Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-04-07
SANTA f HIGH
OFFICIALS HERE
FOR COME FERENCE
Semi-AnnuaI Meeting OF
Officers Held Here For
First Time; Operations
For Season Planned.

Plans for the future operations
of the Santa railway, covering the
next six months. are being formed
at a meeting which started here
Yesterday Of the higher officials,
including general managers, assist
ant managers, and division heads.
Practically all of the eastern Of
fiCials arrived on one special tram,
the western men coming at various
times yesterday,
While no specific information re-
garding the scope of the matters
which will be discussed and set
tied could be obtained last night
due to their not having been raised
and decided yet, it is expected that
labor, rates, both freight and pas
Senger, construction and general
service will be fully considered and
acted upon.
First Meeting Here.
The meeting is tho semi-ann lal
one and this is the first time Al
buouerque has been chosen as The
conference city. The officials are
making their private cars and the
Alvarado headquarters and are
holding their discussions in Tart
hall, at the west side of the hotel.
Aside from prophesying that
there will be a reduction in service
trains east and west, officials re-
| fused to state what would proba'
| bly, be the outcome of the confer
ence. While several trains, proha-
| bly, including Nos. 10 and 20, Will
undoubtedly he taken off of the
service schedule, this Is in no way
! indicative of unusual commerciaI
or economic conditions as the addi-
tional trains are usually maintained
during the period of heavy traVeI
west in the fall and early winter
and during the equally heavy traveI
east later in the winter and early
/ in the spring. 1t is believed by
iseVeral of the officials that cu'
| in the number of trains will prob
ably be decided upon to take eff
feet on May |, as it is believed that
heavy traffic from California, Ari'
iona and New Mexico will have
passed by that time, and that the
normal train schedule will easily
care for travellers during the re-
mainder of the spring and summer
As the conference is expected tt
last for several days. definite actor
will probably be taken on a mum
Der of matters either today OF To-
morrow.
/ Officials Here.
Among the officials who are at
tending Etne conference are:
A. G. Wells, vice president II
charge of operations with head
quarters at Chicago; +. c. Fox
general manager of eastern lines
with headquarters at Topeka; l. l.
Hibbard of Los Angeles, genera
manager of the coast lines; Johr
Hitchcock, assistant general man
lager at Los Angeles; G. II. Bristol
! assistant general manager at u,
Junta; r. G. Pettibone, vice presi
dent and general manager of thu
Gulf lines; w ]. Black, passengee
traffic manager; J, NJ. Connell
general passenger agent; John j
Byrne, assistant passenger traffi
manager at Los Angeles; Waite
Keenan,, general passenger agent o
, the Gulf lines; C. S. kirkpatrick
and Frank Boyd, assistants to Nj
Pettibone; f. A. Goeldner, assistan
to Mr. Fox; +. ]. Edwards, assistan
to the general manager at Anna
lfillo; r. ]. Hartnit, transportation
inspector at Amarillo: Joe Sum
mers, transportation inspector a
Topeka; Ford Harvey, head of San
ia Fe eating houses: f. l.. Myers
assistant general manager at Anna
rillo, and r. b. Gallagher, genera
freight and passenger agent of tn
division having headquarters a
Amarillo.