The San Francisco call., 1910-04-06
.TRAINSOOOVER
LUClN CUTOFF
Rumor of Plan to Abandon
Big Trestle Branded as
Fake by Official

EPoRTS to the effect that the re-
l cent storms have wrought such
~ damage to the Lucin cutoff that
the southern Pacific officials had de-
eided to abandon the cutoff and that
the old Promontory line was to be
rebuilt with heavier rails are de-
nounced by First Vice President and
General Manager w. r. Bancroft as
the ..veriest rot" according to reports
received here today. The late storms,
he said. had washed out some OF the
dirt in the embankment at the ends
but the trestle work has not been IN
jured in the slightest All the dirt
work will be displaced as rapidly as
possibIe with rock riprapping and
trestIe work and when this is COM
pleted the cutoff will be in better shape
than ever.
Trains passed over the cutoff Mon
day night, arriving at ogden at an
early hour yesterday. The damage re-
suItfng from the storm of Saturday
night has been temporarily repaired.
An official of the Southern Pacific
is authority for the statement that IL
will be necessary to double track a
large section of the cutoff in order to
provide greater resistance TO storms
During the month of March the lake
increased in depth more than half
foot, and is still rising.
Amos Club Burr. travelling passen-
ger agent of the New York Central
lines. has always Dragged that he was
immune from thieves of all descrip-
tiOns 1t was discovered Monday that
he was not immune, but that thieves
evidently had the idea that his pos
sessions were tainted.
Quit your showing" said "Chub" as
he came down town in a car last Mon
dow The showing continued
for block or so, however, and when
Burr reached his offices in the Flood
building he was minus several annual
passes
Scarcely two hours had passed. how
ever, when the letter carrier brought
him a special delivery letter. In the
letter he found his ANIMALS with the
curt note that next time carry sonle-
thing of value about your person"
The Chinese imperial council COM
prising Ii. a relative OF the late Ii
Hung Chang, and a party Of 25, is due
in this city on the steamer arriving
April %. The party is coming to this
country to study the American military
situation and will leave for Washing
ton day or so after their arrival.
Arrangements have been made TO ex-
tend the $2.155.00O Milwaukee and
Northern first mortgage per cent
bonds, which mature June 1. 1910, to
June 1, 1913, the extended bonds to
bear interest at the rate Of AZ per
cent.
J. J. Geary, general freight and
passenger agent of the Northwestern
Pacific. who has been out Of the city for
several days, is expected to return this
morning.
The Denver and Rio Grande and
the Colorado agricultural college will
operate a special potato train through
the potato growing sections Of the
western slope and in the San Luis
valley, Colorado. The train will start
April IL, stops being made and lee
lures and demonstrations delivered
at about three stations each day.
G. Benjamin Condor. general agent
of the Alton in this city. left yesterday
evening for the northern part of the
state.
Effective April 1. Morgan X Barnum,
who for several years has been inspec-
tor of motive power and equipment on
the Burlington. is appointed general
superintendent Of motive power, with
headquarters in Chicago. J.. NJ. BOr-
rowdale becomes superintendent OF the
car department, succeeding j. Z.
BukeT.
Some idea of the scope of the pension
system of the Pennsylvania railroad
may be gathered from figures given
out recently showing that last year
S7S6, ,345.15 in pension allowances was
paid to 1856 retired employees. The
appropriations for pensions made by
the different companies of the system
amounted to $SS2, 500. The total num-
Der of employees December 81. 1903, was
1S1. .9S7. The total number of retired
employees who were on the pension
roll December 81 was 3.165, OF which
sos were retired from active service
during the year.
The Pennsylvania pension system
basis for payment of pension allow
anceS provides that there shall be
paid for each year of service 1 per
cent of the average regular monthly
pay for the 10 years Immediately pre-
ceding retirement, determined by as
certaining the total amount of wages
the employe actually earned and for
which he was carried on the payroIls
during the 10 year period. and divid-
ing that amount by IL calendar
months. The pension allowances are
paid monthly.
Charles H. Comm. for IL years con-
nected with the traffic department. OF
the Queen and Crescent route in Chi
cago, has been promoted to be COM
mereial agent of that system at Dali
las, Tex.