The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
Gossip of RailWdymen

freight agent of the Northwestern
Pacific, has been trying for week
to meet Frank Fogarty. the Dublin min
Geary smiles when he asks TO be in
tfoduced, but there are rumors in the
air that it is smile of vengeance.
In the long list of gags that are
sprung by Fogarty is one about the
man who went out on the railroad to
commit suicide and lay down on the
track to wait for the train to end his
life. and that while waiting for the
train he starved to death. Geary thinks
it good story, but he objects to having
Fogarty say that it was a Northwestern
Pacific train the suicide was waiting
for.
Arbitration of the wage dispute be-
tween $4,000 locomotive flremen and
enginemen and 49 railroads west of
Chicago is now in progress in the fed
eral building in Chicago. Attorneys
Clarence Clarence. 2frrow and II. L. Dickson
railroads are represented by John Bar
ton Payne and II. l.. Strohm. The arbi-
tration board comprises w r. Scott
ern Pacific, whose office is in this city;
Timothy Sheam of Peoria, vice presi-
dent of the brotherhood of locomotive
firemen and enginemen, and William
Lee Chambers of Washington D. c.
Charles S. Fee, passenger traffic man.
ager of the Southern Pacific, left Fri
day evening for Chicago.
William A. Summerhayes has been
appointed general store keeper of the
Illinois Central with office at Chicago,
vice John NJ. Taylor, resigned
Preparations for the annual excursion
of the California association of traffic
agents to Lake Tahoe, scheduled for
May 2S, are about completed. Accord
ing to the acceptances received by the
committee. about $50 traffic men will
take in the trip. 1t is planned to leave
this city on a special train at $40 p. m.
May 28, arriving at Tahoe tavern the
following morning at s o'clock. All
day Sunday and Monday will be spent
at the lake, the party returning to this
city Tuesday morning before O'Clock.
Alleged excessive earnings of express
companies, unjust rates and the relation
of express rates to railroad freight
tariffs are to be the subject of wide
investigation by the interstate COM
merce commission. Consideration of
the express question in the Sundburg
cases, submitted to the commission re-
Gently, it is said is to be most thorough
and probably will involve all the points
raised in the Illinois movement for con-
troll of the express business, with the
exception of purely local rates in and
around Chicago.
William F. Schmidt, general western
agent of the Missouri Pacific, returned
Saturday from business trip TO Los
Angeles.
G. L. Townsley, the newly appointed
Pacific coast agent of the St. Louis
Southwestern, Cotton Belt route, is in
the city greeting old friends and max
ing new acouaintances, prior to the
opening of his offices in the Postal
The Western Pacific is now running
a regular daily passenger and freight
train between Oroville and Portola,
about loo miles. Connection is made
by an automobile stage line with
Quincy, the county seat of Plumas
county.
The employees of the Southern railway
Samuel Spencer, first president of the
company, at Atlanta, Ga.
The Erie has increased the pay of
firemen s per cent and to o-those who fire
the heaviest engines. a much larger in
crease will be given.
The office of c. B. Seger. general
auditor of the Southern Pacific and
other Hartman lines, has been moved
from Omaha to Chicago.
Henry ]. Horn has been appointed
general manager of the Burlington,
with Office at Omaha.
A. J. Hudson has been appointed
transportation inspector of the Los An
geles division of the Santa Fe. with
office at Los Angeles. succeeding A. F.
Hunt assigned to other duties.
The Sinaloa division of the Southern
Pacific of Mexico has been extended
from La Dura. Sonora. north to Tonichi.
Is miles
The Oregon Short Line is planning TO
build a viaduct over its yards from the
east to the west side of Pocatello.