The San Francisco call., 1910-08-11
DANGER SIGNAL
SET FOR STONE
Freight Agents Gulled by
Liberal Promises OF
Sacramento Man

I.vrHEN ]. R. HoLCoMB. general
Nv agent of the Kansas city. Mexico
w and Orient. first came to the coast
he was advised to see Jack stone OF
the Southern Pacific when he went to
Sacramento. Stone. so he was INFORMED
was a good fellow and would thro"
several cars of freight to the h. e.
NJ. & o. When Holcomb journeyed to
| Sacramento he met Stone, but the en-
tertaining was done by Holcomo- lie
returned to this city. joyful and smll-
| ing. and told that he was soon TO get
| 10 cars.
/ HolcOmb waited some weeks FOR tne
/ cars, but they did not materlallze- RE
realized that he had been stung- Ine
/ newest railroadman in the city at that
! time was II. r. Higgins. commercial
agent of the Southern railway Hol-
comb told Higgins to be sure and eaiI
on Stone when he went TO Sacramento
Higgins returned with promise OF 10
| cars He also waited long for the ears
| C. Benjamin Condor. general agent
/ of the Hawley roads, was the next
| agent to get Stones promise. Condor
received his tip from Higgins, Tor
which he thanked Higgins profusely-
/ The Hawley agent and stone had a
| good time in Sacramento. Condor was
| the host, of course, for wasn't stone
/ going to come through with 10 cars
of freight?
C. Benjamin returned with a promise
| of 20 ears, and Holcomb and Higgins
professed indi ignatiOn when they heard
that Condor had secured better
promise than they. Condor hasn't found
| record of the ears that Stone prom
ised. but he's going to get them. he
says. Today he will be searching for
the newest yrailroadman to give him
letter of introduction TO Jack Stone.
J. r. Allen general superintendent
/ of the Globe express company, whose
office is in Denver. is in this city to
confer with the officials of the West
ern Pacific relative to the installation
of the Globe cOmpany's service on that
road
Announcement that the Globe ex-
press company would enter this field
over the new Gould line was made
two weeks ago exclusively in The Call
The coming of the Globe ~conpany to
| this city over the lines of the Western
Pacific will give that company service
from Denver through to the Paeific
coast.
Chief Inspector Lutz of the inter
state commerce commission and three
/ assistants arrived in this city Monday
and are now ready to begin the work
| of checking the Nevada, Arizona and
New Mexico tonnage of the Southern
Pacific. This checking will be carried
on for period of four months. the
new rates into those territories to be
based on their report to the commits
sion.
/ The travelling public has reason to
be pleased with the ambitious work OF
| Improvement planned and being car
ried out on the Baltimore and Ohio by
President Daniel Willard.
William P. Hilton. chief clerk to the
assistant general manager of the Santa
Fe. has taken a new position in the
office of j. w. Kendrick, vice president
in Chicago, where he will have charge
| OF the preparation and handling of all
| contracts and leases in which other
companies are involved.
/ w c. Dfbblee has been appointed
acting district freight and passenger
agent of the Western Pacific. with
headquarters at Sacramento.
The new ticket Offices of the South
| ern Pacific in the Palace hotel will
| open to the public within a week The
work of fitting up the Offices is nearly
completed and. with the installation OF
the ticket cabinets and other necessary
furniture, one of the handsomest ticket
offices in the county, win be opened.
E. A. Thurston, a son of c. A. Thurs
ton, general agent of the Chicago
| Northwestern at Los Angeles. has beer
I appointed depot ticket agent of the
Western Pacific at Third and Washing
ton streets, Oakland Thurston was
formerly connected with the Chicago
Northwestern, the Salt Lake route and
the Union Pacific.
The full program of work the Har-
r1man lines have under way in Oregon
and will complete this year has been
MADE public: and shows that the total
amount to be expended is s26. .255- 600
for new bridges, new lines. block sio-
nal system and depot buildings. The
division of the aggregate and the v-orL-
TO which 1T is applied is as follows:
Branch line Crsbtree TO Lebanon. eight
HheS ........-..... S3oO OOO
Beaverton w illsburg euton. "A miles ''V
including steel bridge over Villa
sag1dd %s56e to 5Tsr Elans,S at SsTsSe E. 100000
miles. known as the Oregon Eastern
appropriation for 14I miles GO miles
from Natron and 50 miles from Kla
math Falls north hl............. q SaO Ooo
Pacinc Railroad and Navigation com
pany lines from Hillsboro to TiIia-
Desehutes road south from mouth Of
Desehutes river to Redmond In Crook
rsss county s-.as lss mi, miles So. $4,000
! A~ahc creek ana occur AIene road
from main line Of the Oregon Naxi
gatiou. near Buckleys to Windy Raw
and Lake Occur d'Aelene "A miles 700 Ooo
Oregon and Washington Peninsula tun-
mel from st. Johns branch OF O~e9on
Navigation toward Stoekdale 81
90 miles .-........ $4,000
st. Johns to Troutdale line rs miles III 09o
Steel bridge at Portland for Oregon
=, Navigation Ss, ss.a' 100000
!, and and &C Oregon Navigation lines. -. $4,000
NeW>eO pound steel rails FOR Southern
Pacific and Oregon Navigation lines 57o Goo
Automatic signals. 100 miles 1f0 0e.{
Line changes and passing tracks 91O0 400
New passenger stations feirbf1 ana
new freighthOuse at Portland. -. $4,000