The Frisco Employes' Magazine, June 1928 - Springfield-Greene ...

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60 Hours 

6 Positions 

*- 

Where Time 

Must Never Fail- 

I 

T has becn truly said that " no~vhere is time used 

~vith more csactitucle than on America's railroads." 

And this condition of affairs-brought about by the 

Nation's transportation needs - is responsible for the 

procluction of such high-grade watches ns the Illinoisbuilt 

espcciallv for I-nilroad use. 

The inrtkcrs of Illinois watches are not content 

incre1~- tu mcet railroad time inspection stanclards, 

but dre ever building for gre'l ter accut-dcy and greater. 

dependability. 

Ask vour je~vcler to s1io11, you the Dunn Special, a 

21 jewel I\.\ ~ t ~ of l rare i value, or the Sr~njiclmo Specidl. n. 

2; le.i~,el ~vatcli, the finest that .ive build, both ailjusteci 

to six positions and redy for sixty hours running 

11-ithoct rewinding. 

ILLINOIS \LrATCHES 

SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS 

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Illinois Watch 

"High Grade * Exclusively " 

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Penancola is sltmtcd on Penaacola 

Bay and has tho best facllirles of 

any harbor on the Gulf. The maln 

line OK the Frlaco now enters Pen- 

mcola, to take care of passenger 

and frelght srrvicc. Here you have 

an excellent harbor for shlpmentv 

ria water . . . and the Frlscn for 

inland transportation. 

Trade Territory 

The opening or Lhe new lWaco Line 

has created a greater outlet for Lhe 

producta of thls reglon. In terms 

of modern development, Pemrrroln 

and tho surrounding territory is 

pract:ci~lly In ita lnlnncy . . . 

aUordlng ~lmln terrltory for many 

linen of buslness . . . offering 

excellent resources and new fields 

lor Industry. 

SACOLA 

The Garden Spot of 

America 7 7 7 Where the 

FRISCO meets the Gulf 

PPORTUKITT awaits you here, where Nature has en- 

dowed this T.T/'oszderf'ul City of Advantages with every- 

thing in her power to bestow. Sun-kissed skies weld 

their welcome on the bosom of Pensacola Bay, which can easily 

offer harborage to the entire commercial ileet of the world. 

Pensacola is the biggest red snapper fishing port on the Gulf 

Coast, and ships more of these red beauties to the interior 

cities than all other Gulf Ports combined. 

Many advantages are offered to prospectors far-sighted enough 

to visua.lize the undeveloped areas of cut-over lands that are 

within close proximity to this city. 

FOR FULL PARTICULARS WRITE TO 

J. H. BAYLISS, Mayor. 

ADRIAN E. LANGFORD, E. E. HARPER. 

Corn. of Streets and Public Works. Corn. of Police and Fire Dept. 

CITY OF PENSACOLA 

"The Wonderful City of Advantages" 

STATION WCOA. 249.9 Meter Wave Length. ON THE AIR MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS at 8:00 P. M. 

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EMPL.OYE CO-OPERATION 

An ope)) letter to tlia rr?ljlloycs of the Frisco SYS~EIII: 

'l'lie employcs of the great Frisco System antl the American Steel Sr Wire Company stand 

together to serve the public, each one in his own way doing what he can to help the other. 

During the last twenty-five years tlie railroads of this country have made wonderful progress 

antl the FRISCO SYSTEM stands out as one of the leaders in giving the public improved ser- 

vice. In this great work the employes of the American Steel & Wire Company have in a small 

way, lielped the eniployes of the Frisco Systcm by supplying them with many kinds of wire and 

steel products, such as steel fence posts and woven \\ire fencing to keep live stock and trespass- 

ers OR the right-of-way so trains could be moved quickly. l'heir rail bonds and signal wires 

have also helped. 

Many improvements have been made in the manufacture of steel and wire and to-day the 

.American Steel & if%-e Company stands out as one of the leaders furnishing quality products. 

From our vast ore fields we select just the right kind of iron ore for each kind of wire antl all 

through our steel nlills and wire mills our employes stand ready to help the employes of another 

great system-The Frisco, in serving the public. 

Railroad executives know that it pays to buy quality antl the men -ON how wwroveli wire fencing is made and how 

to get the best service out of it. \\.ntch lor the nest issue. 

American Steel GQ Wire Company 

SALES OFFICES : 

CHICAGO. 208 So. La Salle St. DALLAS, Praetorian Bldg. 

ST. LOUIS. 506 Olive St. DBNVER. First Sational Bank BIdg. 

KANSAS CITY, MO., 417 Grand 4ve. LOS ANGELES, 2087 E. Slansson Ave. 

SAN FRANCISCO, Russ Bldg.

THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 

ROOM 743 FRISCO BUILDING :: ST. LOUIS 

WM. L. HUGGINS. Jr.. Editor 

MARTHA C. MOORE. Assoclale Edltor WM. McMILLAN. Adoerllslng Manager 

H. A. PICKENS. Asst. Ed.-Frlsco Mechanic J. J. KAPLAN. Adoerllslng Sollcllor 

Vol. V JUNE. 1928 No. 9 

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Permission is given to reprint, with or without credit, 

in part or in full, any article appearing in this Magazine 

Contents of This Issue 

Pages 

Frisco's Yale Terminal Opened May 27 ............................................................................. 4- 6 

President Kurn Lauds Personal Contact ................................................................................ 7 

Gross Revenue Decrease $.5,146,470 ........... . ................................ : ...................................... 8 

Five Traffic Officers Promoted ................................................................................................... 9 

Sews of the Frisco Clubs .............. . .... . ....................................................................... 10-1'7 

Rough Handling Shows Increase First Four Months of 1928 ............................................. 18 

Vet's Reunion Plans Completed ................. . .......................................................................... 20 

Frisco Passenger Trains 97.4 Per Cent on Time in April ...................... . ...................... 21 

Mechanical Department on Southwestern Wins No-Accident Cup ................ . .... . ...... 22 

For Meritorious Service .................................................................................................................. 24 

Locomotive Fuel Performance Records ............................................................. . ......... 26-27 

The Pension Roll ........................................................................................................................... 30-:31 

Homemakers' Page ................ . ...................................................................................................... 32 

Pastime .................... . .................................................................................................................... 33 . 

The Twilight Hour ................. . .... . ............................................................................. 34-35 

Editorials ........................................................................................................................................... 36 

Flashes of Merriment ...................................................................................................................... 37 

I'risco Mechanic ........... . ............................................................................................................... 3s-45 

(An Airplane Photo of the Yale Terminals Appears on Pages 4@41) 

Frisco Family News ...................................................................................................................... 4.5-4s 

THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 

The Frlsco Employes' Magazine Is a monthly publlcatlon devoted primarily to the interests 

of the more than 30,000 actlve and retired employes of the Frlvco Llnes. It conrains stories, 

iterns of current news, personal notes ihbout employes and tl~eir families. articles dealing 

with various phases of railroad work, poems, cartoons and norices regnrdino the serrlce. Good 

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when requested. A11 cartoons and drawings must be in black India drawing ink. 

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written, on one side of the sheet only, and should be addressed to the Editor. Frisco Bullding. 

St. Louis, .\lo. 

Distributed free among Frisco employes. To others, price 15 cents a copy; sulmcription rate 

$1.50 a year. Advertising rates wlll be made known upon application. 

MEMBER

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FRISCO'S YALE TERMINALS OPEN MAY 27 

T 

Memohis. Tenn.. May 27:- 

HE new south welcomed its length, which the fiisco virtually 

NeW $/,750,000 Plant Will most modern railroad termi- constructed, and of the two new 

nal here today, with open- Expedite Traffic from North- bridges, one over the yards at 

ing this morning of the Frisco Otey Avenue and the other cross- 

Linesp new $1,750,000 facilities at e r n Ga t e w a s to PO r f a f ing at the county road, at east end 

Yale, Tenn. The present termi- Pensacola, Fla. 

nal will care for the work form- 

erly divided between the three 

small Frisco yards at Yale, Harvaril, pacity of the train yards is 1,427 cars, 

Ark., and Memphis, and the latter two that the north and south bound rip 

yards were permanently closed today. yards can accommodate 346 more 

- The new -operating lant of the 

Frisco has been under construction 

since February, 1927, when the flrst 

grading began. Completed, it com- 

prises 176 acres in a strip 1,000 feet 

wide and one and one-half miles long. 

Present needs of the road will require 

only 60 per cent of the space now 

available, but within seven years the 

entire development will be installed. 

Most complete of any rail temi- 

nals constructed within recent years, 

the Yale improvement contains 36 

miles of track, (exclusive of five 

miles of main line track which skirt 

the north edge of the yards) and rep- 

resent a tremendous inrestment in 

track, buildings and machinery. The 

eleven new buildings constructed 

are worth $600,000 and contain ma- 

chinery valued at $180,000 more. The 

new buildings are in addition to four 

which remain for use in maintaining 

the facilities. 

An average of one hundred and flfty 

men were employed on the construc- 

tion work of the plant at all times, 

and the total payroll of the job ap- 

proximated $400,000. Between 600 

and 806 men will be employed in the 

mechanical and yard facilities of the 

new terminal. 

Memphis has been familiar with 

the Yale yards of the Frisco for many 

years, since the road first constructed 

a small yard there for freight trains 

operating on the Tupelo sub of the 

Southern division. Later the plant 

grew to the necessary size for the 

reconstruction of coal and wooden 

freight cars. 

Recently, with the acquisition by 

the Frisco of the Muscle Shoals, Birm- 

ingham and Pensacola Railroad, and 

the su'bsequent construction of the 

connecting link from Aberdeen, Miss.. 

on the Frisco's Southern division 

south to Kimbrough where a connec- 

tion with the M. S. B. & P. was 

This article oit orte of tlte most 

irrtporta~it Frisco improvemettts rn 

years wottld be irtcomplcte without 

iiroi-c tlrorr a passirtq nrerrtion of the 

limit who dcsigrrcd &/re Yale Ternri- 

nols arrd szrperiittended their cow 

slructiorr. 

l'hrit mm .is Jlr. F. A. Pollak, 

ossistnrrt ciryoteer. who has been 

with Frisco Lirtrs since 1903 and who 

has bcoc iir chnrqe of ~rruclt zm- 

portarct designing and developing 

work. 

Working urzdrr Col. F. G. Jonah, 

chicf engineer, Mr. Pollak has And 

ckni-gc of the construction of the 

West Tdsn, East Thoinas, Ltnden- 

zoood nrld Pensacola ter~nitrals, and 

has brcn tn cor~t~nnrtd of various 

other yard projects in his capacity 

of assistant cngirtcr~ irt charge of 

terminal and yard design. 

After five years with the Chicngo 

nitd Alta as n rodntatz, Mr. Pollak 

cariic to the Frisco iil 1903 in the 

sanw capacity alrd adzanccd rapidly 

up the lndder of the enginerring de- 

partinertt. Jlzrting the presidcrtry of 

Jlr. R. F. Yoakuin. Pollak had charyr 

of the designing of the New Orleans, 

Galvcstolt and Houston tei-rrrimls. 

and was for six ?fats-190>-1912- 

residcrt t and dir:tsro~r engrneer at 

I-loliston for the Trinity and Brazos 

Valley road, then a Frisco-Rock Is- 

InnJ project. He rcns prolitoted to 

his prrsmt position irr 1914. 

.Mr. Pollnk hns been on the ground 

nt I'nlc nlnrost constnntly since the 

project zcus started in February, 

1927. -CV. L. H., Jr. 

Readers are requested to turn 

to pages 40 and 41. The aerial 

view of the yards shown there, 

taken from a plane at 1,000 feet, 

outlines in detail the layout of 

the terminals. Readers will be 

able readily to identify each par 

tion of the yards and the build- 

ings discussed in this article. 

made, the question of a larger and cars, and the coach yards 76 coaches. 

modern terminal presented itself and One hundred and seventy-two coal 

the Yale terminals opened here today cars under construction can be ac- 

make adequate reply. commodated in the north rip yards 

Memphians proudly inspected the where that work is done. 

aew facilities today. They were proud of the two new 

They were infomned that the ca- public highways three miles in 

of yard, which cost the Frisco 

$lS0,000. The Frisco constructed 

road approaches to Otey Avenue 

of 1% miles, crossing at the center of 

the yards. This bridge is 1,600 

Ceet long and contains seven steel 

spans 140 to 175 feet in each span. A 

500-foot timber approach leads to the 

south end and the roadway on the 

spans is constructed of reinforced 

concrete slabs. The county road 

bridge at the east end of the yards 

(not shown in center spread photo), 

is 2.50 feet long and of steel and wood 

construction. 

First inspection, of course, was of 

the gigantic twenty-four stall round- 

house, the largest on the Frisco sys- 

tem. Ten additional outside tracks 

supplement the twenty-four inside 

stalls, which are serviced by a 100- 

foot turntable. -All repairs except 

Class C (complete repairs) will be 

given Frisco locomotives in this mod- 

ern frame and steel structure. All 

piping in the roundhouse, is electric- 

ally welded. Mechanical men pointed 

especially to another modern innova- 

tion, the six especially constructed 

pits which enable machinists to re- 

move drivers. trailers and tank 

wheels. Another mechanical device 

of merit is the 10-ton Mono-Rail 

system, electrically operated, which 

serves the north hale of the round- 

house. This device connects with all 

drop pits and affords direct move- 

ment of all repair parts into the ma- 

chine shop to the west of the round- 

house. The building is completely 

equipped with the National Boiler 

Washing Company's plant. 

The water system serving the yard 

has been ingeniously constructed. One 

steel tank of 100,000 gallons located 

at the south side of the roundhouse, 

and one 50,000 gallon wooden tank 

adjacent to the main line at the north 

side of the yards for exclusive use 

of through passenger and through 

freight trains, care for the water sup- 

ply. The larger tank serves the 

roundhouse and main line tank. 

Since a terminal can work no more 

rapidly than its fueling system, one 

400 ton concrete coaling station lo- 

cated just east of the roundhouse 

serves four tracks. Another 50 ton 

steel coaling station serves the main 

line trains, and two fuel oil storage 

tanks on the main line with 20.000 

gallon capacity care for the main line

June, 1928 Page 5 

oil burning engines. Both the coal stations 

are electrically operated and coal 

is loaded and dumped automatically. 

The power house located at the 

southwest side of the roundhouse is 

40 by 90 feet in dimensions, built of 

steel frame with concrete floors and 

fully fireproofed as to roof and sides 

R i t h Johns-Mansville Corrugated 

Transite. The power house is topped 

by a concrete stack 180 feet high 

and is equipped with two Casey Hedges 

boilers of 460 horsepower each. The 

boilers supply superheated steam 

throughout the entire plant. They 

are equipped with Greene Chain 

Stokers, electribal'ly operated. 

machine room end has 

The 

one steam operated 

air compressor with a 

capacity of 1,300 cubic 

feet and two electrically 

operated compressors 

of 750 cubic . 

feet capacity each. By 

an elaborate system 

of overhead piping, 

roundhouse facilities, 

coach yards, t r a i n 

yards, rip yards and 

various buildings, are 

all served with air 

from the power plant. 

Another feature is the 

modern coal and ash 

-- 

Mono-Rail system and necessary jib- 

cranes. 

Over in the roundhouse wash and 

locker building, steel lockers line the 

walls of 32 ,by 160 foot structure. It, 

too, has a steel frame, transite roof 

and sides, and a floor of concrete. 

Careful designing has insured the 

maximum amount of comfort for em- 

ployes, with adequate and modern 

toilet facilities and sufficient shower 

baths to accommodate 500 men. The 

white employes in the roundhouse 

and shops, locomotive engineers and 

crete floor. The lumber yard is 

connected with dolly tracks which 

enable direct movement of materials 

through the shop to either of the rip 

yards beyond to the west. The build- 

ing is equipped with twenty-five vari- 

ous .types of wood work machinery. 

4 shavings burner at the west end of 

the building, nine feet in diameter 

and 59 feet high, burns all shavings 

and other refuse. 

The car department storeroom, to 

the southwest of the mill shop (not 

distinguishable in air view) is conven- 

iently located to serve both rip yards. 

It is of frame construction. 40 by 60 

feet with an unloading platform with 

'six -- car - canacitv. It 

also has a-40 by 200 

foot storage platform 

built of cinders for the 

storage of repair parts 

and material for comp 

1 e t e building of 

freight cars. 

The car department 

wash and 1 o c k e r 

building is 32 by 100 

f e e t in dimension, 

with steel frame, transite 

roofing and sides, 

and concrete floor. 

Like its sister building 

in the locomotive 

department it is comhandling 

plant, which 

enables direct delivery 

of fuel to the stok- 

The above pict.trr ,e shows the car-Dtrildi~g yards ot Yale iii 1926. zuhen the 

Plfl"! ~(1s used onljr for coi:sLrnctitrg coal cars. See po 'Yes 40 and 41 

for views of the yard os it is today. 

plete with showers 

and modern toilet facilities, 

with separers 

and direct removal 

of ashes from boilers into the cars. 

Storekeepers up and down Frisco 

firemen, switchmen and yardmen will 

use the ,building, and colored termiate 

compartments for 

white and negro employes. It will accommodate 

350 men. Both buildings 

Lines will delight in the new storeroom 

constructed at the Yale terminal 

employes will use a separate compartment. 

A unique feature of the 

are equipped with steam jets for complete 

sanitatlon in showers and 

nals, 40 by 140 feet in dimensions, biiilding is an emergency hospital basins. The necessary air brake and 

with a basement under the entire room, outfitted with emergency kits paint shops and dope vats for prelength. 

The building is of steel and and facilities. 

paring packing, are also in the car 

fully fire-proofed with Johns-Mansville (Ed. Note: If readers will refer department end of the unit. 

Transite, and the necessary unloading to air photo of the Yale terminals The classifying yards of the termfplatforms 

have an eight-car capacity. they will find that the story thus far nal appear at the right center of the 

The storage platforms for castings, has covered all buildings in the yards air view photo and are connected with 

brasses and heavy repair parts and 

track materials, are built on the 

proper up to the Otey avenue bridge. 

We are now crossing under the bridge 

a semi-hump to afford gravity switching 

across a 200-ton track scale 60 

ground level of cinders, with wooden into the car department facilities.) feet long. This scale is the largest 

-7 curbs. The building is equipped with 

steel shelves, and strict attention was 

The car department wheel shop is 

40 'by 140. feet in dimension, of steel 

on our system and can weigh the biggest 

locomotive in the service. The 

paid to accurate shelving and placing 

of materials. 

and transite with a heavy wood flooring. 

Wooden platforms for storing 

two additional switching leads may 

also be seen, which speed up switch- 

The Yale terminals machine shop 

-joy of the mechanical forces-is a 

building 60 by 200 feet of steel and 

transite, with concrete and wooden 

block flooring. The machine end 

car wheels, with a capacity for 3,000 

wheels are provided, with necessary 

unloading dock equipped with overhead 

air cranes for unloading wheels 

and axles. The machinery in this 

ing and classifying of cars independent 

of the scale. These leads 

will also enable the work to be done 

with less locomotive working. 

At the extreme right of the photo, 

pruper measures 60 by 160 feet and 

the blacksmith shop 60 by 40 feet. 

The machinery includes 15 distinct 

types, capable of performing all work 

which might be assigned to the Yale 

plant. The blacksmith shop is complete 

with steain hammers, brass furshop 

consists of three wheel lathes, 

one wheel press, and many small machines 

necessary for a modern and 

complete wheel shop. The blacksmith 

portion of the building has furnaces, 

s t e a m hammers, shearers, a n d 

punches for steel car work. 

outside the terminal proper, may be 

seen the buildings of the Railways' 

Ice Company. This plant consists of 

two buildings, 60 by 200 feet. and an 

additional power plant unit for the 

making of ice. The plant has a capacity 

of 200 tons. The ice is delivnaces, 

oil furnaces, a flue "rattler", The lumber yard and wood work ered to the icing platform (seen just 

drill presses and so forth, and the 

entire buildlng is equipped with a 

shop is a frame building throughout. 

40 by 140 feet in dimenslon, with consouth 

of classification yards), by an 

(Now turn to Page 18, pleose)

!ws of New $1,750,000 Terminals at Yale, Tenn. 

R errd of steel bridgc, ouer 

4veittrc. 

LFT: Virw of rrtacltiirc 

sc was11 nrld locbcr. roolit, 

~ntcr ttrrlk aitd sottth~cwst 

714SC. 

rq nortlravst frorrr yartls 

bridge. 

AT RIGHT: Virw front south end of Ote~ Avemrc 

bridge, sho-iuitlg main. lead to coaclt yards, routtdhotrsc 

rvnslt ortd locker room. porwer I~orrsc, corrcretr 

sirtokc stnrk urrd 100,000 qallou steel taitk witit 400 I 

toit coal clrutc in ~IS~UIICC. 

A7' LEFT. RELOlV: Lookirtg .rksrst over ltrrrtber storage 

ynrd. irrto sotrtl~ rib yard. Sotrth~~est half oj e 

wood triill shob srerr trt e.ztrerrzc right of picttrrr. 

BEl-OW. .-IT RIGIIT: View frorrr coal clrtltc, Iookinq 

west nt t.userrty-four. stall rotuttllzotrsc with @/CJ~ A7w 

itue bridqe itr distance.

PRES. KURN LAUDS PERSONAL CONTACT 

"T was the topic of an a*- Urges - Better Understanding - ter conditioning 01 your fei101v 

- 

HE Contact of Business" ters which have to do with a bet- 

1 dress made at the annual 

dinner of the National Association 

of Railroad Tie Producers at Hot 

Springs, Ark., on April 26, by 

Between Fellow Workers In 

AddreSS Before Tie Pro- . - ~ - 

d - 

men? Can it be by taking no interest 

in the civic affairs of your 

community, or an absence of a 

proper participation in the func- 

President J. 31. Kurn of the 

tionings of society represented by 

Frisco. 

Church aud Club? 1 say, gentle- 

Mr. Kurn's address, and that of 

men, that if there be a tie as between 

formeiv Gov. Charles H. Brough of 

you and me, that there will have to 

Arlransas, were broadcast over Sta- 

be a contribution upon my part the 

tion KTHS at the Hotel Arlington. 

equal to or possibly the excess of 

President Kurn's address, which 

will be of interest to all employes, 

follows in full: 

Mr. President and Gentlemen: 

I cannot truthfully say that it is a 

pleasure for me to be where I am at 

this particular moment. None of us 

has ever been accused of being sym- 

11athetic to the fellow who is called 

upon to appear as an after-dinner 

talker or as a speaker before a function 

of this kind. Oftentimes I have 

thought that we were justifiable in 

assuming the somewhat careless, 

semi-hostile attitude towards a public 

speaker, but for the moment having 

ettempted to convey to you what my 

inward feelings are. I hope, in fact, 

I believe I know that I have your 

sympathy and possibly that will carry 

with it a reasonable support to some 

of the ideas which I might desire to 

convey to you. 

I surely do not wish to leave the 

your contribution, and you, in turn, 

have something to contribute beyond 

an exact equal division to the other 

fellow. So that in the end there is a 

functioning of a chain, each link of 

which must be the contribution of 

us all to the length and soundness 

thereof. It can be accomplished notwithstanding 

that me so frequently 

contend with onrselves that time is 

not possible. Every man, I believe, 

and possibly I should say every 

physically antl mentally well inan, can 

eff.iciently perform his responsibilities 

and at the same time find a time sufficient 

to give to that which will have 

for its effectiveness the establishing 

cf a tie as between us all. 

In the operation of a railroad property 

there are some of us called upon 

to deal with a relationship which may 

affect directly 30.000 employes, and 

collaterally 100,000 persons. I have 

always contended, and still do, that 

there can be established as between 

impression that it is not a pleasure of individualism, resulting, in many the men in an executive position and 

for me to fraternize with my fellow- instances. without a material benefit those upon whom he depends for a 

men. On the contrary, my entire life to the collective Rroup represented successful executive performance, a 

has been a constant endeavor to be by man. The ties I 11ave in mind, not tie that meaus much more than the 

that which every fellow likes to be- the ones which you produce, can be wooden tie which you produce, antl I 

a good fellow amongst men. There- accomplished through the associ- an1 not, in any sense, detrncting from 

fore. I must really and truthfully say ations of men. When one stops to the qualities of the tie as produced 

to you, notwithstanding my previous think that there are very few under- by you when I make this statement. 

remarks, that it is a genuine pleasure 

to be with you. Especially must 

this be the case when we stop to 

think that the very physical dependency 

of that which represents transtakings 

which do not require the support, 

the energies, the good mill, the 

directive influences of more than one 

man, you can readily comprehend 

what is uppermost in my mind when 

Now I have so frequently heard you 

say, and by you I mean your group as 

a whole, represented as you are to a 

very large extent by the Association 

representatives before me, that preserportation 

is that which you gentle- 1 say to you that the tie that I am vation is something to be attained if 

men produce-the tie, and, of course, talking about is something that I am the stability of your production is to be 

I would like to talk to you about the inclined to believe that in the rush upheld. Xow again I could talk to 

tie, its preservation, its conservation, of the individual activity is being you possibly interestingly about the 

and also its reforestation. Possibly, overlooked. How is this tie to be preservatioii of your tie, but I am gothe 

tie, the presen~ation, the conser- accluired? Can il be through the ing to talk about the preservation of 

vation aud the reforestation, terms activity of the private office? Can it the tie which I have just previously 

which you especially consider as com- be by demanding that every person addressed my self to. How can you 

mon in connection with your activ- who may have business with you expect to preserve the tie of relaities, 

can well be used by me as the shall await your pleasure? Can it tionship? Is there auy better way to 

base for that which is uppermost in be through the absence of intercourse accomplish this preservation than to 

my mind. The tie is absolutely es- with your fellow men? Can it be by adopt something which possibly 

sential in order to launch that which srabbing a sandwich or a glass of again you may agree with me is being 

is so necessary in connection with milk for a fifteen minute lunch? Can overlooked, and that is to sell ourour 

business activities. Without the 

tie as between men, there is a chaotic 

it be by not finding any time beyond 

the hours which properly should be 

selves to each other. How can this 

salesmanship be accomplished? I 

condition produced by the activities devoted to business to give to mat- (No:,? turu to page 23, plense)

GROSS REVENUE DECREASES $5,146,470 

D ESPITE a decrease in gross Eff icicn f and Econ om ica waswell maintained and gener. 

revenue for 1927, of $5,146,- ally improved, the report shows. 

470.00 as compared with the Ope rat ion Responsible fo r Some of the most important main- 

previous year, the St. Louis-San tenance projects included the lay- 

Francisco Railway Company, Decrease 'f Only $172157 l7 ing of 178 miles of new 100 pound 

through incfeased efficiency and in Net, Annual Report States rail, releasing lighter rail; appli- 

economies in operation, showed cation of 316,700 cubic yards of 

a decrease in net railway operat- (From the official press release of /\[ay 16.) ballast; the renewal of 1,410,680 

ing income of only $1,215,116.00, 

the annual report issued by that corn- St. Louis ICeiinett and Southeastern 

pany May 16 states. Railroad extends from Piggott, Ark., 

Freight earnings for 1927 decreased to Kennett, Mo., a total of 16.83 miles. 

$3,467,853.00 and passenger earnings Dividends on the company's pre- 

decreased ,$1.494.218.00. fcrred stock were paid during 1927 in 

All other' earnings show a decrease 

of $184,399.00. 

The Frisco's surplus after interest 

and taxes was $7,464,235 as compared 

with $7,546,153 in 1926. Taxes paid 

by the company for 1927 totaled $4,- 

992,531, equal to 5.52 per cent of its 

gross revenues, an increase of $150,143 

over the previous year. 

Operating conditions during 1927 

were the most unfavorable in many 

years the report states, due to ex- 

cessive rainfall over most of the ter- 

ritory traversed by the company's 

lines which resulted in unprecedent- 

ed floods, particularly in the Missis- 

sippi Valley during the spring and on 

two of its operating divisions during 

December. A cost in excess of $500,- 

000 was paid out in repairing resulting 

damage to the company's property. 

There was also a loss of revenue 

which cannot be established accurate- 

ly, resulting from interruption of train 

service, destruction of early crops and 

the termination in many cases of 

agricultural activities for the entire 

season. 

The expense of passenger train 

operations on branch lines was con- 

siderably reduced by the substitution 

of less expensive motor car sewice, 

resulting in a decrease of passenger 

steam train miles of 499,273 compared 

with 1926, while motor train miles in- 

creased 255,206 with a resulting de- 

crease in operating costs. 

The Frisco had a net credit for Hire 

of Equipment of $332,014.00 compared 

with a net debit for 1926 of $80,247. 

At the close of the year the coni- 

pany was operating 5675.86 miles of 

road, an increase of 79.68 miles over 

the ~revious year. The increase in 

~~ . 

mileage came from the acquisition of 

the Butler County Railroad Company 

and the St. Louis. Kennett and Southeastern 

Railroad Company which the 

Prisco bought on September 1, 1927. 

The Butler County Railroad extends 

from Poplar Bluff. Mo., to Piggott, 

Ark., and from Osprey to Tipperary, 

Ark., with a total of 50.35 miles. The 

- 

Frisco etnplojes read with concern 

the annual report of our company 

corttained irr the ~rrornbtg papers of 

May 16. They noted a decrease of 

wore than five i~rillions i~r gross, and, 

reading OH, found a corresponditrg dccrease 

of $1,215,117 in net railway 

operating ittcor~w. Students of our 

property kizew why, in the face of so 

great a decrease in gross, the net decrease 

was held so low. They realized 

that that co~ttine~rdablc showiirg in 

net incotne was ntade only by cotrsta~rt 

plriggiirg of snwll leaks, bjl great 

vigilance in operating orir property as 

efficiently arid ecotto~nically as possible. 

These same students of the road 

for which they work, realized that 

passenger trains wcrc operated with 

nlrrny vacaiit seats in 1927, cmd that 

freight engines pullcd less than capacity 

tonnage. 

Alrd tizany of tlrewr lrnderstood 

more co~np~etely than before, that 

their compatty tieeded help front its 

etrtployes in fillirlg thost empty sents 

and plackrg additioitnl box cars on i:s 

freight trains. 

Our 52 Frisco Enrploycs' Clrrbs were 

organized too late in 1927 to have 

iituch ii~flttence on br~sinrss via Frisco 

Lines. 8211 1928 shorild tell a differ- 

ent story. 

Those 52 clubs represent rnor-c than 

6.5 per cent of the employes on this 

road, and their potential infltreircc in 

securing passenger and freight traffic 

is bcilrg eagerly watched by the offi- 

cers of this company. 

Each employe should drive foranrd 

for niore business and a bigger and 

better Frisco in 1928. 

--W. L. H., Jr. 

quarterly installments at the rate of 

6% per annum. Dividends on the 

common stock were paid during 1927 

as follows; January 1, 1% per cent; 

April 1, 1% per cent, plus % per cent 

estra, July 1, 1% per cent plus j/a per 

cent extra; and October 1. 1% per cent 

plus % per cent extra. 

The Frisco property during 1927 

cross ties and the separation of 

12 highway grade crossings. 

That section of the report devoted 

to traffic, industrial and agricultural 

development shows a total of 337 new 

industries located on the Frisco Lines 

during 1927. It states also that a 

heavy freeze in the Ozarks on April 

21st practically destroyed the apple, 

grape and peach crop and reduced 

the production of strawberries from 

4,500 cars to 1,900 cars. Wheat pro- 

duction was one third that of 1926 due 

to adverse weather conditions. Floods 

in the Mississippi Valley result- 

ed in a heavy decrease in the ton- 

nage of colton, vegetables and other 

crops. Overproduction and state legis- 

lation restricting drilling caused a de- 

crease in tonnage of oil well supplies, 

the report states, and the shut down 

of the Ford plants and curtailment of 

output of other plants was responsible 

for the heavy reduction in earnings 

on automobiles and auto trucks. 

There was, however, a substantial in- 

crease in tonnage of poultry, eggs and 

dairy products. 

The report includes a eulogy of the 

late Mr. Festus J. Wade of St. Louis, 

a member of the Board of Directors 

who died September 28th; and ex- 

tended felicitations to officers and 

employes for faithful service during 

the year. 

AN ON-TIME RECORD 

Solicitors for LCL shipments of 

merchandise and package freight 

may point with pride to the record 

made on Frisco Lines for the 

month of April, with particular 

reference to merchandise cars 

operated out of Kansas City to 

schedule points, which shows the 

performance to be 99.8 per cent 

on time. 

LCL shipments out of St. Loufs 

showed an equally splendid per- 

formance of 97.7 per cent on time. 

"This is a very good record, and 

one which we are more than proud 

to have printed," writes Mr. J. H. 

Doggrell, superintendent of trans 

portation at Springfield.

1cne,1928 - Page 9 

A 

FIVE TRAFFIC OFFICERS PROMOTED 

XNOUNCEMENT of five 

important changes in the 

personnel of the traffic department 

was made May 15, from 

the St. Louis general offices. 

Mr. R. E. Buchanan, executive 

general agent at Memphis, Tenn., 

has been promoted to assistant 

traffic manager with headquar- 

ters at Pensacola, 

Fla. 

Mr. D. F. MC- 

Donough, division 

freight agent at 1 

Birmingham, Ala., 

becomes executive 

general agent a t 

Memphis. 

Mr. Chas. Thor- 

burn, traffic man- 

ager of the &I. S. 

B. & P. Railway at 

Pensacola, was ap- 

pointed g e n e r a 1 

agent, freight de- 

partment, Atlanta, 

Ga. 

Mr. J. E. Spring- 

er, whom Mr. 

Thorburn relieved, 

was appointed di- 

vision f r e i g h t 

agent at Birming- v 

ham. 

Mr. W. A. ICrowe, 

traveling freight agent at Memphis, 

was appointed division freight agent, 

with headquarters at Pensacola, Fla., 

reporting to Mr. R. E. Buchanan. 

Mr. Buchanan is a native of Oko- 

lona, Miss., and entered the service 

of the Frisco July, 

1897, at l\lemphfs; 

Tenn., in the ca- 

pacity of telegraph 

messenger. He 

worked in various 

capacities f r 0 m 

yard clerk in 

freight yard 

through the local 

office and was ad- 

vanced to chief bill 

clerk. IXe was later 

made chief clerk to 

t h e contracting 

freight agent, and 

then advanced to 

soliciting freight 

agent, and travel- 

ing freight agent 

and when the 

Frisco and Rock 

I s 1 a n d consoli- 

dated, he was made 

Buchanan, McDonough, 

Springer, Thorburn and 

Cro we to New Positi.ons 

May 15th. 

A 

R. E. BUCHANAK 

traveling freight 

agent-for both CHAS. THORBURN 

east of Jlemphis were put in the 

southeastern region. He was 

then made division freight agent 

and also held the position of 

southern export agent during the 

entire period of Federal Control 

and was made executive general 

agent in 1922. 

Mr. D. F. McDonough was born 

in Syracuse, N. Y., 

and entered the 

service of the old 

K. C. M. & B. Railroad 

at Birmingham, 

on December 

11, 1895. He was 

promoted to traveling 

freight agent 

Atlanta, Ga., Jan- 

uary~ 1, 1821; commercial 

agent. 

Birmingham, in 

1907; division 

freight agent at 

Birmingham, 1910; 

inspector of transportation,Springf 

i e 1 d , February, 

1918; d i v i s i on. 

freight agent, Joplin, 

Mo., March 1, 

1920, and division 

1 Freight agent, 

J. E. SPRINGER Birmingham, July 

1, 1920. 

lines. lken they separated in 1909 Chas. Thorburn is' a native St. 

he was made commercial azent at Louisan. He entered Frisco service' 

Chattanooga. Tenn. He returned to in 1900 as a rodman in the engineer- 

Memphis as commercial agent during ing department and had become as- 

Federal Control and retained this PO- sistant engineer in 1917. He enlisted 

sition up until the time that our lines in May, 1917, in the 128th Field Ar- 

tiliery and was dis- 

' charged in 19 2 01 

with the rank o f 

captain of en&: 

neers. He saw sew-. 

ice in France with 

the 36th division 

an'd after his re- 

turn to America in 

Se,ptember, 1 9 1 9 ; 

waa assigned to 

Mexican b o r d e r 

duty. with the 9tX ' 

Mounted E n g i - 

'nek'rst. He resumed' 

his work with' 

Frisco Lines as as- 

; sistalit engineer, 

following his army 

service, but trans- 

ferred to the traf- 

fiC department on4. 

- freight agent, a pcb' 

D. F. IICDONOUGH (Turii to Page 21)(

Pngc 10 

T 

NEWS of the FRISCO CLUBS 

Neodesha, Knrz. 

HE Frisco Employes' Club of Ne- 

odesha was host club at a ban- 

quet at Masonic Hall, May 8. to 

members of the Chanlbcr of Com- 

merce, the Rotary Club and the Lions 

Club and invited guests of all these 

organizations. The occasion mas 

termed "Frisco Night" and the at- 

tendance was approximately 200 per- 

sons. 

Frisco speakers included: J. E. 

Hutchison, vice-president, ol~eration, 

and J. W. Kourse, general passenger 

agent, both of St. Louis, and W. F. 

Lilleston, Prisco attorney for Kansas. 

Mr. Hutchison spoke on "Transpor- 

tation Problems." He briefly re- 

viewed transportation in America, 

and said that America had advanced 

rapidly because transportation always 

had been ahead of production and de- 

velopment. This situation he con- 

trasted with the situations in China 

and Russia, where, he said, famine 

may be in one part and opulence in 

another. 

Although not lamenting the coming 

of the motor car, Mr. Hutchison said 

that this competition of railroads 

should be made to bear its just share 

of building and maintaining the roads 

it uses. Often, he said, railroads must 

help to provide highways for their 

bus and truck competitors. 

Speaking of decrease in passenger 

business of America11 railroads, Mr 

Nutchison predicted that soon even 

the long distance passenger business 

will be snapped ap by the airplanes. 

All these things, he said, are com- 

bining to make acute the problems 

faced by the railroads. He added 

that either the railroads must have 

equitable treatment at the hands of 

the public or soon, like the stage 

coach and the canal boat. they must 

fold up their tents and drop out of 

the picture. He closed by expressing 

his appreciation for Neodesha's loyal- 

ty to the Frisco. 

Mr. Lilleston, Frisco attorney for 

Kansas, delivered a humorous ad- 

dress ,based on the adage that "There 

is nothing new under the sun." The 

veto power, the supreme court, the 

nullification of statute by judicial de- 

cision, the jury system, the eighteenth 

amendment and even the nineteenth. 

he asserted, represent no new 

thought. 

Mr. Nourse acknowledged his in- 

troduction to the assemblage with re- 

marks pertinent to the occasion and 

commendatory to the IWsco Em- 

ployes' Club of Neodesha. 

Other out-of-town Frisco visitors 

were: H. E. Morris, assistant general 

freight and passenger agent, Wichita: 

C. S. Underwood, traveling freight 

and passenger agent, Wichita; R. H. 

Grimes, yardmaster, Wichita; D. E. 

Gelwix, division engineer, Fort Scott; 

J. B. Gilliam, general car foreman, 

Kansas City: J. 0. Elliott, district 

claim agent, Joplin; C. R. Welch, 

ticket agent, Kansas City: B. Y. Nor- 

gan, roundhouse foreman, Wichita; 

4. C. Schermann, water service fore- 

man, Cherryvale, Kans.; J. H. Wat- 

son, special agent, Cherryvale, Kans.: 

C. K. Bennett, agent, Fall River, 

Kans.: George Taaffee, agent, Cherry- 

vale; F. L. Hamm, cashier, Cherry- 

vale. 

Out-of-town guests not with the 

Frisco included: 311.. Ellis, manager 

of the Fredonia. Sash & Door Corn- 

pany, Fredonia, Kans.; C. S. bIcGin- 

nis, mi resident of the Sauer Milling 

Company, Cherryvale; \V. H. Francis, 

manager of the United Clay Products 

Con~pany, Cherryvale; Leslie Jackson, 

proprietor, Cherryvale Grain Com- 

pany: Murray Diven, mayor of Cherry- 

vale and proprietor of the Family 

Shoe Store there; James Lewis, man- 

ager of the Spradling Fruit and Pro- 

duce Com'pany, and D. W. McKinley. 

president of the People's Bank, 

Cherryvale. 

E. E. Carter, division superintend- 

ent, Neodesha, was toastmaster for 

the banquet. 

Considerable business was obtained 

by members of the Frisco Employes' 

Club of Seoclcsha during the month 

preceding its business meeting of 

May 3, it mas reported at the latter 

meeting. 

Some of this business was as fol- 

lows: One railroad steam shovel, 

three c'ars of cattle, sixty-four cars 

of cattle, two cars of sash and door, 

thirty-two cars ol cattle, half of in- 

bound business of the Neodesha Daily 

Sun, ten cars of sand. During the 

month under consideration the Frisco 

handled out of Neodesha 602 cars of 

oil from one shipper. 

At this meeting Hiram 31. Cloud. 

dispatcher, was re-elected president of 

the club to serve until December. 

192s. and A. A. Malmgren was elected 

secretary, succeeding C. C. Fulton, to 

serve until December, 1928. Mr. 

Malmgren also was given the title of 

treasurer. 

The Frisco Employes' Club of Ne- 

odesha, Kan., held a box supper and 

square dance the night of April 19 at 

the American Legion Hall. Families 

and friends of members attended. 

also. 

The program: Solo dance, Miss 

Mary Fisher: recitation, Jackie Wil- 

liams; piano solo, hlasine Vanderhoff: 

reading, Miss Kena Mae Long; ad- 

dress, 2. B. Claypool, assistant di- 

rector, accident prevention, S~ring- 

field, No. Another visitor was C. S. 

Underwood, traveling freight and 

passenger agent, Wichita, Kan. 

F. S. Porter, engineer, auctioned 

the boxes of food. The music for 

the square dance was by Bill Dale

The photo,qrn.hl~ ubovc ,zi,rrs Itrlicrr nt tlrr "lficlr~~illc" Forty of tl~c 1;t. IVortlr Friscn C'ltrb. Muy /iftlr. Cosl1l111r ~ r k r 

7iwrr: 11orry Grnirgc~, (10.b vo,w, srz~~r1t11 frorr~ lcft); JIuc IWnItrip ~.WCOJI~ rozti, fifth Jroi~r lrfl), 7vci~r;ir.q 

drrss sc'.z!c~i~ty-/ii,r ymrs old: Mrs. C. G. 11ecl:lc~r (ii~rri~rdintel\~ trr~rler Iiqlrt), 7i'enrirry rlrl,ss 

seucrtly-tllrcc yaur-s old, her rrro~hcr's zi.rddirrg dress. 

and Jim Weldy. The square dance 

caused considerable amusement, es- 

pecially to spectators, because half of 

those taking part were unfamiliar 

with square dancing and were coached 

by the other half. 

Enid, Okla. 

The Frisco men at and around 

Enid pull together harmoniously and 

cheerfully, said H. C. Conley, division 

freight agent, Oklahoma City, in his 

talk before the meeting of the Frisco 

Einployes' Club of Enid, Okla., held 

April 18 in the office of S. J. Frazier, 

superintendent of the Western tlivi- 

don, Enid. The attendance was fifty- 

six. J. J. Bernard, president, was in 

the chair. 

There is not a mau on the Frisco 

pap roll who can't do something to 

increase the earnings of the Frisco, 

Mr. Conley said. H. R. Vance, engi- 

neer, Enid, said that "we should use 

our efforts to see that the bus lines 

are put under the same regulations 

as the railroads." 

A large number of traffic problems 

were discussed by the speakers who 

included: L. W. Price, division pas- 

senger agent. Oklahoma City; F. IIdle, Pittsburg, Kan., who gave two 

readings. 

Each member was given a "cup 

reading" after the luncheon. 

This club, organized recently. is 

gaining in favor among the members, 

reports Miss Edna A. Wooden, the 

secretary, and at each meeting more 

interest and enthusiasm are mani- 

fested, she said.

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The Frisco Ladies' Club of Tulsa 

gave its first entertainment, a carni- 

val dance, at the Elks Club, May 2. 

The attendance was approximately 200 

persops, among them several from out 

of town. 

This was probably the last dance 

the club will give this season, but 

several picnics are being planned and 

win be held at the new park near 

Tulsa, which is nearing completion. 

Ft. Worth, Texas 

One of the most unique programs 

yet presented by the Ft. Worth Frisco 

Employes: Club, was enjoyed by more 

than three hundred employes, their 

families and friends, on the night of 

May 5. 

The program was 

termed a "Hickville" 

skit, and old time costumes 

prevailed. Mrs. 

G. G. Beckley, wife of 

the claim agent at Ft. 

Worth was present, 

and wore a dress of 

brown and gold taffeta, 

which was 

seventy-three y e a r s 

old and was the wedding 

dress of he r 

mother. The program 

consisted of three 

numbers, the first a 

reading by little Miss 

Jean Moore, daughter 

of W. 0. Moore, president 

of the Ft. Worth 

club. Old time songs 

were messnted by the 

Misses Leda Belle 

Durrett, Irene R a y 

and* Ethel Freeman, 

accompanied by Miss 

Doris Rose Durrett. 

E. V. Marfield, assistant 

claim agent, 

and a comedian of 

note, presented 

"Tony's Speech," 

which was enthusiastically 

re c e i v e d . 

Prizes for the tackiest couple was 

awarded to Miss Mae Waltrip and 

Harry Granger. 

Dancing followed the program, and 

punch was served during intermission. 

Okeene, Okla. 

Wiley Stanley, section foreman, 

president of the Frisco Employes' 

Club of Okeene, Okla., opened the 

meeting of the club, held April 30, by 

asking that all members co-operate 

to make the club one of the best on 

the Frisco. He outlined his policy of 

asking merchants whom lie patronizes 

to have their groceries move into 

Okeene via Frisco. He asked each 

club member present not to be dilatory, 

but to keep in mind daily the 

importance of getting more business 

for the Frisco. 

Frank Scott, manager of thk 0. K. 

Transfer Conlpany, who is a member 

of the club, said that in his opinion 

the business the Frisco was getting 

at Okeene was due largely to the 

courteous treatment. afforded the pub- 

lic in general by all the employes 

of the Frisco there and the service 

which the public gets from the Frisco. 

He cited that recently the Frisco 

delivered ten cars of combines and 

gave consignee from two to three 

spots daily until unloaded, which, Mr. 

Scott said, probably will result in the 

Frisco obtaining all this consignee's 

business. Each one present was given 

an opportunity to say something. 

R. W. Boone, agent at Okeene and 

secretary of the club, talked on traf- 

fic solicitation and said that he was 

sure great help had been afforded 

him in obtaining business by each 

employe at Okeene and he urged each 

man on the pay roll at Okeene to re- 

member that he was a solicitor and 

that each such man never should pass 

up an opportunity to say something 

for the Prisco. He said that the har- 

vest season is near at hand, when 

there will be quite an increase in 

orders placed by local merchants for 

harvest supplies and that each Frisco 

employe should do his share in get- 

ting the merchants to ship in these 

supplies via Frisco. He added that 

if the employes would obtain this 

business it would speak in dollars to 

the Frisco. 

Cape Girardeau, iMo. 

Considerable .business has been ob- 

tained recently by members of the 

Frisco Employes' Club of Cape Girar- 

deau, the greater traffic committee of 

the club reported at the club's meet- 

ing, May 2. Fifteen members attended 

this meeting. 

Reports were made of quick han- 

dling of cars for Cape Girardeau cus- 

tomers of the Frisco. A social hour 

followed. ' 

Adoption of ,by-laws, the appoint- 

ment of Robert Karnmer as sergeant- 

at-arms and reports of 

traffic obtained by 

members constituted 

the principal business 

of the meeting of the 

F r i s c o Employes' 

Club of Cape Girar- 

deau, Mo., held April 

1S in the permanent 

headquarters o f t h e 

club, in the Knights 

of Columbus Ha 1 1. 

Thirteen members of 

the club were present. 

The greater traffic 

committee of the club 

reported that tkaffic 

had been obtained by 

the following mem- 

bers of the club: Ro- 

bert Kammer, one frill 

fare and one half fare 

passenger t i c k e t s , 

Cap e Girardeau to 

Chickasha, Okla., and 

five cars of contrac- 

tor's equipment, Cape 

Girardeau to. Streator, 

Ill., via St. Louis; A. 

Foreman, two tickets 

Cape Girardeau to St. 

Louis and return from 

parties w h o had 

planned to take a bus. 

William Rneskamg 

presented card tricks, which were well 

received. The club members are much 

pleased with their permanent chub 

rooms and predicted a bright future 

for the club. 

Sapnlpa, Okla. 

Adoption of by-laws was the prin- 

cipal business handlled by the fiisco 

Employes' Club of Sapulpa, Okla., at 

the regular meeting, April 16, at the 

Y. 31. C. A. The attendance was 24, 

including these visitors: Miss Edna. 

Wooden, secretary of the Ladies' Club 

of Tulsa; 0. L. Young, superintend- 

ent of terminals; F. A. Connell, solicit- 

ing freight agent, and Mr. Wasson, 

manager of the Tulsa Amusement 

Company, all of Tulsa.

Ill? Page 13 

One of the provisions of the by- 

laws is that "Tickets shall be sold to 

banquets and entertainments at an 

amount sufficient to cover (prorate) 

entire expense of each banquet and 

entertainment." 

4t the suggestion of D. F. Smith, 

ticket clerk an athletic committee 

was authorized by the president, who 

appointed Mr. Smith chairman and the 

latter appointed as the other members 

D. J. Dean, conductor, and R. E. Pip- 

kin, division accountant. This com- 

mittee announced at the meeting that 

its prospective baseball team will chal- 

lenge this season all other baseball 

teams on Frisco Lines. 

Speakers included Mr. Wasson, who 

said the cluB could hold free of charge 

a picnic at the picnic grounds of his 

amusement park; Mr. Connell, who 

spoke of traffic solicitation, and Miss 

Wooden, who invited the Sapulpa clwb 

to attend the dance planned by the 

Ladies' Club of Tulsa for May 2. 

Okmulgee, Okla. 

The Frisco Employes' Club of Ok- 

mulgee, Okla., held a bridge and 

dance party at the Hippodrome thea- 

tre ball room, May 1. The attendance 

was approximately 150 persons, in- 

cluding families of members and other 

friends of the Frisco. 

Anlong the out-of-town guests were: 

0. H. Reid, commercial agent, Tulsa; 

Fay Warren, president of the Frisco 

Em.ployes' Club of Tulsa, and J. A. 

Hutchison, assistant division superin- 

tendent. Sapulpa. 

Nusic was furnished by Wells Eight 

Harmoniators Orchestra. The re- 

freshment committee served punch 

shortly before the party ended. 

Ft. Smith, Ark. 

Traffic solicitation was discussed by 

the greater traffic committee of the 

Frisco Employes' Club of Fort Smith, 

May 8. Report of pointers received 

from chairmen of the various commit- 

tees was presented. The next meet- 

ing of this committee mill be held 

June 12. 

Ames, Okla. 

L. B. Lindley, Frisco agent at Ames, 

Okla., spends mnch of his time after 

working hours uptown talking with 

consignees and shippers, he said at 

the meeting of the Frisco Employes' 

Club of Ames, held April 28. He asks 

merchants when he spends a dollar 

with them to try to give a dime back 

to the Frisco in freight revenue. The 

attendance was six. 

Other speakers at the meeting 

were: C. Laubhan, section foreman, 

president of the club; John Hessing- 

ton, section laborer; Albert Weidner, 

section laborer; Gus. Laubhan, high 

school student; Frank Gibson, a dray- 

man, who said that he is doing every- 

thing he can to try to obtain more 

NO INJURIES ON. 

NORTHERN! 

"The Northern division made a 

remarkable record from February 

24 to April 16 as there was not a 

single report of personal injuries 

during the entire time" writes Mr. 

H. W. Hudgen, director of accident 

prevention. This record was made 

15- i t 11 approximately 800 men 

working. 

"In checliing back our records as 

far as July 1, 1925, or as far as the 

present division records are avail- 

able, we find this to be a record- 

breaker, as no entire operating di- 

vision has gone a whole month 

without one or more personal in- 

juries in the maintenance of way 

department," he continues. 

The information was passed on 

to President Kurn and he in turn 

thanked the officers of the North- 

ern division for the record made. 

business for the Frisco, adding that 

the more business he gets for the 

Frisco the more business he has for 

himself. 

Menzplzis, Tenn. 

The Frisco Employes' Club of Mem- 

phis, Tenn., held a dance and bunco 

party, April 17, which was attended by 

approximately 400 persons. 

One of the guests was F. H. Shaffer, 

general manager of the St. Louis- 

San Francisco Railway Company, 

Springfield, Mo. Many local officials 

of the Frisco attended. 

Chaflee, Mo. 

The Frisco Employes' Club of Chaf- 

fee, Mo., has a baseball team and 

has been instrumental in organizing 

a "Twilight League," and has $321 

in its treasury, most of which will 

be used to finance its baseball club, 

it was announced at the club's meet- 

ing held at Odd Fellows Hall, the 

regular meeting place, May 3. 

The club voted to donate $30 to the 

upkeep of the tennis courts in the 

general office building yard at Chaf- 

fee. 

Four teams are in the "Twilight 

League": Roundhouse and car depart- 

ment en~ployes, general office em- 

ployes, merchants, town boys. Two 

games are played each week, on Tues- 

lays and Thursdays, the games being 

called at 5:15 P. 31. Seven innings 

are played. After the business ses- 

sion Mrs. E. Riemer played piano 

selections for a dance. The attend- 

ance was thirty-eight persons. 

Oklahoma City, Okla. 

The reading of letters from C. T. 

Mason, superintendent of the South- 

western division, Sapulpa, in which he 

commended a number of employes for 

good work in traffic solicitation, a 

talk by W. L. Huggins, Jr., editor 

Frisco E~II~~O~CS' Magaaiizc, St. Louis, 

on the history and future of the Frisco 

employes' club movement, decision to 

hold the next four monthly meetings 

at Belle Isle Park Hall, and dancing 

comprised the meeting of the FrJsco 

Employes' Club of Oklahoma City, 

held April 26 at Bohemian Hall. 

The attendance was 220, including 

officers, and wives, children and 

friends of members of the club. 

Mr. Huggins said that a little more 

than a year ago, just before the Ok. 

lahoma City Club was organized, there 

mere but three clubs, Kansas City. 

Fort Scott and Memphis. Now, he 

said, there are fifty-one clubs (fiftytwo 

at the time this Magaaitzt went 

to press), with a total membership of 

approximately three-fourths of the 

Frisco employes. Mr. Huggins complimented 

the Oklahoma City Club on 

its progress since its organization. 

Gene Peach, of the Oklahoman- 

Times, Oklahoma City, was a guest 

and in a short talk complimented the 

Frisco. 

At the close of the business session 

Miss Hazel McMains sang several 

popular songs. Then came dancing, 

to music by the "Southern Serenaders." 

Sunnyland Club 

Determined to make the Sunnyland 

Club, Kansas City, Mo., a factor to be 

reckoned with among the fifty-three 

Frisco employes' clubs on Frisco 

Lines, a group of Kansas City employes 

of the Company met the evening 

of May 4, elected temporary officers 

and discussed the types of buslness 

and social meetings which were 

thought would be most advantageous, 

membership dues, formation of a 

"Sunnyland Orchestra," and drafting 

of by-laws. Final reorganization was 

scheduled for an unset date the latter 

part of May, when this number of 

The Frisco Enlplogcs' ~Ilagazi~lc was on 

the press. 

The temporary officers elected 

were: J. Burch, general yardmaster, 

president; H. J. Hoke, chief clerk to 

the superintendent of terminals, see 

retary; E. C. Lindeman, cashier, treasurer; 

J. R. Needham, chief clerk, zone 

bureau, first vice-president; L. J. 

Leigh, assistant general car foreman, 

second vice-president; R. Salsman, 

machinist, third vice-president. The 

temporary executive committee and 

advisory board was elected as follows: 

J. 31. Flanigan, superintendent 

of terminals; A. C. DeFries, division 

storekeeper; J. R. ,Coulter, assistant 

executive general agent; J. B. Gilliam, 

general car foreman; Mr. B. 

Berry; B. J. Gleason, general agent, 

and E. G. Baker, assistant general 

passenger agent.

The president appointed Messrs. 

Seedham and Salsman and J. J. Fitz- 

gerald, claim clerk, the committee to 

make a survey of musical talent 

among Frisco employes at Kansas City 

with the view of organization of the 

proposed "Sunnyland Orchestra." 

The president appointed Messrs. 

Coulter, Needham and Lindeman the 

committee to draw up tentative by- 

laws for the club. 

A re-organization dinner was to be 

held May 22, when final re-organiza- 

tion of the club would be effected. 

The committee appointed to arrange 

the dinner was as follows: Messrs. 

Leigh, DeFries and Hoke. 

Springfield, Mo., Men's Club 

"One of the best we have held." 

This is the way .J. W. ("Doc.") Sea- 

bough, president of the Frisco Men's 

Club of Springfield, has characterized 

the meeting of the club held the 

night of May 14, in the assembly room 

of the Frisco building there. Ap- 

proximately 3M) members were pres- 

ent and took part in discussion of traf- 

fic solicitation. 

The steady growth of the Frisco's 

earnings at Springfield was attribut- 

ed by George M. Forrester, commer- 

cial agent, Springfield, as due in a 

considerable degree to the efforts of 

employes at traffic solicitation. Anoth- 

er factor in this growth of Frisco 

business at Springfield was ascribed 

by Mr. Forrester to "the remarkable 

growth of the city." 

Talks were delivered, also, by A. 

B. Sherwood, Frank L. DeGroat and 

W. W. Shackelford, each a team cap- 

tain in the four-team traffic solicita- 

tion campaign at Springfield which be- 

gan April 16, and in which practically 

every Frisco employe there is engag- 

ed. The other team captain is J. P. 

Kerr. Other speakers included: J. H. 

Doggrell, superintendeut of transpor- 

tation; 13. L. Kennedy, of the tele- 

graph department, Roy Dysert, and 

J. H. Brennan, superintendent of tele- 

graph, all of Springfield. President 

Seabough presided. 

The entertainment program includ- 

ed: selections, G. L. Walton's Merry- 

makers, a six-piece orchestra; songs 

by the choral club of the Frisco Girls' 

Club of Springfield, and selections by 

the Bluebonnet Quartet. Refresh- 

ments were served at the close of the 

meeting. 

The standing of the teams in the 

traffic solicitation campaign at Spring- 

field, on the night of April 30, after 

twelve days of the campaign had 

elapsed, was announced by President 

Seabough a few days before the meet- 

ing of the club, as follows: first, A. B. 

Sherwood, ,767 per cent; second, 17. 

L. DeGroat, ,632 per cent, and third, 

W. W. Shackelford, .298 per cent. 

About Our " Off-Line " Agencies 

Thr /wrsoiiiicl of Gcrrcrol .,lnrrrt's officc. Prisro Lirrcs, Clrica.qo. abpcors 

crbow. 

.Yratcti. Irft to ri,qlr!: Mr. l!lrrrcr K. Yar,qrr, trtrvclirrg frcigizt ogejrt; 

Jlr. Harry L. ~Vlorrisorr, corrrirrrreinl ogcrrt; illiss Brrtlra Dorzcirra, strrrograbkcr; 

.lIr. Herrr11 F. So~rborri, !/crwrtil nc~crrt; Mr. .\I, Dzrdlcy Riqgs 

district pnsscngrr agent. 

Starrdirrg. Mr. Ivan K. Gnrretsori. soliciting frrigkt ogrirt; Mr. Hawkirrs 

If. Hopkirrs, rrrorisigrririg nild trtrcitr~~ clcrk; Mr. Jtrvzrs P. Horrlo~r, 

chief clrrk; Mr. Clrnrlcs Lillard, solicitirr~/ frci,qht ugcrrt; Mr. Virlccrrt J. 

Frnrrcis: :lIr. Fmrrris J. I)ucidsoiz, clerli-strirogrrapl7cr-, possr~lyrr deportrrlcrit; 

Mr. Frnirf; I. Slico, city passrrrger ngrirt. 

T 

HE second "off-line" agency to be featured in the Frisco Mngaciirc, 

is that under the direction of Mr. H. F. Sanborn, general agent at 

Chicago, 111. 

The Frisco office in Chicago is at 112 West Adams Street, close 

to the heart of the loop and in close proximity to all other railroad 

offices. The Frisco has been located at the above address for many 

years. Prior to Government control, it was operated as a joint C. & 

E. LFrisco Agency. After the World War the office was re-opened 

under the jurisdiction of Mr. W. S. Merchant, now general eastern 

agent at New York. He was succeeded August lst, 1923, by Mr. W. 

B. Wells, now assistant freight traffic manager at St. Louis. Mr. H. 

F. Sanborn, now general agent, succeeded Mr. Wells October lst, 1927. 

The territory under the jurisdiction of this office includes the 

states of Wisconsin and Minnesota, upper Peninsula of Michigan, 

northern part of Illinois, and some of the most important manufac- 

turing centers in the northwest part of Indiana. 

Members of the Chicago agency are always glad to have their 

railroad friends, shippers and the traveling public, pay them a visit 

while in Chicago, w-here they will be accorded the usual Frisco hos- 

pitality. 

The four leading individuals in F. A. McClaren. teleara~her. uresipoint 

of number of traffic tips, which 

is the basis on which the contest, 

both by teams and by individuals, 

is being conductetl, was, on the night 

of April 30, as follows: First. L. 

Langsford, 75 tips; Mr. DeGroat, 77 

tips; Mr. Sherwood, 40 tips, aud J. 

dent of the club, &esided. Mr. Hutchison 

and Mr. Colinell talked on traffic. 

The next meeting will be held 

June 12 at the freight office. 

W. Kastler, 20 tips. 

Cool and windy weather prevented 

Henryetta, Okla. 

J. A. ~utchison, assistant superintendent 

of the Southwestern division, 

Oklahoma City, and F. A. Connell, 

traveling freight agent, Tulsa, were 

the principal speakers at the meeting 

of the Frisco 13mployes' Club of 

Henryetta, Okla., held May 8 at the 

the fishing trip and picnic planned by 

the Frisco Employes' Club of .Jonesboro. 

Ark., for April 29, except by a 

small group of members of the club. 

consisting of R. J. Slagle, agent, president 

of the club. C. E. Scott, cashier. 

and their families, and Ben EMdins, 

an experienced fisherman, in all, seven 

City Hall. The attendance was fifteen. persons. 

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Madill, Okla. 

Talks on what the Frisco means to 

31 adill, Okla., on motor bus and motor 

tr: uck competition, co-operation of 

FI h o employes with one another, on 

tri affic solicitation, courtesy by Compa 

ny employes towards the public, 

an id commendations of Frisco servicc 

5 by non-Frisco people who were 

gu ~ests characterized the meeting of 

th e Frisro Employes' Club of Madill, 

01 {la.. held April 27. The attendance 

\v2 IS 28. 

Speakers included: 0. F. Nomlin, 

esident of the club; Mr. Patton, of 

e Royal Hotel; C. W. Webster, 

ent, Ravia, Okla.; J. A. Hutchison, 

sistant superintendent of the South- 

?stern division, Oklahoma City; H. 

oods, grocer, and Mr. Worlts, of 

shomingo. 

Hayti, Mo. 

Plans for a big picnic to be held 

SO me time in June at Big Lake, a 

la1 'ge government reserve, and to 

Wt ~ich members of the Frisco Em- 

PI( )yes' Clubs of St. Louis, Cape Girarde, 

au, Chaffee, Jonesboro, Sprlngfield, 

Th layer, Memphis and any other clubs 

thi st wish to participate will be invited, 

n'c ?re made by members of the Frisco 

Er nployes' Club of Hayti, Mo., at the 

mc ?eting held May 14. The club is 

p1: Inning in the operation of two specia 

1 trains, one fom Hayti and one 

frc lm Jonesboro. 

Each club nienrber attending will be 

permitted to bring members of his or 

her family and may bring a basket 

dinner or purchase food on the 

grounds. The Hayti Club hopes that 

musicians of various clubs will furnish 

music for the picnic. Officials 

of the Frisco are urged by the Hayti 

Club to attend this picnic. Club presidents 

are to inform H. A. Rogers, 

president, how many will attend, so 

that train accommodations can be 

provided. The Hayti Cluh will inform 

club presidents of the date for the 

picnic in time for the making of arrangements 

to attend. 

Honor guests at the meeting May 

14 were J. R. Holland, president of 

the Chaffee, Mo., club, and A. G. Anderson, 

president of the Blytheville, 

Ark., club. 

Monett, Mo. 

President J. J. Charles and Secretary 

Mrs. Pearl E. Lewis were reelected 

by acclamation at the semiannual 

meeting of the Frisco Employes' 

Club of Monett, >lo., held hlay 

14, with Mr. Charles presiding. R. G. 

Kaufman was elected vice-president 

by acclamation. He succeeds Mont. 

Bentley. 

High lights of this meeting were 

the reading of correspondence relative 

to traffic solicitation by members 

WST SPIKE DRIVEN 

The completion of rail laying on 

one of the largest railroad building 

projects in America was reached 

May 14 at Demopolis. Ala., when the 

last spike was driven in the 150- 

mile link constructed by the 

Frisco from Aberdcen. Miss., south 

to Kimbrough. Ala. The two lines, 

one building north and the other 

south, met at a point three miles 

north of Demopolis, and the last 

spike was driven by Percy G. CoIe- 

man, president of the Demopolis 

Chamber of Commerce. 

The Frisco has already spent ap- 

proximately $6,500,000 in the con- 

struction of this new road, which 

will connect with the Frisco's re- 

cently purchased line from Kim- 

brough. Ala., south to Pensacola, 

Fla. A total Cost of $7,000,000 is ex- 

pected before the road will be open 

for commercial business about June 

1, President J. 31. Kurn of the 

Frisco announced May 15. 

of the club, reports of business obtained, 

shoH talks, decision to hold a 

"pep meeting" soon, and the planning 

of an entertainment before the stramberry 

season is over in honor of representatives 

of various railroads who 

are at Monett in the interest of the 

strawberry movement. 

Sherman, Texas 

Plans for a picnic May 30, of the 

Frisco employes' clubs of Sherman 

and Fort Worth, and also for all other 

employes of the Texas Lines and 

their families who can attend, were 

made May 15, by approximately 150 

members of the Sherman club. The 

meeting was called by H. L. McDuffie, 

president of the latter club. 

This picnic was held while this 

number of Thc Frisco E~i~ploycs' Alagazi~lc 

was on the press and an account 

of it could not be included. 

Chaflee (Mo.) Girls' Club 

The Frisco Girls' Club of Chaffee, 

Mo., was entertained socially at the 

home of Miss Esther Rigdon, on May 

9, and again at the home of Miss 

Anna Guethle on May 2. There was 

a 100 per cent attendance at a bridge 

party, given the Frisco Club by Miss 

Elizabeth Greishaber on April 25. 

The Poplar Bluff, 310.. Club has invited 

the Chaffee Girls' Club to join 

them 011 an all-day fishing trip to 

Van Buren in the near future. 

.Salem, Mo. 

J. H. Livingston, milk traffic agent, 

St. Louis, was the principal speaker 

at the meeting of the Frisco Employes' 

Club of Salem, IvIo., held the 

night of May 16. W. 31. Bernard, 

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agent, president of the club, presided. 

The attendance was 19. 

Mr. Livingston was introduced by 

President Bernard and delivered an 

address on co-operation of Frisco em- 

ployes and on traffic solicitation. Be- 

sides Mr. Bernard the officers of this 

club are: W. S. Elayer, conductor, 

vice-president, and C. A. Leonard, op- 

erator, secretary. The club's member- 

ship now totals 30, which includes 

nearly all Frisco employes at Salem. 

Chaflee, Mo. 

The close co-operation of the city 

officials and business men of Chaf- 

fee, Mo., with the Frisco Employes' 

Club of Chaffee was demonstrated 

again during the meeting of the club 

the night of hlay 17, when Mayor X. 

0. Ray; Dr. W. A. Walling, presi- 

dent of the Chaffee Chamber of Com- 

merce, and several big business men 

of the city, were in attendance. The 

business men signified their willing- 

ness to co-operate with the club in 

making the twilight base'ball league, 

sponsored by the club, a success. This 

was the second meeting of the club 

that Mayor Ray had attended. 

J. R. Holland, operator-clerk, presi- 

dent of the club, presided. Mrs. E. 

Riemer, played "America" while the 

assemblage sang and a short business 

sesslon followed, consisting of a re- 

port by C. McBroom, chairman of the 

greater traffic committee of the club. 

Reports of other committees were 

given by Frank Brockmeyer, orchea- 

tra committee; Ray Fatchett, athletic 

committee; H. E. Hopkins, tennis 

club; 0. P. Krueger, club secretary- 

treasurer. C. A. Goddard, a represen- 

tative of the Business Men's Baseball 

Team, reported activities of his or- 

ganization. 

Short talks were made by Mayor 

Ray; L. J. Heyman president, Pre- 

mier hlanufacturing Company; Doc- 

tor Walling, president of the Cham- 

ber of Commerce; P. N. Keller, secre- 

tary of the Chamber of Commerce; 

.I. B. Payne, president, Crown Manu- 

facturing Company; Mr. Goddard, 

baker; L. L. Grisham, clothier; D. E. 

Rigdon, manager, Enterprise Mill & 

Grain Company, and Willian~ Pfeffer- 

ltorn, president of the Chaffee Lumber 

and Supply Company. 

To stimulate more interest in the 

Twilight baseball league H. E. Hub- 

bard, general roundhouse foreman and 

vice-president of the club, suggested 

that the business men close their 

stores at 5 o'clock on Tuesdays and 

Thursdays, when the games of the 

Twilight league are played, so that 

employes and their families could at- 

tend the games. Business men pres. 

ent were in favor of a move of this 

kind and offered their assistance in 

making the Twilight league a suc- 

cess.

Page 16 

. A by-law committee with R. E. 

Breedlove as chairman was elected to 

draw up a set of by-laws for the club 

and subinit them at the next meeting, 

June 6. 

A street dance will be held May 

31, it was announced. 

Other guests of the club the night 

of May 17 included: J. G. Sarius, Jr.. 

general agent, and Frank Brockmeyer, 

messenger. The attendance mas 

twenty-nine employes and nine busi- 

ness men. 

Birmingham, . . Ala. 

The 200 members of the Frisco 

Employes' Club of Birmingham, their 

wives and sweethearts, attended the 

dinner-dance given by the Birmingham 

Club at the Axis Tea Room at 

7 o'clock the evening of May 17th. 

An excellent dinner mas served and 

Martin Jennings, president, then 

turned the meeting over to C. J. 

.Thompson, chairman of the entertainment 

committee. 

Mr. ,J. W. Skaggs, superintendent of 

terminals at Birmingham, was toast- 

master. Mr. S. W. Lee, president of 

the Buffalo Rock Company of Birm- 

ingham, manufacturers of ginger ale. 

not only furnished several cases of 

his product as refreshments for the 

dance, but delivered a highly inter- 

esting address on Alabama, and par- 

ticularly the Birmingham district. 

Mr. Lee was introduced by Mr. Ers- 

kine Ramsey, widely known Birming- 

ham financier. Both of these men are 

ardent Frisco boosters and have been 

interested in the growth and promo- 

tion of the Frisco Employe Club at 

Birmingham from its start. 

Mr. W. L. Huggins, Jr., editor of 

the Frisco il.logazirre, was also on the 

program and spoke of the Frisco club 

organizations and other activities. 

An interesting feature of the even- 

ing was the introduction of Nr. J. E. 

Springer, who has just come to Birm- 

ingham as general agent, succeeding 

Mr. D. I". McDonough. The eiithusi- 

astic welcome of Birmingham em- 

ployes to Mr. Springer was expressed 

in the introduction by Mr. Skaggs. 

Mr. Springer was also presented with 

the hand of welcoine, literally as well 

as figuratively. Amid tremendous ap- 

plause he was given a stuffed work 

glove, signifying the hearty welcome 

of Birmingham employes. 

Mr. E. C. Greenwell, prominent or- 

chestra leader of Birmingham also ap- 

peared on the program for several 

uumbers at the piano and later led 

his orchestra in music for the danc- 

ing which lasted .until midnight. 

This is the fourth of several sim- 

ilar parties given by the Birmingham 

Club, all of which have been great 

s~~~esaes. 

1928 - - - Important Conoentions - - - 1928 

Below is a list of iirrportarrt roizz~ciitioirs wlrirh will be held drlriirg 1926. 

Thr Passei~grr Traflic Dcpartiirerit ;gill 7~1elcoii~e ut~y ixforwution that 

riright br of assista~rce ill securiitq tru.vel to tlrcse ~rrcetii~gs. Arrj~ cotr~nrunicatiorr 

iir corrrtrclio~z Ilwcwitlc slrould be addressed to g~earest passrnger depart- 

~rierit reprcsrr~tntiz~e or to Mr. .I. 14'. Norrrse, Cl'erreral Passertger Agent, 

Sr. Lmis, Mo, 

Natl. Electric Light Assn ......................... Alantic City, N. J. .... June 4-8 

Loyal Order of Moose ............................ Mooseheart, Ills ......... June 4-6 

Natl. Assn. of Credit Men ........................ seattle, Wash. ........ June 1615 

Natl. Assn. of Real Estate Boards ........ Louisville, Ky. ........ June 11-15 

American Medical Assciation .................. Minneapolis, Minn ..... June 11-15 

Traveler's Protective Association ........Oklahoma City, Okla.June .11-16 

Natl. Assn. Retail Grocers ............. New Orleans, La. .... June 11-14 

Junior Chamber of Commerce of u?&:::~an Antonio, Tex. .... June 13-16 

Natl. Republican Convention ................ Kansas City, Mo. .... June 12-16 

Kiwanis International .............................. Seattle, Wash. ........ June 17-21 

Natl. Assn. Master Plumbers ................ Memphis, Term. ........June 19-21 

Kotary lnternational ................................ Minneapolis, Minn ... June 18-22 

Natl. Democratic Convention ................ Houston, Texas ........June 26 

Disabled Amer. Vet. of World War ........ Denver, Colo. ..........June 24-30 

Natl. Education Association .................. Minneapolis, Minn. ..July 2-7 

Baptist Y. P. U. of America .................... Kansas City, Mo ....... July 4-8 

Intl. Advertising Association .................. Detroit, Mich ............ July 8-12 

B. P. 0. E. Grand Lodge ........................ Miami, Fla. ................. July 9-12 

Lion's International ................................ Des Moines, Iowa .... July 10-13 

Walther League ........................................ Milwaukee, Wis. ...... July 15-19 

Knights Templar .................................. Detroit, Mich. .......... July 16-19 

Fraternal Order of Eagles ...................... Columbus, Ohio ...... Aug. 6-11 

Veterans of Foreign Wars .................... Indianapolis, Ind. .... Aug; 26-Sept. 1 

Natl. Bapt. Conv. (Women's Aux.) ........ Louisville, Ky. ........ September 5 

1. 0. 0. F. ............................................. Montreal, Que. ........ Sept. 17-22 

American Legion .................................. San Antonio, Tex ....... Oct. 8-12, Inc. 

Grand Army of the Republic ................ Denver, Colo. .......... Sept. 16-23 

United Spanish War Veterans ................ Havana, Cuba .......... Oct. 7-12 

National Dairy Association .................... Memphis, Tenn. ........ Oct. 13-20 

Internatl. Petroleum Exposition ............ Tulsa, Okla. .............. Oct. 2&29 

Mystic Shrine (A. A. 0. N. M. S.) ........ Los Angeles, Calif ..... May 1929 

Rotary International ................................ Dallas, Texas ....,...... June 3-7, 1929 

Internatl. Soc. of Christ. Endeavor ...... Kansas City, Mo ....... July 1929 

Tulsa, Okla. 

An address on traffic solicitation 

by C. J. Stephenson, assistant to the 

general manager, Springfield, and the 

planning of a picnic for the club and 

families of members constituted the 

principal features of the business 

meeting of the Frisco Employes' Club 

of Tulsa, held at the Knights of Co- 

lumbus hall the night of May 16. 

The attendance was fifty persons. 

1"~y Warren, president of the club, 

presided. The piciiic will be held at 

the new park nearing completion at 

Tulsa. 

Girls' Club of Springfield 

The May luncheon of the Girls' 

Club of Sprinqfield, was held on 

Wednesday, May 16, at the Ontra 

Cafeteria, with 130 in attendance. 

The committee in charge of all ar- 

rangements was composed of Miss 

IIatilda Hoffman, secretary in the 

signal department; Miss Lucy Good, 

chief clerk in H. W. Hudgen's office 

and Myrtle Pearson of the local 

agent's office. The tables were ar- 

tistically decorated with sweet peas 

and miniature bridges, trestles, tele- 

graph poles. freight trains, etc., added 

a novelty and decidedly railroad at- 

mosphere. Special favors of boxes 

filled with butter scotch candy were 

donated by the Davis Candy Com- 

pany, a local concern. 

Miss Marie Arnold, president of the 

club, presided as toastmistress. The 

Paramount quartet, composed of 

Ralph Matthews, Ira Smith, Joe Wed- 

dell and Cecil Waites, rendered sev- 

eral peppy songs and melodies. Im- 

mediately after the music, Mr. John 

L. McCormack, superintendent of F. 

L. and D. claims, was called on by the 

toastmistress and after a few remarks 

introduced in turn the three honor 

guests, namely, Louis Reps, Geo. Ben- 

der and W. E. Cuiidiff, prominent 

business men and officers of the As- 

sociated Retailers of Springfield, who 

made very interesting talks, Mr. J. 

H. Brennan, superintendent of tele- 

graph, was a special railroad official 

guest and inasmuch as it was his first 

time to attend a luncheon of the 

girls' club, he expressed himself as 

being highly pleased with the organi- 

zation and pledged his support and 

co-operation. 

The swimming class under the 

supervision of Miss Florence Baker 

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wlTH FRISCO CLUBS 

(Continued fronz Page 16) 

the Y. W. C. A. is making great 

ogress and by the time the swim- 

ing season opens, the Frisco Rail- 

ly will have a number of girls qual- 

ed to be life sayers. 

The choral and dramatic clubs will 

rnish a splendid program the night 

June 18 for the benefit of the 

*isco veterans who will be in at- 

ndance at the yearly reunion to be 

mld in Springfield on Monday and 

iesday, June 18 and 19. The music 

being supervised by Prof. Ritchie 

,bertson, famous Boy Scout Band 

rector, while the dramatic work is 

ing directed by Miss Dorcas Mar- 

J1, an expression teacher in Spring- 

field. 

Members of the St. Louis Girls' 

Club will bring to a close their first 

year's inter-club 'work on June 17. 

The year has been a most successful 

one. The choral and bowling clubs 

have disbanded for the summer, and 

in their place riding, golf, swimming 

and hiking clubs have been formed. 

A boat ride is being planned for July 

11, further announcements to be made 

later. 

The dramatic club has distributed 

tickets for a play, ''Miss Fearless & 

Company," to be given at the Knights 

of Columbus Hall, 3549 Olive Street, 

St. Louis, the night of June 6. The 

admission will be flfty cents. This 

is the second performance to be given 

by the dramatic club, and a splendid 

crowd is already assured. There will 

be dancing following the performance. 

The May luncheon of the Club was 

held at the American Annex Hotel, 

May 28, with an attendance of 250. 

Mr. F. W. Young, paymaster, was 

guest of honor. Miss Evelyn Kiess- 

ling, reader, furnished an interesting 

nunTber. and the Ukulele Club favored 

the club with several selections pre- 

ceding the luncheon. A greater 

part of the meeting was taken up 

with announcements and plans for 

the election of new officers. 

Blytheville, Ark. 

Talks on traffic solicitation and a 

round table discussion of a division 

picnic in the near future was the 

principal business transacted at the 

meeting of the Blytheville Frisco 

Club held Ma' 17 in passenger sta- 

tion, attended by twenty members 

and three visitors. 

The meeting was called to order by 

A. G. Anderson, agricultural agent 

and president of our club, who spoke 

of future entertainments, traffic so- 

licitation and the prospects of a good 

fruit crop. 

E. F. Blomeyer, agent and chair- 

Frisco Son and Daughter Win 

H 

AZEL SUTTLE, 16 year old 

daughter of J. V. Suttle, boilermaker 

for Frisco Lines at Monett, 

recently won flrst place in the 

State Typewriting Contest, held at 

Columbia, 310. Her average in the 

contest was 61.3 words a minute. This 

entitles Miss Suttle to a trip to Los 

Angeles, California, all expenses paid, 

where she will compete in the International 

Contest to be held in October. 

Cecil Cannady, 16 year old son of 

Wilford L. Cannady, switchman of 

Monett, also competed on the Monett 

team with Miss Suttle and another 

man of solicitation committee talked 

on securing business, and stressed the 

importance of making a report of any 

prospect, so that it will get info the 

proper channels and materialize into 

something worthwhile. M. Owens, 

agent at Bassett, made reference to 

bus and truck competition. 

Everyone present at the meeting 

was enthused regarding a future pic- 

nic, in which the employes and their 

families from Memphis to St. Louis 

and Jonesboro Sub will' participate. 

Present plans indicate this is to be 

one of the greatest events that has 

ever been held by the Frisco in this 

section of the country. 

Tulsa, Okla. 

C. J. Stephenson, assistant to the 

general manager, Springfield, 310.. 

Ins the principal speaker at the meet- 

ing of the Frisco Employes' Club of 

Tulsa held May 16. Mr. Stephenson 

related many cases where courtesy 

shown by Frisco employes to the pub- 

lic had obtained new business and 

CECIL CANNADY 

Page 17 

Honors 

high school boy, (not a member of the 

Frisco family) in the annual typewrit- 

ing contest held at Springfield Teach- 

ers' College, April 11, where thirty- 

five high schools competed, and the 

team won second place. At Columbia 

Mr. Cannady made an average of only 

-56.98 words a minute, which entitled 

Miss Suttle to first place. 

This is Miss Suttle's flrst year of 

typewriting, and her friends and ac- 

quaintances feel sure that she will 

bring credit to Monett and win an 

easy victory in the Los Angeles meet. 

new friends for the Frlsco. 

The meeting was held in the meet- 

ing hall of the Tulsa local of the 

Frisco Association of Metal Crafts 

and Car Department Employes, the 

Knights of Pythias Hall. 

The Tulsa club is planning a joint 

picnic with the Sapulpa club, to be 

held June 15 at Crystal City, near 

Tulsa. 

Out-of-town guests at the May 16 

meeting of the Tulsa club, besides 

Mr. Stephenson, included A. Morgan 

and Miss Jennie Aitchison, both of 

Sapulpa, and F. W. Wasson, publicity 

manager of the Crystal City Park. 

The total attendance was fifty. 

The nest regular meeting was set 

for June 13, at the Knights of Pythias 

hall, Tulsa. 

Men's Club, St. Louis 

Mayor Victor J. Miller, of St. Louis, 

was scheduled to deliver the principal 

address at the meeting of the Frisco 

Men's Club of St. Louis set for May 

2,5, at the American Hotel Annex.

Pagc 18 

Rough Handling 

OR the first four months of 1928 

the amount of damage to Frisco F freight cars by rough handling 

increased 46.5 per cent and the number 

of cars damaged increased 2.2 per 

cent, as compared with the corresponding 

period of 1927, the comparative 

statement issued May S, from 

Shows Increase First Four Months of 1928 

the office of the car accountant, In a letter to superintendents 11. AT. 

Springfield, Mo., shows. Sisson, assistant general manager, 

report shows for the per- Springfield, cieplores this increase in 

iod in 192S, there was a decrease of OUR^ handling and urges superin- 

tendents to correct the situation soon 

.6 Per cent in the number of cars and strive for a per cent redue 

............ --- 

handled per car damaged, and an ill- tion in the amount of rolleh handline 

- -- - 

crease oE 44.99 per cent in the amoint this year. as compared with last vear. 

. . 

of damage per car handled. The comparative statement: 

DIVISION 

or 

TERMINAL 

NUMBER CARS 

DAMAGED 

1928 1927 1926 

AMOUNT DAMAGE 

1928 1927 1928 

NUMBER CARS HANDLED 

1928 1927 1926 

~p 

PER CENT STANDING 

DAMAGED DIVISION 

TO TOTAL OR 

HANDLED TERMINAL 

1928 1927 1926 1928 1927 1926 

Sprin~flcld ........ 

Eirniingham ...... 

Tulsa ................... 

Memphis ......... 

St. Louis ._,.... ..... 

Kansas (,ltg ...... 

--- 

Total ................ 1-15 171; 30:: $ 6.649.00 3 7.050.00 

TERMLNALB 

- - -- 

$12,932.20 1,399,719 1,520.03!1 l,620,S66 .0091 ,0116 .OlStj 

\\restern .............. 

Southwestern .... 13 

Southern ............. 16 

C,'cntral ................ 11 

Eastern. ............. 25 

Northern ............ 4 I 

River .................. 20 

--- 

Total ............... 129 LO1 1.51 $ 8.666.50 $ 3.916.00 

--- 

DIVISIONS 

-PA ------ 

$ 3.973.2S 1.558.39S 1..599.621 1.706.235 .0083 .0063 ,0089 

- - - - - - - - - 

Texns Lines 

Total System 

I1 

28.5 

2 

2i9 

2 

457 

S94.00 

$16,209.50 

75.00 

$11,041.00 

.50.00 

$16,961.4S 

48.246 

56.55 

39.476 4S.701 .0228 .0051 .00GZ 

YALE TERMINALS OPEN 

(Coiltii~urd frntir Page 5) 

endless c 11 a i n conveyor working 

through a concrete tunnel 300 feet 

long which is constructed under the 

yard tracks from the plant to the 

icing platforms. The ice is hoisted 

and conveyed by electrical operation. 

The icing dock is 24 feet wide and 

500 feet long and 30 cars can be iced 

per setting. It is electrically lighted 

throughout and equipped with neces- 

sary salt boxes and crushers. 

The five tracks seen at the extreme 

left of the photo constitute the coach 

yards. These yards have a 72 car 

capacity with two additional drop pit 

tracks for the removal of coach 

wheels. The coach building (under 

construction at far end of tracks) is 

1s by 100 feet in dimension, with 

wood and concrete floors, lockers, 

toilets and shower baths to ac- 

conlmodate 72 men. The ul~holster- 

ing, electrical department alld Pull- 

man supplies storage rooms are also 

housed in this building. 

And this is what Memphians saw 

today as the new terminals opened 

for business. 

Nor does their vision end with this 

magnificent display of terminal fa- 

cilities. 

Memphis business men can forsee 

in the not far distant, a Yale termi- 

nals far busier. For when the Frisco's 

new port at Pensacola is opened short- 

ly, the Yale terminals will be called 

upon to perform the work for which 

they were constructed-that of ex- 

pediting the handling ot' equipment, 

breaking and makiug up long trains 

of freight for export, returning long 

trains of import delivered from ves- 

sels doclring at Pensacola, and link- 

ing more efficiently together the great 

shipping gateways of St. Louis and 

Kansas City to the port of Pensacola 

-the Frisco's outlet to the gulf. 

The abovc is a ~lrotogra~lr of a sign 

which 110s been placed oil thc Frisco 

right-of-:cay by the Chombev of Conrntcrce 

of Chnffec, Mo., nild zahicla adaertises 

both the Frisco and Chaffee. 

ENGINEMEN TO CHICAGO 

The International Railway Fuel 

Association held its 20th Annual Con- 

vention in Chicago. Ill., from May S 

to 11 inclusive. 

The primary interest oE this Asso- 

ciation is to promote ideas and de- 

vices that will result in the saving of 

"Fuel" also through medium of ad- 

dresses, advance the knowledge in 

uses of fuel and create n greater in- 

terest in fuel economy. 

In appreciation of their co-operation 

in helping to bring about a decrease 

in fuel, the Frisco selected an engi- 

neer, and fireman from each division 

to send to this Convention. 

The following enginemen attended: 

Mr. Geo. Derger. Mr. Lee 4. Harri- 

son, Eastern; Mr. E. C. Jacobs. i\Ir. 

J. N. Pratt, Southern; Mr. 4. TV. Au- 

buschon, Mr. J. R. Frank, River; Mr. 

H. A. Haines, Mr. E. E. O'Connor. 

Northern; Mr. 0. L. Martin, Mr. J. 

Stroud, Southwestern; Mr. H. P. Dut- 

ton, Mr. F. C. Fry, Central; Mr. H. P. 

Collins, Nr. J. W. Bishop, Western; 

Mr. G. A. Madden, Mr. R. B. Snow, 

Texas Lines. 

The fuel showing made in the year 

of 1927 was gratifying indeed and 

through continued co-operation by all 

such as has been displayed by these 

men, mill result in an even better 

showing being made in the year of 

1928.

ROADS SERVE BANQUET 

Unique Entertainment Given 650 

Editors at Columbia Mo., 

A 

May 11 

B A S Q U E T characterized as 

"the most unique and successful" 

in its history, ended the 

world-fanlous Journalisnl Week of the 

School of Journalism, University of 

Missouri at Colninbia, Mo., the night 

of May 11. It was attended by more 

than 650 newspapermen of the Middle 

West ancl their wives, and was sponsored 

by the American Railway hIagaeine 

Editors' Association. 

The entire banquet arrangements 

were in charge of W. L. Huggins, Jr., 

of the Frisco, vice-president of the 

Railway Editors' organization. The 

food was furnished by the railroacls, 

members of the .4. It. 31. E. A., aiid 

consisted of the following items: 

strawberries (Frisco), broilecl lake 

trout (Rock Island), parsley butter 

(31-K-T), Parisian potatoes (Maine 

Central), fried spring chicken, southern 

style (\!fabash). Klainath potatoes 

(Great Northern), new string 

beans fleurette (New York Central), 

whole tomatoes, peeled, chilled (Ilk 

nois Central), head lettuce, individual 

dressing (Southern Pacific), ice 

cream (Pennsylvania), salted peanuts 

(Norfolk & Western), blueberry conserve 

(Louisville & Nashville), mints 

(B. R, & P.), coffee (B. & O.), and 

cigars ancl cigarettes (Missouri Pacific 

and Chesapeake and Ohio). 

The entrance to the dining hall represented 

an observation car entrance, 

complete to the standards and illuminated 

rear sign, and the conductor 

who took the banquet tickets. Regulation 

chairs and trimmings greeted 

the eye, and one passed on into the 

main diuing hall. 

The speakers' table was a replica 

of the interior of a dining car. It was 

viewed from the audience as if it were 

cut in two, longitudinally. The kitchen 

could he seen, and the quartet tables 

were attractively and uniquely arranged 

and decorated. The layout was 

constructed in the Katy Shops at Sedalia, 

Mo., under the direction of 

Master Mechanic C. E. Carnish. 

The fifty waiters who served the 

guests had on serving coats from five 

of the Missouri roads, with emblems 

signifying the road on each sleeve. 

Chef and steward stood in attendance 

at the speakers' table. 

To add a realistic touch, Dean Wal- 

ter Williams, who presided at the ban- 

quet called the meeting to order by 

ringing a huge locomotive bell. 

Souvenirs were in abundance and 

each guest carried away an armful, 

following the delightful program. 

Theg Head Traffic Clubs in Respectioe Cities 

HE Frisco enjoys a unique dis- 

tinction at this time of having 

two of its officers hold the po- 

sition of president of traffic clubs in 

two of the most important cities on 

its rails. Mr. Geo. F. Macgregor, 

Executive General Agent for Frisco 

Lines at Kansas City, Mo., was re- 

cently elected president of the Kansas 

City Traflic Club for 1928. His elec- 

tion was followed by that of Mr. J. N. 

Cornatzar, Passenger Traffic Manage!' 

of Frisco Lines at St. Louis to the 

presidency of the St. Louis Traffic 

Club. 

Mr. Macgregor has had 45 years' 

service with the Frisco, beginning in 

1883 as a clerk in the accounting 

department of the old K. C. F. S. & iX. 

Railway Conlpany. now a part of the 

Frisco. He has been an officer in 

the accounting, operating and traffic 

departments durinq his career. From 

1899 to 1901 he was assistaut comp- 

troller of the K. C. F. S. & 31. and 

during the war was Director of In- 

vestigation of the E. S. Fuel Admin- 

Nessrs. S. 0. Dunn of the Railway 

Age and Hal S. Ray and W. E. Babb 

of the Rock Island Railroad were the 

speakers, and other guests of honor 

at the speakers' table paid high trib- 

ute to the American railroads. 

Prior to the pro.?ram, the Missouri 

Pacific Orchestra of Sedalia furnished 

a varied program of music, and one 

of the first numbers on the program 

was the Red Arrow Quartette of the 

Pennsylvania Railroad, sent to the 

banquet from Pittsburgh, Pa. They 

responded to numerous encores. 

Page 19 

iitration at Washington, D. C. Mr. 

Macgregor was made Executive Gen- 

eral Agent at Kansas City in 1923. 

Mr. J. N, Cornatxar has also had 

a loiig service in railroading, begin- 

ning in 1887 as a telegrapher for the 

Mobile & Ohio at Humboldt, Tenn. 

He also joined the Frisco forces 

through the K. C. F. S. & 31. line as 

general agent at Atlanta, in 1901, when 

the Frisco purchased the road. He 

has been clivision passenger agent and 

assistant general passenger agent at 

Memphis, and was appointed pas- 

senger traffic manager of the Frisco 

in 1920. On March 1, 1928, Nr. Cor- 

natzar was placed in charge of the 

Frisco's development activities and 

the additional title of Director of De- 

velopment. 

The St. Louis traffic club's new 

president succeeds Mr. W. R. Huey. 

traffic manager of the Benlis Brothers 

Bag Company. Founded in 1909, the 

traffic club now has S75 members and 

is one of the oldest traffic clubs in the 

United States. 

HUTCHfSON ON PROGRAM 

Mr. J. E. Hutchison, vice-president. 

in charge of operation, will be a prin- 

cipal speaker at the annual conven- 

tion of the American Association of 

Railroad Superintendents, to be held 

at Memphis, June 12-14, and to be 

attended by approximately 2,000 rail- 

way superintendents from many parts 

of the United States, Canada and 

Mexico. 

The best music-the laughter of a 

little child.

Page 20 

'BOARD FOR VETS' REUNION 

2,500 Honor Roll Men and Wives 

to Springfield, June 18-19 

LL plans are complete for the 

annual reunion, barbecue, pic- 

nic, business meeting and ban- 

quet of the Frisco Veteran Employes' 

Association, to be held at Springfield, 

Wo., on Monday and Tuesday. June 

18 and 19. Approximately 2,500 vet- 

erans and their families are expected 

to be in attendance. 

The price of the tickets will be 

$1.50 per person and one ticket wlll 

include admission to the picnic and 

barbecue at Doling Park, and enter- 

tainment given by the Frisco Girls' 

Club of Springfield at the Pipkin 

Junior High School, as well as the 

banquet on the following Tuesday 

evening, the 19th. at the Shrine 

Mosque. 

As usual, the veterans will assemble 

at the Colonial Hotel, Jefferson and 

St. Louts Streets, on Monday morning, 

7:30 a. m. to 9:JO a. m., for the pur- 

chase of tickets, registration, secur- 

ing badges, etc. Special street cars 

and automobile service will be pro- 

vided from the hotel to and from the 

park. 

The crowd will assemble at Doling 

Park at 10:30 a. m., where the wel- 

come address will be delivered by 

IIon. T. H. Gideon, Mayor of Spring- 

field. At 12:lK p. m. the "chow" line 

will form and at 1:30 p. m. the group 

picture of the assembly wlll be made. 

The athletic contests, consisting of 

races, horseshoe pitching contests, 

etc., as well as dancing in the pavil- 

ion and a bathing beauty contest and 

other aquatic sports will be held from 

2:00 p. m. on. Valuable prizes are 

to be awarded the most graceful and 

the most awkward dancers on the 

dance floor. The dancing pavilion will 

be in charge of Mr. C. C. Mills, acci- 

dent prevention agent, and the athle- 

tic events will be under the supervi- 

sion of Mr. C. H. Baltzell. 

-4t 7:30 p. m. an entertainment and 

musical revue will be given by the 

Frisco Girls' choral and dramatic 

clubs at the auditorium of the Piplcin 

Junior High School at the corner of 

Coonville and webster Sts. Special 

cars and transportation will be pro- 

vided from the Colonial Hotel to the 

school and return. 

On Tuesday morning, June 19, the 

veterans will assemble at the Shrine 

Mosque at 9:00 a. m.. while their 

wives, members of the Suxiliary, will 

assemble at 10:OO a. m. on the roof 

garden, Kentwood Arms Hotel. Both 

meetings will be devoted to the trans- 

action of business, election of officers, 

etc. Members of the auxiliary have 

Shrine Pilgrims to Miami Council Meeting 

~ i Frisco h Lines 

This bhoto was takeu at St. Louis Uttiots Statiots a few trrontents before the two 

special Frisco traitts left for dlkmi. 

A 

ROLLICKING group of members 

of Moolah Temple, Ancient 

Arabic Order, Nobles of the 

Mystic Shrine, of St. Louis, and the 

wives of many of them, in all numbering 

approximately 500, left the St. 

Louis Union Station at 9 a. m. April 

28, in two special de luxe trains of 

Frisco Lines for a pilgrimage to the 

fifty-fourth annual session of the Imperial 

Council of the Order, to be held 

at Miami, Fla., May 1-3, inclusive. 

This was said by members of Moolah 

Temple to be the largest group of 

its members ever to go to an Imperial 

Council session. Each of the two 

trains, which left the station a few 

minutes apart and will keep practically 

that d,istance apart all the way to 

Florida, was nearly a quarter of a 

arranged for a luncheon to be served 

at noon at the Kentwood Arms Hotel 

at seventy-five cents a plate, and have 

issued a cordial invitation for all vet- 

erans and their wives to attend. 

At 2:00 p. m. the veterans and their 

wives will assemble in the Shrine 

Mosque where a musical entertain- 

ment, comnlunity singing. and short 

talks by veterans, officials, etc., will 

be enjoyed. Nr. Harry L. Westbrook, 

district attorney for the Frisco at 

Jonesboro, Ark., will deliver the prin- 

cipal address. 

The banquet will be served in the 

Shrine JIosque at 6:00 p. m., and the 

women employes of tile Frisco general 

office building will serve. 

Following the bauquet, the final ses- 

sion will be held in the auditorium of 

the Shrine Mosque, which will include 

a concert by the famous Springfield 

mile long. Each train containea rwu 

diners, coupled adjoining each other, 

tulo locomotives, double-headed, and 

Pullman compartment, standard deep- 

ers, and observation compartment 

cars. At the rear of each observation 

platform a large, electrically illumi- 

nated emblem of Moolah Temple, was 

carried. 

George H. Fox, potentate of Moolah 

Temple, and the Temple's band and 

its patrol, was aboard the two Frisco 

special trains. One of the trains was 

under the supervision of Harrison 

Will, division passenger agent of the 

Frisco, and the other was chaperoned 

by C. H. "Uncle Charley" Baltzell. 

special representative of the general 

manager of the Frisco, both of St. 

Louis. 

Boy Scout Band and a drill by the 

Springfield High School Girls' Drum 

Corps, under the personal direction 

of Pro. R. R. Robertson. 

The principal speakers at the fare- 

well session will be President J. M. 

Kurn and Dr. D. J. Evans, pastor of 

the First Baptist Church of Kansas 

City and director of the largest busi- 

ness men's Bible class in the United 

States. 

At a meeting of officers of the La- 

dies' Amxiliary, held in St. Louis, May 

19, when Mrs. W. R. Boyd, president, 

Mrs. W. L. Spangler and Mrs. W. E. 

Belter, vice-president and i\Iiss Susie 

S. Msh, secretary, mere present, they 

requested all women employes with 

twenty or more years' service, as well 

as all veterans and their families to 

attend the reunion.

0 

Frisco Passenger Trains 97.6 Per Cent on Time in April 

Page 21 

F the 5,626 passenger trains 

operated by Frisco Lines during 

.4pril, 1928, 5,479 of these 

their schedules or made up time, 

slates the monthly comparative statement 

issued by P. H. Shaffer, general 

pares With 83.5 per cent for April. 

1927, and with 97.3 per cent for March. 

1928. 

trains, or 97.4 per cent. maintained manager, Springfield, 310. This coin- The statement: 

DIVISION 

- -- 

Total Trains Malntained Per Cent Trains 

Total Schedule or Made Maintained Schedule or Standinn of 

Trains Operated UP Time Made Up Time Divisions 

April April April April April April April April April Anril April April 

1928 1927 1926 1928 1927 1926 1928 1927 1926 1928 1927 1926 

- - - 

Western ........................ 210 206 210 208 

hTorthern ..................... 1290 1272 1470 1278 

River .............................. 1008 636 831 995 

Central .......................... 598 534 720 584 

Southern .................... 780 743 840 755 

Southwestern . 900 825 840 870 

Eastern ......................... GOO 630 770 560 

Total Operated ........... 5386 4846 5681 5250 4031 5559 97.5 83.2 97.9 

Texas Lines ................ 240 240 180 229 214 173 95.4 89.0 96.1 

Total for System ...... 5626 5086 5861 5479 4245 5732 97.4 83.5 97.8 

FIVE OFFICERS PROMOTED 

(Coiltii~rred from Pngc 9) 

sition he held at the time of his pro- 

motion to traffic manager. 

Mr. 5. E. Springer was born at Sev- 

erance, Kansas, and entered the sen- 

ice of the old K. C. F. S. & M. March 

1, 1898, at Mountain Grove, Mo., in 

the capacity of night operator. He 

transferred to Grandin, Xo., as agent 

on September 28, 1901. He left the 

service August 10, 1902, but returned 

again as soliciting freight agent, Ok- 

lahoma City, October 1, 1903, and was 

later promoted to the position of 

traveling freight agent. He trans- 

ferred to St. Louis, 3x0.. as industrial 

agent August 1, 1910; transferred to 

Houston, Texas, January 1, 1913, in 

charge of industrial work, New Or- 

leans to Brownsville. Following re- 

ceivership in May, 1913, he returned 

to St. Louis as chief clerk, depart- 

ment of development. During 1918, 

when the railroad administration dis- 

continued all industrial work, he 

transferred to Birmingham as division 

freight agent. On December 1, 1918, 

he returned to St. Louis as assistant 

industrial commissioner, Frisco-Katy 

Lines, operating at that time under 

the same Federal Manager. When 

the commercial offices were opened 

March 1, 1920, he left the industrial 

work to accept the position of division 

freight agent, Tulsa, Okla. On August 

15, 1920, he transferred to Atlanta, 

Ga., as general agent, freight clepart- 

ment, serving in that capacity until 

his present appointment. 

W. H. Crowe began his service with 

the Frisco as a call boy in the Mem- 

phis Terminals in 1912 and after- 

wards served in various clerical ca- 

pacities in the terminal, earning the 

reputation of being one of the most 

efficient and accommodating clerks at 

that point. In 1923 he came to the 

traffic department as assistant rate 

clerk. was later promoted to the po- 

sition of chief rate clerk and then 

to traveling freight agent, which po- 

sition he held until his appointment 

May 15, as division freight agent at 

Pensacola. 

ENG. EKSTROM HONORED 

Mr. A. T. Ekstrom of Muskogee, 

Oklahoma, engineer on the Muskogee 

sub, a member of John W. Nelson 

division No. 445 of the Brotherhood 

of Locomotive Engineers was honor 

guest at a banquet and meeting of 

the organization at the Woodman's 

hall, Fort Smith, Tuesday evening, 

May 15, when he was presented with 

the 40 year badge that is given by 

that organization to those that have 

been members of the organization for 

that length of time. 

Mr. J. L. Haley. chief engineer of 

division 445 of Fort Smith, was toast- 

master, and Mr. J. W. Thomason, 

secretary of the division and who had 

fired for Mr. Ekstrom, made the pre- 

sentation speech. 

After the banquet the following 

program was given: Solo dance, Lila 

Jean Ayers, accompanied at the piano 

by Esther Graham; piano solo, Vir- 

ginia Walkord; reading, Lillian Har- 

lan; vocal solo, Della Mae Dorough; 

and piano solo, Charlotte Nulph. The 

banquet was served by the G. I. A. 

Ladies of the B. of L. E. 

Addresses were made by Messrs. 

S. T. Cantrell, superintendent of the 

Central division: J. D. Heyburn, 

master mechanic of the Central divi- 

sion; John W. Bowler, general chair- 

man of the brotherhood of engineers 

on the Frisco; E. W. McCutchan, 

general chairman of brotherhood of 

engineers on the Kansas City South- 

'ern; and Mr. Clark, chief engineer of 

division 524. Van Buren. 

OKLA. CITY GREETS 'EM 

When the representative bud- 

ness men of Oklahoma City, trav- 

eled via the Frisco Lines on thelr 

Twenty-seventh Goodwill Tour, 

May 12, it occurred to Mr. W. A. 

Schubert, roadmaster, that they 

should be greeted and welcomed 

with a word from the Employes 

Club of that City. 

He drafted the following letter, 

mimeograph copies were made and 

one placed in the hands of every 

man on the special: 

"The Frisco Employes' Club ot 

Oklahoma City, extends greetings 

to representative business men 

of Oklahoma City on their 27th 

Goodwill Tour. 

"We would like to invite your 

attention to the following figures 

which may be interesting: 

"Payroll to Frisco employes 

living in Oklahoma City, approxi- 

mately $100,000.00 per month, or 

$1,200,000.00 per year. Total 

number of Frisco employes liv- 

ing in Oklahoma City, 685, of 

which 330 own their own homes 

and have 1,220 dependents mak- 

ing 1,905 residents of the city 

spellding inside of the city limits, 

approximately $1,00,000.00 per 

year. 

"The Frisco Railway operates 

daily into and out of Oklahoma 

City, 16 passenger trains, and 12 

freight trains."

A RECORD AT SPRINGFIELD 

Freight Platform Employes Handle 

23,513 Shipments On One Error 

XE fre~ght platform employes at 

Springfield, Mo., made the best T record for handlinq height during 

April of this year that has ever 

been made on the freiqht platform of 

any of the statlons in the so-called 

Group No. 1 stations which consists of 

St. Louis, 7th Street, St. LOUIS, Broadway 

Station; Kansas City; Memphis; 

Tulsa and Springfield, accortlinq to Mr. 

J. L. McCormack, superintendent of 

freight loss and damage claims. 

There were 25,513 shipments handled 

during April and but one error 

reported in the handling. The nearest 

approach to this record was made 

by the employes on the Springfield 

platform in August 1924, when there 

were 24,480 shipments handled with 

two errors reported. Tulsa station 

also had a good record ill .January, 

1928, when the employes at that station 

handled 21,826 shipments with 

hut two elrors. Tulsa station also 

made a record in April, 1928, when 

they handled 21,711 shipments with hut 

three errors. 

All the stations in Group No. 1 

made a good showing for April, reducing 

errors for that month under 

the month of March, a total ot sixtytwo. 

Tlie men working under Mr. J. L. 

Boyd, foreman at Springfield and responsible 

for the good handling reported 

above and who are entitled to 

full credit, are as follows: 

31r. Lee Howell, block clerk, and 

Mr. I. G. Cox, seal clerk. Check 

clerks: hlessrs. Wallace Hay. Chas. 

Helfrecht, A. P. Wells, P. W. JIcKinley, 

C. E. Clark, Guy Gallagher, and 

John DePriest. Check and Delivery 

Clerks: Messrs. Chas. Kelly, Fred 

Cunningham. Stevedores: Messrs. 

E. F. Henderson, Louis Sweetin, Otis 

Briggs, Jesse Rocltman, Addison 

Compton, James 11. Baker and Luther 

Traslt. Pickers: Xessrs. Sam Stanfield. 

Chas. Cannady, Jas. E. Foster, 

John W. Gates, Ed. C. Bocltman, Fred 

Snow and John B. Scott. Truckers: 

Nessrs. Oliver Stanfield, Nick Quisen- 

'berry, Dan B. Rainey, Lon S. Prophet. 

Carl Krischel, John S. Haflinger, Nack 

It. Thompson, Fred Sutter, Oliver 

Knox, Walter Pittman, Marion T. 

Kelly, Roy Chrisman, W. 11. Ezell and 

Jay Ezell. Veal checker: Mr. Henry 

Krischel. 

Xost of these men have been in the 

Frisco service long enough to entitle 

them to hold merit trai~s~)ortation. 

Young Woman-"And whose little 

boy are you?" 

Fophisticated Willie-"Be yourself! 

IVhose sweet mama are you?" 

lnlE CAME OUT 

-4 +9&" . 033 7 

"SECOND 6E.s.r - 

The mechanical department of the 

Southwestern division for the third 

consecutive quarter won the J. &I. 

Kurn merit cup contested for by the 

mechanical departments of the di- 

vision, and the west shops, the north 

?hops, and the reclamation plant, the 

latter three all at Springfield, 310. 

The J. 11. Kur~i merit cup contested 

for by the transportation departments 

of the divisions and the terminals, 

mas won for the first quarter this year 

by the Memphis terminals. 

The contests for both cups is based 

on casualties per 1,000 man-hours 

worked at the terminals and the shops 

n~entioned and on the divisions, and 

announcement of the winner of each 

cup for each quarter is made by H. 

W. Hudgeu, director of accident pre- 

vention, Springfield, Mo. 

Memphis wins the mechanical de- 

partment cup from the Western di- 

vision which previously had won it 

I'ron~ the hIemphis terminal. 

Of these two quarterly contests Mr. 

Hudgen said recently: 

"These two clips offered by Mr. 

Kurn have created an active interest 

in accident prevention between the 

various divisions and terminals to the 

extent that a handsome decrease in 

casualties was made by employes the 

first quarter of this year, compared 

with the same period of last year. 

"For the first quarter of this year 

the second best record among the 

mechanical departments was made by 

the Southern division and for this 

period the second best record among 

the transportation departments was 

made by the Birmingham terminals."

PRES. ICURRT LAUDS CONTACT 

think we can generally agree that 

there are two fundamentals underlying 

the success of salesmanship. The 

character of that which you sell must, 

in quality, be the equal of any commodity 

that may be in competition 

therewith. Haviug dretermined the 

quality, the price thereof shall be fair 

to the prodncer or seller, to the receiver 

or the consumer. If these two 

q u a 1 i t i e s representing successful 

salesn~anship are in existence, then 

there should be no question as to the 

possibility of a proper preservation of 

the relationship that would or should 

exist in that particular transaction. 

If that be true in the material side 

of our affairs, why isn't it also applicable 

to the relationship which 

should be as between us if we are to 

have that which we are seeking to 

accomplish-the preservation of the 

tie, representing friendship, representing 

good will, representing assets 

far beyond those which may be a 

part or parcel of our individual holdings. 

Therefore, cannot I leave with 

you the thought that preservation is 

just as much to be had in connection 

with the tie that shonld exist even 

for business reasons as between men 

as it is in connection with the tie you 

produce antl sell to my railroad. 

I have heard you all through various 

agencies call attention to the 

necessity for conservation. Of course, 

that might possibly have been more 

from our side than it has been from 

your side. Possibly it has been and 

is now true that it is to the interest 

of the railroad to conserve that which 

you have sold it. the tie. It is to the 

interest of yourself, as well as the 

railroad. to properly conserve that 

from which the tie is prodncedstumpage. 

It is to the interest of 

both to conserve somethiug out of our 

respective b~~sinesses to those who 

may be called upon to function in our 

respective businesses after me are no 

longer here, but Tor the purposes of 

the moment, I desire to deal with the 

question of the conservation of the 

tie from the angle of the relationship 

as between us as men. When one 

makes an unfair demand; when one 

seeks to secure an unfair advantage; 

when one says that the decalogue of 

the Ten Commandnlents has no place 

in business; when one has an absolute 

absence of the slant of the other 

fellow, our contributious from that 

source cannot hope to result in the 

interest of a proper conservation and 

as to the permanency of the tie, not 

the one which you produce, but the 

one which I am thinking of, which 

should he continued as between us. 

Possibly you and I, in the conduct 

of our respective businesses, have not 

given as much attention as we should 

have to that which is going to succeed 

that which has disappeared. In your 

business this is covered, possibly, by 

the well-known term reforestation. I 

know that 1 would like to talk to you 

about reforestation. I would like to 

say to you that (luring my lifetime 

and possihly the lifetiule of a few suc- 

cessors, that we will never have a tie, 

and I now refer to the tie that you 

produce, that will have such fine 

transportation results as the present 

tie, the wooden tie. I possibly should 

say the treated tie, and I will. The 

concrete reinforced tie, or any of the 

substitutes heretofore considered or 

used for the tie which you ,produce, 

will never be enjoyed by those who 

possibly will contiuue to use the 

steam railways for their transporta- 

tion. What I am endeavoring to con- 

vey to you is that if the tie as pro- 

duced by you is to be continued, nat- 

urally reforestation is something to 

be considered properly and sensibly 

by us all, but I am not going to talk 

about the reforestation of that which 

may be a part of your production. I 

am going to talk about the necessity 

for reforestation as applicable to the 

continued and successful functioning 

of man. If a man gives no thought, in 

the hurry of his business, in his anx- 

iety to accomplish a proper perform- 

ance and proper return to that which 

is going to be necessary tomorrow, is 

there, or can there be, that proper tie 

as between us, that proper preserva- 

tion, that proper conservation, that 

ere so essential in counection with the 

continuation of that mhich we are all 

so anxious to have. a relationship as 

between us all. 

In brief. are we giving a sufficiency 

of thought to those who are going to 

succeed us? Are the organizations 

being properly supervised'? Are we 

giving but passing attention to the 

many young men who must be the 

leaders tomorrow? Could we do 

something that ultimately would mean 

that n better condition would exist in 

his generation for the property in 

which you are now chargeable with 

the responsibility of, if a reasonable 

portioil of our time mas being devoted 

to the development of that which is 

going to necessarily follow us-the 

young men of today. Should we not 

exert the same energy, employ the 

same common sense, in developing 

the man product of tomorrow as 

shown in the administration of the af- 

fairs under our observation and direc- 

ti011 as of today? In brief, should not 

the question of the reforestation in- 

sofar as man is concerned be given 

the same serious thought as the re- 

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forestation of that which is essential 

in connection with the future production 

of your industry? 

Can we uot from my presentation 

of the basic principles of your industry, 

the tie, the preservation, the conservation 

antl the reforestation, reach 

a conclusion as applicable to man so 

that a better contact as between us 

will result than possibly is the case 

loday. We are all trying to draw 

near to each other, but the problem 

seems to be how we can actually accomplish 

the result. I believe every 

man to a certain extent honestly 

would like to sell himself to his 

friends aud associates. Do we not 

oftentimes wonder why we cannot go 

more than fifty per cent in our endeavor 

to meet up with the expectancy 

of that which in the last analysis 

is so essential-salesmanship? True. 

many a persol) has messed up the 

whole situatiou for us by being offensive 

in his endeavor to be the whole 

show, but should we, because of the 

one, refrain from an actually healthy 

endeavor to sell ourselves and that 

mhich we produce to each other? Is 

it possible that the selfishness of the 

individual is at the base of our troubles? 

1 have oftentimes heard that 

such is the case, but I question it. 

Oftentimes 1 am inclined to think that 

we are a little bit individually too 

sensitive as to how the other fellow 

might receive us, when if we but knew 

how anxious he might be to welcome 

the association that would come from 

a contact as between the two, we 

wonld jump at the chance of improving 

the relationship. It is my firm belief 

that there could be a vast improvement 

if' each and every one of 

us would try honestly to approach the 

other with the idea uppermost in our 

mind that he, the other fellow, might 

have something which would be of 

material benefit if we but could draw 

him out and get next to him. I am 

~ery strongly of the opinion that a 

proper contact can and should be established 

as between individuals, and 

when established as between individuals, 

it mill project itself into a contact 

iuvolving groups, and when 

groups are involved, business comes 

into the picture and when we can 

have a proper contact in business, I 

think some of the vexatious problems 

mhich have confronted us all will, to 

a large extent, disappear. I, therefore, 

earnestly suggest for your consideration 

any plan that has for its 

purpose an improvement in the contact 

as between men. 

Again I thank you for the pleasure 

of the moment 

Gentlemen, I thank you for your 

courtesi~s.

SECTION FOREMEN MEET 

Several problems relating to their 

work were discussed by section fore- 

men and section laborers of the Beau- 

mont sub-division ill the waiting 

room of the passenger station at Ar- 

kansas City. Kan., April 29. The 

meeting was opened by A. L. Fisher. 

division engineer, Enid, who turned it 

over to S. Payson, roadmaster, Enid. 

The attendance was thirty-one. 

The attendance, besides section 

men and Mr. Fisher included: S. J. 

Frazier, superintendent of the Wesl- 

ern division; H. F. Sinclair, claim 

agent; T. F. Jones, roadmaster; P. D. 

Hayes, chief clerk; F. H. Wright. 

maintenance clerk. all of Enid; J. W. 

"Uncle Bill" Morrill, accident preven- 

tion agent, Paciflc, Mo.; H. R. Smyer. 

agent, Arkansas City; C. E. Meeker. 

frog repairer; E. M. Cheatam, extra 

gang foreman, the latter two of Enid. 

and Dr. L. M. Beatson, local Frisco 

surgeon. Blackwell, Okla. 

Talks on the turning In to store 

rooms of unneeded tools of section 

laborers, the use on sections of ade- 

quate tools, accident prevention work 

on the part of section men and how 

the latter can help in traffic solici 

Eation were the high lights of the 

meeting of section foremen and sec- 

tion laborers held April 15 in the city 

ball at Clinton, Okla. Seventy-five 

men attended and A. L. Fisher, di- 

vision engineer, Enid, presided. 

The talks were by Mr. Fisher; S. 3 

Frazier, superintendent of the West- 

ern division, Enid; J. W. "Uiicle Bill" 

lorrill, accident prevention agent. 

St. Louis; R. C. Canady, assistant 

superintendent of the Western di- 

vision, Enid; C. U. Allen, division ac- 

countant. Enid; T. F. Jones and S. 

Payson, roadmasters, both of Enid. 

P. D. Hayes, chief clerk to Mr 

Fmzier; A. L. Dobbs, section fore 

man, Thomas, Okla.; George Wells. 

section foreman, Bessie, Okla.; C 

Laubhan, section foreman, Ames Ok 

lahoma, and others. 

Shortly after noon the meeting ad- 

journed to the Kemp Hotel for din- 

ner. The final address was after the 

dinner and was by Mr. Frazier, who 

spoke on traffic solicitation. 

The switch crew at the Rosedale. 

(Kan.) yards in April handled 8,259 

cars and made 4,295 switches without 

a single case of damage or rough 

handling charged against them. 

The crew: T. J. O'Brien, foreman; 

W. T. Barker, engineer; Willard 

Mowe, fieman, and Charles Cupp, 

Harry O'Brien and G. M. McAninch. 

helpers. 

I AGENCY CHANGES . I 

S. A. Leeper installed uermanent 

agent, Chester, Ark., April 25. 

W. C. Austin installed permanent 

agent, Lowry City, Mo., April 25. 

A. W. Wasson installed permanent 

agent. Sedgwick, Ark., April 24. 

W. N. Edson installed permanent 

agent, Bonanza, Ark., April 24. 

W. C. Kirby installed permanent 

agent, Bryant, Okla., April 23. 

M. C. Baker installed permanent 

agent, Grubbs, Ark., April 23. 

0. D. Hathaway installed perma- 

nent agent, Leflore, Okla., April 23. 

F. B. Stoneking installed permanent 

ticket agent, Maurine, Mo., April 23. 

F. M. Wilhelm installed permanent 

agent, Grant, Okla., April 20. 

H. R. Barks installed permanent 

agent. Neely's, Mo., April 20. 

T. A. Buckner installed temporary 

agent. Sherman, Miss.. April 20. 

H. L. Hunnicutt installed permanent 

agent, Welling, Okla., April 20. 

C. N. Ellison installed permanent 

agent. Weleetka. Okla., April 19. 

A. G. Phillips installed permanent 

agent. Quapaw, Okla., April 19. 

R. 1-1. Glover installed permanent 

agent, West Fork, Ark.. April 19. 

F. B. Poplin installed permanent 

agent. Bengal, Okla., April 18. 

C. M. Whirlow, Jr., installed perma- 

nent agent, Gravette, Ark., April 17. 

Breckenridge, Okla.. agency closed 

April 17. 

A. D. Hare installed permanent 

agent, Arbyrd, Mo.. April 16. 

E. R. Slocum installed perinanent 

agent. Depew. Okla.. April 16. 

V. S. Whitener installed permanent 

agent, Keiser, Ark., April 13. 

R. E. Nichols installed temporary 

agent, Aldrich, $10.. April 13. 

R. E. Essman installed temporary 

agent, Kirkwood. Mo.. April 13. 

CHIEF WILSON APPOINTED 

Announcement of the appointment 

May first of E. H. Wilson to the po- 

sition of chief special agent of the 

St. Louis-Sail Francisco Railway 

Company was made at the road's gen- 

eral offices here. Chief Wilson sac- 

aeeds Samuel A. Allender, who re- 

signed April 9. 

The Frisco's new chief special 

agent has spent many years in rail- 

road claim departments and special 

agent's work and came to the Frisco 

from the Louisiana Railway and Nav- 

igation Company. His offices are lo- 

cated in the Frisco general office 

building here. 

Page 2.5 

SOUTHERN DIVISION 

CLUBS PRAISED 

The solicitation of the Frisco 

Employes' Clubs on the Southern 

division is highly commendable, H. 

E. Gabriel, assistant superintendent 

wrote the Frisco Jlaga,' -t)re 011 

May 15. 

In his letter he details shipments 

secured by members of the various 

clllbs. 

"Through the efforts of our agent 

at Tupelo, we gained information 

that we might secure a considerable 

strawberry movement from 

Shaniion, Miss., a town on the M. 

& 0.. thirteen miles out from Tupelo. 

We immediately got on the job 

and to date 15 cars of berries have 

moved and a prospect of eight 

more. 

"Throiigh the efforts of our 

Aniory traffic club, Mr. J. C. Gravlee, 

president; Miss Violet Goldsmith, 

secretary, and vice-presidents 

and traffic committee, some 

splendid work has been done particularly 

in directing traffic via the 

nqw line to Mobile. During the 

past thirty days, ten loads of 

freight have been routed via Frisco, 

A. T. & X. and M. & B. into Meridan, 

Miss., a town which has always 

heretofore been controlled by 

competitive lines." 

Mr. Gabriel also gives special 

con~mendation to conductors Guyton, 

Gravlee, Davis. Underwood, 

Goodman and Coltharp; G. E. Gravlee, 

agent at Holly S,prings; Operator 

Meek at New Alhy; Clerks 

0. M. Tanner and R. A. Smith at 

Tupelo and the entire membership 

of the Amory Club for their splendid 

solicitation efforts and Ile asks 

that the commendation be printed 

in the ~Wogazir~e. 

CRATKY HEADS GATEWAY 

CLUB 

Chester C!. Kratky, chief clerk to 

President Kurn, was elected presi- 

dent of the Gateway Club of Saint 

Louis, at its annual election held 

April 27. The club is composed of 

railroad men who are also members 

of Masonic orders, and has a mem- 

bershil~ of 500. Kratky is well known 

in St. Louis rail circles. He began 

with Frisco Lines in 1914 as an of- 

fice boy in the law department, was 

secretary to President Kurn for flve 

years and was promoted to his pres- 

sent position in 1926. 

New Bride: And what would I get 

if I cooked a dinner like that for you 

every day? 

The Groom: My life insurance.

LOCOMOTIVE FUEL PERFORMANCE RECORDS 

Ofice of Fuel Agent 

!o I 

S the Prisco Lines as a whole 

it took 2.29 per ceut more fuel 

to haul 1,000 gross tons one 

hilr in 4pril this year than in same 

$nonth last year, also the unit fuel 

.consumption per switch locomotive 

b~ile increased from 139 to 146 

!~)ountls 5.04 per cent. 

This IS not the showing that was 

:txpected for these two classes of 

!,el vice, as the month of April was 

bet asidr to make a record in fuel 

f D ~ ~ ~ ; in e passenger r . service the 

kcverage number of pounds of fuel rehnired 

to haul a passenger car one 

;mile decreased f r o m 

P6.5 to 15.5 pounds 6.06 

cper cent and is the 

hargest decrease made 

3)s this class of service 

jn any month so far 

!his year, compared to 

same month last year. 

1 While the perlorm- 

nnce for the system .as 

k wholc increased in 

freight and switch serv- 

jve, there were a nunl- 

!,er of divisions i 11 

hese two classes ol' 

{ervice, as well as pas- 

Renger service, t h a t 

inade a decrease. 

The performance kor 

rach division. ranking 

to St. Louis, April 4, handled 2,123 

gross tons, performance 1:!2 

per 1.000 gross ton miles. 

por~ncls 

Engineer 0 S B 0 R N F,. firemall 

1).21:CIIERTY, train lst/38, engine 14. 

Sewburg to St. Louis, IIarch 29, 2,511 

~ross tons in train, burned 20 tons 

of coal. performance 140 pounrls per 

1.000 gross ton miles. 

Lebanon Sub: Engineer M. HALEY. 

fireman W. M. CHILDEHS, train 7. 

engine 1509, Newburg to Springfield. 

April 9. 10 cars in train, total of 1,200 

pirssenger car miles, performance 32 

nallon. 

Engineer J. OMELIA, fireman E. 

FREIGHT SERVICE 

Division Pounds Fuel per 1.000 

gross ton miles 

1928 1927 

Western ................... . ................. 191 203 

Southwestern ................... . ....... 167 17:: 

Sorther11 ......................... . ......... 152 177 

Texas Lines .................... . ......... 155 13; 

PASSENGER SERVICE 

Pounds Fuel per Passenger 

Car Mile 

Division 


Southern ..................................... 15.5 

Northern ...................................... 16.8 

19.4 

18.5 

River ............................ . ......... 15.0 1 ti .3 

Eastern ........................................ 1:I.S 1.4.3 

SWITCH SERVICE 

Pounds Fuel per Switch 

Locomotive Mile 


Texas Linrs ................................. 114 12i 

, 

1 . ulsa ................................. . ........ 140 149 

ill order of per cent dei~ease 

will be found ill 

!he table at the center 

of this page. 

: There were also two 

(l~visions in s m1 i t c h 

krvice. namely central and south- 

\\-(!stern, that made the same performanke 

as last year. .:&upervi~ors ol 

fuel economy and road foremen re- 

1)ort some excellent, trips made by 

ii~rlividr~al engine and train crews as 

tollows: 

IjOKAS, trail1 16, engine 1512, Springfield 

to Newburg. April 6. handled 7 

c-ars and consumed an average of 

1.20 gallons per passenger car mile 

which is milch almve the average for 

thi~ (:lass of train. 

Engineer R. REEVES, fireman i\. 

LUTZENHISEII, train 44, engine 35. 

EASTERN DIVISION 

. Rolla Sub: Engineer J. 0. TI-IIEL. 

Springfield to Newburg. April 13. 2,964 

gross tons in train, perforn~ance 96 

fireman 11. BUNCH, train 3, engincx pounds per 1,000 gross ton miles. 

1066, St. Louis to Newburg, April 2:;. 1511gineer S. li. MARTIN. fireman 

7, cars in train, 840 passenger car C:. J,. FIICNDERSOS, train 36, engine? 

nliles. performance 1 gallon or 11.9 

~~ountls. 

Engineer J. MORRISON, fireman .I. 

FAES, train 36, engine 4, Newburg 

lo St. Louis, Mi~rch 28, handled 3,106 

gross to~s consumed an average of 

113 ponnds per 1,000 gross ton milea. 

2, Springfield to Kewburg, April 26, 

$1 cars in trai~~ or 2,836 gross tons. 

burned 19 tons of coal, performanw 

112 pounds per 1,000 gross ton miles. 

l~lngineer H. W. SNYDER, firemail 

V. W. CROSS, train extra west, eugine 

2.5, Sewburg to Leba~~on, April 

4, handled 2,056 gross tons, burned 9 

' Engineer T. PARIS. fireman C. tons of c:oal. performance 130 pounds 

IIAVIS, train 38, engine 40, Newb~~rg per 1.000 gross ton miles. 

Springfield Sub: Engineer ED- 

MUND ROE. fireinall ALEXANDER. 

Springfield to Monett. April 16, dr- 

parted 11:45 a. m. arrived l:15 p. m.. 

on duty one hour 30 minutes, handled 

50 loads, 11 empties, a total of 2.192 

pross tons, burned 1,605 gallons oil 

nr 6.3 ~allons per 1.000 gross ton 

miles. 

Engineer H. .J. DAVIDSON, firema11 

WILLIS LONG, train extra west, en- 

gine 1145, Springfield to Monett, April 

24. 69 cars in train, a total of 2,230 

gross tons. burned 34 tons of coal. 

performance SO pounds. 

Ihrineer IIEE KEITHLEY, firernall 

Per Ccnt 

Decrease 

4.98 

n.47 

2.82 

0.61 

Per Cent 

tieereage 

20.10 

9.19 

7.98 

6.76 

10.24 

6.04 

DAVE ALDRIDGE. 

train extra west, ell- 

gine 4154, Springfield 

to Nonett, April 18, 42 

cars in train, 2,518 

gross tons. burned 5 

tons of coal. perform- 

ance 90 pounds per 

1,000 gross ton miles. 

handling of engine hy 

crew good. 

SOUTHERN DIVISION - 

Willow Springs Sub: 

Engineer A. FARMEII. 

fireman C. FUZZELL, 

train extra south. en- 

gine 4129, Sp~~ingfieltl 

to Thayer, April 12, 

handled 22 loaded cars 

and ::2 empties, 1,620 

gross tons, burned 14 

tons voal. performanre 

128 pounds 'per 1.000 

gross ton miles. 

Engineer RELSEY. 

fireman SLATER, trail1 

124. engine 1069. Thayer to Spring- 

field. April 14. 7 cars in train, per- 

fo13mauce 1.2 gallons per passengel. 

car mile. This is a very good per- 

formallee for local passenger. 

Engineer W. CRUISE. fireman (:. 

BAUER, train 135. engine 4129. 

Springfield to Thayer, April 16. :

O.ZVIS09, train 131, engine 4032, 

Thnyer lo Harvard, April 13, 2.800 

gross tons in train, I~urnetl 10 tons 

of coal, performance 54 pounds per 

1.000 gross ton mile. 

En~i~~eer KING. fireman IIOWDEX. 

vick UI) and set out work, also meetkg 

other trains, burned 20 ' tons of 

coal, performance 85 pomtls per 1,0110 

gross ton miles. 

Engineer GEORGE KAY, fireman G. 

T. ERICGS. train 895, engine 105::. 

Springfield to Ft. Scott, April 1, d 

cars in trairl. 1)urried 797 gallons oil, 

performance 1.28 gallons per passenger 

car mile. 

Afton-Parsons Sub: Engineer J. 

(;II.PIS. fireman C. TOWNSEND. 

trnin 104. engine 1057, .Ioneshoro to St. Louis to Chaffee. Nay 8, left St. train 111. cJngine 1066, Ft. Scott to 

Thnyer, April lG, 6 cars in train. per- IAnllis On time, arriverl Chaffee on Tulsa. May 1, 9 cars in train, burned 

forn~ance 12.2 pounds per j~assengc\r time. handled 10 cars, 1,440 passenger 1.406 gallons oil, performance .95 galcar 

mile. 

car miles. burned S7b enllons oil or lons per passenger P : I ~ .-.;I--. 

Tupelo Sub: Engineer H. L. W'II.- 0.61 gallons per passenger car mite, ---.. 

- SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION 

SOX, fireman E. COSDRY, train 136. handling of engine by crews was very 

Cherokee Sub: Engineer LIPE. fireengine 

12113, Amory to Potts Canlll. good. >lade run of 104 miles for 

man CAUSEY. train 438. engine 4104, 

.\lndl 12, l~andletl 1,463 gross tons. water and had 6 inches left in tank 

West Tulsa to Afton, 4pril 24, on 

bor~~ed 6 tons coal, performancq 117 on arrival at Chaffec. 

duty 6 hours 10 minutes, handled 

jiounds per 1.000 gross ton miles. Chaffee Sub: Engi~~eer A BE R - 

2 15.232 gross ton miles, burner1 1,405 

Engineer W. GREER, fireman FI. SATHY. fireman RYICER, train 835. 

gallons oil, performance 69 pounds 

SWAN, train 2d/136, engine 16. engine 4006. Chaffee lo Hayti, April 

I)RI' 1,000 gross t.on miles. 

.Imory to Memphis, April 12, 57 cars 26, handled 20.675 gross tons, burned 

Engineer R.EN0, fireman VINCENT, 

in train, 2.190 gross tons bnrnetl 14 Y tons coal. performance 57 pounds 

train Advance 23, enfiine 4121, hiotons 

coal. performance 100 por~nds per !)er 1.000 gross ton miles. 

nett to Tulsa, April 18. departel 3:15 


Engineer STORY. firemall .I. E. 

I). m., arrived 10:lO 1). 111.. on duty 6 

Engineer K. WILDER. fireman 1'. SIILLER, train 835. engino 4,018. 

hours 25 minutes, handled 2,118 gross 

DARDEN, train 136. engine 30. Anory Cllaffee to Hayti. April :N. 2.z00 gross 

tons, full distance, bnrned 1,713 gallo 

hlemphis. April 13. 55 cars in train. tons in train, perfor~nanw 64 i)ou~~tls 

lons oil, delayed 1 hour 05 minutes. 

2.225 gross tons, hurned 15 tons ol ppr 1,000 gross ton miles. 

actual running time 4 hours 50 mincoal, 

106 pounds per 1,000 gross ton Engineer GREEK. fireman RAKER. 

utes. ~rerformance for this trip was 

nliles. 

train 807, engine 1015. Chaffee to 

3.6 gallons per 1.000 gross ton miles 

Birmingham Sub: Engineer .I. HUP- .Ue~nphis. April 12. 5 cars in train. 

anrl is one ,of the best performances 

I'ERT, firemxn BOGAN, train 105. 1)urned 810 gallons oil. perforn~ance 

that has ever bwn made on ,the 

engine 1,526. Anlory to Rirmi~~gham. 1 g:~llori or 11.9 pounds per p:lssengcJr 

Cherokee Sub. 

.\pril 15, 9 cars in train, bur~~etl 1,009 cnr mik. 

Engineer JOHN T. DUNCAX (who 

gallons oil. performance .9 gallons per 

NORTHERN DIVISION is in motor car service) furnished the 

1:iissengrr c,ar mile. 

Kansas City Sub: Engineer .\I. l'ollowing perlor~nance of motor car 

12ngineer .I. RO.BIIL'SON, fireman I.. 

I3ERRIMAX. firenla11 I;. ALEXAX- 2101 (luring the month of April- 

1g7OSTER, train 934, engine 37, Car- 

IIER. train lsl/1:31, engine 4134. 1Can- total mileage 5,760, of which 2,036 

bon Hill to Anlory. April 13. hantlletl 

saw City to Ft. Scott, May 2, departed n~ilw were made with the trailer. 

20,350 gsoss tons, burned 10' tons 

7: 1.5 1). m.. arrived 10: 45 p. In.. on duty I)llr~~etl 20,720 gallons gasoline, 90 

coal, performance 1x3 po~~nds per 

: hours 30 minutes, hnndlcd 48 loads. :.allons of lubricati~~g oil. This is an 


1.968 gross tons. burned 7 tons coal. average of 91 gallons of gasoline and 3 

W~gin~er W. Q. WARD, firc~n:~n .JOE 

perform;inc8r 74 jiol~~~ds p(!r 1.000 gross r?allons of Ir~bricating oil for a distance 

COSTON. train 934. engine 16, East 

ton miles. 

of 1.32 miles which is a round trip. 

Thomas to 4mory, April 19, handletl 

Kngi~~cer S. .I..\CKSON, fireman R. Engineer .J. W. GILLAN. fireman 

2S3,FjGS gross Lon miles. hornet1 li 

Mr. STODDARD. train 4th/131, engine 1)OWl). in charge of engine 4150. 

tons conl, performance 119 ~)ou~~tls. 

4002, Kansas City to l't. Scott, April I~antlled XOOR gross tons, West 'hlsa 

Engineer .I. H. HOLLISGSWORTH. 

25, on duty 4 hours 10 minutes. to Afton. May 4, burned 14 tons of 

lireman 142. SANDERS. train !124, eni~antlled 

2,430 sross tnns. hurnetl 9 coal. perlormancc 108 1)ounds per 1.00 

~ine 11. East Thomas to 41nor.~. -\l)ril 

tons coal, perforn~ance 7; por~nds per gross ton miles. 

18, ha.ntlled 308,952 gross to11 miles. 

1.000 gross to11 miles. 

Eugineer DODD, fireman AICINS, on 

burned 20 tons coal, performance 12!) 

Engineer R. REPPERT, fireman E. May 3, engine 4116. handled 3107 

pounds. 

DORING, train 4t11/162. Ft. Scott to gross tons. West Tulsa to Afton, 

RIVER DIVISION 

Kansas City, April 29, tlepartetl 2:00 Imrned 1,612 gallons oil. performance 

St. Louis Sub: Engineer RICE. 1). m., arrived S::!O n. nl.. on duty (; 6.6 gallo~~s oil or 79 pounds of coal 

lireman RI!l?NETT, train extra nnrth. Ilor~rs 20 mit~utex. 6.5 loadrtl and 26 Iwr l,0Ml grow ton miles. 

cwgine 4016. May 2. Chaflec to St. t'mpty cars in train. bnsneil 17 tons ICngineer WOLF. fireman ROY. en- 

I.ouis, departed 3:50 a. m.. arrived cml. perfor~nance I)? pou~~tls per gine 4150, April 30, handled 2,147 

10:05 a. m.. on duty 6 hours 15 min- 1.000 gross ton miles. 

gross tons. Monett to West Tulsa, _ 

utes, handled 2,862 gross tons. Chaffer Ash Grove Sub: ICngineer A. h~rnetl 16 tons of coal, perforn:nn

I ~ 28 U ~ 

-p,G&w ~MPLO~S'~WZNE 

New Passenger and Freight Station in Poplar Bluff, Mo. 

ADovr is a photograplt of Architrct I\'. C. .Stepherm' 

drawing of tirc trew Frisco freigizt and passorgrr station 

at Poplar Blrtff, Mo., the cottstrtcction of z~hich was 

started Maj+ 1. 

FRISCO FUEL RECORDS 

(Continued from Pa'ge 27) 

ROLAND, train 535. engiue 4164. 

West Tulsa to Henryetta. April 27. 

handled 69 cars in train. burned I) 

tons of coal, performance 142 pounds 

per 1,000 gross ton miles. 

CENTRAL DIVISION 

Ft. Smith Sub: Engineer GEORGE 

NULPH, fireman FRED LANE, train. 

705, engine 1047, Monett to Ft. Smith. 

April 30, i cars in train, burned 6 

tons of coal, performance 12.9 pounds 

per passenger car mile. This same 

engineer with fireman S. E. ARNOLi) 

was on train 705 with engine 1042. 

April 9, handled 9 cars in train. 

burned 7 tons of coal, made a perform- 

ance of 16 pounds per passenger car 

mile. 

Engineer W. A. CARTER. fireman 

J. C. BRIDGES, train 735, engine 1336, 

Monett to Ft. Smith, April 12. 1,200 

gross tons in train, burned 10 tons of 

coal, performance 125 pounds per 

1,000 gross ton miles. 

Engineer N. ALLEDACH, fireman 

W. H. MATHIAS, train 705. engine 

1042, Monett to Ft. Smith, April 10. 

7 cars In train, performance 11 pounds 

per passenger car mile. 

Arthur Sub: Engineer McCON- 

SELL, flreman J. D. VANWAGNER. 

train 706, engine 1407, Paris to Ft. 

Smith, April 26, C cars in train burned 

6 tons of coal, performance 11.8 

pounds per passenger car mile. 

Engineer J. A. CAMPBELL, fire- 

man 0. STUMP, train extra south, en- 

gine 714, Ft. Smith to Talihina, April 

25, handled 1,091 gross tons, total of 

75,279 gross ton miles which is 

within 700 gross ton miles of I1111 

Tire statio)r .rid1 Dc 2lxl4X feet, arid is of a Spanisli 

stucco type. It replncrs otrr station which was dernolishcd 

ii~ the Poplar Bluff cyclone rcccrztly. 

TONS OF ICE FOR BERRIES 

potential rating for this class engine. 

burned 4 tons of coal, performance 

106 pounds. 

Inen the 1928 strawberry season on 

A. & A. Sub: Engineer J. M. DIE- 

JIER. fireman J. S. PERSON, train 

-. i3(, - engine 1231, Hope to Hugo, April 

Frisco Lines is over, this railway will 

have used approximately 31,500 tons 

of ice in icing the refrigerator cars 

23, halldled 171,332 gross ton miles, 

Iiurned 9 tons coal, performance 105 

pounds. 

Engineer J. E. O'NEIL, fireman J. 

S. PERSON. train 737, engine 1254, 

Hope to HII~O. April 25, made pert'ormancr 

90 pounds per 1,000 gross 

ton miles. 

Ft. Smith Yard: Engineer MAX- 

WELL. fireman ED. KINES, engine 

3656, 4pril 25, worked 8 hour shift. 

burned 2% tons coal. This is an avwage 

of 104 pounds per switch locomotive 

mile and is much below thc 

average. 

WESTERN DIVISION 

Beaumont Sub: Engineer G. 1-1 

GABRIEL, Areman 0. A. BRAMMER. 

train 632, engine 1628, Enid to Beaumont. 

April 13, handled 139,000 gross 

ton miles, burned 1,300 gallons oil, 

performance 112 pounds. 

Engineer A. HARLEY, fireman 0. 

A. BRAMMER, train 632, engine 1619, 

Enid to Beaumont, April 24, handled 

111,000 mous ton miles, burned 1,200 

gallolls oil, performance 129 pounds. 

composing the Frisco's nationally famous 

"Strawberry Specials", according 

to W. E. Ragent, supervisor of 

ice and refrigeration for the Frisco. 

with headquarters at Springfield, Mo. 

Icing of these cars is one of the 

most important phases of the Frisco's 

haudling of the great strawberry 

crop of the Oxarks of Southern Mixsouri 

and Northern Arkansas. Thcs 

Frisco has employed this season at 

ice docks HS many as 150 men, m-hosp 

sole duty has been the icing of these 

refrigerator cars. Each refrigerator 

car holds approximately five tons of 

ice. A berry train of forty cars can 

be ired at the Monett, Mo., dock used 

by the Frisco in forty minutes, or a 

oar a minute. The force at this dock 

at the height of the season was thirtmen 

for each of the two shifts. During 

strawberry seasons the Frisco 

uses ice docks at Monett, at Rogers. 

F~yetteville and Fort Smith, Ark., and 

at Kansas City, Mo. 

The refrigerator cars used for the 

Perry Sub-division: Engineer H. p. ~trawberries are concentrated at 310- 

COLLINS. fireman W. A. DAVIS. nett to form the "Strawberry Spetrain 

extra west, engine 1325, Enid cials" of the Frisco, which are rushed 

to Tulsa, April 18, handled 209,000 to Kansas City, where the cars are 

gross ton miles, burned 1,282 gallons placed on the rails of connecting linen. 

oil. performance 73 pounds. 

for distribution to large northern 

Eugineer C. F. ALLEN, fireman H. cities, practically from coast to coast. 

B. GIRARD, train 634, engine 1329, Strawberries leaving shipping points 

Enid to West Tulsa, April 17, handled one day, reach Kansas City at 4 p. m. 

204,000 gross ton miles, burned 1,491 the next day and are on the rails of 

gallons oil, perfornlance 87 pounds. connecting lilies withill two hours.

REA IDS PAPER ON SAFETY 

.\saista ~nt Superintendent R. C. 

Can; udy Before Central States 

Safety Congress 

"S' 

U'ETY from the Standpoint of 

the Supervisor" was the sub- 

ject of a paper read by R. C. 

(!anady, assistant superintendent of 

the Western division of the Frisco at 

the Central States Safety Cong-ress 

held at Kansas City, Mo., April 25. 

Mr. Canady said in part: 

"The company that I have the 

pleasure to represent started the 

n~ovement called Safety First in 

August, 1911, and the general lines. 

N-ith few changes, have been Iollowecl 

up to this day with splendid results. 

The thought that it was the man ant1 

the manner in which the work was 

performed and not the device or ap- 

1)liances that were causing all these 

:icctdents has been our guiding light 

since this movement started sonw 

seventeen years ago. 

"I have heard the statenlent. antl 

1 believe it is true, 'Show me an in- 

dustrial plant or any division or sub- 

division of any railroad where they 

are having an unusually large nunl- 

ber of accidents or where accident 

prevention or safety first work is 

looked upon almost as a joke, and 1 

will show you where the management 

of that organization or property has 

Pallen short on the job or the super- 

visors have not put forth the proper 

rffort to sell this wonderful product. 

accident prevention'. The supervisor 

is the teacher and you cannot expect 

the pupils to make 100 per cent grade6 

with 50 per cent teachers. Person- 

ally, I feel that it is up to us super- 

\isore to be 100 per cent teachers." 

At this point Mr. Canady gave sta- 

tistics showing a great decrease in 

Lhe number of accidents on the Frisco 

since the railway began its accident 

prevention program. He said that the 

name of the department, Safety First 

department, was changed to Accident 

Prevention Department in Decemhc~.. 

192.5. 

"Accident prevention meetingh. 

where all employes and supervisor; 

van get together at short intervaln. 

sho~rld be held, and previous acci- 

dents discused and how they could 

have been avoided. Constr~~ctivc> 

c.riticism always should he wolcometl 

This, in my mind, is one of' the best 

ways to handle this feature. Thew 

meetings, properly conducted, where 

c%rerybody can talk and discuss un- 

*afe practices and unsafe conditions. 

will go a long way toward better un- 

tlerstanding and correction. Thesc 

meetings, if conducted by supervisory 

officers, will not only help him to 

know and understand his men and 

Employes in F 'risco Hospital 

The following list contains the L)upree, V. I.., switchman, Lawt 

names and occupations of patients Oklahoma. 

confined in the Frisco Employes' Hos- Cruemmw, BIlss W., typist, 

pital in St. Louis as of May 16. They 

will be glad to hear from their 

Tauis, Mo. 

Cheek, J. M.. engineer. Sapul 

friends: 

Oklahoma. 

Johnson. 15.. ~)ensionctl. Wichita Boone, Win., engineer, Enid, Okla 

Kansas. 

Thurber. T,., car inspector. St. Lo1 

Spencer. Miss Sadie, operator, St. 

Louis, >lo. 

McGill. J., B&H carpc,nter, Sprins- 

Missouri. 

Garrett. 

Missouri. 

N.. lineman, Springfit 

field, 310. 

Bearden, A.. pensioned, Paris. T 

Alsip, I,., lineman, Vienna, Ill. 

Ourth. H., laborer, Chaffee, Mo. 

Clayton. E., laborer. Springfield, Mo. Gentry, C'. W., dispatchcr, Mempl 

Craig, C. A., wire chief. Springfield, Tennessee. 

Jlissouri. 

Cruz. A,, section laborer. Er 

Cleary. &I., clerk. Springfield. 310. Oklahoma. 

Blankenbaker. K., c-x~penter. A~nory. Dalton. W.. electrician. W. Tul 

Jlississippi. 

Oklahonia. 

Wortman. A.. engineer. Sapulpa. Barr. J. A,. pensioned. Merri 

Oklahoma. 

Jolley, R., car repairer, Jonesboro, 

Kansas. 

Curtis, Win . BBB carpenter. DI 

Arkansas. 

Oklahoma. 

Austin. 'T. E.. conductor. lluskosec~. Singleton. H. .\I., agent, Youthw 

Oklahoma. 

City. Mo. 

Rice, A,. extra gang laborer, 4x11ley. 

Kans. 

Vhrisman, K.. 

. Missouri. 

trucker. Springfic 

Hall, G. A,. pumper, Leachrille, Ark. Pearson. A. 0. hostler helper. M 

Oliver, C., sectloll laborer, Lebanon, kogee. Okla. 

JIissouri. 

Wells, IT.. freight account. 

Carver. E. H.. cashier. Chirkaslia. 

Oklahoma. 

Louis, 310. 

Poe, J. E., switchmail. St. Lo1 

Neal, F., B&R department. Chaonia. Jl lssouri. 

Nissouri. 

Campbell, C. M., en~ineer, Sap111 

Hirschman, G.. p~nuioned. St. Louis, Oklahoma. 

Missouri. 

Marston. E.. foreman, l+ayrtteville. 

Everage, Wm., B&B foreman. 

pulpa, Okla. 

Arkansas. 

Paul, J. W.. engineer. Pittsbu 

Plachon. I.. J.. yard clerk, Newburg, Kansas. 

JIIssouri. 

Hardin, J. O., clerk, Memphis, Te 

Spratley, WIIL lineman. Oklahoma Tork. G., switchman. Kansas C 

City. Okla. 

Missouri. 

Burgess. W. E., contluctor, St. Louis. List, C. C., section foreman, V 

Missouri. 

Scott, Kansas. 

Ballartl, U. R.. conductor. Memphis. Coody, E. P., car inspector, Harva 

Tennessee. 

Arkansas. 

Cochran. C:.. special officer, St. Sonlmerfrucht. J. H., airbrake m 

Louis. Wo. 

Sapulpu. Okla. 

Billings. C. E.. brakeman. Oklahoma 

City, Olila. 

Tapscott. C. S.. clerk, St. Louis. 1 

Workman, J., Jr., linenun, Wich 

Goode. H.. clerk, Welwter Groves, Kansas. 

310. 

Slanback. Wm.. agent. 0 1 i 

Rosback. Geo.. pensioned. Hugo. Branch, Miss. 

Oklahoma. 

Lane, K. W.. piece work check 

Dean. 1-1. C., engineer, Valley Park. Memphis. Tenn. 

Missouri. 

Teague. Wm., engineer. Sapul 

Ingles, C., pumper, Chelsea, Okla. Oklahoma. 

Morgan. Miss >I., stcno-clerk. Fort Thompson, S.. H&B carpenter, I 

Smith, 4:'k. 

mingham. Ma. 

get their confidence antl good wiI1. but 

will allow the men to meet each other 

and talk over their problems. The 

value of personal contact cannot be 

overestimated, not only along safety 

lines but in the operat.ing and other 

departments. 

"We supervisors have the most im- 

portant part to play in this work 

getting employes to work safely. 

watch the other fellow-workman, ' 

safe tools and get rid of bad tc 

and appliances, and report and as: 

in correcting unsafe conditions, the 

by preventing accidents by do 

away with the hazard."

J 

.\MES WALKER PAUL. engineer. 

Northern division. \\-as retired 

from active service on January 27. 

1!128, clne to lotal tlisahility. He was 

GLEN WALLACE MOORHEAD 

GLEN WALLACE MOORHEAL). 

pcnsion~rl engineer, died at his home 

at Th;~ye~-, No.. on April 14. He was 

65 years of aqe, I)orn December 16. 

born O( tober 22. 1868, at iLIcCom1~. 

lS(i2, near Jladiso~~ 

Ohio. a~ltl entered the service as a 

Court House, V a. 

fireman on the Memphis Lines in Ov 

His father was a 

2!). 1891, he \\-as married to Mrs. Snfarmer, 

and du~,il~:, 

his early years he 

sunna JIishler Curtis of Paris, and to 

1 

helped with the 

hem we^-e born twn sons. 311.. all11 

work on thc farm 

.Mrs. 13ea1~lcn rvxitlr at 320 W. Iiaufantl 

atte~~drtl the 

man Strc?et. I'uris. Co~~tinur~us servschools 

near his 

ice of thirty-six years ant1 three 

home. Hir: first 

nlonths t~~llitles him to it pension alrailroad 

s e r v i c e 

lowance of 947.S5 a n~onth, cfCeetivrwas 

with the C. 

April 1. 102s. 

& 

tober. 1594, later being promoted to 

~ngl~~eer antl serving ill that cilpaclty 

until he was retired on February 28. 

1923, tlue to physical disability. His 

pensiou allowance was $54.35 a n~onth 

~111tl up to the date of his death he 

had ))ern paid a total of 83514.15 

SMITH GAVETT BOULDIN 

SMITH GAVETT BOULDIN. 1)en- 

0. Fhilroad at. Hunt 

ington. W. V a., 

JAs. w. p,\ljL served as 

fireman. Hr entered Frisco service 

October 4, I'#!), as a loco~notive fireman 

at Ft. Scott. Kal~s., and was pronloted 

to loromotive enginerr, Novem- 

1)er 25, 1897. His entire service has 

I)ee11 on the Nortl~ern di\ ision. O:I 

November 12, 1S91, 11r was lnarrietl to 

JIartha ~lanc.hqVornstoR of Ft. Scott . 

and to them wns boru one son, Kenneth 

E. Paul. Nr. Paul res~des at 407 

West 4th Strect. Pittsburg, ICans. 

Continuo~is service of 38 years and 4 

IIIOII~~S entitles hi111 to a pension a1lowance 

of $59.85 a month, effective 

Aiarrsh 1, 1928 

ALVIS H A It H I S 0 S BEARDEN. 

c!erk, lnechanical department. P. R. 

G. N. Railway, Paris, Texas, was resioned 

co~~ductor, died at the home of 

\\71L1.1AN 1':L)M'IS BIILCI-I. clork, his da~~ghter. at Monett, Mo.. on Nay 

store rlc~partmenl. Tulsa, Okla.. was 2 He was born March 20, 1862, near 

retired l'1-oni active ser\-ice March 31. 141intirigton. Intl. He entered the sen- 

1028, to his having reuchrtl t h ~ ic,e as passellger porter at Monett. 

n.qe liiiiit. HI> \\-as born in St. Louis. 310.. ill December, 1592. working ill 

.\lo., a4a1,cll 2::. 18.58. His fatl~el. wits various c;lpacities at that statiou unn 

farmer. He entered Frisco service til August, 1902, when he was apin 

190s as a laborer ill the store dr- pcintetl bixkeman on the old I

working in that c~wacity and as wiper 

until retired on June 30, 1913, at which 

time he was placed on the first pensinn 

roll pair1 by this compat~g. His 

rlearlt leaves but two of the original 

pensioners alive. His allowance was 

120.00 a month and a total of $3,540.00 

had been paid him. 

MISS ADDlE TOLAND 

MISS ADDIE TOLAND. an employe 

III the Ilay :: at his 11on1c. al 

Warrensburg. 310. He retired almut 

twelve years ago. 

The captain served with the tedeml 

forces during the Civil \Var. Hc. 

worked in the government secret 

service and later entered speclal agent 

work with the K. C.. F. S. & 31. 

FRiSCO FOLKS HEAD SOCIFTY 

Xembers of the Frisco Family hold 

11ear1y all the offices in the Ozark 

Dahlia Society, which was organized 

at the Greene County court house, 

Sr~ringfielil, 110, April 24, to promote 

tlahlia cultnre and the l~olding of a 

tlahlia show this fall. The territory 

embraced by the society is Sontll- 

west hlissouri. 

The officers of the society who are 

of the Frisco family are: F. R. Holaway, 

train baggageman, lwesident; 

P. W. McKinley, freight honse forcman, 

first vice-president; Arthur 

Erke, telegraph department, second 

vice-president; Mrs. %. M. Dunbar. 

wife or the chief transportatio~~ clerk. 

recording secretary and treasurer. 

Others of the Frisco family who arv 

charter members are: James Burns. 

loreman or special equiplnent; W. A. 

Eangs, mechanical department; Mrs. 

R. J. >IcCilvry. wife of the loconlolive 

engineer; Mrs. Charles Craig. 

wife of the Frisco shop foreman; 

Mrs. 31. H. Dodd, wife of the cabinet 

worker: 3lrs. F. R. Holaway, wife o!' 

Ihc. train l)ngi.axen~an, antl %. 31. Durllmr, 

chief t~,ansportation c,lerl

Puyr 32 

S 

Homemakerf Page 

One Salad a Day 

By BliTTY 

ERVE one salad a day. Two is 

better, but one good salad will 

MISS LORETTO A. CONNOR. Editor 

plentiful supply of alkaline foods: 

. 

Picture hats are in vogue for the sum- 

mer ~irorrths, and Miss Entily Sparks oj 

thc ngci~ts' accolrnt drpart7nent. Soin1 

Louis, poses m a becoming model--a 

combimtiorr of brnid, velvet ribbon and 

lnrr. 

go a long way toward balancing 

Mock Lobster Salad 

the acid-producing foods eaten so 2 cups cooked dry Ash of any kind. 

heavily, and perhaps it is better to 2 cups celery. 

advise one salad a day and have your 

advice taken, than to suggest two 

and have the suggestion ignored. 

2 tablespoons pimento, 

1 cup mayonnaise dressing, 

2 tablespoons lemon juice. 

Many families have gotten into the Mix cold, flaked boiled fish with 

salad habit during the past few years. 

Others have not yet joined the ranks 

of the wise. The salad, however, is 

the cheapest, most tasty and most 

&cient medicine obtainable. 

Contrary to general belief, the acidproducing 

foods are such staples as 

meat, fish and bread. The acid balancers, 

or alkaline foods, are green 

finely-chopped pimento; season with 

~alt, paprika and lemon juice, and let 

stand one-half hour. Add celery, iinely 

chopped, and two tablespoons mayonnaise 

dressing. Stir lightly; pile on 

crisp lettuce leaves, and cover with 

dressing. Garnish with lemon, cut in 

fancy shapes and decorated with paprika. 

vegetables, fresh frults and milk. 

Fig and Cheese Salad 

Knowing this, it takes the average 

person but a moment to appreciate 

Mix cream cheese with pignolia 

nuts that have been browned in the 

the fact that vegetable and fruit sal- oven. Season with salt and moisten 

ads. fruit-cups and light creams. orange juice or cream. Fill 

whips and similar puddings, are as fresh or canned figs with cheese mixhealthful 

as they are delicious. ture; arrange on lettuce leaves; gar- 

The salad is Mother Nature's par- nish with thin slices of oranges, cut 

ticular cure for acidlty. It seems that 

almost all of our principal alkaline 

foods, with the exce~~tion of milk, are 

in quarters and sprinkle with flnelychopped 

pignolia nuts, and serve with 

lioney dressing. 

(Fashions from R. Sngent & Broli.,.St. I.ouln) 

made with the salad in mind. Lettuce, 

celery, oranges, pineapples, ap 

ples, radishes, raw cabbage-all these 

are alkaline foods, and all fit Into salads 

almost perfectly. 

So serve a daily salad. Not necessarily 

an expensive salad-for dozens 

of salads may be made up at very 

little cost. Nor does this daily salad 

have to be made without meat and 

Simple Ten-Minute Salads - 

1. For each portion, allow one-half 

orange, one-half cup cantaloupe balls 

or cubes and six white grapes. Serve 

on lettuce. 

2. For each portion, allow one 

thick slice tomato, ring of green pepper 

and one-half orange. Sprinkle 

with minced onion. Lettuce. 

MISS PHESSON WINS PRIZE 

Hazel Presson. daughter of G. L. 

Presson, chief dispatcher. who is a 

student in the junior class of the Ft. 

Smith High School, won first prize 

in a state essay contest on the subject 

"Chemistry and Its Relation to 

Enrichment of Life", conducted hy 

the An~erican Chemical Company. 

fish. A little cold lamb, cooked haddock, 

or salmon may form one of the 

ingredients of a salad-for the other 

ingredlents will tend to balance the 

acidity of the meat or Ash, and make 

the salad, as a whole, a very delightful 

and healthful dish. 

Here are a few of the most simple 

salads Imaginableeach containing a 

3. Peel oranges and remove all 

white skin. Cut into one-fourth inch 

slices and cut each slice into halves. 

Dice celery and apple and mix with 

mayonnaise. Arrange a circle of halfslices 

of oranges on a lettuce-covered 

salad plate, 611 center with apple 

and celery mlxture, and garnish with 

celery tlps. 

Miss Presson's essay of more than 

2,000 words was submitted with 

hundreds of others from all over 

Arkansas. She will receive $20.00 in 

gold and a certificate, according to 

the message from Dr. Harrison Hale. 

head of the Chemistry department at 

the University of Arkansas, also 

chairman of the committee of - iudnes - 

for the state. She is also entitled to 

While the old-fashioned mothers "A practical man is the upholsterer; 

enter the national contest. 

have Wit baking bread, the modern 

I~omekeepers need-.'more dough than 

ever. 

he's always getting down to brass 

tacks.- 

A bird in the woods ia worth two on 

a hat.

Jitn~, 1928 Pngc 33 

T 

St. Louis Bowling Teams End Season With Prize Awards 

The two Frisco St. Lorris tcairrs bowlcd a matched garve on thc prigkt of JIm. 9, n~rd t11c nbovc photograph was ?;rode 

tRc p-oufi. Mirs Bcrtha Hnhrr. presidcrtt of the girls' tca~rr, is c*! tlrc c.r;rcrr:c Icft of thc picture. second row. On Ilcr 

is IZmlph Xch'ridc, p~csidcirt of thc mvr's tcnur. 

HE bowling season for both 

teams of the Frisco Girls' Club 

and the Men's Club of St. Louis, 

has ended. The girls bowled their 

final game on the night of May 7, 

and the men on the night of May 4. 

President Ralph 3IcBride of the 

Men's club presented the pennant to 

the Bluebonnet team, which has won 

the pennant for the seventh consecu- 

tive season. This team is composed 

of the following members: hlessrs. R. 

L. Schoeneberg, R. L. Tschampers, 0. 

B. Duffy (Captain) ; C. G. Lamont, E. 

H. Thielker, J. Schad and A. H. Burg- 

dorf. 

The Sunnyland team won the high 

single with a score of 1031 and Mr. 

C. A. Houlihan won the individual 

high single with a score of 269. 

The girls brought their season to 

a close with a dinner, given at the 

Forest Park Hotel on the evening of 

May 14. Fifty-four were in attend- 

ance, with Mr. E. N. Howard, man- 

ager of the Rogers Recreation Alleys, 

Miss Loretto A. Connor, president of 

the Girls' Club and Miss Martha C. 

Noore of the publicity department 

were special guests. Miss Bertha 

Hahn, president of the bowling club, 

presided. 

Following the dinner, Miss Hahn 

called on the guests and the officers 

of the club for short addresses. Each 

in turn, complimented the club on its 

successful season. 

"I have seen many women's teams 

formed," Mr. Howard said, "only to 

go to pieces in a few weeks, but the 

Frisco girls stuck together like vet- 

erans. Their comradeship and co- 

operation was one of the finest things 

I have ever witnessed in any group 

or team." 

Miss Evelyn Keisling presented a 

reading; Miss Mary Crane favored 

the group with a song, and the bowl- 

ing club quartette, con~posed of Ber- 

tha Hahn, BIarge Burns, Margaret 

Cowan and Lilly Kulage, accompanied 

by Sophie TVilliams sang "Ramona." 

The most important featye of the 

program was the presentation of the 

bowling prize money. The Wichita 

Falls Team won first prize of $15.00 

with the Southwest Limited team 

second. Miss Odelia Bosche won the 

high individual prize and also the 

special individual prize and was also 

a member of the team which won flrst 

place. Prize money was presented by 

Mr. Howard. Only a short time was 

taken up in the election of officers for 

the Girls' Team tor the 1929 season. 

They are as follows: Lillian Ritter. 

president; Odelia Bosche, vice-presi- 

dent; Alma Jennings, secretary and 

Louise Gibson, treasurer. 

The Hugo, Okla., diamondmen lost ager, taking the place of Arthur Boen. Clyde Sillyman, boilermaker-helper; 

their first game to Valliant, Okla., re- The team has the month of June book- .Leslie McGown, machinist-helper; 

cently. They have a return game and 

expect to take the honors. 

The Frisco Best Service Baseball 

ed and is anxious to hear from Frisco Phillip Picard, machinist, and Charles 

teams for match games later this sea- H ~ .boilermaker, ~ ~ claim ~ t~ , be the 

son. -- 

champion horseshoe pitchers of Kan- 

The distribution clerks, West Shop, 

Club of the 7th Street freight station, Springfield, Mo., have organized a ball 

City. They threw an average Of 

St. Louis. has been re-organized and team and practice every evening until 64 ringers in eighteen minutes during 

R. L. ~ l & 

has been appointed man- dusk. hey claim some good talent. the week of May 7.

"S 

CHOOL is out-school is out", 

sang Bobby, as he came bounding 

home with his books. "Oh 

mother, I'm so glad", he said. 

The trees were green outside-the 

sun was warm and pleasant. It was 

summer time and June, and all the 

world looked beautiful, especially to 

Bobby, for as he said, school was out. 

"Mother", he said, "when are we 

going to go to grandmother's?" 

"We may leave this week-end Bobby, 

its according to your father's 

work", mother replied. "Grandmother 

has been writing and asking us to 

hurry, and I expect we'll go now very 

soon.'' 

"Oh goody, goody", and Bobby jumped 

up and down. "Mother tell me 

again what grandmother has on her 

farm." 

"Why she has pigs and ducks and 

horses and cows and chickens-" 

"Pigs?" and Bobby paused for a 

moment. "Are they the ones that 

have the funny little tails that curl 

up and when they run they grunt?" 

"Exactly", replied mother. 

Bebby and mother talked for a long 

time that afternoon about what they 

would see on grandmother's farm, and 

Bobby was more than anxious that 

the week come to a close so they could 

start. 

Saturday morning arrived at lastand 

the whole family arose early. 

Bobby put his hiking clothes in the 

big suitcase and his ball and glove, 

and carefully wrapped his little sail 

boat in paper, for mother said there 

was a big lake on grandmother's farm. 

The ride 011 the train was delightful 

and Bobby was most interested 

in watching the conductor take up 

tickets. Bobby kept a little folder in 

his hand, and would mark off the stations, 

one by one and when they 

reached the station just before grandmother's 

home, he began to gather 

up his belongings. 

He pressed his little face against 

the pane, for a first view and all at 

once he said, "There she is, mother, 

and grandfather too!" 

There were many kisses and hugs 

and grandmother just couldn't get over 

how Bobby had grown to be such a 

man in the two years since she had 

seen him. 

He took hold of grandfather's hand 

Bobby Vacations With Grandmother 

and walked toward the Ford. The 

farmhouse soon loomed up in the dis- 

tance. It was a lovely old place and 

UT THREE PIGS 

P IN FOUR PENS 

EASY 

Bobby was so glad that they had ar- 

rived. 

The first thing he did was to rush 

through the house and out the back 

door to view the barn and yard. "Pigs 

-horses-cows!" he said, as he rec- 

ognized the various animals. 

Mother found him, leaning against 

the fence watching the various an- 

tics of a litter of small pigs and she 

told him that dinner was ready. 

What a feast! Bobby hadn't had 

any corn bread for a long time, and 

buttermilk! Mother was almost 

ashamed of his appetite when he 

asked for a second big glass. 

But that afternoon grandfather told 

Bobby to put on his hiking shoes and 

together they went over the farm. 

Grandfather in his most interesting 

manner, told Bobby how he planted 

each thing. in the garden and fields. 

When they got down to the lake, 

they stood there for several minutes 

watching the old mother duck with 

her small ducklings behind her, swim- 

ming around with perfect ease. 

Bobby was fascinated. He could 

swim. Daddy had taught him when 

he was very young-but he wished he 

could swim with the ease that grand- 

father's ducks did! 

He heard a lot of grunting-and 

turning, he saw the old mother hog 

and her seven small pigs nearing the 

water. One little pig ran in advance 

of the rest and rushed headlong into 

the water. 

Bobby paused for a moment, and 

then with the cry-"Oh grandfather, 

he'll .drown1'-he jumped headlong in- 

to the lake after the little fellow. 

But Bobby mas a city boy, and he 

was not familiar with the way of pigs 

or the depth of the lake, and instead 

of plunging in the water, he buried 

his head in the mud. The little pig. 

with several squeals, turned in the 

water, which was only about four 

inches deep and ran back to its moth- 

er who grunted her approval. 

Grandfather, shaking with laughter. 

hurried over to Bobby and pulled him 

from the mud. Bobby spit and wiped 

the mud from his face. He was a piti- 

ful sight to see. 

"Bobby-didn't you know that.water 

was only a few inches deep?'' asked 

grandfather, grabbing a handful of 

grass and wiping off his face as best 

he could. 

"Blub-blub" sputtered Bobby- 

"NO!" He and grandfather hurriod 

back to the house, where grandmother 

and mother were shocked, and later 

burst into laughter when grandfather 

told of Bobby's heroic act which end- 

ed in disaster for Bobby. 

But he was soon in clean clothes 

again, and none the worse for his ex- 

perience. 

That evening grandfather asked 

Bobby if he wouldn't like to take a 

swim the next morning with the pigs, 

but Bobby only hung his head. 

"Never mind Bobby", he said, "come 

over here I want to show you a puz- 

zle". And grandfather took out a pen- 

cil and drew three pigs. 

"Now put those three pigs in four 

pens Bobby, where they can't get to 

the water" said, grandfather. 

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onz wp ro rrynr, roy I-ow: ~r~~izautrug~rrer 01 A. o. Dozzeer, uo.r yocMcr, vv~tz~ra, Aaizs.; Arrw bnrry, Jr., age J 

and Thelirra Gentry, aqe 1, children of Artie Gentry, trucker, 7th Street Station, St. Louis. 

Center: R~th Ellen Morgan, age 12, dawghter of Nr. Herbert ~l.lmgan, machirtist, Ft. Smith, Ark. 

Charles Rayl~totld Sheeley, 26 month old soft of Wr. John Slzeeley, boilerrimkCr, Chaffee, Mo.; John Wilbur, age 13 

and Ruth Lwile, age 8. children of Mr. J. F. Strickland, traveliqq freight agcrrt, Denver, Colo. 

Bottorn row, IeJt to right: dlinerva J4ay West, one gear old daughter of Mr. Rzcben West, sectior~ foremzn, Startton, 

Mo.; Mary Jo Ford, six month old daughter of il4r. J. W. Ford, and granddaughter of Mr. J. J. Ford, yard section foreman, 

Ft. Smith, Ark.; Billy Orr, 17 ~nostlt old son of Mr. W. L. Orr, engine suMlyiIratr, Bir?reirtghunz, Ale., and Gln~nie Fay 

Thomas, datcghtrr of dlr. A. S. Thonms, operator, Dora, Ala. 

And Bobby after an interval of a 

half hour finally penned the pigs up. 

"Now I guess they won't go swim- 

ming" he said. "Grandfather, I don't 

believe I'm so awfully crazy to know 

any more about pigs, will you take 

me out when you milk in the morn- 

ing, I think I'd like to learn how". 

"Not a True Tale!" 

A mouse once bought an aeroplane 

And flew-to such a height 

He said. "I must go down again- 

Good gracious! It is night." 

"O'h, dear! I cannot go so fast, 

It's dark." But very soon 

The stars came out and then at last, 

He saw the yellow moon. 

He thought it was a monster cheese 

So he, as he drew near, 

Bit pieces off, till by degrees 

The moon grew small, poor dear. 

So now, whenever you look out 

And see the moon quite wee, 

You'll know that mouse has been 

about 

And nibbled it for tea. 

--(Exch.) 

Generous Merchant 

Little Edgar didn't re&lize till he 

got home and unwrapped his purchase 

that his mother had bought him a 

two-pants suit. 

"Look, mamma, look," he cried. 

-'That man threw in a spare." 

YOUTH IS A MUSICIAN 

George Howard Willhoite, although 

only twelve years of age, is an accom. 

plished musician. He is the son of 

George F. Willhoite, a conductor for 

Frisco Lines on the Southwestern di- 

vision. 

He has been playing the piano since 

he was three years of age and is able 

to play any piece of music he hears. 

In June, 1927, he began to study 

music and in less than a year's time 

was able to win the gold medal in the 

Junior High School Musical Contest 

of the Monett district, held at Aurora, 

lo., April 6. He was the youngest 

contestant and played "Etude in A" 

by Wallenhaupt. 

He has a very promising future in 

the musical world and he is planning 

years of study. 

Who's Who 

Elsie-There's a man at the door, 

Pa, who says he wants to see the boss 

of the house. 

Pa-Call your mother. 

BTa (calling down the stairs)-Tell 

Bridget. 

Oh, Johnny! 

Sunday School Teache~We should 

never do in private what we would 

not do in public. 

Bad Boy-How about taking a bath, 

teacher? 

Sharply Dull 

A scissors grinder stopped in front 

of a house. "How's business, Tony?" 

asked the mistress. 

"Fine!" said he, "I never saw things 

so dull in all my life." 

Not Present 

Visitor-"Is your father. at home?" 

Small Son-"No. Daddy has not 

been here since mother caught Santa 

Claus kissing the cook." 

The Knocker 

There is room in this world for sun- 

shine 

And flowers and smiles galore- 

But the only place for a knocker 

Is just outside the door. 

Jack and Jill 

Sped up a hill. 

A curve up there was sharp. 

The car upset; 

Jack's rolling yet; 

Jill's playing on a harp. 

-University Life. 

Sambo: What kind of watch you 

got? 

Jasbo: I has a wonder watch. 

Sambo: Wonder watch! Never 

heard of that before. 

Jasbo: Well, you see it's this way. 

Every time I look at it I wonder what 

time it is.-Railway Age.

The FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 

Published on the First of Each Month 

BY the 

St. Louis - San Francisco Railway Co. 

Edited By WM. L. HUGGINS, Jr. 

743 Frisco Building St. Louis, Missouri 

- - 

This magazine is publ~shed in the interests of and for 

free distrihution amon$ the 30,000 emploses of the St. 

Louis-San IG-ancisco Railway. A11 articles ,LII~ communl- 

cations relative to editorial matters should be addressed 

' to the editor. 

I 

Single copies, 15 cents each 

Outside circulation, $1.50 per year 

tliat you get as nice a riclc on a stretch of Frisco 

main line as you clo anywhere else in Amcrica, 

tlitlt the E'recl Harvey food in their diners and 

station restaurants is the supcrior of any other 

railroad food in America, that they run their 

trtiiiis on timc, and that their equipment is good 

and their motive power excellent,. 

"I read their annual report. tile othcr clay 

and saw where they had a dccrease of $5,000,- 

000 in gyoss rcvciiuc in 1927. That's not bad. 

Otlier roilcls Ilad more dccrease. But the point 

is-the crowd runiiing the Frisco today had a 

Vol. 5 JUNE, 1928 No. 9 

clecrease in net of only onc million and soinc 

odd tlioustmcl clollars. Aiicl if you don't think 

tht means cfficieiit operation look back over 

tlic cost shcets in your own businesses when you 

get home. 

"I mad, too, that tlic Frisco's completed its 

liiie into Pensacola, Florida, and now has its 

first 'home' port. That means no more shortlii~~ling 

to tide-water. They'rc cutting out the 

' midclle man ', as. sonic of us clrummers woulcl 

say. And they 'vc just opened a. new $1,750,000 

A Drummer Speaks His Piece tcrmi~ial in Memphis to speed up traffic I~andling 

from the Kansas City and St. Louis gate- 

HE robust man with the jovial smile lighted ways to Pcnsacola's port. The superior motive 

T a fresh cigar and benignly surveyed the power 011 thc Frisco makes it possible to take 

crowd in the smoker of No. 10's rcar Pullman. this train thc 542 miles from Oklahoma City to 

"I've been sitting here for a hnlf hour," llc St. Louis without a change of engines, and I 

ctilml!- observed, "t~ncl I'ni about to change m). 

think they only use one engine on their through 

mind about the favorite indoor pastime of 

passenger service from Kansas City to Bir- 

American males. It used to be polter. Kow it 

niiligl~am, a longer run yet. 

seems like it's cussing thc railroads. I've been "Nope! You boys are criticising tlie other 

piling up twenty-five or thirty thousand miles a guy's game witl~out knowing what you're talkycar 

on American riiilronds for twenty-five ing about. You ought to read the railroad 

years-not making mucl~ money, but having lots news in the papers. It wouldn't hurt some of 

of fun. I've seen railroad managements conic you to bone up on this freight rate situation 

and go, and railroads go up and down ill effi- cither. You chaps talk like the railroads make 

ciency and comfort. But I'll tell you gentle- tlic rates. Read up on the Interstate Commerce 

men here that you're considerably in error Act, and see what thc Commission does on 

when you make statements like some I've heard freight rates. Then if I hear any of you cusshere 

tonight. 

ing the government of the Tinited States I'm 

"1,et's take this road for instance. 1 remem- liable to sic the United States district attorney 

ber tlie Frisco when they used to say 'St. Louis- on you for treasonable utterances. 

San Francisco Railway System-hell ! They "While I go back here and have a chat with 

haven't got a system and don't go to Frisco.' the conductor before I turn in, I suggest you 

Wcll, the ambitions dreams of the original good friends try to figure out what they're dofounders 

hawn't materialized yet as far as ing to Rogers Hornsby. That would be a betmaking 

these rails stretch to the Wcst Coast, ter topic to guess about." 

but the Frisco is some railroad today, and don't 

you let anybody tell you different. 

Members of the Veterans' Association meet- 

"I've been supplementing my own knowledge ing at Springfield, June 18-19, are to be more 

gained from riding their trains, by reading the 

newspapers. I know from personal experience 

royally enterhilled t,han ever before. 

miss it, Veteran! 

Don't

Fur Protection 

L skunk and her four baby skunks 

re basking in the sun when a big 

und dog made his appearance. 

'Children," said the mother skunk, 

t us spray." 

The Age 

'How old are you, little girl?" 

'Five on the train and six oft'." 

At the Porter's Ball 

'Is you all fiwiue bring your broom 

d pan with you at the ball?" 

'So, sir-I ain't goin' take them 

ngs." 

'1-ou all bettah-'member after the 

!or fight last year-all them grapes 

-in,- on the floor!" 

'. Grapes - man. thew weren't no 

tpes, Lhem wuz eye-halls! " 

Yes, Yes! 

"What were the epistles?" 

"Wives of the Apostles, I guess." 

Oh! 

Husl~antl: "Dear, will you plertse 

turn oft' the ra.dioS?" 

Wifie: "It isn't on-now as I was 

saying-" 

What Air? 

"IVhrhat is wind?" 

"It's-it's air that's-that's going 

sonlewhere." 

Wrong Contact 

He: "There's something wrong. 

This gear shift doesn't work." 

She: "That's not the gear shift- 

it's my knee:" 

In Dutch 

He had come home late and staggered 

iu. She met him at the door 

a~ul gavc him a terrific heating in the 

dark. Then she turned on the light. 

"Why-you're 

she gasped. 

not my husband!" 

"Are-are 

weakly. 

you sure?" he said, 

Found 

"Sandy" McGinnis had been absent 

from home and after a search of three 

days they found him- 

Slill riding on a pay-as-you-leave 

car. 

Just a Part 

"Sambo, why don't you all part yoah 

hair in the n~itldle'?" 

"Why part my hair in the rnidtlle?" 

"Then they'd be a alley in your 

block I " 

Eliminated 

"Are yo11 the groom?" asked the be- 

wildered old gentleman at a very 

elahorate wedding. 

"No, sir," was the reply of thc young 

man. "I was eliminated in the pre- 

liminary try-outs." 

No Room 

There is room in this world for snn- 

shine 

And flowers and smiles galore- 

Rut the only place for the knocker, 

Is just outside the door. 

A Smaller Order 

Father-ill-law : "How would you 

'like a cow for a wedding p,.esent?" 

Eride: "Oh, a cow monlrl give more 

miili than two could nerd. A calf 

would he about right." 

-U. 1'. Magazine. 

What He Can Do 

"No, lady, I can't chop wood." 

"Well, there will he soine coal here 

any minute, and you can carry it in." 

"Sorry. but I can't carry coal. If 

you have a gas stove, I'll light it for 

you." 

A Wild Pitch 

The radio announcer was transmit- 

ting a play-by-play account of the 

World Series game. At an exciting 

nloment he yelled out: 

"He swang at it!" 

Seventeen sets in Boston burned 

out.-Life. 

Page 37 

Youthful Ambish 

"Jimmie," said the tcacher, "what 

is you^. greatest ambition'?" 

Jimmie considered thoughtfully. 

"I think," he said, "it is to wash 

mother's ears." 

!t Might Be 

The Golfer: "They're all afraid to 

:]lay me. What do you think my han- 

dica.1) is '?" 

The Girl: "Oh, 1 doc't know. It 

may be your face." 

I Vish I Vas You 

A German adtlressi~~g his dog, said: 

"You vos only a dog, but I vish I vas 

you. Ven you go n~it the bed in, you 

shl~sl durn rcund dree times und lay 

down. Ven I go mit der bed in I haf 

t.o lock the blace und vind de clock 

and put the cat oud uncl undress myself, 

und my vife vakes up und scolds 

me. Den de baby cries und I haf to 

valk him up und down cien maype ven 

1 shoust go to sleep, it's time lo get 

cp agaiu. Ven you get up you shust 

scratch yourself a couple of times, 

stretch, und you vas up. I haf to 

quick lite de fire, und .put de kettle 

on, scrap mit my vife already und 

::~aypc get some hrealdast. You play 

all tay und half hlenty of fun. I haf 

lo work a11 tay und half blenty of 

dronhle. Ven you die, you vas dead; 

yen I die; I haf to go to hell yet." 

-Exchange. 

--- 

The Same 

Teacher (sternly)-"This essay on, 

:Ow Dog,' is word for word the same 

as your brother's." 

Small boy-"Yes sir, it's the same 

dog." 

An ogti~nistir- Colorado farmer, on 

seeing some clouds floating bl~y, re- 

marlted: "Well, I guess we're going 

to have some rain." 

"Aw," said his pessimistic neighbor, 

an ex-railway man, "those are just 

empties coming hack Prom Iowa!"- 

The Earth Mover. 

"How's your new radio?" 

"It's a howling success!"

A WKLUlIYC; KECOKU 

A welding job, recently performed 

I- 

I , 

by employes of the West Shop, Springfield, 

has attracted considerable attention. 

A weld of a half circle in the barrel 

1 

I 

I 

of the left cylinder, thirty-eight inches 

long and Sx3 inch reinforcement on I 

the outside of the cylinder, was made. 

The total cost of the operation was 

$18.33, which saved the Frisco ap- 

proximately $600.00 the cost of a new 

cylinder. 

The work was performed by Messrs. 

L. L. Burkhart, lead welder and Earl 

McCullough, welder, with the assist- 

ance of John Kitzmiller of the Ox- 

weld Railway Service Company. 

I 

Employes of the Frisco car denartrnent 

at Sherman, Texas, are -now Thc officers of Local No. 19, at Men~phis, of the Frrsco Associalion of .Ilctal 

working on the organization of a base- Crafts and Car Departtilent Ernploycs, pose for a photograph. 

ball team and according to Mr. J. J. Tlrcy are, back row, lcft lo right: T. M. Dubcrley, chaplain; Otto Ketternran, 

Thurston, car foreman at that point, secretary; H. J. Timlirs, conductor, and Robert Hecr, chairwurs of shop corrzntillee. 

the team will be ready for practice Fro~rt row, left to right: H. T. Kerztremer, divisio~ chairman; W. H. ~Votes, 

the first'part of June. presidcrrl, and F. C. Shazv, vice-president.

ON MEMBERSHIP DRIVE 

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Frisco 

Association of Metal Crafts and Car 

Department employes of Chaffee, Mo., 

Local No. I'l, are working in a mem- 

bership contest, lasting through May, 

.June and July. The losers will en- 

tertain the winners with an enter- 

tainment and supper. 

At the last meeting of this auxiliary, 

four new members mere initiated. 

They were, Mrs. Mary Reeves. Neisha 

Denton, Opal Stringfellow and De- 

mova Reeves. 

The Playground Ball League of Ft. 

Worth, Tex., is in full swing. Three 

teams are entered from the Frisco 

offices, one each Prom the office force, 

the car department and the shops, and 

each.team play one game a week. 

I SPORT NOTES I 

Tennis is claiming the attention of 

many of the Chaffee, Mo., employes. 

Ranney, McDonaugh, Bill Henke and 

R. E. Pipkin, all old heads at the ten- 

nis game have promised their support 

of a tennis team. 

The Frisco shop ball team of Okla- 

homa City, now holds second place 

in the City Twilight League, having 

won three games, lost two and tied 

one. The team expects to win the 

pennant for the season. 

A number of employes in the Frisco 

office building at Ft. Smith, Ark., are 

sponsoring a tennis court to be erect- 

ed on the Frisco right-of-way, to be 

used by employes only. 

I Frisco Mechanic Family News I 

MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT 

THAYER, MO. 

- 

F. 31. PEEBLES, Reporter 

R. R. Holmes, engine lnsoector and 

family, visited friends at Monett. Mo. 

C. S. Sellars, machinist. 1s on the 

sick list. 

On Nay 7 the stork left at the home 

of R. E. Davis, fireman, an eight- 

pound boy. 

Jlm Mulky, hostler, 1s seriously ill 

at his home. 

Howard Holmes, englneer. is in 

Springfield spending a few days. 

Bill Davis, fireman, is sporting a 

new Chevrolet coupe. 

Claude Jones, car inspector, Is on 

the sick list. 

H. Miller, cashier, is sporting a new 

Chevrolet coupe. 

Fireman A. &I. Box has a new ar- 

rival at his home-a baby girl. 

I. W. Hill is sporting a new Chev- 

rolet coupe. 

Conductor Flckey recently loaded a 

car of radishes at Tulot and Marked 

Tree and erpectlng to load somethlng 

like 43 cars this season. 

George Mitchell, hostler, is on the 

sick list. 

J. J. Edginton. stationary fireman, 

made a trip to Oklahoma recently. 

Earl Lewis, hostler helper, resigned 

that position and went to work on the 

section. 

LOCAL NO. 24--AMORY, MISS. 

EVERETT D. HANSEN, Reporter 

G. M. Beggs, night locomotive in- 

spector, has been off several days on 

account of sickness. 

Robert Stevenson, car clerk, has just 

returned from a motorcycle trip 

through .Birmingham, Atlanta and 

Tampa. 

Local No. 24 held regular meeting 

April 17, which was well attended. 

Anton B. Holmquist, machinist of St. 

Louis, was a visitor at Amory round- 

house recently. 

We had a short visit from D. For- 

sythe. general road foreman of equip- 

ment, recently. The boys are always 

glad to see Nr. Forsythe. 

Dock Dees, car man, has returned 

from a week-end trip to Birmingham. 

While there he entertained himself at 

East Lake. 

Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Malone are 

the proud parents of a fine elght and 

one-half pound girl. Congratulatlons! 

Ed Grizzle, store room trucker, has 

recently purchased a new four-door 

IVhippet six sedan. 

W. J. Patterson, storekeeper, has 

purchased a setter blrd dog to go with 

the pointer that he bought a few 

weeks ago. 

BRIDGE AND BUILDING DEPT. 

SPRINGFIELD, MO. 

ARTHUR BUNCH, Reporter 

. - 

Thomas Baker was off work on account 

of illness. 

Ellis 3Iayfield recently gave a house 

party. Several of the B. & B. boys 

were . . - . - there. . 

. . - . - . 

Mr. \Vllliam Skyles and his gang 

recently repaired the bridges on the 

Chadwick branch. 

Mr. &I. R. Jolmson and hls gang re- 

cently repaired the bridges and depot 

at Veiona, Mo. 

Mr. J. P. Carter and hls gang re- 

cently renewed the roof on depot at 

Marshfield. 

3Ir. John McGill was operated on 

at the Springfield Frisco hospital and 

is now getting along fine. 

Dock Gamoutt recently visited rela- 

tives at Joplln, Mo. 

Barney Henderson has gone to Pen- 

sacola, Florida, to engineer the pile 

driver. He expects to get back in 

June. 

NORTH SHOPS-SPRINGFIELD, MO. 

SHERMAN W. ELLIS. Reporter 

Fred Clement, machinlst, was confined 

to hls home a few days recently. 

with the flu. 

Jack Gehrs, rod gang foreman, has 

~urchased a new 25 model Clievrolet 

coach. 

Lawrence 0, Myers, boilermaker 

thlrd class, received a slight injury to 

his right eye A~ril 17-"Don't be careless 

men, weal; goggles." 

J. A. Woodson, tool room foreman, 

returned to his duties May 11, followinrr 

several weeks' llluess at his home. 

S. B. Hooper, nlght stationary Areman, 

spent the Arst ten days of May 

with friends aud relatives in St. Louls 

and Chicago. 

H. J. Ray, shop superintendent, was 

confined to his home several days with 

the fiu, returning to his duties-May 7. 

4, C. Swineford, shop order clerk, 

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spent Sunday, >fay (i, in Kansas City. 

visitinc with Dr. J. E. Eyrnes. 

3Ierrell Denoon, brass moulder, hav- 

ing had his tonsils removed April 27. 

mturned to work May 7. 

Vern Davis, mechanic's laborer. re- 

ceived an injury to his right foot by 

step pin^ on a nai1,'that had been left 

in a scmp board. Safety First-never 

throw down a board with nails in it." 

Homer Davis. H. D. Brown and C. 

D. Parke, safety first committeemen 

of the rar yards. were visitors at the 

north shop safety meeting May 1. We 

are doinq everythinx possible to elim- 

inate accidents at this point. Another 

Eood showing for the month of April, 

only three slight injuries-none report- 

able and no time lost. 

Wm. Stanley, labor foreman, has 

been confined to his home the past sev- 

eral weeks on account of severe 111- 

ness. 

Motor car 2117, which was received 

at this shop Anril 12, has been aiven 

a complete overhauling, and was ready 

for service May 25. 

Al. Rall and Buck Reddick. left town 

early Sunday morning, May 6, and 

motored to a fishing hole near Ft. 

Scott. Kansas, where they fished all 

clay. They returned late that nlght 

with a fine day's catch. which con- 

sisted of one small Ash about six 

inches in lvnrth. This is the Arst Ash 

story of the season, but a true one. 

Grant Short, machinlst and his wife, 

expect to leave on a thirty-day vaca- 

tion t~ IP to Califo~nin, June 1. 

Pete St~nger, foreman at Sherman. 

Texas. and formerly of thls shop, was 

a v~sltor here May 11. 

Tim Regan. machlnist. who has been 

off from work the past two months. 

is still unable to return to work. We 

hope for his speedy recovery. 

J. A. Champieux, machinist and hls 

wlfe. expect to leave June 15. to spend 

a fifteen-day vacatlon with frlends and 

relatives at Scranton and Manns 

Choice. Penna. 

CAR DEPARTMENT 

MONETT, MO. 

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D. I". TOBIAS, Reporter 

Sim. P. Walker, car Inspector, returned 

to work May 14. considerably 

improved in health after belng on 

duty since March 5. 

Coach Foreman T. M. YcMillen returned 

from the hospital at St. Louls 

May 3. where he had been taklng treatment 

for rheumatism. At this writing 

he has not returned to work, but 

states he will be on the job In a short 

while. 

No injuries reported in the car department 

during the month of April. 

Wasn't that fine? The general foreman. 

3Ir. Kaufman. is ~r0Ud of that 

month. 

Sickness this spring seems unusually 

severe. J. E. Proctor, car repairer. 

has been oCf sizce the latter part of 

Aprll account fiu." Others losing 

time account sickness were C. T. Wood 

and E. R. Ha~gard. 

Ira J. Stockton returned to wbtk 

May 1 after losing two months account 

injury to his left hand. 

Vacation time is at hand. Foreman 

C. F. Davidson expects to visit his 

old home folks and acquaintances In 

the Cnrolinas; piece work checker J. 

E. Graham and wife will visit the old 

home town and relatives In Mississippi; 

coach foreman A. Kesterson and 

wife have planned a trlp to Callfornia 

and coach foreman T. M. McMIllen 

and family wlll visit relatives at 

Chula and Wheellng in the northern 

part of thls state. General Foreman 

R. G. Kaufman says he has no trip 

~lanned, but we'll all bet he 1s watching 

the big league ball scores for a 

chance to see several of the games. 

Ye scribe spent a day with the home 

folks at Willow Springs in the early 

part of ;\ray. Every day, in every 

way, the wife's biscuits taste better 

and better.

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st t~ons for main line service at 

e jht. Railways Ice Co. plant at 

ct.!cr just beyond main lines. 

oile in center with power house, 

anp locker building, machine shop 

orworn behind, in order from left 

t. 

clOtey Avenue bridge:-from left 

t, south rip yard; lumber storage 

n,, rood mill; wash and locker 

gpnd car department wheel shop. 

wheel shop is shown north rip 

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Also these are the days when straw- 

berries are ripenlng. If our friends 

all remember their promises we'll have 

many a shortcake. 

LOCAL No. 17 

WEST TULSA, OKLA. 

E. F. BEATY. Reporter 

Henry Sommerfrucht is in the hos- 

pital at St. Louis, where he will un- 

dergo an operation for appendicitis. 

We wish him a speedy recovery. 

Clay Knight has traded his Ford 

coupe in on a new Chevrolet coach. 

He seems to be well leased with his 

new car. 

Edward Sasser box packer has been 

transferred to dkmulgee, tehporarily. 

John Lear, supplyman, has been pro- 

moted to a day job on the coach yard. 

George Campbell, laborer, has just 

returned from a ten-day vacation spent 

at Stillwell, Oklahoma, visiting his 

parents. 

Local No. 17 had a little entertain- 

ment May 2. a short musical program 

together wlth several interesting talks 

and then refreshments. 

W. A. Neal, lead coach carpenter, 

has been on the sick list for the past 

week. 

R. H. Snodgrass, piecework checker. 

spent several days in Nole. No. His 

intention was to flsh. 

Walter Whittaker. car carpenter. is 

on the sick list at this writing. 

LOCAL No. &ENID, OKLA. 

H. H. FULLER. Reporter 

Mr. Ray Sheppard, machinist, and 

slster, Mrs. Carl Baker were called to 

Denver, Colo., recently account serious 

lllness of a sister. 

Chester Purcell has been on sick llst 

wlth the flu for the past week.-but-& 

improvlng at this writing. 

G. W. Clinton, stationary fireman has 

been qulte ill for the past two weeks 

with an infection in his leg, but now 

seems to be recovering. 

Wilbur Ayers, machinist, is enjoying 

a short vacation, which he Is spend- 

ing at home helping the "Missus" clean 

house and spade the garden. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Barkley, wrecker 

foreman, are entertaining their daugh- 

ter, Mrs. Marlon Harris of Sedalia, Mo. 

The car department at thls point is 

going at top speed, gettlng all 120,000 

serles box cars in good order for the 

wheat crop which at this time glves 

promise of a bumper one. 

Another industry for Enid, one show- 

ing the Importance of Enid as a grain 

and milling center, is the location of a 

6,000 barrel mlll, of the Pillsbury mill- 

log interest of Minneapolis, Ninn. 

There wlll also be a million bushel 

elevator in connection. The elevator 

will be finlshed in time for thls year's 

crop. 

Water Service Delmrtment 

Mr. Jack Lenox, water service fore- 

man. is having his home thoroughly 

repaired and re-decorated. 

Arthur Haldaman and gang, just re- 

cently renewed the boiler at Ames. 

Okla., pump station. They don't last 

long out here In this limestone water. 

Slnce the installation of our new 

water supply system at the roundhouse 

at Enld two years ago, which consisted 

of three Layne Bowler vertical cen- 

trifugal electric driven pumps, water 

failures are a thlng of the past. 

Mr. E. L. Thomas has been looklng 

rather sleepy of mornings lately. Ed 

has purchased a brand new radio. 

Mr. George Whitly recently made re- 

pairs to the oil engine at Thomas 

pump statlon. 

We are glad to report Mr. Jack 

Lenox's family improvlng after several 

week's Illness with the mumps and 

nu. 

Nr. James Sterns, water service fore- 

man on the Rock Island, made this 

office a pleasant visit last week. 

Mr. George Dodsworth and family 

vlsited with relatives in Xlarshall, 

Okla., Sunday. May 6. 

Mr. George Whitly and family motor- 

ed to Oklahoma City, Saturday night 

May 5, for a visit oyer Sunday with 

Mrs. Whitly's brother and family. 

LOCAL No. 20-HUGO, OKLA. 

ORAY N. WRIGHT. Reporter 

Our fishermen are still having hard 

luck, this tlme on account or high 

Water. 

J. N. Lawliss, engineer at Xadill and 

wife were Hugp visitors this month. 

L. S. Hope, helper, has left the service 

to take a clerk's posltion for the 

Sante Fe at Paris, Texas. 

Howard Amos, car oiler has purchased 

a piano and we are inclined to 

believe that he will be a great musician 

some day if the piano wlll hold 

out. It's a self player! 

The employes of Local No. 20 deeply 

sympathize with R. A. X%Wght, helper, 

in the loss of his wife. Mrs. R. A. 

Wright. who passed away April 19. 

Howard hlarkham, extra man has 

been given a regular number. He replaced 

Louise Hope, who left the service 

recently. 

Chester Cearly. boilermaker and G. 

G. Ford are d0in.g some queer fishing 

lately. Just recently they went on a 

long trlp and returned with an eel, 

and a snake. Clcimed they used hook 

and line. 

Clyde Knight, machinist, has returned 

from a Masonic Convention at Mc- 

Alester. 

Dan Nease, helper is back on the job 

after being on the sick list for a few 

days. 

Mrs. H. N. Johnson, wife of H. N. 

.Tohnson. storeman. has been visiting 

folks at Fort Smith this month. 

Mrs. P. I. Holloway. wife of P. I. 

Holloway, car foreman; has been very 

ill the past two weeks. 

We regret to report the death of the 

father of T. H. Wheelis who died April 

19. We extend our Svm~athv - - - to the 

family. 

Another big surprise hit the roundhouse 

gang, also all of Hugo, when our 

most confirmed bachelor slipped off 

and married one of Hugo's fair co-eds, 

Mlss Alpha Walch. The lucky man 

was F. D. Knipp, machinist. 

The brlde is a strong Frisco booster, 

a graduate of Hugo high school in '23, 

also of 0. C. S. at Guthrie in '26. She 

is very popular among the Hugo 

young folks. 

The groom, who we thought to be 

a confirmed bachelor, was transferred 

here from Sherman. Texas. in '24. He 

was formerly from Marshall, Texas, 

where he worked for the Southern 

Paciflc prior to belng transferred to 

Sherman. We wish the haonv a - - counle 

years of happiness. 

Chester Cearly, bollermaker, Sam 

Hollins, machinist, and Tom Tinsley, 

helper. have pone out to show the 

boys how to fish. We hope they catch 

a a-hale of a bunch of 'em, none of the 

rest seem to have any luck. 

Joe Hammonds and W. F. Moore. 

machlnist. have been on the sick list 

for the past week. 

LOCAL NO. 7-FT. SMITH,.ARK. 

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LEE W. CAVINESS, Reporter 

An auxiliary to our association by 

the wives, mothers, daughters and sis- 

ters of members of Local No. 7 was 

organized and oWicers elected at regu- 

lar meetlng Friday evening. April 27. 

at the W. 0. W. club rooms, 9th and 

Rogers Avenue. Mrs. George C. 

Shields, assisted by Bro. J. L. Eudy, 

division chairman. acted as temDorarv 

chairman and on~.her unanimous election 

for president continued the meetina 

to a verv nleasinc' and enthusiastic 

co~clusion. - ~recedfnp the election 

of officers several short talks by members 

of Local No. 7 as to the relation 

of an auxiliary to the lodge sponsoring 

It. were made. The officers elected 

and installed were: Mrs. George C. 

Shields. president; Xrs. Herbert H. 

XIorgan, secretary; Mrs. Lela James, 

treasurer; Mrs. B. T. McCune. chaplain: 

Mrs. C. W. Moore. auard: JIrs. 

Fred Lawrence, conductor.- After the 

business meeting a social hour was 

enjoyed. 

J. R. White, boilermaker, has returned 

Prom a short visit in Chicago 

nud St. Louis. 

D. W. Stanlev. wrecker foreman, is 

hack on the job after several weeks' 

illness. \Ye regret very much to learn that 

our fellow workman. Bro. Sam Vance, 

carman, formerly of Sprin~field, suf- 

fered the loss of the thumb from his 

left hand in an accident while operat- 

ing a rip saw. 

Garcia R. Fuller, blacksmith, has 

recovered from the flu and is back on 

the joh. 

Luther Rurns, machlnlst, has en- 

tered the general hospital at St. Louis 

for an oneration for the removal of 

his apperidix. 

We were very glad to have Bro. 

Frank Junkins. our aeneral chairman. 

with us at a recent meeting, and hope 

he wlll come again soon and often. 

His friendly advice and talks are 

greatly appreciated by all. We also 

had several of our supervisors with us 

at this meeting, who made short in- 

teresting talks, touching on the 

friendly relations now existing between 

employes and offlcers of our great 

Frlsco railroad. 

Our meeting nlghts have been 

changed from the 2nd and 4th Mon- 

day nights to the 2n-d and 4th Fridav 

nlghts. The ladies auxiliary will 

meet the same dates. Visiting mem- 

bers of our association as well as those 

of the ladies' auxiliary are extended 

a hearty welcome. 

The letter from our general chairman 

in regards to the joint picnic of the 

F. M. C, and C. D. E. was given a 

rousing cheer and Local No. 7 went 

on record as being greatly in favor of 

it. pledging their full support and co- 

operation. Committees wlll be ap- 

nointed as soon as a definite date is 

set. 


OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. 

C. H. VANDIVER, Reporter 

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Shop 

Crafts gave a country carnival the 

night of April 17. which was a very 

successful affair. About $50 was realized. 

0. J, Nlller, electrician, and family 

are planning an extensive tri~ in the 

near future to Niagara Falls, New York 

City and other places. 

B. W. Swain. aeneral foreman, spent 

two days recently with his parents at 

Denison. Tesas. 

Frank Jones, car carpenter. has returned 

to work after being' off on account 

of illness. Glad to see you back, 

Frank. 

Elmer PI. Pressley. car carpenter. 

who was at Springfield. is now working 

here. We are glad to have him wlth 

us as he is a verv valuable asset to 

our hall club. 

D. 1;. Jackson and family are now in 

Missouri on account of the serious 111ness 

of Mrs. Jackson's father. 

Clay and James Nash, car carpenters, 

are rated among our best fishermen, 

having paid $12 recently for 

the privilege of one day's fishing. We 

failed to find out how many flsh were 

caught.


Carl S. Ward, machinist. has just re- 

turned from the Frisco hospital at St. 

Louis, where he had his tonsils re- 

moved. 

J. D. "Speedy" Roberts has returned 

to work after an illness. . 

C. E. Brower of the north car yardu. 

visited' friends in Fort Smith. Ark.. 

April 29. 

Mrs. Floyd Leonard, wife of the sheet 

metal worker of the north side, is visit- 

mighty flne cat Ash on trot lines. Some 

of the older heads are planning on 

bumping them. 

The paint gangs express their sym- 

pathy to Ray Greathouse in the death 

of his brother, Edgar L. Greathouse, 

who was killed in a runaway accident. 

April 28, at Fair Grove. No. They also 

express their sympathy to the widow 

and the two children. 

\Vc are glad to report that the wife 

of W. I. Foster. paint foreman. has 

WEST SHOP LOCOMOTlVE DEPT. 

SPRINGFIELD, MO. ina her mother and her daughter and 

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otiier relatives in Des Moines; 1a. 

A. E. GODFREY. Reporter H. J. Ray, shop superintendent, returned 

to work Mas . 7. . followina - an 

Mr. and Mrs. George Tipton are the ~llness with the flu. 

proud parents of an eleven-pound boy. J. T. Scherer and wife, of Kansas recovered. after being ill for more than 

born April SO. Mr. Tipton is a boiler- City. Kan.. spent the week-end of Jday a month, and also to report that Frank 

malcer. 

12 visiting Mrs. Scherer's sister. *Mrs. Foster. brother of W. I. Foster, is again 

R E. Skelton. machinist. is all smiles. Alex Watt. wife of the north side on the job after an illness of three 

Savs he has a nine and one-half oound . ~- sheet metal worker. 

weeks. 

bo? at his house,born May-~. 

Eddie Furst, scale shop mechanic. 

We are very sorry to announce the WATER SERVICE DEPARTME.NT is the proud possessor of a new Star 

death of Nd. Taulman, blacksmith 

sport roadster. 

April 28. Mrs. Taulman and famil; 


Henrv Nolan. B. & B. scale shop forehave 

the sympathy of the boys at the 

man, is again 'on the job after an OPwest 

shops. 

CLAUDE HEREPORD. Reporter eration in the Frisco hospital. We are 

Ervin Wheeler, blacksmith, was op- 

glad to have Henry back. 

erated on for appendicitis April 30. In last month's issue we were re- We wish to extend our deepest sym- 

We hope Ervin soon will 6e back on joicing with Mr. and Mrs. Matthew pathy to Walter White. scale shop 

the job. 

Rouse over the birth of twins, a boy mechanic. in his late bereavement. over 

C. L. Krumholtz, boilermaker, and and a girl. The little boy d~ed, April the loss of his mother and father. Mrs. 

Miss Lillie Gregory, of. Reed Springs, 19, of an attack of acute indigestion. White died April 10. and Mr. White. 

were happily married, May 5. 

The sympathy of many friends is ex- April 26. at Centralia. Illinois. 

Eugene Hunter. boilermaker appren- tended Mr. and Nrs. Rouse in their Xr. Wadlow, father of William Wadtice, 

has the sympathy of the boys at sad hour. 

low, B. & B, painter, is visiting with 

the west shop in the death of his wife Our condolence is extended to \Vi11- relatives in Jacksonville. Fla. 

and baby, which occurred May 10. iam Coons and his sister. Xrs. H. D. Claude Hereford, scribe for the water 

31. C. Glass. boilermaker. who has Mercer. in the death of their s~ster, service department, has built a brand 

been ill for some time, is on the job who passed away in Topeka, Kan. new boat and launched it in the waters 

again. 

Aust~n Wood and J. N. Stephens of the Lake Shore Fishing Club. Claude 

J. 31. Wommack is on the job after worked a few days in Springfield dur- has christened it "You and Me" and 

being away several days becuuse of a ing the week of April 23. 

we take it,, for granted that means 

mashed foot. 

\ir. E. Phillips, assistant foreman. "you" and me" can use it any time 

hlr. and Mrs. E. J. Adams are the has been suffer in^ from a recurrence we please. How about it, "Herf?" 

proud parents of a baby girl born of trouble with his teeth. 

Apr~l 17. 

Mrs. J. N. Stephens and daughter. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Burke are the Mildred. visited in St. Louis the latter OKLAHOMA CITY LOCAL No. 15 

proud parents of a baby boy born part of.Apri1. Mrs. Stephens recently 

March 29. 

recovered from an operation at St. E. W. GEE. Reporter 

Humer Sickles, boilcrmakcr. and John's hospital here. 

Hcrwhel Thompson. blacksmith. made C. Tuck and gang made repairs re- Niss Pauline Harden, daughter of 

a week-end fishing - trm. -. Alav 6. 

cently at Newburg, Stanton. Dixon. Car Inspector Harden, of Lawton, Okla. 

Jerry Coring, crane operator. was Lebanon and Springfleld. 310. 

visited in Oklahoma City recently. 

awarded first prize of $5 in a buck and Xiss Leta Robinson, daughter of I'n -. scribe -... was off seven days with 

wins dance contest held at the Jeffer- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robinson. who the flu last month. 

son Theater, May 1. 

is studying music in the Chicago con- Frank Jones is back from St. Louis 

Jim Gately. hoilermaker, has the servatory. was home recently. 

hospital and we are glad to see him 

sympathy of the boys at the west shops ~Mrs. Jesse Barker recently was ill on the job again. 

in the death of his mother-in-law. with flu. 

The Ladies Auxiliary held a carnival 

May 9th. 

Wm. Marrs and Chancey Buckmaster at Bohemian Hall May 4, and $37 was 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Willian~son re- recently made repairs on the pump taken in. The doll rack lead in recently 

returned from a trip to Clinton. station at Ash Grove. 310. 

ceipts. Everybody had a good time. 

Ia.. where they visited home folks. John Sumner and force of men re- "The Hicks" were there alright and 

Jesse Weatherwax, locomotive cab centlv renewed the larne storm sewer Dave Estes and Mrs. Moore as "Jiggs 

carpenter, has the sympathy of the ii--tKe north shop yards. 

and XIaggie" had the originals backed 

boys at the west shop in the death of J. S. Wood. water service foreman. clean o@ the map. 

his mother. May 7. 

recently supervised the renewing of the A. L. Sasser, our division chairman. 

We are very sorry to announce the pumping equipment at Blairstown, Mo. of Tulsa, was with us last week. 

death of Mrs. M. C. Tuter. mother of The writer's wife, who was called to Charles A. Waddle, car inspector. and 

V. R. and S. F. Tuter. boilermakers. at Murfreesboro. Tenn.. the latter part family visited at Shawnee. Okla.. rewest 

shops. The Tuter brothers have of March by the illness of her brother, cently. 

the sympathy of the west shop boys. returned home April 15 and again was Our genial secretary. George Papin. 

Clarence Martin, welder. is back on recalled to AIurPreesboro. her brother visited at Tulsa last Sunday. 

the job after an illness of long dura- having suffered a recurrence of ty- We are making big plans for Local 

tion. 

phoid. 

No. 15 and hope to make it one of the 

Hubert Mason is punching the clock Any time anyone wishes a rain or a best on the system. The members are 

again after a long absence due to sick- cold spell, just get yours truly to plan realizing that Brother Frank Junkins 

ness. 

a flshing trip. Have the new boat and is doing a great work for them and 

Some of the men have their fishinrr all kinds of equipment, but every time am sure that we will soon be 100 per 

outflts ready -to .o to their--favorite we have gone yet we have had to wear cent at this point. 

flshing holes. Watch out for the big our overcoat. However. in this case G. W. Gerwick. roundhouse foreman, 

ones. 

anticipation is better than realization, visited at Chandler recently. 

Wanted-A tenor voice for West Shop so we-get quite a kick out of planning 

Quartet. 

our trips anyway. 

WEST SHOP--SPRINGFIELD? MO. 

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Mr. and Xrs. J. W. Lamar, of Dixon. 

NORTH BACK SHOPS 

and daughter. 31rs. Lennie Raeder, of 

San Antonio. Texas. are visiting Frank A. C. SMITH and A. H. BISHOP, 


Lamar and family. 

Reporters 

ALEX WATT. Reporter EASTERN DIVISION PAINT GANG L. D. Jones, machinist apprentice. 

J. J. Burt has been transferred to 

Lindenwood. Mo.. as assistant to the 

general storekeeper at that place. We 

rejoice at his good fortune much as 

we miss him. 

Elmer Courdin. north side blacksmith. 

spent April 29 with his parents 

in the Monett. Mo., neighborhood. 

J. D. O'Neil was called to Tulsa, April 

28. by his sister's illness. 

Harve Moore. north car yard carpenter, 

has returned to work after a 

two weeks' illness. 

Harry Nagdun, mille man, is back on 

the job after a serious illness of ten 

weeks' duration. 

GEORGE HOLLMAN. Reporter 

JIorgan Gavisk. B. & B. painter of 

Sewburg. No.. was a recent visitor in 

St. Louis. 

A crew of B. & B. painters are burning 

off all of the switches on the Eastern 

division and reeaintina them with 

two coats of duco. 

Ray Chaffin was recently called to 

Springfield from Newburg by the serious 

illness of his mother. The bovs 

wish to express their sympathy and 

hopes for her speedy recovery. 

The gang working on the Arlington 

bridge report they are catching some 

flnished his time at Monett. May 5. 

and has been employed as flrst-class 

machinist at this shop. 

C. W. Martin, welder. is back on the 

lob. after several days' absence ac- 

&ou.nt sickness. 

Roy Putman and Sherman Tuter. 

soecial aoarentices. have flnished their 

time and-have been assigned flrst-class 

numbers at this shop. 

We wish to extend' our sympathy to 

Chas. E. Hunter, machinist-apgrentice, 

in the recent death of his wife. Mrs. 

Vida Hunter. 

Theo. Newton and Everett Bausch 

are the "Mutt and Jeff" of the west 

shop.

Mr. James h'emkirk. south shon. and 

tanlily, have moved on ,I farm horth- 

east of Springfield. 

JIr. Homer Kerr. south sho~). was 

palnfully iujured recently by 'n fall, 

when hc hroke five ribs. 3Ir. Kerr 

IS on the job now and all right. 

John and Tom NcCallough have also 

taken to the farm life. purchasing 

elaht acres northeast of Springfield. 

L,ocaI number one. F. A. 31. C, and 

r. 1). E, met May 11 at 112G Boonvillt. 

Arrnue. for a bus~ness mc\etinn. The 

nirrting opened \vith a nice, talk on 

safety flmt, by Uncle "Bill JIorrill. 

Some diwuxsion n7ah held ns to whcrc 

tile annual picnic was to bo hcld. 

Rranlutions for the new colltl,acc \rritl,l-! 

read by President Reynolds. Mr. Mills. 

head of the accident prevelltion de- 

~iastment, gave a very interesting talk. 

.\Is. Frank Junkins. xenrl'nl chairman 

of the association, attended this meet- 

ing and was imwessed by the crowd 

of approximately one hundred and fifty 

members. 

Mr. Hazel Fitz~~atrick. south shop. 

has moved back to his farm south of 

Springfield. 

31r. Frank Todd. south shop 11;rinter. 

is back on the job agkcin after several 

wec'ks of sickness. 

Jlr. Frank Rottcrman and wife 

motored to Xonett, with a rjarty, Sunday, 

May 6. 

\7irg11 Brown, son of Theodore 

Brown, south tln shop, nras a membel' 

of the Southwest Missouri Hiah School 

baseball team. 

Local number one extends symwthv 

to H. '. r:l-on,n, chicf clcrk to L. J. 

Legsaht. and Theodore Brown, south 

tin shop. in the death of their mother. 

NORTH SIDE SIDELIGHTS 

E3IERY HAGUEWOOD, Reporter 

"When n woodpecker worlts he uses 

his head." is the subject of an illustrated 

cartoon which wns rec,ently 

poeted by the Sational Safety Council, 

and has caused many laughx and much 

serious thought. It also brings out 

tile fact that we of the north shops 

surely are follon~ing the example of 

the wooduecker. as just recently we 

hi> three succ&sive- months without 

an accident, and during the past month 

we only had one reportable injury. 

\I". .4. Gooch. oxwelder. who had 

tonsilitis, has returned to work. 

Cecll Groves. cellar packer. is occupytng 

his own home at 1.509 West 

Thoman Street. He recently r~urchased 

the property. 

Lester Keithley is another one of 

our employes who soon will be in his 

own home, as he is building a house 

on hln property on \Vest High Street. 

Fred Bobzien, machinist, has returned 

from Oklahoma City where he 

went to visit a new grandson. The 

youngster is the son of Clifford Bobrien, 

who finished his apprenticeship 

here eome time ago. 

Edward Roune. machinist on air 

work, is ill. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McBride. have 

the sympathy of the roundhouse employes 

in the loss of their four-yearold 

daughter. Elnora, who died April 

26, --Mr. McBride is a machinist on 

the second shift. 

B. W. Law, boilermaker, also has 

the sympathy of the roundhouse employes 

in the loss of his father. 

Xlr, and Mrs. Ralph Bowman are 

spendlng sixty days in and around 

Chicago, where they formerly rcsidecl. 

visiting relativtbs and friends, Mr. 

Bowman is sand house attendant. 

>Ir. and Mrs. Charles Dummit recently 

spent several days visiting in 

Tulsa. Olila. XIr. Dummit is third 

shift grease cup man. 

John Derrick, machmist. is all smiles 

over the arrival of a seven-and-onehalf-pound 

boy. William Oliver. 

R. A. Cage. boilermaker, has the 

honor of possessing the first new 

model Ford touring car to make its 

appearance in Springfield. It is also 

the Arst new model to be owned by 

any roundhouse emplove here. 

Lawrence Patton, machinist, will 

view the Ozwkh scenery this summer 

from the Ford sedan which he rccent- 

lr ourciiased. 

dyron F. Player, engine watchman. 

and JIiss Bernice Burt of this city, arc 

this month's victims of Cunid. Their 

many friends extend congi.atulations. 

The young couple arc at home at 1253 

Clnr avenue. 

Ray Caudlc, roundhousc clerk on the 

third shift. tlied Alas 16, following a 

two mol~ths ii111('ss. 311.. Caudie is 

survived by ;I wjtlowed mothcr, two 

sisters and 011s hrother to whom his 

many friends ill the roundhouse esti,l~cl 

sympathy. 

WEST COACH AND PAINT SHOP 


FRASK SCHELLHARUT. Reporter 

EL 31. Pumphry. upholsterer and wife. 

announced the birth of a baby boy on 

-4nril 23~ 

B. Phillips of the mill shopt spent 

a fc,w days visiting in St. Louis re- 

cently. 

Honard Bader, coach foreman, will 

he ill St. Charles 'for a few months 

ins1)ectinx new passenger eilui1)nlpnt. 

1'. E. \Vommack, 'arljenter, has just 

~~urchnsed a ncw Essex sedan. 

\Vhen George Robinson. mill machine 

nlall, started to work the other morn- 

IIIZ he discove~'ed that his car was 

missing. It wirs found later with all 

the tires golle. 

Will High, cabinctmaiter, recently 

visited relatives in Appleton. Kansas. 

We extend our sympathy to Richard 

Eateman whose mother died at 3Iemphis, 

Tenn.. April 23. 

A. J. Thomas. lead carpenter. has 

been appointed trimmer fnreman. 

Enoch Freemnn. pipe man, has been 

off for the past month due to an iniury. 

\Ve are glad to say that he will 

be back un the job soon. 

Fells Rohr, coach carpenter, \\-a? 

called to Dison, No., on account of 

the death of his grandmother. 

We extend our sympathy to August 

3Illler. coach painter, in the recent 

ilrath of hls father. Mr. Nillel- was a 

retired Fr~sco veteran. 


TULSA, OKLA. 

HESCY PHILLIPS. Re~orter 

Loyd~ Richerson was a memher of a 

party that recently visited Nohawlt 

Park. near Tulsa. He relmrts a most 

wonderful time. He says they have 

some of the finest machinery thcre 

that he ever saw. 

R. G. Stumbrough, car department 

cmploye. 1s the proud father of a nine 

pound boy. He arrived April 21 in the 

hforningslde Hospital of Tulsa. 

Local No. 1'; organized a Ladies' Auxiliary 

and we believe we are going to 

have the best Auxillarv on the entire 

system. The Auxiliary was organized 

Monday evening. April 23. While there 

were hot many out that evening we 

had a good meetlug and much was accomplished. 

The officers appointed 

were as follows: Mrs. H. A. Wrlght. 

president; ~1;s. I. B. JIoody, vice-grcsi- 

dcnt; JIrs. A. I.. Sassor, secretary and 

Mrs. J. S. JVhite, tre:rsurer. The first 

thing the ladies did \\;:IS to give an en- 

tertainment. You mn bet the enter- 

tainrncnt was well attended. The Iad- 

irs are planning to hell) the nicn with 

the IWsco picnic which is to be held 

about Junc 30. They are extending an 

invitation to the ladies and gentlemen 

of other ioc:lls to be at the picnic. 

Ruby Rmerson, machinist \\rest Tulsa 

was pnssing the cigars the other day. 

Hc, is thc proud father of ;I tell pound 

Imy. The t):rby's name is I3. 

1)aan. Little Sornlan arrived Satur- 

day, Jlay G. 

JVm. .\I. 1)nlton. electrician, is in the 

I'risco Ilosliital at St. Louis, No., suff(>rillK 

from xto~ni~ch trouble. 

LOCAL No. 30-PITTSBURG, KANS. \'. I. Douglawa, mnclllnist has his 

~l'nntllnuther. JIrs. Desselhouse from 

1.0s An~elcs, visitln~ him for t11irLy 

days. After her visit here, 3Irs. Dcssei- 

Dick Jlorris and family have been house ~ilnns ~ I goiug I to Kansas. 

visiting the fornler's parents in \\'atts, Florin?, daughter of J. D. liollis. 

Oklahoma. 

machinist. who has been in thc: 21osl)itirl 

Clarcncc JIillion of Texas, and an here in Tuls:~, is improving rat~idlv. 

ex-Frisco em~)loye, has been the guest Jess says he thinks she will hc al;le io 

of his mother on East 10th Street. come home 111 s few more! days. 1.v~ 

Jerry Erown has traded his 1)rur)crtr sure are glad to hcar this for rvc (lid 

ill Pittshurg for a small tract of lauk not espect Florinc to live. 

near town. 

\\rilliam Chaney is rccovcri~~g from 

:I l~adly sl~raincd nnkle received in a FRISCO FREIGHT HOUSE 

fall f~,om n11 engine. 

BIRMINGHAM, ALA. 

A. C!. HASSON, Re~~orLcr 

Mr. J. J. Cummins. agent has at last 

reached the enjoyable pcridd of driving. 

his new Sash automobile. His family 

will now ride while he is driving. 

F. 31. Packard. chief clerk has been 

on the sick list for past few days, but 

we are all glad to see him back on tlke 

joh again today. 

\V. W. Johnson, station accountant, 

is on sick leave for a few days the 

doctor having ijrescribed rest a; the 

best cur(! for his illncsx. 1111 the emloye 

yes wish him :I spet!dy recovcry. 

H. A. Allen, belt accoul~tant, has a 

new Oakland sedan. 

JIias Cammie Adkins, esl)ense clerk, 

was overheard to tell an admirer that 

she was in the Frisco railroad business, 

and that she had nu time for anyone 

who would not share his business with 

her company's business. So he gave 

her a carload of his busi~~ess for her 

company's business. ThaL's business 

too, a car every day makes Frisco pay. 

I. I

Page 46 

1 SOUTHERN DIVISION 

JONESBORO, ARK. 

TICKET OFFICE 

CARL YARBROUGH. Reporter 

W. A. Sanders, second trick operator. 

has returned to work after a short 

vacation in the Ozarks. 

J. V. Brower, extra operator, has 

been working here aast few days re- 

lieving W. A. Sanders on second trick. 

Mr. Brower has now gone to Planters 

ville, Miss., as rellef agent. 

A. B. Rush, car repairer, has return- 

ed to work again, having recovered 

from his injuries sustained last De- 

cember. 

Roy Jolly, car repairer, is in St. Louis 

hospital undergoing minor operation 

to remove tumor from right side. 

L. J. Brady, roundhouse foreman, has 

returned from Birmingham where he 

attended accident ~relrention meeting. 

He reports a most~successful meeting. 

R. J. Slagle, agent and yardmaster, 

is a.t this writing in Memphis attend'- 

ing agents meeting. 

Dally local servlce between Jones- 

boro and Thayer each way has been 

discontinued and local freight will 

leave Jonesboro for Thayer every other 

day in future. 

George Barbee, local conductor, 

whose run was discontinued on Jones- 

boro Thayer local, has bumped I. Z. 

Pierce, conductor on Jonesboro-3Iem- 

phis local freight train 247-246. 

T. A. Parr, conductor on B. & S. W. 

branch local. is taking a few days' va- 

cation at Eagle Pass, Texas. visiting 

relatives, and enjoying a much needed 

rest on account of ill health. I. Z. 

Pierce is relieving Mr. Parr on the B. 

& S. W. branch. 

The radish movement on the Jones- 

boro sub of the River division from 

Monett, Black Oak, and Senath is al- 

most over, the radishes were not as 

good quality this year as last, how- 

ever there were about sixty cars ship- 

ped to northern markets, bringing 

fair returns. 

BIRMINGHAM TERMINAL 

hIRS. NELLIE XcGOWEN, Reporter 

Inskad of some of the employes in 

the superintendent terminal's office 

having "spring fever" they have "automobile 

fever," there of them having 

purchased new automobiles. H. C. Wilson. 

head train clerk. is the proud possessor 

of the first new Ford sedan 

around the Frisco; J. L. Godsey, timekeeper, 

an Essex coach, and W. N. 

Drake (better known as Butch) a new 

Whippet coach. 

Wm. Fowler, clerk, has returned 

from Tucson. Ariz., where he was called 

account serious illness of his father 

who is in a hos~ital at that point. We 

are glad to report that Mr. Fowler is 

somewhat improved. 

Mrs. A. S. Cowan, wife of special 

agent. was called to Montgomery. Ala.. 

recently account Illness. 

I 

S. E. Thompson, B. & B. carpenter, is 

In St. Louis hospital where he went for 

an operation. We trust Nr. Thomp- 

son will soon be able to return. 

Mrs. Sallie Morton, mother of de- 

murrage clerk, J. A. Morton, is in 

Nashville. Tenn., where she was called 

account of illness. 

Mrs. S. A. Griffin, wife of switchman, 

is visiting in Shilo. Ga. 

J. H. Sudduth, crossing flagman, is 

conflned to the hospital in St. Louis 

account of an eye operation. 

J. H. Johnson, demurrage clerk, has 

gone to Columbus, Ohio. as a delegate 

to the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks 

Convention. Mr. Johnson will also 

visit in Toledo and Cincinnati while 

away. 

Mrs. J. R. Eddings, wife of crossing 

flagman, is visiting relatives in Chat- 

tanooga. Tenn. Mr. Eddings is visit- 

ing in Salisbury. N. C. 

The election held .on April 26 to de- 

termine whether or not Birmingham 

should have Sunday movies was defeat- 

ed by a very large majority. 

Airs. J. G. Hughes, wife of yard clerk. 

is visiting relatives in Chattanooga and 

Rutledge, Tenn. 

OFFICE OF TERMINAL 

ACCOUNTANT 


EUNICE 0. HAGERJIAN, Reporter 

J. P. Briggs, formerly in the office 

of division accountant, Fort Scott, 

Kansas, has been assigned to position 

of completion report clerk in this office. 

We are very glad to have Mr. Briggs 

with us. 

Mrs. H. 5. Coleman, and ye scribe 

enjoyed a short visit in Springfield, 

No., recently. 

Bennie C. Dennis, assistant bill and 

voucher clerk, tendered his resignation, 

effective Nay 15, and left us to accept 

a position with the Tennessee Coal 

Iron & Railroad Company. We are 

very sorry to lose Ben as a fellow co- 

worker, but all join in wishing him 

every success in his new work. 

we have been enjoying lovely weath- 

er lately, with the exception of one or 

two little flurries, when the tempera- 

ture dropped to a low point. These, 

however, we attribute tothe fact that 

Mr. H. L. Bird wore his light suit and 

that nifty new straw hat, which he is 

sporting. 

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT 

TERMINALGMEMPHIS, TENN. 

JOHANNA WEINER, Reporter 

Accident prevention merit cup is 

with us again, this cup having been 

awarded to Memphis terminal for the 

first quarter of 1928. The cup was ours 

for the third quarter of 1927. after 

which it was awarded to the Western 

division for the fourth quarter. We 

now aspire towards keeping the cup 

with us for three consecutive quarters. 

Mrs. H. C. Barnett, wife of chief 

clerk. is visiting in Wallace. Kansas. as 

the guest of her parents. 

Sam J. Allen. Jr.. a brand new baby 

son, made his arri~~al on Jiay 12. We 

offer our heartiest congratulations to 

Mr. and Mrs. Allen. 

Charles E. White, yard clerk K. C. 

Junction made his appearance after 

rather a long absence due to illness. 

Glad to see Mr. White again. 

Another name. was added to the fami 

l roster ~ of Tom Taylor. Little Thelma 

Louise made her arrival on May 10. 

W. G. Cary, assistant chief yard 

clerk, accompanied by wife and son 

Walton. Jr.. spent several days with 

relative-s in Verdi, La. 

Miss Johanna Weiner, secretary. spent 

a week-end in Birmingham. Alabama. 

where she attended a conference of 

social workers as a Memphis delegate. 

Mr. and Mrs. T. 31. McMurray are the 

parents of a daughter, born on April 

30. Mr. ~McMurray is a switchman in 

the terminal. 

LOCAL FREIGHT OFFICE 

MEMPHIS, TENN. 

VIRGINIA GRIFFIN. Reporter 

Vacation time is here, several in this 

office having started theirs by taking 

a half day, and a day at a time. 

We are glad to add to our number 

Mrs. Doris Dailey. who took Rose 

Matoske's place in the zone as key 

punch operator. Doris formerly worked 

in the division accountant's office. 

S. L. Oliver attended a Rotary Convention 

in Columbus, Miss.. April 17. 

18. and 10. and on his return reported 

a flne trip. 

Mrs. T. E. Bryant, wife of cashier's 

clerk, vislted relatives in Springfield, 

Jlissouri, recently. 

Billy Corliery, young son of our 

chief clerk, TIr. F. Corkery, has fully 

recovered from quite a long spell of 

illness, and has returned to school. 

We all extend sincere sympathy to 

J. H. Norman, demurrage clerk, in the 

loss of his sister. Mrs. Margaret Ho~e. 

Mrs. Frank Torina, on return from 

her honeymoon, and on a visit down to 

see us, was presented with a wedding 

gift-from us, a mahogany mantel 

clock. 

Sorry to hear of the illness of NIiss 

Mildred Estes' father, and Miss Dorothy 

Johnson's mother. 

Miss Faye Barbee spent a week in 

Jonesboro recently, visiting her mother, 

and while away Miss Elizabeth 

Ramsey, daughter of our team track 

clerk, was placed on her position. 

T. E. Bryant, cashier's clerk, visited 

in Marked Tree Ark., Sunday, April 22. 

Louis P. ~le$sio, McBee binder opator, 

resigned. April 30. to become a 

truck grower, as his father has given 

him several acres for that purpose. 

Mrs. A. V. Garrett, wife of 0. S. & 

D. clerk, was called to Baton Rouge, 

La.. Nay 7, account the aeath of her 

brother. 

B. C. Scrug,~S, assistant cashier, and 

J. H. Norman, demurrage clerk, have 

been on the sick list. 

W. D. Welch, platform foreman. returned 

to work May 7, but was unable 

to stay through the day, due to his 

condition, and has since been quite ill. 

Miss Dorothy Johnson, key punch 

operator in the zone, has been ill for

Alrs. J. .B. Zimmer, wife of assistant 

cashier, 1s visiting relatives at Advance. 

Lloyd Scales. rate clerk In E. E. 

Buchanan's offlce, spent Sunda~. Mag 

13. here. 

I':. F. Rlomcycr attended court at 

Memphis, >lay 6 to 12, inclusive. 

R. R. Brown. trucker, went frog 

huntinrr recently and says hc had real 

good luck. 

1.1. T. 3Ioon. cashier, and family. 

went on a picnic with relatives in 

Xemphis, Nap 13. 

\\'e were glad to have JIrs. Sims. 

wife of assistant superintendent with 

us at our last meeting. 

Jwse IViggins, cashier at Osceola. 

sl~cl~t an el~joyable Sunday hcre Nay 

13. 

.in $80.000 city hall has been completed. 

Frisco was favored with the 

kauling of all the material required for 

this building. 

Construction of a canning factory 

started recently. This will enable 

some of the fal,mcrs to hare a local 

market for their ~roducts. 

AIarie Noon, daughter of 31. T. 

Moon. cashier, won a loving cup ;LI 

Tri-State Contest at Fayettevillc, Ark.. 

in Home Economics. Xlthou~h 3Ir. 

310011 is toothless and crunnot taste hcr 

well-cooked foods. he is very proud of 

his daughter. 

ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT 


R. G. LASGSTON, Reporter 

Fire Sunday afternoon. ;\pril 29, so 

severely damaged a 250-foot portion 

of the Arkansas approach to the Har- 

r,~han hridga over tlw >Iississir)gl Rlvcr 

at IcIemphis that automobile trafflc VICI 

that bridge practically was halted and 

approximately one hundred persons 

who had motored to Nemphis to see 

NAWNAL 

BANK 

-IN ST. LOUIS 

Rs#. U. S. Pal. Of. 

a ball game boarded the Kansas City- 

Florida Special of the Frisco. 

IV. C. Smith has rcsianed his posi- 

tion of general clerk in order to re- 

turn to St. Louis. 

,I. 0. Hardin returned to work rr- 

wntly, ilftel' an illness, but found it 

necessary to go back to the hospital. 

Cnderstand he is doing nicely. 

C. T. Rrooks has been holding down 

the position of general cle.lalc durin~ 

31r. Hardin's absence. 

Jliss Dolores Scott. of IIountai~i 

(:rove. 3111.. is enjoying a visit with 

her sister. Dolyne, stenograllher in 

this office. 

Several employes at 3Iemphis have 

lwerl spendinK their Sundays at Horse 

Shoe T.ake. Ark. fish in^; is excellent. 

C. 6. DcGrande. Yale yards construc- 

tion accountant, is driving a I'aigc. 

coupc. 

I NORTHERN DIVISION I 


FT. SCOTT, KANS. 

('1,1SIS R. HUST, Reporter 

Sam 1\Ianlove, ro~cl for.eman, 11ad thc 

~)lc;isure of ;L few days' visit with his 

son. recently. 

Mrs. C. J. Kirkpatrick was called to 

Osage. Oklahoma, on account of the 

serious illness of her brother. 

Sorry to report that the Sash roa~lsler 

of Frccl Howell, fireman, entirely 

burned when it ignited while he was 

drivina it. 

Sometimes the reporter don't hear 

news until it is a few months old. In 

this case wish to congratulate 311.. and 

Mrs. William C. Bryant, machinist, on 

their new dau~ht~r. born T)ecemher 27. 

She has been named Ruth Carolyn. The 

mother before hrr marriage was Miss 

Rosetta Hoffner of Springfield, 310. 

One of our magl~zinc reporters at Ft. 

Scott, Niss Alice Hogan, in company 

with her friend. Miss Alma Whiteford, 

contemplate a wonderful vacation, 

They left June 3rd for California and 

other iutcresting points west. 

\\'is11 to estend our sinc(!rc sympathy 

to another of oul. Fort Scott reporlers, 

3Iiss Dorothy IVorliing, in the loss of 

her mother. 

Co~~grntulations arc in order to 1\11.. 

and J11.x. R. G. Sawyer on the arrival 

of a new daughter. Miss Leota May 

was born April 4. The mother before 

her marriage was Miss Bisher, at one 

time stenographer to the general foreman. 

The proud grandfather is Mr. 

Richard T. Hishard, machinist. 

Sorry to report the illness of fireman 

.Toe #Dew, night foreman .John AIc- 

Peters, machinist John King and Roilermakc,~. 

Norman 3Iiller. 

Miss Ethel Eves, daughter of Mr. and 

Xrs. Jack W. Eves, engineer, mas married. 

.\pril 6. to Mr. Roy Kempton. The 

young couple are at home at Ottawa, 

Kansas. IVish lo extend our hearty 

congratulations. 

.\ce ISxtill, cokrl chute foreman, is the 

proud owner of a new M'hi~~net sedan. 

He at last parted with "~cat'tcr Bolt." 

The H. of L. F. LC E. and Ladics 

Society State 3Ieetin~ at Fort Scott on 

dates of XItly 2 and 3 was a grand 

success. Some of the outstanding feat~res 

of the convention mas the visit 

through the 3IcKey hIfg. Co., malccrs 

of lI. Brickhouse, general 

chairman of Xissouri-Pacific Lines, 

ofticial drills of the ladies societies 

of Parsons. Chanute and Fort 

Scott, with Chanute carrying off first 

St. Louis' Largest Bank 

Service for Every 

Banking Need 

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED 

First National Bank 

BROADWAY AND LOCUST 

Savings Department Open Mondays Until 6:30 o'clock

Our deepest sympathy is expressed 

to Miss Dorothea Worltlng. comptometer 

operator in thls office, in thc 

loss of her mother. Mrs. Mary \Vorkillg. 

bfim Working Is at present wit11 

relatives in Sprlngfield, BIissouri, but 

will return tn Fort Scott within a 

short time. 

hfi~? Zenas Fitzjohn. comptometvv 

operator from Mr. Johnson's office. 

Springfield. is performing the duties 

of comptonieter operator, in the ahscnce 

of Miss Working. 

Mr. Don Fellows. "Prisco Flori~t". 

has greatly beautifled our surroundingl; 

with his small trees and plants. Thv: 

arc growing beautifully, too. 

J. P. Briggx, completion report clerk. 

11x8 nrcepted :L 1)osition in the Birmingham 

office. We wish him surrcss in 

his new position. 

Oscar Nelson, conlpletion report 

clerk, spent the week-end recently in 

Is'ort Smith, Arkansas. 

Harold Fariss, completion report 

~.lerl

Mr. W. 4. Hutton. car forcm;in The following boys have been cm- Jliss Ruth Harris. dauglttrr of iis- 

Sorth yard. is the proud owner of a ~)loyed rccen tly as appren ticc.s ill thc. sistant yardmaster. J. 1.:. Harris, re))- 

11c.w Ford. 

Kansas City shops: Harry A. Stiller. resented the Frisco Linca in a popu- 

The long-looked for flowers ztrrivecl \Vm. Parker Le\v:*llen and John Wes- larity co~~trst put on by the .4rn1*ric,n11 

last week and were ~)lantrd in thv It.? Ehni. 

I.e~ion in r:onjunction with thclir KI.;LII(~ 

flower boscs recently inst;~llrd at the \\'c can't conccive of 11 molt uncom- c:oron::ti~r~~ and community ],arty at 

two most ~irominent windows of this fortahle feclin~ than to bv tlrivili~ Alemoriai 1in11. Kansas City, K;~ns;ts. 

office. We are glad to report tl~ry ;tlon~; :L country road with ;I number Snturrl;i? light. May 5. 

;Ire thriving on the coal dust. ~tc. of ~~rc:iclicrs in the c:ir, sliclr 011' into Herlilr)- Hennrson, tirnckeepcr in till3 

Someone suagested puttir~g mtizzl(,s ;I muddv ditc.11, a ~ not ~ d he nhlr: to es- office, h:hd his car stolen thr r~ight of 

OII thc. xoldtish, as onc oI' the-ln bit I!IY.SS thc, resuitnr~t fevII11~ ill :III ill!- April 29 ~vhile 11e and his wife woru 

.\liss Hoffman on thc! fingcr. \Ve think o i 1 1 1 i 1 i niinn Tiitit IS attendinfi. ,z sho\v. Howrvrr, th~' cilr 

thry could be tau~ht I)c-~tlc.r m;rl:ller:. what r~,(,~.ntlJ- hn~>l)c~ncd to Mr. H. I.. was re(~ov~~red and I3rrlcley says il runs 

.I. R. Parrish. Icnd car m:in :it t h ~ .l~~hnro~~, timc.lit.romoted to till MI.. Yc

1 TEXAS LINES 

STORES DEPARTMENT 

SHERMAN, TEXAS 

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I 

now i1rl.11 t40rnplt.ted nnd it is no\t.ric!:~n Hridgc Company, who are 

c~.tvtinx the sul)cr-st~.ucturr, have? coni- 

11l11trtl 1rvc.r one-hnlf vf the steel work 

:~r~tl flrurc' they will finish their work 

I]). JUIIP 25. 

Eva Wi-:LY, clerk at Cl1nffc.e. was :I 

\'isit~~r iti (':~IIv (:i~xr(l(~:tu, Jlkiy 12. 

Mr. J. F. Seal, ticket nE'rnt anti wife. 

11rp;irtetl Jl:ry 26 for Xew Orleans, LN.. 

Iiousti~n. .\ustin, and Lockhart. Tes. 

T11t.s ;t~.rivetl in I.~~c.kl~:it.t, Tns.. Jlay 31. 

to atlrl~d tlir \v~~dding of tllcir so11 

(;l.nc Seal. wI1ic.h took place June 1. 

\\-~n. Ituskit~n~~, ti(,inur~.ac~. clerk. 

spcanl ;L Sundiiy ~.tv.c,~~tly in St. Lonis 

;tttenclinx tilts cl(vul~lc-header h.t\v\.ee~~ 

rile Sf. 1.ouis (':trtlin:ils and tlic Hrook- 

Is11 IJodKers. 

1'1.eston I-lr~\vvll. is R I?C\V ~n(.nihei. of 

our forre, h;iving displaced Robert 

li:~mnier on the yard clerk ~)osition 

i'r~,ston has hcen working on the fill 

rlcrk's ioh at Chnffee. 

SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE 

CHAFFEE, MO. 

$1 5,000,000.00 

AUTHORIZED 

CAPITAL 

IVhy Do YOII Trst the Air? 

To bc surr. dl's 0. K. 

\\'II!- Do Folks Savc Money? 

To kwp things 0. K. 

I 

8% 

INVESTMENT CER- 

TIFICATES 

\\-n can :lcct?t~t luml~ 

sunis of $300 and up, upon 

which we h;~vc: never paid less 

thnn X",. Xo Fccrt. 

I\..\ sl~:\\'I*:I.l,, l;,~~lol~l~;l~ 

-- 

Tlir fl~llo\cinu rm1)loycs ivrllt 11, VorL 

\\-ortll to meit the cntcrtainnient comiilirteo 

of thc Fort UTr)rth Iq:mployc.s 

l'luh on N;L? 10. lo nl'r:Lnw for the nn- 

8 

nu:tI picnic to hc ht:ld on .\lay ::0 nt 

MONTHLY DEPOSITS 

Sherman: XIr. :~nd 31rs. Joe 14r).;ir1, Jlm- 

% 3Ionthly deposits of $50 

n~ie Honnker. Si Stephens. 11. I.. llr- 

:111tl up. partiril)ate in 

DufTie, Hill C'h;is~ and 311.. Sist~.u~ilxulxr earnings wliich 

This is .to be :I ~~icnic for the. vntirn 

Ii:tv~. nrvcr been less thnn 

Tcsax 1,ines and is to b(! sponsol,cd by 

:t,n to attentl. 

8 %. so II:trvi:i I3odson spent Jlay 12 i1111i IX in ziven rrc~~nlly by .\iiss lClizaL)cth Ories- 

Ikillns and Fort \.Vortli. \\.l~il(, in hnbrr. 

RAILROAD 

lb'ort \\.orth tlic), vi%iL(~d t111,iv SOII, wi~o 

is working for the T. & 1'. in thilt city. 

BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 

MI-. Scott Is roundhouse foro~n;~n 11el.1.. 

UNDER STATE SUPERVISION 

Ilohart Glas(v~dwere 

sent here hy roadmaster Elliot1 

rnorliing I~eavily laden with thc tinny 

and Iorenian Guill from Blanket. Trs. 

trihe. 

Thrp :1re attracting quite a hit of at- MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT It. I,:. Hrredlovv. chief clerk to ninstelltion 

and we are very proud of $hem. 

1t.r m.t~rhanic. and family, spcnt Sun - 

F'. 1,. Stengel-, mRchiIIe shop foreman. 

CHAFFEE, MO. 

11;ly. Jlny 13, i r ~ JIempIiis \\,it11 311.. 

i~as returned from his v:rcation. Hc 

I

Sorman Kay. machinist apprentice. 

has recently been placed on duty in 

the machine shop. 

Mrs. Chas. Stausing, wife of store- 

keeper, has been confined to her home 

for some time due to illness. We are 

.ql~d to report Mrs. Stausing is some- 

whnt improved at this time. 

Syn~pathy is extended to Bern F. 

Itector, supplyman. in the loss of his 

mother Mrs. Sallye Rector. Mrs. Rec- 

lor had passed her lOlst milestone. She 

had made her home wlth her son of 

this city for the past several years. 

.\[I*. Hector accompanied the remain* 

. . U S . 

to Winxdor, Illinois, where interment 

was made. 

Mr. Frank Lampton, traveling fov 

the Hunt-Spiller Company. but former- 

ly connected wlth the Brisco was in 

Chaffee a short while. Nay 17. 

Our latest benedict is Herbert Em- 

rick, car carpenter. It seems that he 

has been contemplating matrimony for 

some time. On Saturday evening. XIa> 

12 he took unto himself a bride-Miss 

Leona Heeb. Mrs. Emriclc is employed 

by the Premier Manufacturing Corn- 

pany of this city. They haw the good 

w~shes of a host of friends. 

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Frisco Visitors 

- 

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Provides a safe place for your 

money. 

Supplies a receipt for every pay- 

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check). 

Furnishes you up-to-date informa- 

tion so that you may draw 

wise conclusions for yourself. 

A company where the word 

"Trust" means what it says. 

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Garden and Palafox Streets 

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The Citizens & Peoples 

National Bank 

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Earnestly Solicits 

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Safe Deposit Boxes For Rent 

Mr. John Thornbrough, chiei clerk 

to storekeeper, spent Sunday, May 1:. 

in St. Louis. 

Must say that Miss Anna Golden of 

the transportation department claims 

ail the honors when lt comes to garriming. 

We are watch in^ with interest 

the flower beds in the yards at 

the general offlce. If persistence will 

grow flowers we surely expect to see 

an abundance of beauty some time 

within the near future. 

C. P. Burnside of AIonett was sent 

to Chaffee to fill the temporary racanc? 

of piecework checker due to 

C. L. Peacher being on vacation. MI.. 

Rurnside was relieved on May 17 ;md 

re~>orted for duty to Mr. McCaffery at 

Sprillgfieid. Xr. Uurnside seemed to 

enjoy his sojourn in our fair city and 

made a number of friends among the 

employes of the car department while 

here. 

OFFICE OF DIVISION 

ACCOUNTANT-CHAFFEE, MO. 

1I.A COOK. Reporter 

E. C'. Heard accompanied the ah- 

sistant superintendent on the line for 

a. week making :L check of the statloll 

helpers. 

Miss Eva Wray motored to Fuiton. 

K?.. with her brother and family to 

visit their sister, on May o. 

FRISCO AMBULANCE SERVICE 

Pou Funeral Service, Inc. 

PROMPT-EFFICIENT-COURTEOUS 

PHOXE 31 

27 E. Wright St., Pensacola. Fla.

3ses.Rster Rigdon and Nary Eliza- 

LaGrange spent April 29 111 Mem- 

as the auests of Miss Alma 

Miss curry, who is a former 

kr girl, is training to be a nurse 

In the Baptist Sanitarium in AIemph~h. 

MISS Belle Kinne and ye scribe 

nlotored to Poplar Bluft for the week 

end May 5, b'ishinn stones of Cur- 

rent River are very plentiful dbwn 

there, especially by W. S. Johnston, 

operator. nnd Cleatus Price, clerk, of 

that citv. -- 

Mrs. T. J. Sweeney and daughter 

Patsy are spending two weeks in St. 

Louis. 

Mrs. H. H. McGarvey is on a month's 

vi.s~t with home folks in Texas and 

Sprmgfield. Mo. 

Miss Ila Cook spent the week end 

recently with Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. 

Haker of St. Louis. While there she 

had the pleasure of a short vislt with 

M~ases Katherine Welsh and Dorothv 

.lollnuon of master mechanic's office. 

Kansas City. 

Our deepest sympathy is extended 

to Miss Dorothy Working of the division 

accountant's office. Ft. Scott. 

in the recent loss of her mother. 

T. J. Sweeney has had the flu. sort. 

throat and all sorts of diseases, which 

he says is causud by H. H. McGarvev's 

cooicing as they have been batchGlg 

while their wives are out of town. 

Ralph Stephens is the proud owner 

of a new Ijodne sedan. 

-~ ~ - ~ - - ~ - 

Misses Irene and Esther Rigdon. 

Anne Guethle, and Elizabeth Grieshaber 

motored to Benton, 310.. Nay 

16 to attend a party and spend the 

night with Miss Malissa Smith. Xiss 

Smith, who is the daughter of \Van. 

Smith of general car foreman's offlce. 

Chaffee, has been teachinrr at 

Benton for the last two years. ' 

Trninmnnterln Office 

W. S. Rammage, dispatcher, is spending 

ten days in the Frisco hospital. v. 

E. Hopkins is relievin~ him. 

W. S. Johnson, operator at Poplar 

Bluff is the proud owner of a new 

Chevy roadster and a white bull dog. 

-4 private car belonging to the International 

Correspondence School is 

here for four days giving jnstructions 

to the employes. 

Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Cheatham and 

children are spending a month in 

Jacksonville, Fla. 

\jre are very sorry to lose J. C. 

Haley and family from Chaffee as they 

,ire real veterans. A son. Barrett. I?, 

cml~loved in this office as stenorr- 

OFFICE OF B. & B. AND MAIN- 

TENANCE OF WAY 

CHAFFEE, MO. 

EVA WRAY, Reporter 

The grading has been completed for 

the new passing track at Poplar Bluff. 

XO. 

Extra gang 223 has been re-established 

on the St. Louis sub. 

The combination passenger-freight 

station at Poplar Bluff Is now under 

construction. 

Our annual spring whitewaxhlng has 

been completed on the River division. 

Six miles of rock has been distributed 

this month on the Jonesboro 

sub. and one mile is under track. 

The ,Leachvillc sub is boasting of a 

clear record of personal injuries thus 

tar this year. L. A. Lowry is roadmaster 

over thls territory. 

Track to serve Standard Oil Company 

at Manila has been constructed. 

The new steel span at Nash, ovcr 

Diverson channel has been completed. 

Grading has been done for the new 

-. 

bridge at Lake Citv. Ark.. with a five- 

foot-raise. 

Mrs. G. D. Rathburn and children of 

Poplar Bluff, No., are visiting friendh 

In Jefferson City. 

E. A. Huffman, section foreman at 

Portagev~lle. 310.. is spending a short 

with the 

vacation at Evansville. Ind. 

B. \V. Cooprider, section laborer at 

\

Ilxrc~ltl Ilar returned from the West- vidcntally Carl is quitc a banjo artist son's officv, but his posltion was 

ern division and now holds the posi- and has promised to bring his banjo abolished April 1. and IIC displaced C. 

lion of instrunlentman in the division clown to thv office and give 'us a real I(. Hornung. Another change in the 

t'n~ir~t'cr's office at this point. 

treat soon. 

clerical force at east yard resulted in 

11. I,:. Drake, chief tic. and timber It won't trr long now. Dewey Bass the losing of Miss Elma Williams, who 

inspc'ctor of the Frisco, !)aid this of- was setan \vIiil)l)iug the air with his has been stenographer for Mr. Flill. 

f1iv :L short visit while on his way fly rod. 

assistant superintendent for the past 

to ;\lanstirltl, Arkansas, to nirct tlic tit, Nr. Ilonalrl Hrnxii, who 11;~s been thr 18 mol~tli*. JIiss Orna Ad:~ms displacm(~d 

I r:rln. 

aul.st of hliss Kathryn JI~;\Iatioll. iias 

- 

JIisx IVilliams, she having been tlisplircreturned 

to h~s hoke in Hartford. ed ;rs roiidmastcr's clerk by 15. 0. \Vest. 

MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Con~~ecticut. 

JVe now have two reporters in the 

.John Pcndrrrrass. instrumentnlan. 

FT. SMITH, ARK. 

resigned on A~II:~~ 28, to ;lcc:ept a sir nil:^^: I)uilili~~~ with the ~rdrlition (.if Miss 

,\dams. 

position with the Cottori Reit ;it JIour~t 

l'lc*asanton. Texas. and H. V. Yerbv Thr bl'itigc men are rc~rewing the, 

I l:I.:NI.: \VOESTJIXS. Reporter h:rs been ;~ppointe& his xuwessor. bVb 

long bridge just west of the ylrrd 

arc all very glad to hare "Skwitch" office. The job will take about L' 

Mr. :in@ Airs. J. T. Baker of Mansfield. hack with us again. 

lnonths, und it is said that the walk 

;\rlc;~ns:rs. were 1)ainfully injured when Clarence Rollingcr has achieved his way wbich was formerly on the south 

their ;rutomobile turned over' while life time ambition. which was :recon- ridc of the bridge will bc: placrd on the 

t.nruute from JIansfield to I'ort Smith plished sevc*r;~i Suntlrrss ago at our lu- 11ort11 sltle. 

on the night of hlay 1". and were v:11 flying fleld, wheu 11c had his first 

-. 

i)ruuyrht to :L Fort Smith hospitnl f~)r airplane ridc. 

nirdical attention. :\t this wl'itinrr. Iiate \'og:.pl hiis a new niecc, who has TULSA FREIGHT OFFICE 

liotll 1):rrties have Itaft the hospital and l)csen named C!atherine Mane. 

ikrv w~th Mrs. Baker's sistrr in Bort 

TULSA, OKLA. 

Jlrs. Ed. ('randall and son. 1~:dward. 

Smith but are still under the doctor's .Jr.. are visiting relativc*~ at Cnl~e Cirvaru. 

Mr. Raker is engineer on the :rrdeau. Chnffec! and Sprin~tleld. \\'hil~. 

.\Iitnsfic.ld Hrancli, running betwee11 at Sl~ring-fleld Mrs. Crandnll will he thv 

1*'111.1 Smith and Mansfield. 

au(,st of her sistrr, Mrs. JI. W. .\her- 

Mr. J. U. 1leyl)urn i~.is rrt~~rned fror~~ 

Herman Holen, assistant casl~ler, 11;rd 

nathy. Jlr. 2\l)ernatl~y wns for~~~vri) 

the 8r11nual Fuel Conrer~tio~~ in Chi- clivisior~ ;icc7ountxnt at Fort Smith. 

the idea a tonsil operation was sornccsaro. 

.. . which was held from JIuv 7 to Is'ranlc Trower. spccial ncrnt. has I.(.thing 

kids had done on their way homta 

11, inclusive. and reports a reln;u.lz- turned from the hospital in Sonthvr~~ 

from school and anklccl on home; hut 

:~bln xttendancc at the niectings ;rnd Texas where he as heen Tor the past ask him now that he's had one. His 

OIIC uf the best. if not the hest. fuel sevcr;ll months. and reports that he is ol)inion is the same as Sherman's w;rs 

vonvention he ever attendad. 

freling :I little better. We trust he of war. 

This department extcnds sympathy will soon be strong anourh to return Gcorgc Kerns, demurrage clerk, is 

lo Mr.. and Mrs. Fred JIorlev in tllv to work. 

suflcring :L had burn on the hand from 

loss of their son Harry J~oriey, age 24 llrs. Sxi~nie Relar~cl is filling trm- frying I~r~!nch fried potatoes at his 

sears, who died May 17, after u ver) ~ ) o ~ v:rcanc..v ~ r y during the itbscnca ol' don~icilr. 

rhort jllness. 

Thc Tulsa warehouse bunch :irv 

Mr. ;rnd Mrs. I*'. C. Fry :rnd son, Genc. A m(setin6 of section forf~~nen :111d H. e i rour'ni~. Thuy lost tl~c! per!- 

1b1 Ibrt Smith. ~\rk.. and 311'. and JII-s. .Y- H. foremen was held at PayetteviIlV. 

('leal.?. was carrying :r short time :LEO, 

and tl!,. 1)ro;rtl grin. which the anxious 

I St. Charles Hotel I look turned into, was the r~~sult of JII.. 

ONE BLOCK FROM DEPOT 

(!ie:rry hecoming :r "Grandpa" to twin 

boys. IIOI.I~ to Mr. (!1enryss daughter, 

E. G. GRAMLING, Owner and Proprieror Mrs. I.:. 31. \\ro~.le~~. 

INVESTMENT 

BONDS 

American Plan 

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI 

I CAPE GIRARDEAU I 

I Southeast Missourian I 

I 

NAETER BROS., INC. I I 

Has More Subscribers Than Any Other 

Daily Newspaper in a Missouri City 

Under 40.000 

.\ftcr sc~veral nlonths of watchin1 

waiting. we have Ford Iius sc.rvicv hetween 

I*::lst Yard and South Yard, via 

Cqitol Hill. This is a big help. rspecially 

in had weather, but it loolcs as 

though some of the boys will Iw de- 

1,rived of tl~cir t,xe~'oise now that they 

1,:11i rid(. both wi~ys to irnd from work. 

'rht, 1\vo drivers arc Socl Sllcrman and 

11. I\-. Henry. 

h groul, c~f rirst yirr~l rnil,loyes. with 

\.;~i,d e11:i11e 3,542 111 t)ic IIRCI

Aliirlc!. Sloam, check clerk, is off duty sea srvtion U-18, relieving J. H. Kry. 

un arxwur~t of sickness. 

who is foreman on olle nf the surfacin~ 

('Iy~It* HUIY~, chock clerk. was off duty xangs. 

a u~uple of days last week. 

W. C. Knowles In foreman on Red 

1t;rlph Kinney, delivery clerk, went Fork st,vtior~, relieving W. Ti~wwnrd. 

fishir~g un Grand river. 1f you want who is in 17ha1'~e of the cstra gang. 

111 know how Ralph looks telling about 

rile finh he 'aught, Icmk mn cover page OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT 

or 111c May Issue of the Frrisco Magsaiw. 

SAPULPA, OKLA. 

IXkrrrl (!hnse, who wns humped from 

tmsition as assistant cxshier by Herman 

TJolen, has gone to JIadison strrt,t 

stxtion. 

Jlrs. I.:lla >I. Hurd and Jliss Idis 

I'eggy DoolIng worked temporal-J IJlanazan attended thr luncheon given 

position as espcnse clcrk, week of Ma) by the auxiliary uf thtt Frisco Employ- 

;. ;IS h1;lr.y Jenkins w:+s yonfined to hor rs' Club of Tulsa. which w:ks held :kt the 

Irnme with chronic appendicitis. 

Egyptian Ten Room in T~ilsa. 

J. T. Hanks, machine operator. narecr Jliss 1-Xl:k Thrasher was the guest of 

u-ith f'hnrlrs Ihrwin's theory on cvo- Jliss S;rnc.y lienale :kt her homv at 

lutio~~. Every morning i111d eve~~inp ICnid. Miss Kengle is stc!noaral)hvr 

to the ;iaent at Oiclnhoma ('it\-. 

('. 1.'. Flustt4 attended Triennial Cow 

vention of the Hrotl~erhood of Railw:~? 

(:lerks ;1s delegate at large, which con- 

\-c.ned at. C:olurnhus. Ohio, May I I. 

Nivs Helen Gorhnm hns returned 

from Fort Srott :lftur n short visit with 

her hl.ot.lic~r, fo14merly of Snpulpa, ~ L I I ~ 

is tloi~~l: 'xtrn \vorlc in the uuprrin- 

?-nu can see J. T. performinx rnonlrry 

tricks on the tralwze and po1c.s nr 

thvrn Pnrk. 

Jlrs. \\I. :\. Bryan. wife of rate clerk. 

itas returned from Cleveland. Tenn.. 

:1womt):111i~4 hy her mother. Mrs. J. T. 

Hanks. wlio is convuloscinx. 

.John Iiicc!, (colorc~d), t~'ucli loxdor. 

:tttcndcd tJe funeral of his father \\.lie 

riicd May i, rlt Muskogee. Okl:~. 

.\rthur Herle, (colored) truck lo:~dt!r. 

\\.;IS shot through the arm and I)acI( : L I I ~ 

IS reported in n serious condition. 

tendent's nft'ice. 

Lvnn R. Hikmilton hzru rvsumrd dut\ 

ns chainman i~ftcl' n sixty day rlhscnce 

du+- to :k broken nnkle. 

lliss I,oir Flanagnn rccc,ntly visited 

7 

THE MANUFACTURERS OF 

UNION MADE 

Roy Rutler. (colored) t~~ucii 1o;ldcr. 

:~ttentle~l thl' funeral of his father who :kt li(br Iiornc in Vinitn. 

rlic~rl MR.~ 7 and was buried ;~t IJol(.>-. ['rank ('am])hell a ~ ~ C. d IC. Han.is 

Okl:~, 

took thr first on'icinl flshfng trip of tlic 

Shed\vick Sprlggs, ('olorcd) truck SCRSOII. 

loader. was off duty awount of the S:~pulpnns are watching with intrrsrriouz 

illncss of his hroth~r. 

s 

L A I I ~ f~~rr.m:rn on the .quri:~cinx xanx 

:111d is worlrinx in pl:krt$ of S, M, Is'(41,whirh 

wnx put back on :r~ain l1;ty 6. 

:'USOII. i11~1~cctor. 

The stc:~tlp increase of business in 

S. .\I. Frruuson, locom'otivc. i~ls.il)(,(~to~ 

111(, Tr~ls;r Tr~'minnls hi~s ~nntle it nt.crs- 

is rnj~)? inc :I v:1~;1t ion with his p;$rrrlts 

~ ~ 1 to . y add ;in extril g:knfi to the tlx~k 

in Tcs;~s, 

forces of roi1dmastc.r 3I:rrsh. 311.. Till- 

('. \\.. (:illispic, m;whinist. Is thr 

.s\vortl. fo~'c!m;in ;it lied Fork. \\-ill br- in 

I)I.OII~ o\vt~vr of :k nrw \Vhippc.t setlan. 

ihllnrxe of the gang. \vliic~h will 131. 11rin- 

with \\-Iiic.h he r.spc-cts to ~IICIY*RHC* the 

(~ilmlly (!ngHg:'c(l in conrtructinr: !le\v 

~,l'oduc.t ion IPC xasolinr.. 

t~.:~cks. 

13. L, GrifCith, wlio \\.as tinlekcepcr 

Jzrirc, 1928 Page 57 

>rifts days Christine centy Vanderford i spent t he- a has C. been I. Marfield, quite sick locomotive with ~yumonia 

engineer. Choked AII Might 

parents at Sherman, Texas. fever 

>lax Oldenhage has returned to his RO;' H. Baker, from Springfield. has 

duties after an absence of several days een_-pr:tecting extra switching at From Asthma 

account of illness. 

sewourg. 

Among the victims that have suc- W. E. Counts. roadmaster on second 

cumbrd to thr auto fever are JIax track division, reports his first Per- 

Every Sign of the Trouble Gone. Tells 

Oldenhage and William Chri-tinn, JIas 

sonal injurv this year. On May 9. G. 

How She Got Well. 

having purchased a new Dodge Vic- 

F. Smith, section foreman. Steeleville. 

tory six and \Yilliqn a new Oakland 

No., while removing rail which was All who suffer from asthma and 

sun-kinked rail flew out breaking bronchial cough will be glad to learn 

coupe. 

bone In his right and left leg, and how Jlrs. Rr, G. Pierson, Route 1. Colby. 

To prove our Frisco boys are one- hla hack - - ... and hin were badly bruised. Kas.. conauered her trouble. She writes: 

hundred per cent for our railroad, Jess He mill probabiy be off five or six "For 16 j.eirs I had usthmn in scvere form. 

R. Neergaard, yard clerk, recently had weeks. 

I couldn't sleel), irnd ri~rely tried to go to bed 

occasion to persuade a friend who was Mlss Mary Slckles who has been llefore 1 :SO a. m. I kcpt getting weaker and 

going to Siioam Springs and from there visiting her sister Lillian, has returned h~d ii terrible cough. I was in Akron. '331.. 

to a point in Alabama, to make the home. 

when I started tnking Nacor in February, 1925. 

trlp to Siloam Springs and then re- L. J. Planchon, third trick yard In 3lorcli I felt so much better I returned to 

turn to Tulsa and take our train No. clerk, is laying off account being sick. 3lisaouri. One night in Missouri used to mnke 

6 to Uirmingham, thus riding Frisco He is under the weather wlth rheu- nle choke terrlbIp, but I don't have a sign of 

all the way. 

matism. Hope he will soon be able asth~ui~ now, not evcn in rainy weather. I 

H - - . .T. - . - 1)rilev - . - . , < varrlmnstrr.. - - - - . - - - - - , has . - - - hppn - to .- return to work. 

sleei) nli night, have wined 10 pounds and 

absent from his duties account of ill- The entire transportation depart- IPPI' . rtrnnn - .. . ind wcll." 

ness. We hone to see . JIr. Dailev hack ment extend their sympathy to F. C. IIundreda of other sugerers from~ asthma. 

- 

on the job sdon. 

Fulton, engineer, and son Clyde, in the hrorrrilitld and cl1ro111c coughs have reported 

Wardy C. Castle, yard clerk, recently recent death of Xrs. Fulton. Mrs. Ful- their recnvory. t~Pl.er Scars of alfliction. Their 

moved into his new home at Red Fork. ton was buried at Newburg. BIay 14. letters and a booklet full of valuable InfonitIiss 

Frances Harrison. who is at- Her death was due to pneumonia fever. tion ahout Ihffle stubborn diseases, will be sent 

tending the University of Oklahoma, 

free - bv . Sawr JIediclne Co.. 705 State Life 

vinlted her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. 

Bldg., Ind!ani~polis. Ind. So matter how se- 

Harrison. recently. 

SEVENTH STREET STATION rious your c.rse seem?. \Trite for this free book- 

ST. LOUIS, MO. 

let lndn,. It nlay gi\.e your llfe a now mean- 

InC. 

WEST TULSA STORES DEPT. 

AGNES 31. L.4RKIN. Reporter 

OTIS RULE, Reporter 

Mrs. Allen Moore. wife of timekeeper. 

Seventh Street has a membership of has just returned from a visit in Vertwnntv 

in the newly organized Saint non, Texas. where she visited her 

Mr. Stone and family contemplate ~~;is-~erminals Club. 

sister. 

spending a few days in Springfield, the L. G. Roseman, special officer, who Ray Caudlc. formerly employed as 

flrst part of June. 

1s Scout Master of Boy Scout Troop roundhoi~se 'lerk this terminal, died 

Mrs. Otis R. Rule and children spent NO. 41, has been presented with Presi- after o. brief illness May 16. This office 

the week-end, May :, and 6, visiting dent Howai,d's streamer for the year as well as the north roundhouse, towith 

Mr. Rule's parents at Holdenville. 19'8 

gether with other Brisco employes es- 

Dwisht L. Irby visited with his par- 

deenest -. svm~athy is extended tend their sympathy to the bereaved 

ents at Afton. Okla., on May 13. to Harry '~ewco;n~r. ~.heck clerk. in family. 

The family of Mr. S. R. Gardner inthe 

loss of his mother and father. 

tend spending their vacation in Chiwhose 

deaths were just one week 

cago and Indianapolis. They are planapart. 

SIGNAL DEPARTMENT 

ning on leavinz just as soon as school 

The Frisco Best Service Baseball 

Club and the Saint Louis Terminal? 


is out. 

Club held a joint river excursion on 

Mr. Otis R. Rule left for Rochester. the Steamer St. Paul. JIay 23. BIATILDA C. HOFFMAN, Reporter 

Mlnn., Sunday. Xay 20, accompanying 

his stepfather, Mr. E. M. Bailey. who 

is being taken to Mayo Bros. 

EASTERN DIVISION-MECHANICAL Mr. Raymond Troth has returned 


from a short vislt wlth his parents at 

Valley Falls, Kansas. 

Carl Thompson and mother spent a 

EASTERN DIVISION 

JIILLARD F. BROWN. Eeporter recent week end visiting relatives at 

Rolla, Mo. 

I C. H. Eergstrom, boilermaker forc- 

Xessrs. Owen. Troth, Thompson and 

Ball have returned from a fishing trip 

TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT man, north roundhouse, attended the to Bennett Sprlngs. They report a very 

NEWBURG, MO. 

Master Boilermaker's convention at good time but are reluctant to talk 

Cleveland. After the convention Carl about the'flsh they caught. 

and the Nrs. are ~Aanning a vacation in Inspectors Harry Barron and Charles 

LILLIAN 11. SICKLES, Reporter the state of Pennsylvania. 

Smith were in Bollgee. Ala.. May 2. 

I-Inl Lampkin, traveling time keeper. to place in servlce new interlocklng 

Eastern division, is back on his old plant just completed at A. G. S. cross- 

Spring has arrived at last and thc job again after spending some three ing, that point. 

banks of Little Piney. Big Piney, the or four months oil special work. 

Gasconade and JIeramec Rivers are W. B. Brandt, general foreman, north 

very inviting, so much so that F. H. !ounclhouse, advises that engine 1527 OFFICE SUPT. TRANSPORTATION 

Donaldson, trainmaster, Springfield, is being equipped with floating engine 


contemplates on spending his vacatlon truck brasses, which is the new wrinat 

his old haunts with his fishing rod kle on this division. 

and line. 

The new viaduct at Benton Avenue EULA STRATTON. Reporter 

A. C. Holeman, agent. Pacific, Mo., and Grant Street over the Frisco tracks 

reports the sand and gravel business is nearing completion. The Houlevr~rd IVith the corning of the ;ne, warm 

at that point as very good this year. viaduct was open to the public April summer-like davs, many of our gang" 

Last year 6,369 cars of gravel were 26. 

are enjoyinq the facilities of the Frisco 

shipped from Pacific, which would 

for pleasure trips. 

make n train 84 miles lon~. the revenue 

Carlotta Lane journeyed to Chlcago 

from this business amounted to 

recently and shopped a bit. 

$192.000. 

I CLASSIFIED ADS I Mary Camphell rlwnt a recent week- 

R. Stephans, agent at Cuba. 310.. for 

end in St. Louis visiting relatives. 

the past 10 years and In the servlce 

- Dora Gado npencls nearl; every weekfor 

over forty years, holds white pass CIasslfled advertlsln~ under thh headlng will end in Billings, while Clarence Wllkes 

and is entitled to most any kind of be charged for at the rate of 5 cents per word can't he kept away from Carthage. 

transportation he could desire, yet he with a mlnlmum of 75 cents. Cash must ac- Pearl Townes and Carmen Bowman 

tells us that he has not been west of company copy. 

went to Kansas City for a visit last 

Rolla. Mo.. but one time in the past AGESTS-WE START YOU IS BUSI- month: Harlin Boehm went to Joplin 

20 years and has only made a few ness and help you succeed. Eio capital with the Shrine Patrol for a ceretrlps 

to St. Louis, Mo.. during that or experience needed. Spare or full monial: Merle Platte leaves soon for 

time. 

time. You can easily earn $50-$100 Xinneapolis to visit Mr. and Nrs. Geo. 

Miss Maud Snyder, roadmaster's weekly. Write Madison Factorles, 564 Ruzrles. JIrs. Ruwzles was formerly 

clerk snent the week-end with her Broadway. Sew Yorli. 

Ruth Snlith. clerk -in this department 

fath& J. E. Snyder in Lebanon. 

Some traveling this office is doing! 

W. H. Owens, locomotive inspector. FOR SALE-Ten acre tracts, good \Ve've been havin~ troubles as we11 

vlsited his father and mother Mr. and poultr,, truck, fruit land, $350.00 each. as travels too: Louise Boren was in 

Mrs. John Owens at ~ogers\:llle, 310.. all long time. Reeve Nursery, Cot- quite a serious automobile accident on 

recently. 

tage Hill, Florida. 

Highway 65 in which her companlon,

Fhrl Ha~~s, was badly injured. "Lucky machinist anti for thc 11:rst fen- months 

Louise" escaped with only an injured has \vorked as an c,xtra machinist. 

knee. 

Thomas O'IiI,m sc,veral d:iya ago Mrs. c:ilsnn 1)unbar returned May 3 

Traffic Contest. 

and has been laid up at thr hospital. front visitinx her xistvr. Jlrs. ,Jose- 

Have saved tlie ~ood news for the 

Several months REO, it was a sub- 1~11irlt. H~tse. ('levcland. Ohio, who was 

last! We no longer say "Listen Lesject 

for discussion as to the reason very ill. 311 s. I>nnhar was hurt in an 

ter." but "Listen Daddyw-for I.cster 

for Sprinptieldians conxregntin~ on auto accident nliilc awav, hrealiinc 

R. Langsford, clitef merchandise clerk. 

the "square." St. J,ouisans presumed h n shoulder blade. JVP wl\h hcr a 

this office. is the proud Inthr~ of 

it was the night life. especially Satur- ri~eedy I ecovery. 

1,est-r ,Junior, born Jlay 4. Lester. Jr.. 

day niqhts, but along comes Hobrrt 

is a tine baby and wr congratulate its 

Reed. trnin control maintainer. with \\'v haven't a Fritz ICreisler on the 

I);rrents, Mrs. Langsford was forrncrly 

the str~~qht dnpe: they al'e n-nitirl~ I.hstcrn tlirision. Howcvrr, we do 

Miss Sa1.a Crbrden, tvl)ist in this office. 

for a 8t1,~et car. 

havc. Ikc I:urg,ette, fil,em;rrl, who is a 

r~l~~sf! second. \\'e are with you, Ike. 

\\'ade I\'. .\lclton is no longer listed 

ST. LOUIS MECHANICAL DEPT. MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT with the owl grlng. lie is a second 

LINDENWOOD, MO. 

class pipefitter on a tlny shift. Lewis 

S. \\rtrods. formerly of Grcene Cou~itg. 

LOUISI*: SCMUTTE. Reporter 

Afn.. has been promoted to first class 

-- 

~)ipefitter, s~cond trick. Shcrnian R. 

Several n'cmeks ago, l'irul O'Xeal, ma- 

Tuter. is uur latcst first class machinist. 

madv a lli~ht with an air 

chinist, ha\-in< finishod his :ipprenticepilot 

at 1,inill)ergli Flying Field, St. .J. W. 3lorrill. accident 

ship at thr Sprin~field north shops. 

prevention 

Louis Col!nty. He 11;~s now en~.olled afient, I':rc'iflc, Jln.. better known as Llan \\'li:~lcn is I,aclc ori thv job aftel' 

for the all. pilot course at Lindbergh "Uncle 1'.illu. cave an interesting lec- nn illncss. 

Field and we hope that he will be ture, May 4, at Lindenwood on ac- Midae Dillon, firem;tn. says that the 

successful. I'anl came from Spring- cnidl.nt prrl;cntion. Thr Icctul,c> was at- l'lremen's ball held at the, h-, of C. 

field to finish his al)prentict.tihil) as a tentlcd by both roundhouse and car 1i;ril. .\la~)le\vood. .\l)ril 1;. w:ls a howldrpartmcnt 

eniployes. 

inz success 

\\-e wish to announco the addition 

\Villiani 15. ICsposito, caller, was in 

of another good old Grecne county Rnrry county, Mo., t h ~ last of llay, 

product to our force. J. .J. Rurt, of 

looking ovel' the strawberry crop. 

the stores department. formerly at the Mr. and Mrs. \\'. r'. Corman spent 

general stores, Spl'ingfield. 

Jlay I and 5 wlth the home Collcs at 

THE FIRST 

\\'e were glad to hcar that Claude 

3lemphis. As 311,. Gorman is a seven- 

Solan. car del~artment, was promoted 

day man we are glad to sor him aet 

from second class to first class car car- a fcw days off. 

Ilcnter, effective Jfay 1. \Villium L. The ~wrsonnel of the general fore- 

NATIONAL Baron has bwn r)ronioted to first class ~ne~f's offices, 1,indenwood. wishes to 

machinist, loco~iotive department. extend its sincere thanks to IJon Fel- 

\Villiam Spreitzer and Carl Fromm, lows, Frisco florist. Springfield. Mu.. 

of the stores tlel~artment, recelftly for the flowers which he furn~shed fol 

BANK 

made a brief trip to Rirminghani. our window boxes. They serve tfi~ 

Erle I'enn, chivf clerk to the gen- brighten up the office efrectively. 

eral forernrrn, car department, 1s very Lee \\;:31,dlo\v and C11;lrles S. Turner. 

enthusiastic about his b:rcli yard Fa'- clrctl~ici;rns, are the n'w fire chic.fi 

den. 

on Lhe sivwnd and tirst shifts. Turner 

The sudden death lla? 11, of John has labelcd the visor of his cav so 

OF TULSA 

(Ininn, switch crew forcnian. J~inden- there wo~i't bc any mistake in ciissiwol~cl-G1,atiot 

yards, wils a shock to us fying him. 

all. The shop forccas extend sympathy. Thomas E. AIsuI), chairmau. stores 

OKLAHOMA 

('. .\, l'hillips, boiler foreman, is [lrlxart~iient. B. of 1:. C.. was a visitor 

taking a long-looked for tinhinr: trip in St. I.ouis. May 11, enrolltc to Coi~t 

\\'elf Creek Palls. Spring Hiver. lumbus. Ohio, where he attended the 

just across the Missouri line near couvention of the U. of R. (!., Nay 14. 

Thnyer. \\'e are anticipating hearing JIr. ;ind Jlrs. 0. L. Il:llicr \vcre 

sonje great flshinx storics when Chur- Sr~rin~tlcld. AIo.. visitors. Mtly 12. 

lie comes hack. 

I'rewee I)ew;tld and Hemy JIc~nth. 

1.:. R. McNabb, boiler inspector, is members of tho R. & I?. can=. . ~. . when 

another whose hobby is Rshing. Mac they were laid off &e~rtly. built a 

silent April 2S und 29 at his favorite sun roc111 and sleepin;: yt~l'ch for 0. 

CAPITAL $2,000,000.00 sport on tlie James Rivrr near 3I:irsh- .\I. Evans. stationarv . ensineer. - 

field. No., the garrl~n sl)ot of the .J. Se;tnor .\bbott, machinist, first 

world. Mac is modest and admits that class, slxnt thc week end of May 12 

he caught only one tish, whitrh was of with relatives at, Salem. 310. 

SURPLUS $500,000.00 small dimensions. 1Ie sap it was Mrs. D. 3. Normlnaton recently made 

plenty of fun. Mac has purchased s :I visit to her parcants at Oklahoma 

- Porrl. - 

C:iLy. 1)nr.e had to 1)oc.h it while she 

.lack Huhin, machinist. lirst class. was away. 

and Wiss Lillian Harrison, formerly of \\-ork ha* l)c.en startcd on the instal- 

Springfield. No., wrre married at lation of a new icing dock at Gratiot. 

Sl~ringtield. ;\lay 2. 

\\-hcn completed it will malcrially ex- 

J,loyd Spenccr tried to put some- pedite the handling of cars to be iced. 

thinr: over on us, but didn't succeed The st~nographlc forces of thc 1,inas 

he has a brother-in-law worlcin# denwood mechanical department. name- 

" Tulsa's Oldest Bank " in the roundhouse. Yes. you've guessc.d 1,. the AIisscs Celeste CVNcill. Celestine 

it-Lloyd got married two months ago 1)evercux and myself, reccntly decided 

to Clint Osborne's sister. Golda Os- to act acquainted with the Frisco 

borne. \\'e unite in wishinx thc new- lines. \\'e left on So. 801. May F, with 

lyweds the greatest happiness. 

ChaRee. ,\lo.. as our destination. return-

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airpl lane Instead. There must, at least, 

be st xnethlng like this running through 

theil - minds, or else, why did they try 

out the tri-motor "Standolene" plane 

that war In Ypringfleld recently? 

He Lzel Clark is sporting a Chevrolet 

thes~ e days. Ha~el is so generous. 

ever yone in the office knows that when 

Ham :1 rides, we rlde, too; for she never 

pass es her Friends up. 

Ti1 red of hunting for the elusive 

"nev i" Ford, Herschel 3IcNally purchas 

ed a used Buick. 

An nong the few fortunate ones who 

won out In the rand scramble for 

one af the cars received in the first 

ship] nent of new Fords was Frank 

Bats on. 

Pu rchasing automobiles seems to be 

the order of the day. Our assistant 

chiel [ motive power clerk. W. J. Craig, 

has purchased a new Buick. 

P. S. Routt recently returned from 

the Frlsco hospital at St. Louis, where 

he r was conflned for about ten days. 

Th lone of us who have read the accoun 

t in Franklin's old Fourth Reader 

0 f how "Shirley" acted at the fire, 

can appreciate how Eunice Morrow 

musl t have felt like acting when she 

wen1 ! home one night recently and 

foun d that the city fire department 

had emptled her wardrobe for her in 

her absence. 

W. J. Craig has just returned from 

a m, ost enjoyable trip to Miami. Fla.. 

whe~ -e he, as Potentate, represented 

Ab01 I Ben Adhem Shrine of this city 

at t he Imperial Council session held 

in 81 iami. May 1. 2 and 3. 

JON e McKenna has accepted a psitlon 

as salesman for the Superlor XIaid 

Uten sil Company. We wish him the 

best of success in his newly chosen 

field. 

Sa lesmen may come and salesmen 

may go, but we'll bet few of them will 

ever show an ability for better salesman! 

ahip than Millie Alcorn. Wlthout 

tryir lg, she won flrst prize in a recent 

sale of tickets to a show at the Jefferson 

Theatrc. The show was sponsored 

by the Frisco Glrls' Club. 

Those in this office who are absent 

on their annual vacation at this writing 

are F. 31. Ferbrache and Frank 

Ratson. Since "Ferdie" and Frank are 

not among the ones who "whittle tn 

kill ~~~.. time". . - but are both industrious 

farmers ind spend a ~grcat deal of 

their spare time in the garden, we presume 

they will each put on a coat of 

tan within the next two weeks. 

George McKenna is the proud father 

of a brand new baby girl. Congratulations. 

George! 

ESTABLISHU) 1872 

OFFICE OF SUPT. OF TERMINALS 

SPRINGFIELD, MO. . 

NORXIAX HINDS, Reporter 

Ralph Rimbey is enjoying a, vislt 

u-it11 friends and relatives in Arlzona. 

He is expected to be gone a month. 

Homer Dennis has assumed the posi- 

tion of secretary to 0. W. Bruton, su- 

perlntendent of terminals. He is wel- 

comed by the terminal employes as a 

valuable addition to the office force. 

Ben Casselman and Leonard Carner 

~'ecently returned from a fishing trip 

un the White River. The fish must be 

wary, indeed, when so expert flsher- 

men as they are, return empty handed. 

L. A . Wolfe has returned to his du- 

ties after a period of enforced idle- 

ness due to an injured foot. 

Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Gaffga and chll- 

dren are spending a few weeks in 

Cleveland, Ohio, where Mr. Gaffga is 

attending a convention of the B. R. T. 

Mr. and Xrs. C. E. Huntley have de- 

parted for West Virginia where they 

will visit friends and relatives. 

Norman Kruse and Ralph Kesslnger 

are now driving: new cars, as they 

have each purchased a new Ford. 

Dollle Hinkle recently visited her 

sister and family In Howard, Kans. 

The marriage of Miss Nina Stokes 

to Mr. Glen Crain was recently solem- 

nized. The heartiest of conzratula- 

tions are &ITered them by therr many 

ftiends. 3Ir. Craln Is employed in the 

north yard offlce. 

Mr. J. P. Kerr has taken a leave of 

absence and is enjoying a well-earned 

vacation. 

R. C. Reynolds has returned to work 

after being confined to his home for 

several days on account of illness. 

SOUTH TRAIN YARDS 


JESSE L. BRANDON, Reporter 

Miss Allena Brandon, daughter of 

Car Caruenter Rrandon. underwent a 

very serious operation recently, but 

she is improvinji nicely. 

Rov Chrisman. truclter. has been off 

sick 'for some time. He in now In the 

Frisco hospital in St. Louls. We wish F him a speedy recovers. 

N. A. JIcLean, city auditor for the 

\Vestern Weiqhing & Inspectlon Rureau, 

resianed to accept a position with 

the Frisco in special agent's department 

as chief clerk to the division 

special agent. Springfield. effective 

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The mother of Roy Twigger passed 

away at her home in Springfield, April 

18. Roy is car carpenter on the south 

side. To him we extend our sympathy. 

De Barclay, car inspector, South 

S~rin~field. took a dav to lournev out 

to his farm hear Willard, Go., to paint 

the pig pen and Ax a gate. 

The G. A. R. Convention held at 

Springfield brought us a lot of visitors 

its well as extra passenger equipment. 

Joe Epperson, coach carpenter. is 

away account of the death of a relatlve. 

The strawberry movement is getting 

under way. All passenger trains are 

carrylng extra cars. 

Walter George, car inspector, second 

trick, undertook to haul some 

rocks from his front yard and sprained 

his arm so badly he was compelled to 

be on' a day. 

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AGENT'S OFFICE-MONETT, MO. 

PEARL E. LEWIS, Reporter 

J. P. Arend has returned from Aurora 

where he acted as cashier in the 

absence of Niss Anna B. Patton, who 

was ill. 

Walker Shadday, who has been working 

as mail and baggage handler for 

the past several years, has purchased 

a farm near XIonett and has moved to 

same to try his luck as a farmer. 

'ANXIOUS 

to serve 

The 

risco 

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Pnge 62 

A. T. 1:rowrn and Ha1.l.y C. Fleming of SO-pound rail in the BIonett yards, 

were in AIesico, 110.. the first of the replacing 60-pound. 

month, as delegates to the ivIasonic Xicholas Arcnd, father of Joe P. 

Grand Lodge. hIonett was considered .-\rend, clerk, gassed away in Aurora, 

as a. roba able meeting place for the Nay 5. Mr. Arend was an old resident 

l!l29 convention. but withdrrw in fa- of that community and an employe of 

vor of Hannibal. No. 

the Alajestic Xilling Company. Jfr. 

\I7. R. Samuels is located in JIonett Arend has the sympathy of his fellosvfor 

the strawberry season, superviwinfi employes. 

the cleaning of refrigerator cars and Niss Grace 1\IcClannahan, te!el)hone 

assistinr in the movement of cars. operator, enjoy~d several days vaca- 

Richard Alills and wife enjoyed a tion ~wently, 

visit with fricnds in St. Loi~ir a few Thr fllat home-grown stw,wherries 

days in May. Mr. AIills was relieved werc on tlic marltet at Monett, ,\lay 14 

)IS J. 1'. Arcnd iis chief c1e1,k LO thr and sold for 30 cents a quart. They 

genrrxl yardmaster. 

were of the Sew York Narket variety. 

Carl \\'. .\rchdale and family visited All indications point to a very successrelatives 

in Joplin for x short vaca- ful berry season and all associations 

tion the first part of May. 

are advertising este~isivelr for pickers. 

A11.s. H. H. Edwards, wife of warehouse 

clcrk, BIonett freirht department. 

passed awny. .\l)l'il 2.7, after a 

tcn-day illness. Tjcsidcs her husbnnd. 

she left four srnali children. The sympathy 

of the entire E'risco family is 

cxtended JIr. Edwards in his i~creavement. 

Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Shoenwald, who 

have heen in charge of the Harvey 

Sews Stand for Lhe past two years. 

have gone to Chicaqo to accept u position 

with the Van Nuys Company. Fred 

Lochmiller, a former manaFer at this 

place is again in chargc of the news 

stand. 

Georxe AIorris, section laborer, who 

had the misfortune lo lc?se an eye h?' Mines Located Four and One-half 

hrin~ hit by a picce of stccl, has returned 

to work as yard cleaner. 

Miles East of the City of Tulsa 

Mrs. Laura Pratt. mother of L. H. WHEN IN THE MARKET FOR COAL 

Pratt. mail and bagrage handler, and 

Call Phone Cedar 5588 or Osage 9810-F21 

Mrs. R. \'. Porter. wife of Operator 

I'orter, have been visiting in \+'hit

ED\\'ARD ICLINE, Reporter 

Say, follcs, when you pass through 

Newburg, don't forget to cast )-our 

eyes ulbon the new "E'riseo Rower bed', 

between the station and the freirht 

house. The credit for this beauty spot 

goes to Miss Helcn Pellows, operacot.. 

and Homer DeBerry, station agent. 

Miss Helen Gel1 of the offico of auditor 

of overcharge claims, St. Louis. 

spent the week-end with 1\11,. and Airs. 

Joseph R. Short. 

Mr. and AIrs. Joseph R. Short entertained 

a number of Lebanon friends at 

a one o'clock dinner, Sunday, May 20. 

Mr. and JIrs. John Ihvis have returned 

Il,orn St. Louis, where Mrs. na- 

Roy l'utnani. special :rpl)rentice, is 

back with us alter serving six months 

at thc* north roundhouse, wherc hc 

completed his time. 

Stanley Wood, special apl)renticc. 

was transferred to i\Iernphis to gain 

Ills roundhouse cxperie~~ce and complete 

his apprenticeship. 

vis has l~ecn ~,c-ccivina lnedical tl,eat- 

Homer J. Dennis, clerk in our office, ment. 

was ~)romoted to sccretarv to 3Ir. 0. 1\11., and Mrs. Frank Noore and small 

I\'. ~;.uton. 

claughter have returned from an es- 

I'lctol- Glnn, special al~pr~ntice, nr.rs tended visit with the former's parents 

ttansfrrred to Tulsa to hnish the last at Phoenix, .\rizona. Mr. Moore is a 

six rnonths 11f his time. 

clerk in the yards. 

James I.:. Oliver. machinist annrcn- K. G. Stoll. yardmaster. was confined 

tlce. cokpletecl his a~)prenticeshrk we I'uller worked during his v:wancy. 

have in our office. Joe just xot out Wm. Hl:lcltburn, conductor on the 

of school, but he sure knows his busi- n7rst end, has relurl~cd to work after 

ness. 

being confinrd in the St. John's Hus- 

Mr. F. ;\. I?eyer has returned to his pita1 at Springfield. 

home from thc St. Louis hosiptal. Mr. Engineer Oltman. who is in the hill 

Eeyr!~. says hc fcels some betirr, 11tit service here, came in the office the 

not able to retul,n to the shop. 

other (la.\, with a fine fish story and he 

Mlss Jessie Robhards spent :L few had !hc goods to back it with, too. He 

days of he1 vacation at home, clcan- carrlcd two three-pound catfish which 

ing housc-. Jessie is steno in the he caught ill Lhe Gasconnd~. 

storeroom. 

"The Harmony" Sunday School Class 

Page 63 

The fruit movement has necessitated MI.. I,. I?:. "Snipe" Reddick says he of the Christinn Church, of which R. 

the use of anothcr yard engine at this didn't have any luck wheu hc went D. \\.ilson. general cav foreman, is 

station. 

fishin: recc>ntly. 

president, was ~leasantiy entertained 

Lyal D. Jones has returned' to the at the home of 1\11., al~d Nrs. Ivan Ful- 

GENERAL STOREKEEPER'S 

urc>st shop as a first-class man. He ler. Dr. K. E. Ereuer is teacher of this 

has been in the Monett roundhouse, class and it promises to be the booster 

OFFICE-SPRINGFIELD 

finishing his time. 

class of Newburg. 

\Ye wish to express our syrnl)athy Carl C. I'aul, helper at Bourbon, vis- 

Lo the family uf E. R. Tauman, blaclc- ited Newburg between trains one day 

smith. who passed away l;~st month. this mol~th, on his way to \Yebb City 

Miss Barbara Murray was absent for 311.. Lloyd Lamb, chief clerk to F. to visit his mother. 

a few days account of sickness. :\. He)-er, has been out playing hall E. S. Carter, airman, and Mrs. Carter 

Alisv ICl,ma Jourl:rrd toolc a day ancl with tho boys. They say he is one attended the meeting at the Tabernacle 

rt half of her va(.ation recently. She of the lrcst of them. 

of God, Springfield, on May 4. 

spent her, time in getting some practice Miss 3Iable 1:oren spent LL few days H. J. I'ol'f, conductor, and Mrs. Poff 

in house Cleaning. 

ol' her vacation at home, cleaning attendrd the funeral of the latter's sis- 

Miss >[nude L

sympathy to the family of Engineer 

P. F. Ferguson, who died suddenly in 

the cab of his engine at .\fton, Oltla., 

May 15th. 

~Mrs. Pearl Lewis, yardmaster's steno. 

took issue with me about calllng her 

petite little bow tie a "William Tell" 

tie. She claims that was a hand-tied 

bow and if that is true, then several of 

our local lads should secure hirs. Lew- 

IS' method. for that tie was perfect. 

Switchman Howard White and fam- 

ily have recovered from the flu, all be- 

inr sick at the same time. 

The A~st trick switch tender's job 

has been re-established, effective Ma?; 

19. Geo. D. Shreeve. senior man in 

service in Monett yard, has been as- 

signed. 

The week of May 7 marked the gath- 

ering of firemen from over the state 

to attend the state meeting of the B. 

of L. F. & E.. held here. On hIay S 

the B. of R. T., the B. of L. F. and 

the 0. R. C. and their auxiliaries spon- 

sored a dance and entertainment at 

Monett Park Casino, which was a de- 

cided success. About 250 couples at- 

tended. The hard work .of the com- 

mittees from the various orders and 

auxiliaries was greatly responsible for 

the success of the entertainment and 

they deserve much consideration and 

appreciation. 

MONETT LOCOMOTIVE DEPT. 

MONETT, MO. 

XARGUERITE FROSSARD. Reporter 

Engineer P. F. Ferguson, died sud- 

denly while piloting his engine on train 

So. 8, hlily 14. Xr. Ferguson was one 

of our veteran engineers, with thirty 

years' loyal and faithful service. He 

held the unstinted love and respect of 

all his associates. and his untimely 

passing is sincerely mourned and re- 

SPRINGFIELD ADVERTISERS 

I FRISCO OFFICIAL ( I Oflice Phone 150 Res. Phone 2415-5 ( 

AMBULANCE 

PHONE 742 PHONE STANDARD PLUMBING CO. 

Steam and Hot Water Heatlng 

ALMA 

I LOHMEYER FUNERAL HOME 

I I 

J. J. LAWLER, Proprietor 

Springfield. Mo. 311 MeDaniel St. SPRINGFIELD. MD. I. 

To give Universal Service is the goal 

of Public Utility managers and opera- 

tors. We are a part of the organized 

effort to reach that ideal. 

Springfield Gas and Electric Company 

Springfield Traction Company 

I Welsh Packing Co SPRINGFIELD . MISSOURI 

I Wholesale Packers of BEEF, PORK and MUTTON 1 

I OZARK BRAND HAM and BACON-100% Pure Lard I 

SERVICE ICE COMPANY PHONE 623 

Successon to 

HAMMOND BROS. ICE & COLD STORAGE 

I COMPANY 

Eastcrn Junction. Frisco Rallway 

I The Kucker Studio 

I I I SPRIXGFIELD, NO. IHOTOGRAPHERJ 

WHOLESALE ONLY-CAR LOADS BRUCE F. >I.\Y, IIanic~er 

W. R. OGSTON, President and Tre.~swer MlLLlGAN BLDG.. SPRINGFIELD, 

gretted by a host of friends. But what 

a glorious tribute, he died at the throt- 

tle, gallantly holding his post of duty 

until the very last. 

Road Foreman Ellis, of the South- 

western division, has returned from 

Chicago, where he attended the Rail- 

way Fuel Convention held during the 

week of May 7. 

Robert L. Bare, electrician, has been 

transferred to Monett to All a perman- 

ent vacancy on the 4 p. m. s Lift. 

Once again have we turned out a 

perfect, finished mechanic, in the per- 

son of Lyal D. Jones. who completed 

his apprenticeship on Nay 6. Mr. Jones 

Wall Paper. Paints. Glass and 

Interior Decorating 

Lee Savage Painting Co. 


Phone 353 3 19 McDaniel St. 

Springfield's Leading Hotel 

"Smiling Service" 

HOTEL OZARKS 

100 Rooms - 100 Bathe 

FIREPROOF 

See First 

for Economical 

Transportation 

Standard Motor Go. 

468 St. Louis Street 

Springfield, Missouri 

"RAPID FIRE" 

WARM AIR HEATING SYSTEMS 

Reynolds 

Manufacturing Co. 

SPRINGFIELD. MO. 

/ Mo 

1 

I STOP AT THE 

COLONIAL HOTEL 

* t 

A 

THE LEADING HOTEL 

SPRINGFIELD, MO. I 

Warm Air Heating Supplies 

Gray Iron and Scml-Steel Castings

waa exceedingly lucky in that he re- 

ceived an advance eniagement to sell 

his services to the West Shop as a first 

first-class machinist, so was spared the 

worry and susDense of job hunting. 

Monett citizens were accorded tile 

honor of entertaining the delegates tu 

the B. of L. P. & E. 1928 State conven- 

tlon, whlch convened in our city on 

Nay 7, and terminated on May 9. No 

effort was spared to give the visitors 

the best the town afforded in the was 

of entertainment and amusement. 

slght-seeing trips, luncheons, banquets. 

musical programs and dances, filling 

the days and evenings to completion. 

OFFICE OF CAR ACCOUNTANT 


MARIE ARNOLD. Reporter 

The moat pleasant surprise of the 

year tor this office came on May 1 

when MISS Myrtle Vane returned to 

work after an absence of four and 

one-half years account serious illness. 

Niss Vane is heartily congratulated by 

all on her return to good health. after 

such a hard fight. 

JIrs. Katherine Beegle has returned 

from her vacation, spent in visiting her 

son and his wife in Kansas City. 

hlisses Cuma Melton and Dorothy 

Thorns visited the week-end of the 

~th with Miss Thoms' sister in Kansas 

Citr. 

hhss Maud Bell spent a few days 

with her parents in Xountain View. 

31rs. Jessie Laub is justly proud of 

the work of her son Cleveland, who 

gradutes from High School this year. 

He has been serving as busines manager 

of the Resume, the year book of 

the High School. The book is excel)- 

tionallv ~ ~~ - beautiful. and has an added 

attract-ion over books of orevious years 

in some beautiful colored cuts of 

scenes in the Ozarks. 

Ylss Ida Bloos spent her vacation in 

the far west-Seattle. Tacoma, Everett 

and Portland. The only disagreeable 

part of it was catching the flu on her 

homeward trip. 

Our office has entered enthusiastlcally 

into the "City Beautiful" campaign 

sponsored by the Chamber of 

Commerce, our forces alone having 

given orders for about two hundred 

hydrangea and barberry shrubs. to Mr. 

Don Fellows, Frisco florist, on his special 

offer to Frisco employes. 

We have a rather lengthy sick list 

thls month: Louise Laes has been COIifined 

to the hospital for several days: 

Catherine Lyons has been in the hospital 

and at home about two weeks 

and bliss Helen Hawkins ill enough to 

rercuire a thirty day leave of absence 

from duty. Louise and Catherine are 

on the job again, now. 

Mrs. B. 0. Chandler entertained the 

hostesses of the shower given her before 

her recent marriage, with a pretty din- 

ner party in her new home on Xay 2. 

Misses Mildred Truman. Eleanor Buch- 

anan, Bertie Sutton. Pearl Hutton'and 

Ruth Owen were the lucky guests and 

report a wondel,ful dinner and a pleas- 

ant evening. 

Miss Frances Coffman with her fam- 

ily, spent part of the past month at 

their old home in Kentucky. and at- 

tvnded the annual I

\\?. S. Doss, claim investigator, left 

on June 1 for a trip to California. He 

will visit in San Bernardino and Los 

Angeles. Calif. 

Ruby Northcutt, dictaphone operator, 

and mother, Mrs. Bassham, left on 

June 2 to attend the commencement 

exercises at Hatevville College, Bates- 

~ilie, Ark.. where their nephe\v and 

grandson. Herrn Xorthcutt, will re- 

ceive his 4. B. degree. This young man 

has made quite a record. Thr'ougl~out 

his four years' college work he has 

always received an cscellent miirk in 

kt11 of his studies and is gl,aduating at 

the age of eighteen years. He is the 

son of State Senator H. 4. Xorthcutt 

of Salem. Ark.. who is a candidate for 

Congress in that congressional district. 

Miss Marjorie Risser, file clerk, and 

mother, Mrs. 0. E. Risser, will leave 

liere the middle of Junc to attend the 

Democratic convention at Houston. 

Texas. 

On Nay 10. H. E. \Irehking. formerly 

a claim investigator in this office, but 

now traveling freight agent for the 

\Theeling and Lake Eric K. R., visited 

the department and met the old bunch. 

Mamie Gurley and Alma Pielden. em- 

ployes of the filing and typing depart- 

ments, left on Xay 26 for all extended 

trip through thc West. Miss Fielden 

will be absent for a])l~roximatcls 

thvee weeks; she will be accompanied 

on the trip by her sister, Freda Fiel- 

den, of the transl~ortation department. 

Miss Gurley expects to consume four 

or more weeks and return alone via 

the famous Canadian Pacific route 

through Lake Louise and Banff. 

L. C. Cox, chief claim clerk, ushered 

in the summer season with great pomp 

and glory. He was the first to don a 

brand-new soft straw hat when the 

thermometer hovered near the thirty- 

two mark and the wind whistled a 

perfect gale. 

Angeline Golden, formerly file clerk 

in this department. who has been away 

on a leave of absencc. for a. number 

of weeks. tendered her resignation, effective 

the first week in Nay, and accer)ted 

a nosition with the Cadillac 310tor 

cornpiny at Detroit, Mich. 

I\'. P. McKinnell, claim investigator, 

is all fixed up for the nest hard wlnter. 

He hits just recently had his house 

re-shingled and made showcr-proof. 

H. K. Haves. travelina adiustcr. 

spent a few &ys during the mokth of 

Nay in I'ensacola, Fla. He was arcom- 

))anled on the trip by XIrs. Hayes. 

New additions to the claim departmcnt 

family arc little Jeff Walters and 

Jerry Quinn, the most lovable Boston 

bull ups. whose proud owners are Hosey 

Walters and Tom Quinn, clnim inve8tirrators. 

- 

G. ('. Iioop, chief of the voucher cle- 

pzrrtmcnt, and wife ar$. nloving into 

their beautiful new colonlal cottage on 

Roanoke?, and we are all looking for- 

ward to that house-warming party. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. L. 3IcCormack are 

spending a, few days in Detroit. Mich., 

where 1\11., McCormack is attending the 

annual cortvel~tion of the freight claim 

division of thc American Ihilway .\s- 

sociation. 

The following committee of Frisco 

girls was appointed to make the caps 

and allrons for the girls to wcar when 

serving the famous Frisco veterans' 

banquet in the Shrine JIosque, the 

evening of June 19: Flo Blevans and 

Hazel Clark. employes of the mechan- 

ical department; Mary Xewton and 

Marguerite O'Rrien, employed in the 

otTicc of division store accountant. alld 

Charlene Willard, I". I,. & D. claim dp- 

partment. On hlonday evening, May 14, 

the girls met at the home of JIiss 

O'Brien and after three hours of ear- 

nest application. turned out the dain- 

tiest and prettiest caps and al)rons, 

fashioned of crepe paper in a11 the 

rwlors of the rainbow. -\Iis~ O'Brien's 

Human Engineering 

sisters, namely Mabelle, Anna and Ber- 

nice. also assisted the above committee 

of Frisco girls. \\'e will vertainly be 

proud of our girls that night, for this 

year's banquet will undoubtedly be a 

very colorful one with such .L gala ar- 

ray of colors to match the table deco- 

I ations. 

LOCAL No. 32-NEWBURG. MO. 

- - -, - 

151). 1.'. Fl.T,LER, Ke1)orter 

1:alph T. Flanec. second-class pipefit- 

ter. and Brownlow Hance, laborer, mo- 

tored to Beardstown, 111.. recently, to 

visit reltrtives. 

\V. H. Owens, locomotive insncctor. 

recently visited in \\'est ~lailis nntl 

viewed the wreckage of the dance hnll, 

due to the terrific explosion of a few 

weeks ago. 

John H. McDonald, hostler, deals 

somrwhat in real estate at the present 

time. He has purchased 40 acres of 

ground on hiahway No. 66. 

(!rawfo13d 4. Ousley, laborer, has 

been off for some few weeks account 

a. severe case of rheumatism. He 

?: nnluch improved. however, at the 

present writing. 

John Fairley, second-class machinist, 

is off duty, suffering from a, case of 

lumbago. Lumbago is quite an epi- 

demic in Nervburg. 

Charles \V. Todd. stationary engineer. 

is back at the boilers after a 30-day 

leave of absence. 

\V. S. Rinck, car repairer, has been 

off duty for two weeks account of in- 

fluenza, but is now back on the vip. 

Jack Hill, boilermaker. has returned 

to service, but without his tonsils. 

Robert Lee Roy. weighing seven 

Imundn, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Alack 

D. Robinson, on Jlay ,I, 1,928. \Ve con- 

gratulate sou both. Buck. 

T 

ODAY tlic achievements of tlic engineers arc among thc 

woiidcrs of the world. But 1 do not mean cngincering in 

the mcchanical sci~se alolic. The people wlio labor, the 

employes in inclustry, are human bciiigs full of seiitimcnts, 

hopcs, fears, prcjudices and aspirations. Hcncc the fundalnciital 

problem of all industry is to deal with tlic h~iillan ele- 

~neiits in such a way that the \\dlolc illdustrial process will go 

forward without hitch or delay 01. unnecessary cost. Confidence 

bet\\-ccn employer and cmploye is a prime essential. There arc 

nicn in this country \vho arc devoting their attelltion to the 

problems of Humwii Ellginwring, the solutio~i of which is carrying 

us forwiird to greater things.

c, 1928 

tto Wyzard, third-class boilerniakhas 

been called to Mounta~n View 

lccount of the illness of his €ather. 

nginee~' A. A. McClellan is assigned 

ill sci,vice nt Newburg, displacing 

ineer A. E. Canary. who went rn 

road service between Kewburg and 

nfifield. 

rs. Frank Fulton, wife of Fireman 

~k Fulton, passed away in Spring- 

, May 11. The remains wc17e 

lght to Xewburg. The town of 

burg extends svm~~athv to the be- 

IEL DEPARTME.NT-ST. LOUIS 

LOUISE S. GIBSON, Reporter 

The regular monthly meeting of the 

supervisors of fuel economy was held 

in Mr. Collett's office. April 20, with a 

full attendance and the usual display of 

enthusiasm. 

The International Railway Fuel Convention, 

held in Chicago. Ill., May 8 

to 11, inclusive, was attended by the 

following fuel department employes: 

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Curry, JIr, and 

Mrs. Harold T. Conley and family. Mr. 

and 311-s. G. T. Allison, Mr. and Mrs. 

61. E. Martin, J1r. J. E. MThalen and Mr. 

Lewis Illevans, all of St. Louis; Mr. 

and Mrs. C. J. Beshears and Mr. and 

31~~. W. A. Crawford of Springfield. 

Ma.; Mr. and hIrs. G. L. Schneider of 

Sapulpa. Olila., Mr. and Mrs. XI. H. Rodwig 

of Tulsa, Okla.. and Mr. P. V. Hamniersly 

of Fi. Smlth. Ark. 

The fuel dalartment office force had 

quite a treat a few weeks ago when 

Mrs. W. H. Betts. formerly Xiss Noney 

of the fuel accounting division, also 

Mrs. Lewis, formerly Ann Rotmnn of 

this department, called to see us and 

we were much pleased to have them 

accompany us to the combined clubs' 

dinner and theater party and show 

them what the Frisco has bcen doing 

along those lines. 

Miss Eleanor Finn and Mrs. Louise 

Gibson enjoyed tl week-end trip to 

Jlemphis. Tenn. The Sunnyland is :I. 

splendid train and they especially recommend 

it for its cleanliness-didn't 

even get their powder puffs soiled. 

Miss Alice M. Cooke is away on her 

vacation, visiting the family of her 

aunt in Denver. Colo. 

Ted Ruerman also took a trip nut 

on the Meramec and reports a splendid 

time. 

Lewis Blevans spent Nothers' Dny 

with his family in Springfield, 110. 

-- - 

PASSENGER TRAFFIC DEPT. 


JIO1,LIE S. II. Saston and Fay Coble, of Rus- 

sell's gang, are back at work after. 

recovering from serious illness. 1,ynn 

.\kip. Thomas Wilson and \\'. E. Ward 

are now on leave, account of sicknew 

or injury and 1;. I,. \Vilson and H. I*;. 

JIillen are on vacation. 

Foreman Doiiahue'~ gang completed 

into Turrcll after reconstrwctinp from 

Jonesboro. They set 1.400 new creo- 

soted yellow pine poles kind replaced 

160 miles of iron wire with vopper. 

H. B. Bradfield and B. I,. Kennedy. 

telegraphers, and Glen Harkins, mes- 

senger. have been absent accbounL of 

sickness since our last report. 

Francis Gugel, messenger, has re- 

turned to work after* a three-weeks' 

vacation. 

Miss Ethel Hill, PBX operator, is vis- 

iting in Dallas. 

Wni. Spratlry, linrrnan, who has been 

confined in the Sherman hospital, has 

been transferred to the St. Louis hos- 

pital. Hope to see Spratley back with 

US soon. 

Ray T. Soper, personal record clerk. 

sot-nt JIxy G in East St. Louis at the 

honic of his sister. While there he 

Against Accident and Illness Use 

CONTINENTAL Protecti'on 

THE SERVICE SUPREME 

CONTINRNTAL SERVICE may be 

del~ended upon. 

-1 COSTINENTAL POLICY JIEANS 

PEA('I*: OF hIISD XXD A PAY 

(:HEC41< \\'HEN EARNIXGS FROM 

YOUR OCCUPATION A R E 

STOPI'ED. 

COSTINEKTAL rel~resentatives may 

be found on every railroad division 

in the ITnlLerl States and Canada. 

(anntin~ntal 

Maeualtp ~nmpttng 

H. G. 6. ALEXANDER, President 

wirw 

General Offices: Chicago, U. S. A. 

Canadian Head Office, Toronto 

CUT OUT AND MAIL TODAY 

Continental Casualty Company. 

910 Michigan Avenue. Chicago, Iii. 

I nm employed by the FRISCO SYSTEX 

............................................................... DLFISIOII 

Please send me informatlon in regard to 

your heallh antl nrcident pollcies such as 

are carried by hundreds of my fellow em- 

pliycs In the United States and Canada. 

11s occupation in ............................................... 

SANE ......................................................... 

ADDRESS ................. 

The Producers Sand Co. 

Pr:ducers and Shippers of the 

HOUND TOOTH SAND." 

SCREESED AND WASHED 

BIG ARKANSAS RIVER CHANNEL SAND 

307 National Bank of Commerce Building 

Telenhone 3-48i2 P. 0. Box 2133 

TULSA, OKLAHOMA 

Sherrill Oil Co. 

GASOLINE, KEROSENE, OILS 

Fuel Oil In Cars or Over Docks 

PENSACOLA, FLORIDA 

PHONE 5871 

Estimates Cheerfully Submitted 

W. H. SHARP 

Contractor 

PLASTERING - STUCCO 

I 1301 Roanoke. Sprlngfield, Mo. I 

made the acquaintance of his first 

nephew, Ellly Rob McCabe, who was 

horn BIay 2. I I

LITTLE BAYOU 

MILL CO., Inc. 

AIhYUFACTURERS OF 

-4ND DEALERS IN 

BUILDING MATERIAL 

Office and Mill, Little Bayou 

PENSACOLA, FLA. 

THE 

Clemens Coal Co. 

Miners and Shippers of 

Southern Kansas Coal 

PITTSBURG - KANSAS 

ATLAS COAL 

Henryetta Fuel Company 

Henryetta, Oklahoma 

McALESTER, WILBURTON, 

COLORADO 

and 

HENRVETTA I 

Design. Fabrication and Ereation of 

ST. LOUIS STRUCTURAL STEEL COMPANY p ~ ~ ~ ~ : ~ ~ ~ : o ' ~ ~ ~ 

CARY & COMPANY 

COAL MERCHANTS 

EXPORT-BUNKER-DOMESTIC 

and Dealers In 

BUILDERS' SUPPLIES 

The Only Coal Yard on the Frlsco at 

Pensaoola 

T\VO YARDS FOUR PHOXES 

19 EAST GARDEN STREET 

w 

The Locomotive Finished Material Co. 

ATCHISOX, KANSAS 

FOUNDERS and ENGINEERS 

High Grade Grey Iron and Steel Castlngs 

for Railways-Flnlslied or Rough 

Finish.ed 1,aomotive Cyli~rders n S~eclalty 

Equipped to make larne Greg Iron 

Caslings up to 25 lons. 

class 3 repairs should be equipped with 

Nicholson Thermic Syphons. 

General Office 

For better concrete 

culverts and bridges 

Photo, above, shows part of "50 

miles of excellent track" between 

Carbon Hill and Birmingham in 

which 

[p~ 

';Sg;G "A; rL 

- CRUSHED & SCREENED 

was used exclusively as road ballast. 

The Frisco Rnilwny has used thousands 

of tons of Imic slag lor road ballast 

in the Birnlinghnm-hlen~phis divfsion- 

and each year hundreds of tons goes 

Into the building of concrete bridges 

and culverls. 

Birmingham Slag Co. 

Slag Headquarters for the South 


CENTRAL BOARDING & SUPPLY COMPANY 

COMMISSARY CONTRACTORS 

F. J. EXGLE31AN. President 

G. I. FITZGERALD, \'Ice-Pres. and Sec'y 

XI. S. ENGLEJIAN, Vice-President 

E. B. SHARKET, Jlannger, Ft. \Vorth. Tex. 

General Office 

1205 Bd. BldC. 

ST. 

Branch 

LOUIS, 

Otlices 

310. 

SPRIsGmELD, 

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XEAL RAMEY, Xnnager, Dallas, Texas 

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We Help Make the Frisco Safe 

GLOBE OIL AND REFINING CO. 

REFINERS OF 

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Reflnery on Frisco Lines-BLACKWELL OKLA. 

Sales Dept., 609 Kennedy Bldg., TULSA, OKLA. 

FOR GOOD SERVICE 

HY MAN - MICHAELS CO., St. Louis, Mo. 

Rails, Rolling Stock, Track Equipment 

, LOUISVILLE 

HOUSTON NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO 

Home Oflice. 122 S. MICHIGAN AV., CHICAGO, ILL. 

CHAS. R. LONG, JR. 

, COMPANY 

- CHICAGO - ST. LOUIS 

Manufadurers of 

All Kinds of Railway and Industrial 

Paints, Varnishes and Lacquers 

I Owens Paper Box CQ- I 

Page 69 

INSULATED WIRES AND CABLES 

For All Purposes 

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VILOCO RAILWAY 

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CHICAGO 

For Dependable Seroice 

.: .. .'YILOCO" Pressed Steel Brake Step 

. , 

, - "VILOCO" Automatic Rail Washer 

"VILOCO" Bell Ringer 

. .._ "VILOCO" Exhaust Pipe 

"VILQCO" Improved Sander 

"VILOCO" Floating JournaI Bearing 

HENRYEXTA 

Warden Pollen Coal Co. I I 

1 1 

The Starr Coal CO. 

MINERS, and SHIPPERS BIINERS and SHIPPERS 

- OKLAHOMA 

- OKLAHOMA 

MANUFACTURERS MONTGOMERY. ALA. 

The South's Lnraest Prnducem of 

MINERS and SHIPPERS 

SAND AND GRAVEL 

SALES OFFICES: 

Lincoln Life Bldg., Bona Allen Bldg.. 

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Pagr 70 

BIND YOUR RECORDS 

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Adopted by general and 

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BINDING MACHINES 

PERMANENT BINDERS 

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The FRISCO 

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others the facts and flgures on 

its Simplicity, Reliability, Low 

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The National Safety 

Appliance Co. 

Railway Exchange Bldg. - CHICAGO. 111. 

57 Post Street - SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. 

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GENERAL CONTRACTORS 

I Shovel and Drag Line Work I 

Woodward Bldg. BIRMINGHAM 

The Pittsburg & Midway 

I Coal Mining Co. 

I COAL OPERATORS I 

General Sales Office 

Dwight Buildlng KANSAS CITY. MO. I 

GRIDER COAL SALES AGENCY 

Mine Agents 

OVER 3.000,000 TONS ANNUALLY 

BEST GRADES ALABAMA STEAM AND DOMESTIC COALS 

Railroad Fuel a Specialty 

1414- 18 American Trust Bldg., Birmingham, Ala. 

Tiger Brand Superb Linseed Oil 

ABSOLUTELY PURE 

THE FREDONIA 

Linseed Oil Works Co. 

FREDONIA, KANS. 

John V. Boland Construction Co. 

CHIMNEYS, CONCRETE and BRICK 

FURNACES 

OIL STILLS and BOILER SETTINGS 

CHICAGO OFFICE: Stock Exchange Bldg. 

Chemical Bldg. ST. LOUIS, MO. 

A. JOHNSTON, JR. & COMPANY 

Railway Fencing Contractors 

1 7 3 3-3 7 W. Austin Ave. Chicago, Ill. 

MINES ON THE FRISCO AT CARBON HILL. ALABAMA 

I MOSS & McCORMACK 

I 

MINERS AND SHIPPERS 

COAL- lacks smith, Bunker, Steam, ~omestic-COAL 

1901.4 American Trust Building BIRMINGHAM. ALA. 

M ULE-HIDE Products for RAILROADS 

Mule-Hide Piaslic Car Rooflng 

Slule-Hide Waterorool Canras for roars of Paswnger Coaches, Ca- 

booses and Cnbs 

Mule-Hlde Insulaling Paper for Refrigerator Cars 

Mule-Hide Car Seal and Refrigeriitor Cnr Corn()ound 

hlule-Hide Fabric, niembrtmc for waterproofing concrete construction 

Mule-Hide Waterproofing Asyhalt 

Mule-Hide Rooflng for Railrond Buildlnp, elc. 

m~ LEHON Coo 44th to 45th St. on Oakloy Avo. 

CHICAGO. ILL. 

Consolidated Cement Corporation 

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI 

Fredonia Brand Portland Cement 

A FRISCO Industry at FREDONIA, KANSAS I 

I. NIXON C. S. PHILLIPS 

NIXON PHILLIPS 

GENERAL CONTRACTORS 

PHONE 4-54-15 308-9-10 Lincoln Life Building P. 0. BOX 190 

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

.fl!tl~?, 1928 Page 71 

W. HORACE WILLIAMS CO., INC. 

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Maintaining an Engineering Department for Consultation, 

Investigation, Reports, Surveys, Designs. 

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Headlights 

and Turbo-generators 

Train Lighting Systems 

Train Control Turbo-generators 

Fittings and Wiring Appliances 

for Loconiotive, Car and Shop 

Installations 

The Pyle -National 

Company 

1334-1358 North Kostner Ave. 

Chicago, Ill., U. S. A. 

CkYADIAN AGENTS : 

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E-WORT DEPARTMENT : 

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30 Church Street, New York City 

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Daily Ice Making Capacity, 125 Tons 

FORT SMITH - - ARKANSAS 

R. L. Bartholomew 

General Railroad 

Contractor 

867 Roland St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Hedges-Weeks 

Construction Co. 

Rooms 415-416 Holland Building 

Railroad Masonry Contractors 

REFINERS OF 

INDUSTRIAL NAPHTHAS 

OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. 

INSTANT SERVICE PHONE 6-0154 

Bluff City Delivery Co. 

ICE and COAL 

General Office, 651 Beale Avenue 


SWEDOX 

WELDING RODS. WIRES & ELECTRODES 

A Chde of Rod for Every Class of Welding 

IW the Electric or Acaylene Procens 

CENTRAL STEEL & WIRE COMPANY 

Chicago. Illinois Detroit, Michigan 

I LIST CONSTRUCTION CO. I 

Railroad Contractors 

415 Railway Exchange Building 

KANSAS CITY, MO.

Brookside-Pratt Mining Go. 

INCORPORATED 

A. R. Long. President 

Albert Allison. Secretary-Treasurer 

PRODUCERS OF 

Steam and Domestic Coal 

Mines on Frisco, Southern and 

I. C. Railroads 

Brown-Marx Building 


I Southern / 

I Wheel Co. I 

1776 ailw way Exchange Building 


MANUFACTURERS OF 

CHILLED TREAD WHEELS 

PLANTS: 

ST. LOUIS, MO. BIRMINGHAM. ALA. 

ATLANTA. GA. SAVANNAH, GA. 

PORTSMOUTH. VA. PITTSBURGH, PA. 

ROCHESTER. N. Y. SAYRE, PA. 

TOLEDO, OHIO HAMMOND. IND. 

CLEVELAND, OHlO 

HARDIE -TYNES 

MFG. CO. 

Corliss and Throttling Engines 

AIR COMPRESSORS 


LAYNE WELL SYSTEMS 

ARE DEPENDABLE 

AMERICA'S GREATEST RAILROADS 

USE THEM 

Municipalities and Industries find them profitable 

Layne & Bowler Manufacturing Co. 

HOUSTON IaEMPHIS LOS ANGELES 

I 

I 

REID AND LOWE 

RAILROAD CONTRACTORS 

Page 73 

Grading and Concrete Bridge Work 

Birmingham, Ala., and Charlotte, N. C. 

PENSACOLA CREOSOTING COMPANY 

PENSACOLA. FLORIDA 

Speclallzlnp in the ManuPacturo and Trentment of the following Forest Products 

PILING CROSS TIES POLES CROSS ARMS CONDUITS 

LUMBER and STRUCTURAL TIMBERS 

On M. S. B. & P. R. R. 

Your Inqulrles Soliclte&Co~t Estimates Gladly Furnished I 

Cable Address: "PENCREO" Shipments: Rail or Water 

I GLOBE TRACKLESS' DOOR HANGER 

EASY TO OPERATE-DURABLE-PILFER PROOF Can not lose OIY or awing out at bottom 

GLOBE RAILWAY EQUIPMENT CO. ST. LOUIS, Mo. 

All Sizes of Washed 

I and Screened SAND and GRAVEL 

PLANTS : PACIFIC. MO. and MOSELLE, MO. : FRISCO R. R. 

ST. LOUIS MATERIAL AND SUPPLY CO. 

314 N. 4th Street St. Louis. Mo. 

Pittsburgh Forge 

& Iron Co. 

PITTSBURGH, PA. 

JIANUFAC'ITRERS OF 

Car and Locomotive Axles 

Heavy Forgings 

Crank Pins Piston Rods 

Atlas Staybolt & Engine Bolt Iron 

Screw Spikes Track Bolts 

CHICAGO OFFICE. RY. EXCHANGE BLDG.

Page 74 

The Only Efficient Locomotive Cleaner 

CII 

The D. & M. Cleaning Process 

Railway Exchange 

CHICAGO, ILL. 

Elliot FrogtAwitchWorks 

rAST ST. LOUIS. ILL. AND PUEBLO.COLO. 

Other Works 

HILCriURN. N.Y. CHICAGO. ILL. 

N1ACAMFALLS.N.Y SUPERIOR,W[S. 

LOS ANCELES. CALIFORNIA- 

NIACARA FALLS. CAWADA 

RAILWAY TRACK MAT~RIAL 

Switch Stands. Switches. Frogs. 

Crossings. Guard Rails. Clamps. 

e1c.fo1 Steam, Electric. Mine and 

Industrial Railway Tracks 

MANGANESE TRACK WORK A SPECIALTY 

)ALES OFFICES AT ALL EIGHT WORKS. 

-- Ramapo Ajax Corporation 

Steel Tires. Steel Tlred Wheel~, Steel 

Axles, Steel Springm, Rolled Steel 

Rlngm. Solld W r o n g h t Steel 

Wheeln. Steel For(Flngs. Steel 

Crnaher Rolln and Shells. 

Rolled Steel Genr Blnnks. 

Steel and Iron Malleable 

Cnstingn, S t e e l Pipe 

Rlanfies 

Standard Steel Works Co. 

Main Office: Philadelphia, Pa. 

Works: Burnham, Pa. 

Beal and McNamara 

Painting Co. 

CONTRACTORS FOR PAISTISG 

IS ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTBY 

Main Office: 5078 Easton Avenue 

ST. LOUIS. MO. 

- 

- 

UNION STEEL CASTING COMPANY 

PITTSBURGH, PA. 

CARBON and VANADIUM 

CAST STEEL LOCOMOTIVE FRAMES 

General Miscellaneous Castings for Locomotive and Car Work 

Manassa Timber Company 

PILING 

OAK-CYPRESS-PINE 

Arcade Bldg. St. Louis, Mo. 

I 1 - Barnard Stamp Co. 

- E 

- 

RUBBER STAMPS, 

f SEALS and STENCILS 

E = Trade Cheeks. Pads. Ink. Elc. 

E = Fac-Slmile Autograph Stamps 

310 Olive St. St. Louis. Mo. 

Kansas City Bridge Company 

BuiIders of Railroad and Highway Bridges 

River Improvement Work 

KANSAS CITY, MO. 

C. F. HORST & CO. 

St,eam and Domestic Coal 

Mines on Frisc~Townley and DLlmorU~ 

404-5-6 Brown-Narx Building 

BIRJIINGH.L\l, ALA. 

GALLOWAY COAL COMPANY 

EXCLUSIVE MINERS OF 

ELK RIVER AND 

GALLOWAY COAL 

General Mice: 

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE 

MINES AT 

GALLOWAY, CARBON HILL and 

HOLLY GROVE, ALABAMA 

(Mines Located on Friseo Railroad) 

MILAR, CLINCH & COMPANY 

Exclusive 

Agents for CAR CEMENT 

CONTINENTAL WORKS CO. 

MANUFACTURERS CHICAGO 

Creators and 

ROBERT Me LUCAS CO. Makersof .... 

FLEXIBLE CORROSION PROOF CEMENTS 

and PAINTS FOR RAILROADS 

1 1955 West Thirty-first Street CHICAGO, ILL.. U. S. A. I 

St. Louis Forgings Co. ( 1 ~ Union 

East St. Louis IIlinois Company 

Duner Car Closets I 

Enameled Iron Wet or Dry Closets 

DUNER CO. 

101 S. Clinton St. CHICAGO 

For detailed description see Car Builders 

Cyclopedia 1922 Edition 

rn 

310 S. Michigan Ave. 

CHICAGO 

Acme Coal and Mining Co. I 

MINES LOCATED IN HENRYETTA 

FIELDS ON FRISCO 

LINES

Smokeless Fuel Company 

HUNTINGTON, ARK. 

MINERS AND SHIPPERS OF 

Semi-Anthracite Coal 

J. W. McMURRY 

CONTRACTING CO. 

R. R. 6 BRIDGE 

CONTRACTORS 

'511 Railway Exchange Bldg. 

KANSAS CITY. MO. 

I 

caw- Booth & Co- 

Railway Supplies 

.RAILWAY EXCHANGE BLDG. 

CHICAGO, ILL. 

I C. A. ROBERTS CO. I 

" SHELBY" 

1 Seamless Steel Tubing 

CHICAGO ST. LOUIS 

I DETROIT INDIANAPOLIS I 

North American 

Car Company 

TANK CARS 

FOR LEASE 

CAR REPAIRS 

OUR SPECIALTY 

SHOPS 

CHICAGO, ILL. 

COFFEYVILLE, KANS. 

WEST TULSA, OKLA. 

GENERAL OFFICE 

327 South LaSalle Street 

CHICAGO 

CONTINENTAL TURPENTINE & 

I ROSIN CORPORATION 

LAUREL. MISS. 

~lanuflfacturers of 

Steam Distilled Wood Turpentine 

Steam Distilled Pine Oil 

F Grade Wood Rosin 

OXY-ACETYLENE 

WELDING & CUTTING 

EQUIPMENT 

MODERN ENGINEERING CO. 

3411 Pine Blvd. St. Louis 

I WOLF RIVER SAND CO. 

WASHED and SCREENED 

SAND and GRAVEL 

Office: 622 Falls Building 

I I MEMPHIS, TENN. I 

I ( CARLOAD SHIPMENTS A SPECIALTY 1 

.Wm. Robertson & Co, 

Robertson Cinder Conveyor for 

Railway Cinder Pits 

Great Northern Building 

20 W. JACKSON BLVD. CHICAGO 

1 W. 0. SCHOCK CO. 1 

Petroleum Products 

Liberty Central Trust Building SAINT LOUIS 

I TONCAN 

Copper Mo-lyb-den-urn Iron Culverts I I - S. I. SMITH 

Manufacturers of 

S. I. Smith Cattle Guards 

P. 0. BOX 522, South Side Station 


W. CARSON ADAMS 

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 

FOR EVERY PURPOSE 

-- 

E. J. ROWE 

CAPACITY OF MINES AND OVENS 2v2 MILLION TONS ANNUALLY 

SPRINGS 

LOCOMOTIVE AND CAR WHEEL TIRES 

TIRE MILL PRODUCTS STEEL-TIRED WHEELS 

PRESSED STEEL JOURNAL BOX LIDS 

Railway Steel -Spring Company 

General Office: 30 Church Street, New York 

BRANCH OFFICES-SOUTHWESTERN DISTRICT 

915 Olive St., St. Louis, No. Praetorian Bldg., Dallas, Texas

DE BARDELEBEN COALS 

Sipsey - Empire - Corona - Carbon Hill - Hull 

FOR 

DOMESTIC, STEAM, GAS, BY-PRODUCT AND CERAMICS 

DeBardeZeben Preparation 

Ciues Added Value 

The South's Largest Producers and Marketers of 

HIGH GRADE COALS 

Southern Railway Building 

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 

Indiana and Illinois Coal Corporation 

MONTGOMERY COUNTY ILLINOIS COAL 

1425 Old Colony Building ' 

CHICAGO 

Daily Capacity, 20,000 Tons Located on the Big Four and C. & E. 1. Railroads 

AJAX HAND BRAKE 

Safe and Efficient 

THE ONE-HAND HAND BRAKE 

I RA~WEXCHANGE AJAX HAND BRAKE COMPANY CHICAGO 

I/ Chapman-Dewey Lumber Company 

MANUFACTURERS 

I I 

Hardwood Lumber . . Cypress Piling 

Grain Doors . . Boxes 

MEMPHIS, TENN. MARKED TREE, ARK. KANSAS CITY, MO. 

. .


STAND- SE%XK-S!FXEL POYJX'DRY GO. 

BE] oromr, X QWA 

LOCOMOTIVE CASTINGS 

EXCLUSIVELY 

MAIN PLANT AND GENERAL OFFICES 

SPRINGFIELD. MISSOURI 

BUFFALO BRAKE BEAM COMPANY 

- BRAKE BEAMS - 

AUXILIARY SUPPORTS FOR BRAKE BF,AMS 

- - -:y Locks (Self Locking) 

-.be Pins (Self Locking) 

NEW YORK 

7 

BUFFALO 

THE OHIO INJECTOR COMPANY 

7 Monadnock Block CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 

Manufacturers of 

OHIO LIITING INJECTORS 

CHICAGO NON-LIFTING INJECTORS 

CHICAGO AUTOMATIC FLANGE OILERS, CHICAGO 

LUBRICATORS, OHIO LOW WATER ALARMS, CHICAGO AUTOMATIC 

IFTING VALVES, LOCOMOTIVE BOILER ATTACHMENTS, OHIO CAB SQUIRTS 

MINER 

FRICTION DRAFT GEARS IDEAL SAFETY HAND BRAKES 

SAFETY BOLSTER LOCKING CENTER PINS 

REFRIGERATOR CAR DOOR FASTENERS SIDE BEARINGS 

W. H. MINER, INC: 11 

HE ROOKERY CHICAGO 111 

I

General American Tank Car Corp. 

General American Car Co. 

BUILDERS ' 

Tank Cars 

Milk Cars 

Railroad Cars - . - 

- - 

OFFICES: 

., .. 

LESSORS 

Tank Cars 

Milk Cars 

Refrigerator Cars 

Illinois Merchants Bank Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Whitehall Bldg., New York City 

Union Indemnity Bldg., New Orleans, La. Cosden Bldg., Tulsa, Okla. 

Magnolia Bldg., Dallas, Texas Bartlett Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif. 

OXWELD RAILROAD SERVICE CO. 

REPRESENTING : 

LINDE AIR PRODUCTS CO. . The PREST-0-LITE CO., Inc. 

(Linde Oxygen) (Prest-o-Lite Acetylene) 

OXWELD ACETYLENE CO. 

(Oxweld Apparatus). 

UNION CARBIDE SALES CO. 

(Union Carbide) 

CARBIDE & CARBON BUILDING RAILWAY EXCHANGE BUILDING 

NEW YORK CITY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Jtrrze, 1928 Page 79 

R. F. CARR, Memphis 

President 

W. E. LOWRY, Hickory Flat, Miss. 

Vlce-Prss. and General Manauer 

SUCCESSORS TO 

THE CARR-LOWRY LUMBER CO. 

MANUFACTURERS & DEALERS 

IN ALL KINDS OF LUMBER 

SPECIALIZING IN 

RAILROAD BUILDING MATERIAL 

Strong as Ever for the "Frisco". 

GENERAL OFFICES 

P. 0. Box 1032 MEMPHIS, TENN. Phone, Main 2312 

The Mount Vernon 

Car Manufacturing Co. 

Repair Shop, 

500' x 150'. 

Fully equipped with 

Cranes, Electric 

Riveters, etc., enabling 

us to work in all kinds 

of weather. 

h 

Capacity Per Annun~: 

10,000 Freight Cars; 

150,000 Chilled Tread 

Wheels; 

20,000 tons Forgings. 

BUILDERS OF FREIGHT CARS 

OF ALL KINDS 

MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS

Page 80 

HOBART-LEE TIE COMPANY 

ROBT. E. LEE, President 

LESLIE LEE, Vice-president 

Railroad Ties and Timber 

BERT S. LEE, Treasurer 

J. LAURENCE LEE, Secretary 

Operating in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas 

WE HAVE SUPPLIED THE FRISCO 

CONTINUOUSLY FOR OVER 40 YEARS 

Landers Building SPRINGFIELD, MO. 

Magnus Company 

INCORPORATED 

JOURNAL BEARINGS and 

BRONZE ENGINE CASTINGS 

NEW YORK CHICAGO 

-

"L~"~D@P@@ 

ROLLER BEARINGS

Lv Jacksonv~lle Southern Ra:lwav 9:00 pm 

Lv Atlanta 7 I0 am 

Ar Blrmlngham 12 10pm 

LV Birmingham Frrsco Lrnes 12:JO pm 

Ar Memphis 7.20 pm 

Lv Memphis 7 45 pm 

Ar Kansas Clty 9.05 am 

Lv Kansas City Rock Island Linec 11 :00 am 

Ar Colorado Sprlngs 7.30 am 

Ar Denvcr 7.25 am 

Lv Atlanta Southern Ra11w~y 4 25 pm 

Ar Birmingham 955 pm 

LV Blrmingham Frr\co Lines 11 :30 pm 

Ar Memph~s 7 20 am 

L ~ N Orleans ~ W 111 Central R. R 7:45 p~ 

Ar Memphis 6:35 am 

Lv Memphis Fr~sco Llneb 7:45 am 

Ar Kansas Clty 8:30 pm 

LV Kansas City Rock Island L~nes 9:05 pm 

Ar Coloradosprings 12:20 pm 

Ar Denver 12.40 pm

The Frisco Employes' Magazine, June 1928 - Springfield-Greene ...

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