The San Francisco call., 1909-10-29

Y
- York Central lines, was enter
tanning crowd of railroadmen in his
office yesterday and was relating a
story of the prohibition fight in Kan
sas 1t was a short story, but one of
Cranes best.
"A local prohibition candidate in a
small town in Kansas" so the story
goes, .stored lot of prohibition liter
ature in his barn, but accidentally left
the barn door open and a herd of milk
all the pamphlets
well, what happened then?" asked
c. w. Colby of the Erie.
why, every COW in the herd went
dry" said Crane, and Colby paid for
the cigars.
The local car situation, both refrig-
orator and freight, which looked
threatening couple of weeks ago, has
righted itself to a large extent. East
ern deliveries of canned goods ship
ments have been large and the cars
have been promptly returned. How
ever. the threatened shortage is not
over
The transcontinenta1 freight bureau
has issued eastbound tariff No H,
which becomes effective December 6,
superseding tariff No. 3 G, at present
in effect. No changes of any particular
moment have been made excepting to
increase the released valuation on
household goods from s5 per 100
pounds to $40 per 100 pounds. West
bound tariff No. 1 has also been is
sued. taking effect the same date and
superseding tariff No. I.
November the Big Four will inau-
gurate from st. Louis to New York and
Boston. a new train to be known as
| the New York Central limited, af-
fording "a hour service to New York
and 26 hour service to Boston. This
new train has been ordered to COM
pete with the new ''24 hour New
Yorker recently inaugurated by the
Pennsylvania lines. 1t will leave ST.
Louis at S:45 every morning, arriving
at New York at 9:45 a. m. and at Bos-
ton at 1850 a. M.
The California association of traffic
agents has called a meeting of the as
sociation for Saturday evening. Octo-
ber so, for the purpose of discussing
the arrangements for the grand ball to
be held Monday evening, November %.
A modern hospital car has been built
by the Erie and is now being operated
by tflaJ ROAD. Inc car mas Deen pro-
nounced perfect by surgeons and is
1t is lined entirely in white enamel, the
floors being covered with white rubber
tiling. 1t contains ward room with a
capacity of II brass bedsteads and is
absolutely free from vibration
grain car shortage exists in Kan
sas to such an extent that elevator
men and farmers are expressing much
worry 1t is feared that unless the
situation is relieved in a short time
the crops will not move until it is
too late.
C. X. Junkins, general agent of the
Ell Paso and Southern, with office in
the Monadnock building in this city,
has rendered his resignation, to take
effect December l. Announcement has
been made that G. Fred Herr, at pres
ent district passenger agent of the
Union Pacific at Los Angeles, will sue
ceed Junkins.
j. N. Fish. Southern Pacific agent at
Stockton, is in the city on business.
L. W. Landman, general western
agent of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern, with offices at Chicago. who
is also secretary of the travelling pas
senger agents association, will arrive
in San Francisco next Monday.
A. L. Craig, formerly executive head
of the Great Northern passenger de-
partment, has been appointed general
passenger agent of the Chicago Great
western in place OF ]. P. Elmer, re-
signed.
The Southern Pacific has detailed
special representatives to Stockton for
the purpose of making several sets of
motion pictures of the Days of '4s"
carnival. now being held in that city.