-
sign on the 1st of July, and, by gosh.
they take me at my word, and 1 stay
resigned.
Now that the Western Pacific has
announced that it will be able to oper-
ate trains by the middle of October
from here TO Salt Lake City rumor is
rife as to what are the intentions of
that organization regarding operatin z
traffic forces. This much is known, the
Western Pacific will be run as an ex-
tension of the Denver and Rio Grande.
Therefore, it will be operated from
Denver, but it is asserted that there
will have to be an Office force here,
with a traffic official in charge with a
commanding title.
! It is said that ". J. Shotweu. who
| is g director of the Western Pacific
will have general supervision over
traffic matters, and that F. A. Wad-
| leigh, now assistant general passenger
agent of the Denver and Rio Grande,
with headquarters at Denver, will be
sent out here as general passenger
agent of the Western Pacific 1t il
| further rumored that there will be a
change in the agency of the Gould
/ lines In this city, and that they will
be kept distinct from the offices of the
Western Pacific. Naturally, as the
Western Pacific is an extension of the
Denver and Rio Grande there will be
no agency on this coast of the Denver
and Rio Grande, but an agency of the
Missouri Pacific will have to be main
tanned.
1t is also said that the city passen-
ger Office of the Western Pacific will
be in the Palace hotel, and there is
1
/ to whether the Western Pacific will
make overtures to some of the bright
minds who are always willing to make
change, whether for better or worse
The engineering force of the Western
Pacific expects that after September
there will be no use for it's services
while there are some who insist that
the Gould people have something W
their sleeve and that branch lines are
/ rr-t,
look upon this as chimerical. and build
no hopes on the construction of branch
lines.
! George de Haven OF the Chicago Of
/ fee of the Hartman lines is in the
city on company business. De Haven is
author of the phrase well known To
every railroadman. Michigan is a
great state
| Twenty odd years ago he was a gen
eraI passenger agent and sent out
thousands of circular letters to agents
! all over the country booming the re-
sorts of Michigan and closed every let
ter with the words, Michigan is q
great state"
'I believe in advertising and adver-
Using is as necessary to any railroad
as are good rails and good roadbed.
said the veteran railroadman.
There is general roundup OF
freightmen from the southwest. and a
meeting is being held in the office OF
n. A. Jones, freight traffic manager of
the Southern Pacific. regarding a Joint
| tariff fer this territory. Among those
who were at the conference yesterday Y
we're T. NJ. schumacher. traffic man
szer of the FL Paso Southwestern: a
n. Brown, general freight and passen-
ger agent of the same road; Edward
Chambers of the Santa Fe; W. G. Barn
well. general freight agent of the
Santa Fe; P. P. Hastings, general