The San Francisco call., 1910-07-06
BACK FROM RENO
CROWD IS SAD
Railroadmen Have No Word
of Killings Made in
Nevada Town

CAD are the tales of the railroadmen
who journeyed to Reno Saturday
and Sunday and who returned to
hard graft yesterday morning. Sad
are their faces and their handshake is
not of the hearty Mccormick variety.
To chronicle the feelings of every rail-
roadman who went to Reno, except
those who really did the work of get
ting the crowds back to the city, would
take columns of newspaper space.
There was not transportation man
at the transportation club yesterday
who Dragged about making a killing.
There were a few who admitted that
they had backed the white man and
lost To mention the names of those
who lost would be rubbing it in pretty
hard. They feel rather badly as it is
E. E. Calvin, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Southern Pacific,
returned yesterday morning from a trip
to Portland.
John T. Bowe has been appointed
general agent of the Denver and Rio
Grande. with Office in Chicago, vice R.
c. Nichol, transferred to New York.
The Wabash handled out of Detroit
few days ago for Chicago, ST. Louis
and other western points, solid train
of 81 carloads of automobiles, drawn
by two powerful locomotives. This is
the heaviest shipment of that character
on record. The development Of the
automobile industry at Detroit is shown
n hat
worth of automobiles were shipped
from that city over different lines east
and west.
e. L. Lomax. passenger traffic man
ager of the Western Pacific, left Mon
day night for the east, where he will
confer with various officials of the
Gould lines relative to the starting of
the Western Pacific passenger busi-
ness. While in the east Lomax will
probably make several appointments
and partly organize his staff of eastern
representatives.
H. M. Adams, freight traffic manager
of the Western Pacific, will leave this
evening for the east on a similar err
rand.
The Northwestern Pacific made a
record for itself Saturday, Sunday and
Monday, selling 42,452 tickets to points
in Marin and Sonoma counties. Two
hundred and twenty-nine automobiles
were taken across on the Northwestern
Pacific boats during the same three
days.
Charles J. Jones. formerly assistant
general freight agent of the Southern
Pacific and president of the Transpor-
tation club. who recently became traf-
fic mana ger of the Guggenheim steam
ships at Seattle. was In the city yes
terday.
c. NJ. Levey. vice president and gem
eral manager of the Western Pacific,
is out on an inspection trip.
The 1910 edition of the Denver and
Rio Grande folder, Natural Resources
which takes in the territory from the
Rocky mountains west to the Pacific
coast, and which Is now being distrib-
uted by the passenger department OF
that road. is not only brought up to
date, but shows also the route and sta
tions of the Western Pacific
G. B. Condor, general agent of the
Chicago and Alton, returned yesterday
from visit to Minneapolis.
Plans being considered by the Bur-
lington involve increases of between
and 10 per cent for unorganized en-
pioyes earning a salary of 5000 a
month or less. The larger part of them
are clerks in the various offices. 1t is
understood that the Burlington now
has about $4,000 employees on it's en-
tire system, and that between so and
20 per cent of them are in organized
labor ranks. The increases, If granted,
will take in every office on the sys-
tenn. 1t is understood that the Burling-
toms action will be followed by similar
action on the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific, which are Hill roads.
and which have fully 100000 employees.
large per cent of whom would be
affected by the increases. Complete
data are being prepared to show the
number of employees who would be af-
fected and as to the extent of the in
crease in the pay roll.