Operating Officers.

F. P. Clark has been appointed assistant superintendent of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, with headquarters at Chicago.

W. H. Averell, assistant to general manager of the Baltimore & Ohio, at Baltimore, Md., has been appointed assistant general superintendent with headquarters at Pittsburgh, Pa.

L. R. Clausen, superintendent of the Chicago & Milwaukee devision of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, with office at Chicago. has resigned, effective July 24, to engage in other business.

W. R. Scott, assistant general manager of the Southern Pacific. at San Francisco, Cal., has been appointed general manager, in direct charge of operation and maintenance, with office at San Francisco.

Isaac A. Canning, chief clerk to the superintendent of dining cars of the Erie Railroad, has been appointed superintendent of dining cars, with headquarters at Jersey City, N. J., succeeeding T. C. Clifford, deceased.

G. W. Atmore, trainmaster of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe at Argentine, Kan., has been appointed assistant superintendent of the Northern Pacific at Duluth, Minn., and superintendent of the Duluth Union Depot & Transfer Company.

A. T. Thompson, general superintendent and traffic manager of the Arizona & New Mexico, with office at Clifton, Ariz., having resigned, those offices have been abolished, and all matters pertaining to the operating department should be addressed to P. Reisinger, superintendent at Clifton.

W. P. Danforth, superintendent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas of Texas at Trinity, Tex., has been appointed superintendent, with office at Greenville, Tex., succeeding C. M. Bryant, assigned to other duties. As has been announced in these columns, A. N. Williams succeeds Mr. Danforth.

W. G. Koch, superintendent of the Southwestern division of the St. Louis & San Francisco at Sapulpa, Okla., has been appointed superintendent of the Central division at Fort Smith, Ark., and E. L. Magers, assistant superintendent of the Northern division at Fort Scott, Kan., succeeds Mr. Koch. J. F. Liston, assistant superintendent at Birmingham, Ala., has been transferred to Fort Scott, in place of Mr. Magers, and F. G. Faulkner, assistant superintendent of the Southwestern division at Sapulpa. succeeds Mr. Liston. A. S. Johnson succeeds Mr. Faulkner.

J. S. McAdam, chief train despatcher of the Ottawa division of the Grand Trunk, at Ottawa, Ont., has been appointed trainmaster of the thirty-first and thirty-second districts, with head

quarters at Ottawa, succeeding J. P. Kirkpatrick, resigned. H. C.. White succeeds Mr. McAdam. E. S. Cooper, acting chief despatcher of the Fourth and Fifth districts, at Montreal, Que., has been appointed acting trainmaster of the First and Second districts, with headquarters at Island Pond, Vt., succeeding J. W. Farrell, granted leave of absence. O. Masse, acting night chief despatcher of the Fourth and Fifth districts, at Montreal, succeeds Mr. Cooper, and F. B. Nixon succeeds Mr. Masse.

George Hannauer, who has been appointed general manager of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad, with office at Gibson, Ind., as has been announced in these columns, was born December 19, 1872, at St. Louis, Mo., and began railway work on September 24, 1890, with the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, remaining with that road until March, 1903. He was then for four years superintendent of the Wiggins Ferry Company of St. Louis, and on April 8, 1907, went with the Indiana Harbor Belt as superintendent. On January 1, 1911, he was made general superintendent, from which office he was promoted to general manager, as noted above, on July 1, 1912.

Charles F. Hopkins, who has been appointed superintendent of the St. Louis & San Francisco, with office at Francis, Okla., as has been announced in these columns, was born April 30, 1882, at Hearne, Tex. He finished his high school education in June, 1897, and in September of that year began railway work as a messenger boy on the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe at Temple, Tex. rie was then consecutively until December, 1906, when he left the Santa Fe, roadmaster's clerk, superintendent's clerk, trainmaster's clerk, bridge and building clerk, accountant and chief clerk to superintendent. In December, 1906, he went with the St. Louis & San Francisco, with which road he has been ever since, first as chief clerk to the superintendent at Memphis, Tenn., then chief clerk to the general superintendent, and later assistant superintendent of the Northern and Southwestern divisions. At the time of his recent promotion to superintendent at Francis he was chief clerk to the general manager at Springfield, Mo.

Austin E. Wallace, whose appointment as superintendent of the Minnesota division of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, with office at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been announced in these columns, was born March 2, 1879, at Nashua, N. H. He graduated from Harvard University, receiving the A.B. degree, in 1902, and in October of that year began railway work with the Great Northern as a clerk at Larimore, N. D. For a year from December, 1902, he was timekeeper. From January, 1904, to November, 1906, Mr. Wallace was with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he was consecutively yard clerk, timekeeper and chief clerk to the superintendent. He went with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy in January, 1907, from which time until July 1, 1912, he was consecutively train and station inspector, and later assistant extra gang foreman at Alliance, Neb.; assistant roadmaster and then trainmaster at Sheridan, Wyo., and assistant superintendent, with office at St. Paul, Minn., which position he resigned on July 1 to return to the Rock Island Lines as superintendent at Cedar Rapids.

Traffic Officers.

pany.

All matters pertaining to freight and passenger traffic, also loss, damage and overcharge claims, should be addressed to Mr. Minson:

H. F. Bostwick, traveling passenger agent of the New York Central Lines at Oklahoma City, Okla., has been appointed traveling passenger agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, the Michigan Central and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, with office at Kansas City, Mo., succeeding C. W. Green, resigned, to engage in other business; C. L. Holloway succeeds Mr. Bostwick.

G. W. Roberts has been appointed district freight and passenger agent of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, with office at Astoria, Ore., succeeding C. F. Overbaugh, resigned to engage in other work. J. H. O'Neill, traveling passenger agent at Portland, Ore., has been appointed district passenger agent of that company and the Southern Pacific, with office at Seattle, Wash., succeeding E. E. Ellis, resigned.

J. L. McPherson, civil and mining engineer, has been placed in charge of the industrial department of the White Pass & Yukon Route, comprising the Pacific & Arctic Railway & Navigation Company, the British Columbia Yukon Railway, the British Yukon Railway and the British Yukon Navigation Company, with office at Skaguay, Alaska. The purpose of this department is to investigate the mining resources of Alaska and the Yukon territory contiguous to the transportation property and to aid in its development.

L. A. Burritt has been appointed agent of the Interstate Despatch, with office at Chicago, succeeding F. J. Bouchard, assigned to other duties. George E. Roemer, agent at Kansas City, Mo., has been appointed traveling freight agent, with office at Chicago, and J. P. Hayes succeeds Mr. Roemer. C. R. Dassell has been appointed traveling freight agent, with office at Cincinnati, Ohio, succeeding H. P. Crume, resigned, and F. H. Montgomery has been appointed traveling freight agent, with office at Cleveland, Ohio.

William O. Houston, who has been appointed division engineer of the Michigan Central, with office at St. Thomas, Ont., as has been announced in these columns, was born October 30, 1878, at Burlington, Kan. He was educated at the University of Michigan, and in the summer of 1901 began railway work as rodman on the Michigan Central. From 1902 he was consecutively topographer and draftsman on location on an electric road, assistant engineer on the Ann Arbor Railroad, instrument man on the Michigan Central, and from 1905 to 1909 with the New Orleans Great Northern, first as resident engineer, then division engineer and later chief engineer. During 1909 he was with the Michigan Central as assistant engineer, and the next year was engineer in charge of construction of the Nevada Central. In 1911 he returned to the Michigan Central as assistant engineer, was made construction engineer early in 1912, and on June 15 was appointed division engineer, with office at St. Thomas, Ont.

Purchasing Officers.

J. A. Strubel, assistant to the receivers of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton at Detroit, Mich., has been appointed assistant to the receiver and purchasing agent, with office at Detroit.

Berton Allen Aikens, whose appointment as purchasing agent of the Michigan Central, with office at Detroit, Mich., has been announced in these columns, was born August 25, 1869, at

Hartford, Vt., and he received a public school education. He began railway work on April 1, 1889, with the Central Vermont Railroad. On April 1, 1899, he became a clerk in the office of the purchasing agent of the Rutland Railroad, was subsequently chief clerk in that office, then assistant storekeeper, and on February 1, 1905, was promoted to purchasing agent, which office he resigned on July 1 to become purchasing agent of the Michigan Central, and, effective July 11, to become also general tie agent of that road, the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern; the Lake Erie & Western; the Lake Erie, Alliance & Wheeling; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis; the Peoria & Eastern, the Cincinnati Northern; the Toledo & Ohio Central; the Zanesville & Western, and the Chicago, Indiana & Southern.

B. A. Aikens.

OBITUARY.

Stewart S. Neff, who was superintendent of the Boston Elevated Railway in its early years, died on July 12, in Chelsea, near Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. Neff was born on October 24, 1858, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y. He began railway work in 1881 as transitman on the Pennsylvania. He was in the roadway department of that road for about six years, and then for four years was superintendent of the Cornwall Railroad. From March, 1891, to June, 1892, he was a superintendent on the Great Northern. In 1895 he was superintendent and chief engineer of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming. In October, 1897, he went to the Union Elevated Railroad of Chicago, and he left that position in May,

Car & Foundry Company, and 50 caboose cars from the Haskell & Barker Car Company.

THE ERIE has ordered 500 forty-ton coke cars from the Pressed Steel Car Company; 300 forty-ton automobile cars from the American Car & Foundry Company, and 25 suburban coaches and 11 combination passenger and baggage cars from the Standard Steel Car Company.

IRON AND STEEL.

THE DENVER, LARAMIE & NORTH WESTERN is in the market for 5,000 tons of rails.

THE CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL is in the market for 1,000 tons of structural material.

THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO has ordered 7,000 tons of structural steel from the Pennsylvania Steel Company.

THE LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN has ordered 480 tons of bridge material from the American Bridge Company.

GENERAL CONDITIONS IN STEEL.-According to steel manufacturers, the demand for steel products continues large, in spite of the fact that the present season is usually dull. New business has exceeded production for the last six or eight months and the steel companies are beginning to receive the full benefits from the advanced prices. One of the most encouraging features is the heavy buying on the part of the railways, for this has exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. On account of the heavy demand for rails, particularly for open-hearth rails, the market for re-rolled rails has considerably broadened, and operations of this class are increasing. All the mills of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company are running at full capacity and the wage increase just announced by that company will affect almost 6,000 workmen. It is said that this increase will average about 10 per cent. to the workmen employed on the hourly basis.

The Italian minister of public works has approved a project for the construction of a new railway which is to connect Rome with Ostia, a harbor at the mouth of the Tiber river.

Surveys have been made for a line from Shivrajpur, India, via Vamankua, to Pani, about 161⁄2 miles. Shivrajpur is the terminus of the Champaner-Shivrajpur Railway, a short line which has a feeder in the Bombay, Baroda & Central Indian Railway. The new line will have a 2-ft. 8 in. gage.

The 80 mile section of the Bagdad railway, Asia Minor, from Dorak to the foot of the Amanus mountains, was opened to traffic on April 27. Other sections of about the same length from Aleppo to the Amanus mountains and towards the Euphrates river will be opened during the present year. Construction work will soon be started on the section running north from Bagdad, and also on the branch line from Alexandretta, and it is expected that these lines will be completed next year. The Turkish government has decided to abandon Kowit as a terminus of the Bagdad railway in favor of a harbor in the Khor Abdullah, a long narrow inlet at the head of the Persian Gulf, which has for some time been recommended as a suitable terminus for this railway.

The Argentine government granted a concession for the construction of a 340-mile line which will begin at the port of Colonia, opposite Buenos Aires, pass through the center of the country in a southwest to northeast direction, and end at San Luis on the Brazilian frontier. It will be in two sections; one from Colonia to Trinidad, the capital of the department of Flores, and one from that point to San Luis. The government guarantees a dividend of 31⁄2 per cent. on the latter section. The company undertakes to develop the port of Colonia, and to spend at least $1,250,000 on tug-boats and lighters; also to colonize 5,300 acres of land between Colonia and Durazno, and 10,640 acres between this latter city and San Luis, near the line of the railway; and for this purpose to bring into the country at least 1,000 families for this purpose. In San Luis the new railway will have connection with the Brazilian line that runs via Bagé and Passo Fundo to Rio de Janeiro, and part of which is under construction, part already built. Later it is intended to continue this line to Bahia and Pernambuco.

Supply Trade News.

Harry N. Turner has been made eastern railway representative of the Kay & Ess Company, Dayton, Ohio, succeeding D. L. Paulus, who died at his home in Atlantic City, N. J., June 20.

Isaac Block has been made president of the Davenport Locomotive Works, Davenport, Ia., succeeding Hyman Michaels, who died July 10. This company has opened a branch office in the First National Bank building, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Templeton, Kenly & Company, Ltd., Chicago, have moved their Chicago offices and shops from 1335 Sloan street to their new plant at 1016-1024 South Central avenue. A switch from the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal connects with this plant. John T. Dickerson has been appointed sales engineer of the Strauss Bascule Bridge Company, Chicago, in charge of the eastern territory, with headquarters at New York, succeeding C. G. Bartram, resigned. Mr. Dickerson has been associated with the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company, Chicago, in its engineering and sales departments for the past seven years and was previously engaged in engineering work for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and other roads.

The McKeen Motor Car Company, Omaha, Neb., has received an order from the Australian government for five 200 h. p. narrow-gage motor cars to be delivered at Brisbane, Australia, by January 1, 1913. This is the second order for internal combustion cars received by the company from Australia. The cars are similar to those built for use in this country, with the exception that the rear and front ends are equipped with the English standard style of spring buffers. The cars are for 3 ft. 6 in. gage track and are 59 ft. long.

R. L. Sites, formerly assistant to president of the Wm. J. Oliver Manufacturing Company, New York, and who has represented that company in the New York territory for the last 18 months, has been given an exclusive agency in this territory by that company for the sale of the Oliver dump cars, spreaders, industrial cars, etc. Mr. Sites will retain his present offices at 50 Church street, and will handle, in addition to the above line, two or three other lines of contractors' equipment. He will maintain an agency in connection with the Lines-Flynn Company, New York.

The stockholders of the Hall Signal Company, New York, by a majority of nearly 90 per cent., have approved the modified plan of the readjustment committee, mentioned in the Railway Age Gazette of July 12. The fixed charges of the company will be increased immediately from $15,000 to $75,000, as the old $250,000 mortgage will still be carried, and after four years these charges will be increased to $125,000, as $50,000 of the debenture bonds must then be called annually. It is expected, however, that the increased obligations of the new company will be more than offset by the increase in business. The subscriptions are payable in five instalments of 20 per cent. each, the first being due at any time now upon ten days' notice. The readjustment committee will arrange a one-year loan covering the third, fourth and fifth payments, if subscribers so desire.

TRADE PUBLICATIONS.

PNEUMATIC TOOLS.-The Thomas H. Dallett Company, Philadelphia, Pa., has published bulletin No. 304 on pneumatic wood carving tools, a new application of pneumatic tools. This bulletin is illustrated and includes detailed descriptions. Prices are also given.

WHEEL PRESSES.-The Watson-Stillman Company, New York, has published catalog No. 85 on its hydro-pneumatic wheel presses, illustrating three types of these presses and listing and describing over 70 variations in type and size of from 60 to 600 tons capacity.

WELDING AND CUTTING APPARATUS.-The Alexander Milburn Company, Baltimore, Md., has published a catalog of its oxy-acetylene welding and cutting apparatus and welding supplies. This catalog is illustrated, and includes concise descriptions of the different outfits and brief accounts of the various uses to which they may be put. A supplementary pamphlet furnishes the prices.

THE HE movement for the organization of a "See America First Association," which was recently started at Chicago, has gained considerable headway and seems to have favorable prospects of success. The idea is by no means new, and the plans proposed simply apply the principles of co-operation on a broad scale to methods which have long been followed by the railways and others interested in the exploitation of America's points of interest. It would seem that, if rightly managed, a nation-wide campaign of education, conducted co-operatively by the transportation, commercial and hotel interests, and in accordance with well-defined policies, to arouse interest in the innumerable scenic attractions of this country among those who now spend millions of dollars annually in foreign travel, should accomplish much. As has been noted in our news col

umns, the plan had its origin at an informal dinner attended by railway passenger representatives in Chicago on May 27, and at a meeting of representatives of Chicago terminal lines on June 28 it was tentatively decided to go ahead with the plans outlined and form a permanent organization. A temporary board of managers was appointed, and at a meeting on July 9 it was decided to call a mass meeting to be held in Chicago in October at which the various interests and communities will be authoritatively represented by delegates to discuss the plan of a permanent organization in detail. It is proposed that membership shall consist of both rail and water carriers, chambers of commerce, boards of trade, civic organizations, hotels and hotel associations and others interested in serving the tourist public. In the meantime the temporary committee will hold conferences with representatives of the press, commercial interests and advertising men to learn the extent of the co-operation which may be expected. Many letters and personal assurances of support have been received by the members of the committee from railway passenger officers throughout the country and several organizations, including the Travelers' Protective Association and the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, have shown marked interest.

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T has been estimated that approximately $400,000,000 is expended annually in Europe by American tourists, many of whom know comparatively little of the equally interesting attractions of their own country. It is believed that an active, permanent, co-operative organization may make it possible to carry on the advertising necessary to divert much of this business from foreign channels. The means by which the work of such an organization will be supported is, of course, a vital point to be considered, and the practicability of the plan will depend very largely on the success with which the danger from the natural jealousies and rivalries of sections and the competition of conflicting interests are avoided. The call for the meeting at which the preliminary organization was formed suggested a development of the community plan of advertising, by which civic organizations of various communities might be induced to appropriate certain sums to be added to the amounts now expended by the railways in advertising the scenery and other attractions of their territories, and the whole amount used to gain results which could not be achieved by less united and systematic methods. Under this plan all appropriations will be expended in the interests of the localities represented by the contributors, which should eliminate the possibility of arousing sectional jealousy. It has also been proposed to enlist the support of the federal, state and municipal governments. be found that the various railway and other interests are disposed to prefer to retain in their own hands control of their entire expenditures for the exploitation of their local or sectional attractions and resources as at present. But the co-operative plan, on its face, presents many interesting possibilities which are calculated to appeal alike to the patriotism of all Americans and the self-interest of many classes of business men.

It may

ABOUT four months ago the president of the Burlington

sent a letter to the governors of the states through which his line runs regarding the trespassers who are killed on railways. In the course of it he said, "If the average for the last ten years is holding good, fourteen people were killed yesterday while trespassing on the railways, whose deaths were wholly unnecessary and under proper laws might have been avoided; fourteen were killed today, and fourteen will be killed tomorrow. And yet, chiefly because these fourteen people who are killed daily meet their deaths in fourteen different places, almost no public notice is taken nor concern manifested." But, Mr. Miller said in this connection, "If a wreck should take place tomorrow in which fourteen people should die, the news of it would be widely printed over the country." It was the irony of fate that in so short a time a collision accident took