The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-27
Gossip Of RaiIWaymen


The smallest claim for reparation
ever fled with the interstate commerce
commission has been recently presented
by the Tyson & Jones buggy company
OF Carthage, N. c.
Twenty cents is the amount involved
and six railroads. the Central of
Georgia, the Philadelphia and Reading,
the Cumberland Valley, the Norfolk and
Western, the Southern and the Aber-
deem and Asheborn. are made defend
ants. The brief consists of six pages
OF legal cap, in which all the facts are
set forth at great length. In Decem-
Der, 1907, the complaint AYERS, the firm
ordered some iron axies from Wilkes
barre, Pa. The rate charged was 81
cents for 100 pounds on the shipment,
which weighed about 1000 pounds
+, A. H. Mofitt. travelling and passenger
agent of the Erie railroad returned
yesterday from trip over the Erie
lines. 1t was his first trip over the en-
tire line, and he says he is now pre-
pared to talk for hours on the benefits
to be derived by travelling over the
| Erie.
The passenger department of the
Northern Pacific has recently issued
new publication GATED Pacific Coast
resorts, which is a valuable asset to
that department. The pamphlet con-
tains so pages of interesting facts and
attractive pictures and a short history
of the early expeditions into the north
coast territory and of it's later develop
men are included.
The Denver and Rio Grande is soon
TO begin work on $4,000 passenger
station at Canyon City, Colo.
The Northern Pacific is planning to
erect brick passenger station at Che
halls, and to convert the present struc-
ture into a freight house.
Plans are said to have been made to
build line from Ravinia. ILL.,. on the
Milwaukee line of the Chicago and
Northwestern near Highland track.
westerly via the wisconsin division at
Desplaines, thence to the Galena di-
vision, probably near Oak Park or at
Proviso yards. This will furnish the
company an Independent route without
using the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern or
Inner Belt line.
J. T. McGaughey, general agent.
freight department of the Great North
ern, at Minneapolis, has been appointed
an assistant general freight and pas
senger agent, with Offices at Helena,
Mont
The fifty-fourth annual convention
of the American Association of Cen
eral Passenger and Ticket Agents will
be held at the Hotel Secor, Toledo. O..
September II. The following are the
principal items of business on the
program:
Report from the standing committee
on association ticket paper; arrange
ment of printed matter on coupons Of
interline tickets; uniformity in prepaid
ticket orders; improved style of dating
stamp; ticketing special baggage cars
for interline movements: report from
standing joint committee of the Gen
eral Passenger and Ticket Agents and
the accounting officers; report from
committee on standard ticket contracts:
reports from cooperating associations.
accounting officers, general baggage
agents and others; adoption OF stand
ard coiors in the printing of interIine
tickets, and election of president, vice
president and secretary.
George A. Cullen. general passenger
agent of the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western. will deliver the annual
address.
A meeting of the fraternal society
will follow the business sessions.
William Connolly, assistant superin-
tendent of the Oregon railroad and
| hcN . 1liOH company at 1OIlldnQ. mas
been appointed superintendent of the
Washington division, with office at
Spokane, succeeding Thomas Walsh.
resigned. ]. d. Matheson. train master
at La Grande. succeeds Connolly.
One of the largest colonization
schemes ever promulgated by a rail-
road company will soon be started bv
the Union Pacific. Just what portion
of the state has been settled on by the
colonization officials of the road has
not been stated, but it is said that the
San Joaquin valley will be among those
to be boosted.
The statistics of the Immigration
bureau of the Western passenger asso-
citation show that during the first six
months of 1909 the number of imm;-
grants arriving from Europe was 44a.-
373, as compared with 1Ss,410 during
the same period last year, an Increase
of 241 per cent. OF the arrivals 43o.-
SIS were aliens.
H w. Adams, traffic manager of the
Pioneer fruit company. is in San Fran
cisco on business for his company.