The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19
Gossip of RaIIwaymen

<trRED THOMPSON nearly lost his
temper today when 1 poked my
head through his broken door and
asked If he was in,'' said W. H. Sned-
aker of the Illinois Central yesterday.
That's good idea of Thompson's
Ii my private office was near the door
think | would adopt the same sys-
tenn. Sam Booth of the Union Pacific.
A good scheme all right, but we
could never do ii over here on the
Powell side of the building on account
OF the draft."-Clyde Colby of the Erie
am going to confer with Thomp-
son this afternoon about his system."-
Lou Stanton of the Chicago Milwau-
kee and ST. Paul
What do 1 think about Thompson's
scheme? [ tried to tell him this morn
ing and he told me to get out of the
office. William F. Schmidt of the Mis-
souri, Pacific
This comment may be all right, but
there'n be new earthquake glass in
that door in the morning. ng."-Thompson
The board of railroad commissioners
of Kansas have filed complaint
with the interstate commerce COM
mission alleging that the rates charged
by the Adams and other express COM
panies to Kansas shippers are exces-
s1vely high and unjust and affect the
prosperity of the businessmen of that
state. They request the interstate COM
mission to make an investigation of the
matter and compel the express COM
panies to fix reasonable rates.
E. E. Calvin, vice president and gen
eral manager of the Southern Pacific,
returned Sunday morning after conduct
ing Judge Robert S. Lovett and party
as far as Sparks.
NJ. L. Bell has been promoted to be
general attorney of the Rock Island
with offices at Chicago, succeeding E.
c. Mndley, who resigned to become
general solicitor of the Great Northern
at st. Paul.
H. E. Montague, travelling passenger
agent of the Southern Pacific, with
headquarters at Los Angeles, is in the
city for a few days.
r. S. Stubbs, general freight and pas
senger agent of the Randolph lines and
assistant general freight and passenger
agent of the Southern Pacific, with of
fees at Tucson, is in the city.
The Rock Island lines are in the mar
ket again, this time for 1000 more
freightcars and SO locomotives. All
the cars are to be built with steel
frames. The purchase will consist of
500 boxcars, SOC automobile furniture
cars and 500 stockcars, all of $4,000
pounds capacity each. and 200 ballast
cars of 100000 pounds capacity each
The locomotive purchase comprises 25
Pacific type passenger engines and 81
consolidation freight engines. The pas
senger locomotives will be equipped
with superheaters and each will weigh
225,000 pounds. 10000 pounds being the
weight drivers The frafcr
gines will weigh 20S,000 pounds, with
$4,000 of it on the drivers. When this
order is delivered it will give the road
very large amount of strictly new
equipment.
F. e. Batturs. assistant general pas
senger agent of the Southern Pacific.
returned yesterday morning from Coal
inga, where he went last Saturday with
the San Francisco merchants on an In
spection trip of the oil districts.
]. w. Chapman, traffic manager for
the Pacific hardware and steel company;
John McEwing, traffic manager for
Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden; James
Melvin, traffic manager for the Califor-
MIA fruit Gamers association, and
James A. Keller, traffic manager for
Baker & Hamilton, returned yesterday
morning from Los Angeles, where they
were in attendance at the hearing of
the San Joaquin valley rate case.
The railroad commission took the
testimony of the Los Angeles jobbers
and adjourned until June 2, to meet in
Stockton. which city has intervened.
San Francisco will be heard after
Stockton has presented its case, after
which will come the defense of the rail-
roads.
]. N. Citizens, general freight agent
OF the Missouri Pacific and of the St
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern.
with offices at st. Louis. is in the city
on a trip over the Pacific coast
The inspection department of the
transcontinental freight bureau reports
that it has made for the railroad COM
panies belonging to the bureau be-
tween s65o,0o0 and s700,0o0 during the
year 1909. The inspection department
is for the purpose Of inspecting freight
that is shipped as certain commodity in
an effort to detect IL the shippers are
billing the goods wrong in an effort to
secure a cheaper rate.