The San Francisco call., 1910-09-03
Traffic Agents Are
Off for the Beach
Transportation Clubs Will
Join in Annual
Outing
= HE California association of traf-

HE California association of traf-
fic agents and the Transportation
club hold their joint outing at
Santa Cruz for three days, beginning
today. A special train will leave the
Third and Townsend depot of the
/ Southern Pacific company, and through
the courtesy of that company and its
passenger officials a special time will
be made on the trip to the beach city.
The occasion, besides being a joint
outing, is the annual meeting of the
traffic agents. George Fraser is slated
but there was a rumor around railroad
row yesterday that an attempt would
be made to break the slate and that a
crowd of insurgents" would place
Harry Landerkin in nomination.
Sam Booth, sometimes called Samuel.
is one of the leaders in the program of
entertainment. He is booked for a
monologue and it will be a good one.
according to the following bit of re-
hearsal overheard yesterday:
Il saw a letter the other day from
Carleton Crane to Jack Inglis 1t
seems that Jack had sent Crane bot
tie of hair restorer and Crane acknowl-
edged it a month later by saying,
When 1 received your hair restorer /
had three bald spots; now 1 have only
one.'
"I received letter about several
carloads of freight that were to be
handled partly over the Northern Pa
cific few days ago. The letter was
signed Yours trury, T. K Stateler, per
Simmons.
Booth says he has a lot more, all
better than these.
M. C. Markham, assistant to the vice
president of the Missouri Pacific.
reached this city last night in a pri-
vate car He will leave this morning
for a trip over the Western Pacific.
Grove Ketchum, travelling passenger
agent of the Washington Sunset route,
with headquarters at Los Angeles, is
in the city for a few days.
F.. E. Wade, chief clerk of the passen-
ger department of the Southern Pacific
and secretary of the Transportation
club, is arranging for the special that
will take the trafficmen to Santa Cruz
today AS usual, Wade has gone in
deep for the boys
E. T. Fleming, travelling freight
agent of the Chicago Great Western,
has rendered his resignation to become
traffic manager in New York for the
Austrian American Packers association
of Pajaro valley. H. w. Lawrence
contracting freight agent. succeeds
to fr~l1+
r. c. Melvin, a brother of James Mel
vim of the California fruit Gamers. be-
comes contracting agent, vice Law
renee.
William r. Wheeler, manager, and
Seth Mann, attorney for the traffic bu-
reau of the Merchants exchange, re-
turned yesterday morning from Los An
geles, where they attended the hearing
before the railroad commission of the
San Joaquin valley rate case.
H. NJ Adams, freight traffic manager
of the Western Pacific, is in Sacramento
for few days.
The Oregon Short Line and the
Southern Pacific lines in Oregon have
adopted the HIne system. according to
circular received locally. NJ J.
Buckley, George w. Boschke, J. F. Gra-
ham, ]. D. Stack and C. C. Sutherland
have all been given the title of assist
ant manager.
F. E. Batturs. assistant general pas
senger agent of the Southern Pacific
left yesterday morning on the San
Francisco overland limited for Chicago
where he will attend the meeting of the
transcontinental passenger association.
The order in the Reno and Phoenix
cases has been postponed until De-
cember l by the Interstate commerce
commission, according to advices re-
ceived here yesterday.
w. D. Forster traffic manager of the
Tonopah and Goldfield, is in the city.
He is at the Stewart.