The San Francisco call., 1910-08-25
TRIP TOO HARD
FOR SHOTWELL
Railway Official Will Be Able
To Return to Work
Today

-HE newspapermen who went from
here to Salt Lake and who re-
turned on the first Western Pa
cifc train are in bad with several of
the local railroad fraternity. They
failed to return w. j. Shotwell in good
condition.
Since the aggregation OF scribes and
railroad officials returned from their
eventfuI trip Shotwer has been laid
up at his home. and the local railroad
fraternity is wondering what happened
to him.
1t was the heat that caused Shot
wells present illness and yesterday IT
was reported that he would return to
his Offices this morning. Association
with newspapermen had nothing to
do with it.
The Santa. Fe will convert all passen-
ger locomotives running between kan
sas City and Newton. Kansas, to oil
burners.
Fred Trethaway. city ticket agent of
the Southern Pacific at Phoenix, Ariz.,
was in the city yesterday for a few
hours.
Salt Lake City is to have a railroad
club, according to advices from that
city. A committee OF which c. ]. Nc
Nitt general auditor of the Oregon
Short Line, is chairman, is making
plans for the organization of the club
]. n. Harrison, the newly appointed
Pacific coast passenger agent of the
Washington-Sunset route. is expected
to arrive here today and take up his
new duties.
The El Paso Southwestern is prepar-
ing in FL Paso, at an expense of $4,000,
a clubhouse for it's employees
Officers of the Chicago. Milwaukee
and st. Paul expect to begin running
passenger trains through to the Pa
| cific coast over the st. Paul lines Sep
tember Is.
The st. Louis and San Francisco has
contracted for trackage rights from
Paris, Tex, to Dallas, SO miles, over
the Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe; and
from Dallas to Fort Worth, "a miles,
over the Rock Island lines, and is run
ming its own trains through to Dallas
and Forth Worth. This route of the
Frisco trains from St Louis to Dallas
will now be 81 miles shorter than that
or the Missouri, Kansas and Texas. and
~ miles shorter than the ST. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern.
c. L. Stone, passenger traf1c man
ager of the Missouri Pacific, who
reached here Monday evening with the
first Western Pacific train. expects to
visit southern California before his re-
turn.
The Chicago Great Western gives a
special carload rate to farmers who
want to move. They may use one end
of boxcar for household goods and
the other for their livestock provided
they do not put in more than ten head
Not long ago farmer availed him
self of this rate.
He locked ten cows in the car but
when 1t was opened it was discovered
by the railway agent at the point of
delivery that there were IL head of cat
tie In the car. two of them new born
calves. Excess freight rates were de-
manded by the railroad and paid by
the farmer, who then registered a big
kick with the higher freight officers
of the road.
An agent of the company has asked
the interstate commerce commission If
the company might refund the extra
charge to the farmer without violating
the anti-rebate provisions of the law
The commission probably will decide
that 1t can.
George L. Bonney has been an
pointed superintendent of dining and
sleeping cars of the Great Northern
with office at st. Paul, succeeding q
l.. Pratt, resigned
The Salt Lake route has under con-
sideratiop the building of a line from
oasls, on the main line, to Fish
Springs, In the Deep Creek country.
100 miles, and perhaps to Ely, but
probably will not settle the matter
until after the new road through
| Meadow Valley wash has been com
pleted. Bids for the latter win soon
be invited
That its engineers may maintain
uniform rate of speed and operate
their trains with the greatest possible
comfort to the travelling public, the
Baltimore and Ohio is installing speed
recorders in passenger engines used
on through trains. The dial of these
speed recorders is placed in the en-
gfneer's side of the cab, In plain view
of the man who operates the throttle,
and indicates to him the speed of the
train at all times.
The recorder also registers on
paper chart the speed at which a train
is operated at every point on a divi-
sion, and, upon arrival at terminals
the chart is replaced and sent TO the
division superintendent, who thus has
before him a daily record of the speed
at which trains are operated in his
territory
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