The San Francisco call., 1910-03-06

a letter recently received by q
commercial agent of transconti-
Mental road and is Explanatory:
Your letter of recent date, stat
ing that YOU can't get a so TT. car
for Squeedunk, received.
Now you ducks who sign your
names commercial agent" lie down
and roll over and give up the cas-
lest of any set of fellows | ever
saw. You think that a business
man can do just as much with an
excuse as he can with a car We
haven't learned that art and the
only thing 1 know for you to do is
TO get up and shake yourself and
get the cars. Any old woman can
make excuses, but these are the
face and show their generalship,
and if l couldn't do better than
make excuses I'd send my station
cry to the printers and have the
commercial agent blotted out
from under my name. The coun-
try is full of cars-iust as many
as ever before, and there isn't any
more business than there has been
agents" amt alive. What you need
is more generals. Somebody that
can pilot you through. You've all
been rolling things together until
and YOU haven't rolled out men
enough with brains TO keep pace
with the development of the bust
ness Of the country.
Now you quit making excuses.
We want four or five of your so
foot cars for our western ship
ments. Send us cars-no more eX-
cuses; and you tell your officials to
quit trying to make money out of
'watered stock and quit playing
peek-a-boo and fussing with the
president. Go on and make your
money out of freight and take care
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your equipment and your system
and charging your men of brains.
or get in some new fresh seed and
sow it among the old chaps that
haven't been able to discover the
art of keeping pace with the
progress of the age.
Now out of all this just keep on
remembering that it's 80 foot cars
we are talking about and that we
want. Sometimes it's necessary to
throw in some OF these sidelights
and a little incandescent to get
men to see themselves as others
see them. Now attend to business.
J. c. Anderson, gneeral traffic man
ger of the New York, Ontario and
Western, with office in New York city
s in the city with his family.
The Santa Fe is TO put on a new
sleeper between this city and the Yo-
semitic April Is. The sleeper will be
attached to No. ( and passengers car
90 to bed as soon as it leaves and
wake AT Ell Portal early the follow
ng morning.
Letters describing the growth of the
business of the Denver and Rio Grande
lnd complimenting the agents of that
road have been sent broadcast through
out the country.
James NJ Seibert. statistician of the
Pacific-Iron Mountain system
has been appointed general agent in
The passenger department, with office
At st. Louis.
William F. Schmidt, general western
gent of the Missouri Pacific, who met
with a serious mishap last Friday, is
doing well. although the break
Of his leg has not yet been set or
account of the swelling.
II. e. Nudge, president of the Rock
Island lines, is in the city on q visit
His stay will be brief.
c. J. Birchfield, advertising agent OF
the Santa Fe, is in the city from Los
Angeles.
Charles II. Phillips, general agent OF
the FL Paso and Southwestern. with
office at Los Angeles, is in the city or
business.
out in the Southern Pacific Coun.
try" is one of the latest bits of ad
vertising put out by an eastern agency
Of that road. 1t has been said fol
years that this was the Southern Pa.
rific country" but never before has
that company made acknowledgment OF
The fact
The Santa Fe is contemplating the
erection OF new freight shed al
Stockton at a cost of about $40. or
land now owned by the company.
The Southern Pacific company and
the Salt Lake road make a general de-
NAL of the allegations of the asso-
ciated jobbers of Los Angeles against
those two lines relative to switching
charges between Los Angeles and Sar
Pedro in their answers to the com
plaint filed with the railroad commits
sion yesterday
e. X. Garrison, commercial agent ot
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
with office at Los Angeles, is in the
city on business.
Railroads in western classification
territory have decided to discontinue
the privilege of returning shipments
AT half rates. This action is due tC
an order recently issued by the inter
state commerce commission, in which
it was declared that the return ship
ment privilege was being subjected tc
great abuse and that il should be con
fined to the return OF DANA ged goods
The Santa Fe is TO construct a new
freight and passenger depot at Medill
Mo.