The San Francisco call., 1910-01-18
Gossip of RalIwaymen

Jules CLERFAYT witnessed the
aviation meet at Los Angeles last
~ Saturday. He was accompanied by
L. ]. Garcey, general agent of the In
ternational sleeping car company and
of several steamship companies. Before
he went out to the field he called on
newspaper friend and secured a letter
of introduction to the promoters of the
meet
The letter introduced Clerfayt as the
owner of about 20 steamship companies
and while other railroadmen were
hanging around the gates longing to
get into the field and inspect the BIZ
planes Clerfayt and Garcey were being
treated as prospective purchasers of
several machines.
city of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
left last night for a trip through the
Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.
The Southern Pacific has added four
fine freight ships to the New York, New
Orleans, Galveston and Cuban trade,
and the vessels which are now being
constructed will make their appearance
during the coming summer. They are
all of the following pattern: 40 feet
long, SO feet beam, SO feet deep, 500
tonnage, and are to be named FL Sol,
El Occidente, El Mundo and Ell Oriente
With the addition of the four freighters
the Southern Pacific fleet will number
% vessels.
Eugene Fox, general freight and pas
senger agent of the FL Paso and South
western, with office at Ell Paso, is in the
city on business.
Virgil c. Bogue, who will retire in a
few weeks as chief engineer of the
Western Pacific, was yesterday pre-
sented with beautiful silver loving
cup by the citizens of Marysville. The
presentation of the cup to Bogue was a
genuine surprise and when he was told
that a delegation of Marysville citizens
wished to see him he went into his
outer office in his usual felicitious man
ner to receive them.
The cup was presented to him after
few appropriate remarks by the chair
man of the delegation, in which Bogue
was complimented upon his successful
completion of the new road and remind
ed of the pleasant relations that have
existed between the citizens of Marys-
vile and the Western Pacific officials
during the building of the road
Bogue will leave for Los Angeles in
friends, after which he will return to
this city and complete his work with
the Western Pacific.
The San Diego, Ell Paso and ST.
Louis of Texas and New Mexico when
originally chartered was to run be-
tween Ell Paso and Artesia, N. NJ. 1907
miles, crossing the Guadalupe range of
mountains at the lowest elevation of
o. n
1t is now proposed to build an exten-
sion, which, If carried out, will make
this projected line the shortest running
through Texas and of immense value
to the country between the present
lines of the Santa Fe and the Texas and
Pacific. Connection is to be made with
the Frisco route either at Quanah in
Hardeman county or at Vernon in Will
barger county, and as contemplated the
line will be 500 miles to Quanah or $50
miles to Vernon.
II. E. Lounsbury, formerly agent of
the Oregon railroad and navigation
company at Portland, has been appoint
ed district freight agent of the South
ern Pacific lines with headquarters at
Portland.
Claud Stockham, travelling passenger
agent of the Union Pacific with office at
Omaha, is in the city on tour of the
coast. He is accompanied by his wife
Under new law all roads entering
Arkansas are compelled to provide hos
pital accommodations in the state for
persons injured on their respective
lines. This must be done even though
the individuals are in the vicinity of a
similar institution in another state.
improvements planned for 1910 on
the Colorado and Southern will mean
an expenditure of 100000 in the signal
service alone. Block signals will be
used from Denver through to Fort
Worth, Tex.
The Union Pacific wants to enlarge
the Union depot in Omaha, but other
roads interested in the proposition hest
tate and are reluctant to assent to an
expenditure of 100000 for this purpose.
as they would have to pay their share.
In fact, more than one-third of them
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