The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-04

planning a movement for considera-
ton by the Katy railroad in an eff
fort to have the company replace
negroes for Mexicans in its various
labor departments. The basis for the
action is to provide work for many
negroes who were recently laid off.
As members of the stationary firemen
and oilers union the colored men claim
to hold seniority rights over the
Mexicans.
James B. Duffy has been made gem
eral passenger agent of the Coast
Lines of the Santa Fe with headquar-
tiers at Los Angeles, taking the places
of John Byrne, who died December "a.
Duffy became connected with the
Santa Fe as assistant ticket agent
at San Francisco in 1890 and various
promotions took him to the position of
assistant general passenger agent in
1920. AS a.result of Duffys promo
ton, J. F. Moses has been made as
sistant general passenger agent at Los
Angeles.
There was placed on sale in New
York this week an issue of S4,690,400
6 per cent equipment gold notes of the
Rock Island, dated Jan.s15, 1920, and
maturing s960,S00 annually from
Jan. IS, 1928, to Jan. Is, 1895, in
elusive, at prices to yield from $50
to 5.75 per cent, according to matur-
ity. The notes constitute a first lien
on equipment costing $8,117,000, in
GLIDING $500 forty-ton box ears,
twenty light Mikado locomotives and
ten switching engines.
Decisions of the United States rail-
road labor board in the matter of the
railway clerks provide for time and a
half for overtime only after the ninth
hour has been reached. Also Sunday
work. where the workers go on the
regular eight hour stretch. will not
count as overtime, the workers re-
ceiving the same pay as on other days.
Formerly Sunday work was paid at
the rate of three hours pay for two
hours of work. Janitors. callers, por-
ters and messengers are also put on
the day rate plan of work.
The last of the grape shipments
having gone east, the Santa Fe and
Southern Pacific railroads have an
nounced that during the season they
hauled out of California for distribu-
ton in $500 cities and towns 422, 900
tons of grapes, valued in the aggregate
at s50,640,000. They handled 2S,S0O
ears, which contained S44,000,000
pounds of grapes, over eight pounds
for every man, woman and child in
the United States. Prices per ton
ranged from s65 to SITS. The average
price per ton was $120. The ship
ments this season beat last years
record by $500 cars.
Equipment which will result in the
discard of 4s1 gravity battery cells by
the Santa Fe in Dodge City, is being
installed in the office of Chief Dis
patcher E. p. Dudley at the Division
offices of the company there. in the
form of a motor generating plant
which will provide the electricity for
the telegraph lines of the company.
The plants are being installed at va
rious other points by the Santa Fe to
dispense with the wet. batteries
which have always been used for the
telegraph lines. The batteries are
constant expense and in addition need
constant attention to keep all the cells
in good condition. The motor equip
ment which uses current from the city
electric system. is comp ratively new,
and is the latest equipment.
According to report from Parsons,
Kan, numerous special freight trains
are now being operated by the katy
thru that city Special orange trains,
special sheep trains, soap trains, meat
trains, oil trains and specials carrying
equipment for the new oil fields at
Mexa, Texas, are now said to be a
common SlSAl- Inc rOdQ LlrSI at
tracted attention by rushing a special
orange train from Fort Worth to Kan
sas City In thirty hours. three hours
ahead of schedule and several houls
faster than its nearest competitor Il
Kansas City soap firm recently sent
a whole trainload of soap over the
katy to San Antonio Texas, while
special freight trains carrying tank
and other equipment needed in the
new oil fields are being given the
right-of-way over everything else on