The San Francisco call., 1910-10-21
lBATTURS BECAME
ARAPD COUNTER

= Frank E. Batturs. assistant general
passenger agent of the Southern Pa
cifc, does not drink or smoke: in fact.
he has no bad habits. Nearly every
man who ever made hit in the rail-
road business has had few bad habits.
according to the statements OF several
successful railroadmen. Because of
modesty these several successful rail-
readmen decline to be quoted.
Yesterday it acme to light just how
Batturs asa boy secured his first pro-
motion. 1t was in the old days in the
passenger department of the Southern
Pacific when every bunch of tickets
that were sent out to- the agencies
were carefully counted by the younger
men in the department.. Every bunch
of tickets or stubs of tickets that were
counted were wrapped in a neat little
bundle, the number written on the
package and the. initials of the counter
placed under the other figures.
Batturs' initials happen to be "F.
E. B." and as a time saver he realized
the benefits of date stamp. He used
the date stamp with the abbreviation
of February, and in this manner
counted and labeled many more pack
ages of tickets than his coworkers. 1t
was through this little trick that Bat
turs started on his way to the position
OF assistant general passenger agent.
Jay w. Adams, Pacific coast passen-
ger agent for the Nickel Plate, will
leave this morning to attend the an
nual meeting OF the passenger agents
of that road to be held at Kansas City,
October %.
Elliott T. Monett. general western
passenger agent of the New York, On
at Chicago. is in the city for a few
days.
Leroy May. ticket agent for the
Southern Pacific at Stockton, is to be-
come benedick next Wednesday and
will leave few hours after the cere-
meny for the southern part of the
state, where he will spend his honey
moon.
Following the exclusive announcement
in The Call of last Tuesday that a
freight department was to be estab-
l1shed by the Sunset lines, the appoint
ment of Eugene w. Clapp to be gem
eral agent of that department was
sSS1ciddy afternoon. CldpD iS at
present chief clerk in the local freight
offices of the Southern Pacific. He was
formerly district freight and passenger
agent both for the Nevada territory
at Reno and at Fresno
The Southern Pacific passenger peo-
pie say that there has been a big in
crease In the colonist movement to
California this fall as against. the fall
of 1909. For the fall period OF 1910
up to October Is, 2s,15S colonists
reached California through Ogden FL
Paso, Los Angeles and Portland as
against 21.823 for the same period Ia st
year, an Increase of 6,335 persons.
The total colonist traffic to Cali
fornia via the southern Pacff,c lfor
the fall OF 1910: up to and including
October 1e. is 30,06S as compared re-
22,41s Tor the same period last wear
an increase of 1868.
John w. DAILY. assistant traf3c man
ager OF the New York Central lines
with office at Chicago, is i'm the citv
on trip of inspection of the western
agencies of the lines.
Miss Bertha Ruffner and Miss sus.n
Fleckner, proprietors of America, 8
hotel and resort information bureau in
New York. are visiting in the civ
They are guests of the ST Francis a nd
Palace hotels and are taking in every-
thing on the Pacific coast.