The San Francisco call., 1910-08-30
SNEDAKER TOLD
TO GET AND COT
Railroadman Thought He
Recognized Fat, Bold
Man, But Didn't

Nv F'HEN w. III. 7Snedaker, representa-
NJ tative of the Illinois Central, re-
turned from Chicago a few days
ago one of his first calls was at the
offices of the New York Central, where
he intended to meet Carleton c. Crane
and tell Crane what he thought of his
road
1t seems that Crane was out at the
time, but seated at his desk was Will
nam NJ. Rank, formerly with the Dem
yer and Rio Grande and the North
western Pacific in this city Rank had
his hat pushed back to a point near
his neck, his head was lowered and 10
Snedaker it looked very much like the
bald head of Crane
Hello you," said Snedaker, II see
you're as fat as ever, and that you have
failed to use that hair restorer l recon-
mended."
You get out of this Office said
Rank. Snedaker got, and he is won
derlng now whether Crane insulted him
or whether it was meant as a joke
frame found a note from Rank on
his desk when he returned. He is Won
were O. KID by Rank during his occu-
pancy of the Crane throne.
Joseph n. Harrison, the newly ap-
pointed Pacific coast agent of the
Washington Sunset route, took charge
of his new office yesterday.
,. =. Bowman has been appointed
travelling passenger agent in charge of
the excursion department of the Union
Pacific and Northwestern lines. with
office in Los Angeles, succeeding J. H
Pearman. recently appointed district
passenger agent of the Western Pacific
William r. Wheeler, manager of the
traHc bureau of the Merchants ex-
change, and Seth Mann attorney for
the bureau, left last night for Los An
seles to attend the hearing of the San
Joaquin valley rate case before ,the
state railroad commission. The hear
ing. which begins this morning, is
scheduled to be the final one of the
case
September 10 has been set by the
commission as the day of hearing in
the case of the board of harbor COM
missioners of Los Angeles against San
Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake and
the Southern Pacific roads. The case
which is an effort to make San Pedro
harbor part of Los Angeles, will be
heard at Los Angeles.
The increasing demand for greater
safety and facility in railroad opera
tion has caused the Pennsylvania to
institute new plan of training men
to maintain and operate its signals
Accordingly, there .have just been ap-
pointed four signal apprentices. The
apprentices will serve three years
course. The first year will be spent on
the mechanical end of the work with
the repair and construction gangs. the
second year in the ONCE of the super
visor of signals. and the third year on
outside work on electric and electro
pneumatic appliances. They will re-
port to the supervisor of signals while
taking this course.
The next place open to these men is
the position of assistant signal inspec-
tor in the signal engineers office After
attaining this they will be considered
in line of appointment to the positions
of assistant supervisor of signals, SUI
pervisor of signals, inspector, assistant
signal engineer and signal engineer
The Importance of this step is indi-
Gated by the fact that, whereas, in 1902
there were but 1891 interlocking func-
tions In operation on the lines east of
Pittsburg, in 1908 this number was in
creased to 20.725.
E. E. Calvin, vice president and gen
eral manager. and f. o. Mccormick.
vice president in charge of traffic of the
Southern Pacific, will return today
after weeks trip over the North
western Pacific.