The San Francisco call., 1910-06-23
FORCED TO PART
WITH HIS $40
Lancing R. Robinson
of Dispatch Com
pany Forgot Pass

+ ANSING r. ROBINSON. assistant
general manager of the Canadian
Pacific Dispatch, carries about 500
annual passes with him when he is
travelling. When on his way to this
city few days ago he carried only 2ss-
The ANIMALS of the Santa Fe are good
only on certain lines. One pass is good
on the eastern lines. one on the south
western lines. one on the coast lines and
nual for the lines west of Albuquerque
and he was compelled to get off the
train at that station and purchase a
ticket to this city.
The ticket cost him sac and now Rob-
inson is sticking around the Santa Fe
office trying to get his sac back
According to an announcement made
yesterday the Pennsylvania has in serv-
Ice on its lines. or on order, nearly 1000
passenger cars of all steel construction.
These cars have been added to the COM
panys passenger equipment since June.
1906. when it was announced that all
future additions to passenger equip
ment on the system would be of all
steel construction. The Pullman COM
hcfent number of steel sleeping and par
Tor cars to equip the entire Pennsylva
mia system. These cars are now being
delivered at the rate of from so to so
month. Already there are in service
on through trains IS sleepers and five
combined parlor and baggage cars.
When the present order is completed
there will be in servfce on the Penn
sylvania some 500 all steel Pullman
cars. This number is included in the
1888 cars now In use or on order.
In the steel equipment now in service
there are 457 coaches. % dining cars,
81 passenger and baggage cars, 33 bag
gage, rs postal and so Pullman cars.
In addition to these there are on order
or Under construction at the present
time 502 steel coaches, % steel dining
cars, SO passenger and baggage cars.
SO baggage. SO postal. 2S baggage and
mail. 1 combination motor car and some
$50 Pullman cars.
With the 704 steel cars in use at
present and the 1.2S4 cars on order the
Pennsylvania system will shortly have
available for use on its lines east and
west of Pittsburg and Erie total of
1888 solid steel passenger equipment
cars.
w. R. Crow. general manager of the
Erie Dispatch, with office at Chicago.
spection of the agencies of the Erie in
the west
The proposed increase in the rates on
hops from $3.50 to 81 per 100 pounds
has been Cancelled.
L. E. Stanton. general agent of the
Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul, re-
turned yesterday from a flying business
trip to Los Angeles.
w. E. Keepers. general freight agent
of the Illinois Central, with headquar-
tiers at Chicago, arrived in this city
yesterday. He is on pleasure trip.
r. C. Rankin has resigned as treas
urer of the Las Vegas and Tonopah
on account of i'll health.
j. II. Griffin, district freight agent of
the Canadian Pacific. fell into the hands
of footpads last Tuesday night. He
suffered the loss of $40, besides being
severely treated by the robbers.
H. C. Barlow, freight claim agent of
the Erie, left last might accompanied
by his wife and daughter for the east.
They will stop at Yellowstone national
park on the way east.
E. r. Gregory. travelling passenger
agent of the Santa Fe, is in the city.
| Wireless telegraphy will soon be in
use on the Union Pacific. according TO
an official of the company who has
been carrying on experimental en-
gineering work. Two stations are be-
ing equipped one at Cheyenne, Wyo.,
and the other at Sydney, 103 miles
away. between which tests will be made
as to whether wireless will do the
r0or0ia1 aS
it is likely that experiments will be
| made in sending messages to trains
For four years the Union Pacific has
had engineers experimenting with wire
less telegraphy in its laboratory at
Omaha Neb. Considerable money has
been spent in developing what is as
serted to be a new system of wireless
telegraphy, and which has now reached
such a stage that 1t is ready for COM
mercial use. For the Cheyenne and
Sydney stations high towers of from
$50 to 500 feet will be built They
will have to be of solid construction
because of the high winds. and officials
expect that they shall have no trouble
delivering messages satisfactorily The
Union Pacific is the first railroad 10
put wireless telegraphy into operation
As to the advantages of wireless tel
egraphy, it is stated that il makes for
greater safety to trains and passenge
because Wnen wires would go down be-
fore gale it will be possible to keep
trains moving and TO transact official
railway business. As to cost 1T would
be great saving over wires At
Omaha messages have been received
from as far away as the gulf, and ex-
perimenters have heard vessels talking
from Havana harbor.
Railroadmen in the state of Wash
ington credited with knowledge of
Hartman line affairs believe that the
invasion of central Oregon by the Hill
system will be met with a vigorous ac-
tivity in western Washington by the
Hartman systems Oregon and Wash
ington.
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