The San Francisco call., 1910-01-13

geles this week?
Inquiry in the Erie office for Colby
brings forth the answer that he is in
Los Angeles. Ritchie of the North
western is out of the city-probably at
Los Angeles. ". F. Schmidt of the
Missouri Pacific will leave this evening
for the scene of the aviation meet.
Booth is out of the city. They are all
after business in Los Angeles.
1T isn't because of the dying ma
chimes, said one general agent yester-
| day, but because there is an unusual
amount of business down there.
However, the question along the
row" is, Going to Los Angeles?"
| George Nave, contracting freight
agent of the Northwestern in this city,
| has received the appointment of con-
/! tracting freight agent of the Western
( Pacific. This is the first appointment
announced by the freight department Of
this new road.
Otto Cornelisen. general superin-
tendent of the Chicago Great Western,
announced his resignation yesterday, to
take effect today.
| Henry G. Thompson. agent of the
transcontinental scrip bureau. with Of
| fees in the Flood building, this city,
| died at his home in Oakland Tuesday
night His affiiction was asthma.
Thompson was born in Culpepper. Va,
January 10, 1854. After completing his
school education he became connected
with the Texas Pacific railway. He
was chief clerk to the traffic manager
of the Santa Fe for some years and
later became general passenger agent
| of the Santa Fe at Galveston and at
Los Angeles. He was agent for the
scrip bureau for the last four years. He
| leaves a wife and daughter The fu-
! neral will take place this morning at
Oakland.
]. NJ. Duekworth, city passenger
agent of the Santa Fe, left yesterday on
the steamer Hilonian for Honolulu. On
his way to the pier he stopped in at the
Santa Fe Office and while he was con-
ferring with Assistant General Passen-
ger Agent Gregory several "steerage'
pastors were stuck upon his suitcase.
At the pier Duckworth couldn't find
cabin boy who would carry his grips
aboard and it wasn't until the steamer
was passing through the Golden gate
that he discovered the stickers and
found out why the grips were taken
aboard by a deckhand instead of the
cabin boy.
Freight tinte table No. 1 of the West
ern Pacific goes into effect today The
table is only for the western division
and gives the time of the daily freight
train that leaves this city every morn
ing at Sis, arriving at Gerlaeh, the
division terminal, IN As hours.
The Salt Lake line between Los An
geles and San Bernardino was opened
for business yesterday and things are
beginning to look brighter for the
Clark road. through train over its
own tracks from Los Angeles to Gold
field will probably be placed in opera
tion in a few days. The first detoured
extra left Salt Lake City yesterday,
via Nina and Las Vegas.
G. Fred Herr, the recently appointed
general agent of the Denver and Rio
Grande and the Western Pacific, at Los
Considerable interest is being taken
by raiIroadmen IN a device which has
been perfected by ar eastern man. de-
signed to enable the engineer of an
approaching locomotive to open or
close a switch at his will. controlling
the action entirely from the cab, doing
men or the delay often resulting from
waiting for the throwing of a switch.
The device is simple in construction,
consisting of a system of levers placed
in a pit between the rails and operated
by projections from the locomotive. a
lever adjacent to the right hand rail
is double, carrying counter weight
and hook. which in its normal posi-
ton, is he'ow the level of the rail sur
face Upon the approach of n train
about to enter the siding a projection
on the side of the locomotive is made
to engage a small vertical road beside
the track which operates to throw the
hook above the surface of the rail.
Then, upon the advance of the loco
motive, the sar1e projection engages
the hook, pulls it forward and throws
the switch, when "a stationary block
in the path of the lever causes the
disengagement of the lever hook from
the projection on the side of the loco
motive, and the hook returns to it's
normal position below the rail and out
of the way of the newt locomotive. the
switch being locked in position by the
counter weight.
When the right lever is carried in
one direction to open the switch an
other lever at the left hand rail is
carr led in the opposite direction. should
another locomotive approach and the
engineer wish to keep to the main
track he may cause 4 projection on the
left of his engine to depress the ver-
tical rod at the left, raising the left
hand hook and pulling it forward to
close the switch.
Reasons Why is tho title of a new
.older issued by the Baltimore and
Ohio, which gives history of the
road from it's inception. The story
perhaps, may be old TO some. but it is
new to the generations which have
taken up the books their fathers have
laid down. The Baltimore and Ohio
was the first railroad In America, and
therefore has a most interesting tale
to relate of an educational character
The leading historical and geographical
facts have been carefully compiled and
are presented in a condensed form