The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25
RECEPTION FOR
N. ]. BLOCK. WHY? ?

TARRY LIPMAN. traffic manager
Fl for the Rosenburg Brothers COM
L | pany, recently put one over" on
a friend OF his from the east. The
friend, NJ. ]. Bloch, arrived in the even
ing and was met at the Oakland mole
by Lipman.
I'VE have prepared little reception
for you." said Lipman, shortly before
the boat approached the local ferries.
"Oh, I'm not prepared for anything
like this" said Bloch, as he gazed at
the huge electric sign near the ferry
that reads:
m. ]. B. wHY9"
]. R. Duckworth, general agent of
the Missouri Pacific, with Office at
Pueblo, Colo, who was in the city
several days last week, returned to his
home Thursday.
E. o. Mccormick, vice president of
the Southern Pacific, in charge of traf-
fic, has returned from a short vacation
trip at Paso Robes.
S. F. Hilton, travelling freight agent
of the Union Pacific, with headquarters
at Fresno, is in the city for the holi-
days.
The announcement received in this
city yesterday of the appointment of
F. NJ. Jenifer to be general freight and
passenger agent of the Tonopah and
Tidewater, with Office at Los Angeles,
was greeted by the local railroadmen
as a bit of Christmas cheer. Jenifer is
well known here and is popular with
every raflroadman on the Pacific coast.
The appointment becomes effective
January 1, 1911. The office of assistant
to the traffic manager of the company
has been abolished.
The news of the removal by Paul
Shoup, assistant general manager of
the Southern Pacific in charge of cleo
trio lines, of his offices to Los Angeles,
which has been spoken of in railroad
circles for several weeks, was made
public yesterday. The transfer, while
it will be permanent for some time,
will not always be so, as Shoup may
return to this city on the completion of
the Southern Pacific's electric lines
across the bay
At the present time nearly all of the
roads electric holdings are in or near
Los Angeles, the Pacific electric rail-
way having recently been acquired. The
company owns or controls more than
500 miles of electric lines on a single
track basis in southern California.
Shoup will leave this city Monday
evening. His visits to. San Francisco
will be as frequent, however, as they
have been to Los Angeles in recent
months.
The papers are cheering rather loud
ly about the great victory over the
Pullman company, but it happens that
there are experienced travellers who
ask for the upper when they journey;
it has It's advantages. But the meanest
thing is the order that when q passen-
ger buys lower berth the porter who
makes it up for him must at the same
time drag down and make up the up
per, unsold and undesired 1t is the
same principle as if the railway re-
quired the brakeman to dump a bag of
potatoes beside every passenger in the
ordinary coach who had a seat all to
himself, the bag to be left there until
somebody came along who needed the
place, unless the passenger could pro-
duce two tickets. The only defense that
has been attempted for this extortion
is that otherwise porters will. for
brfbe, leave others up and discourage
those who would buy them.
The Southern Pacific proposes to
to spend s20O,OO0 during the coming
year in advertising the advantages of
Texas as a suitable place for people
desiring to settle in new country
G. D. Wright trainmaster of the
Southern Pacific at the Oakland pier,
has been appointed an assistant super
intendent, with headquarters at Stock
ton.
For the annual convention of the
Western fruit jobbers' association to
be held at Sacramento February Is to
Is, preparations are being made for
big crowd and advertising is being ex-
tensively done with that end in view
Royal Blue" the monthly publica-
tion issued by the Baltimore & Ohio. for
December, devotes considerable space
to thee recent aviation meet at Balti-
more Several interesting photographs
of the machines in action are shown.