The Cordova daily times., 1919-01-21
ALASKAN GETS
 GOOD BERTH
 WITH $. $. co.

NDTU Has IbdtHttl l'i' 'A '''' ''i pointment of A. F Zipf to be traffic manager of the Pacific Steamship Company.
 MT. Ziipf is well known on the Pa cifc coast, and especially in Alaska He has been for years traffic manager with the White Pass X Yukon route. His appointment becomes effective January 15. according to announce ment by A. F. Haines, vice president and general manager of the company. Mir Ziipf will have full charge of the companys freight and passenger de partments.
 The Pacific Steamship Company op- crates the Admiral line of carriers in the California, Alaska and Oriental trades, and has been acting as man 1 aging agent for a large number of yes sels of the United States Shipping l Board. The company has plans for still further expansion and the inCrcas- l ing burden of multitudinOuS duties | falling on the shoulders of MT. Haines ! has resulted in the creation of the pO- sition of traffic manager.
 General Freight Agent C. F. Five and General Passenger Agent F. G. McMicken of the company will come under the jurisdiction of Mir. Iipf, who will report direct to Vice President and General Manager Haines.
 By establishing the new office the Pacific Steamship Company strength ! ems it's organization and relieves MT. Haines of some of his duties connected with the traffic department of the 1 company. which has grown to tremen- l dous proportions with the increase of | the Admiral line fleet Mir. Zipf will assume the duties of his new position at once and will have offices on the fifth floor of the L. C. Smith building. Seattle.
 The ncwly-appointcd traffic head of the Pacific Steamship Company began his steamship career in 1898 as purser of river craft plying on the Yukon From 1901 to 1902 he was agent of the Northern Commercial Company and the Northern Navigation Company al St Michael; from 1902 until 1903, agent of the two companies in Nome; from 1903 until 1904. agent of the two companies at St Michael; from 1904 until 1914, traffic manager of the Northern Navigation Company, and from the spring of 1914 until December 31. 1914. assistant superintendent of the American-Yukon Navigation Com pany. with headquarters at St. Mich ael. On January 1. 1915, MT Hipt be- came traffic manager of the White Pass X Yukon route with headquar- ters in Seattle.
 Mir. Xipf was born in Idaho, going to San Francisco in 1889, where he entered the employ of the Wells Fargo Express Company. He went to Alaska aboard the famous gold ship Portland in 1898, sailing from San Francisco with crews for vessels of the Alaska Commercial Company's Yukon river fleet.
 During the Alaska gold excitement days of 1898, when packets of the Mis- sissippi river type helped make trans portation history on the Yukon, MT Zipf was a prominent figure in the North. He says that St. Michael was a real shipbuilding center in those days, turning out total of thirty one vessels during the winter of 1898, all being ready when summer came for the grand rush to the gold camps. The vessels did a thrivinig business the summer of 1898 and during sue ceeding summers, the masters, pilots and engineers being sent to St. Mich ael from points along the Mississippi. |