WONDERFUL LAKE JOURNEY ON OGDEN-LUCIN CUT-OFF COMPARISON OF PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD & NEW LINE (New is final as reconstructed) hundred times between New York with earth. All told, 38,526 trees were cut down to make piles for the trestle, a forest of two square miles being transplanted into Great Salt Lake. The Ogden-Lucin cut-off, known also | four as the Great Salt Lake cut-off, is a rail- and San Francisco. way line of the Southern Pacific Company laid in an old lake bed from Lucin to Ogden, Utah, one hundred and three miles, built to save the greater grades and curves of the old line, which runs around the north end of Great Salt Lake over Promontory Mountain. Many years ago in building the Central Pacific, now a part of the Southern Pacific, east from San Francisco to connect with the Union Pacific built west from Omaha, the railway builders came to the flat, broad bed of Lake Bonneville, across which they might have laid The curves saved by the new line, it rails but for the fact that the Great Salt has been estimated, would turn a train Lake lay in the center and barred the around eleven times; the power saved way. They built the track around the in moving an average freight train, be- ake to the north. cause of less grades, would lift an aver- Southern Pacific officials decided later age man eight thousand five hundred to construct the cut-off, including twentymiles and enough power is saved on three miles of trestle, eleven of these moving such a train to carry a man twenty-three miles in the end to be filled The great bridge today is a solid path, except for twelve miles, and few, unless told, would know these twelve miles were on a trestle. The cut-off from Lucin to Ogden is more nearly level than an ordinary floor. For thirty-six miles there is no grade Nowhere is the grade over five inches to the hundred feet. A great sum of money was spent to make this a perfect highway and the trip across it is one of the most wonderful of lake journeys. COMPANY MEMBER OF NEVADA ADDITIONAL DUTIES GIVEN TO EMPLOYE REWARDED WITH SAFETY ORGANIZATION PHIL K. GORDON The Southern Pacific Company has Effective June 1st, Phil K. Gordon is been admitted to associate membership appointed general agent of both the in the Nevada Industrial Safety Associa- freight and passenger departments of the tion, organized for the systematic prevention of accidents. The association Sunset-Central lines. CHECK FOR BRAVERY For his bravery and presence of mind, Albert Ramtree, a dining car employe who felled James Hogue, a train robber, while the latter was in the act of holding up passengers aboard a train near was formed, not for one, but for many, He succeeds Charles M. Burkhalter, South San Francisco, has received a and whenever there is a possibility of who has occupied the position of general check for $500 from the Southern Padanger to life or limb, the danger will agent of the freight department of these cific Company, together with a letter be offset by every safeguard that skill from Vice-President and General Manand sympathy can suggest. The followager W. R. Scott commending him for ing directors, all members of the South- thirty-three years' continuous service his act. While the robber was fightern Pacific Company's personnel have with the Southern Pacific Company. ing a pistol duel with Railroad Detectbeen named: W. A. Whitney, D. Hickey, Mr. Gordon entered the service of the ives Garbe and Cotturi, who were F. C. Smith, T. F. Rowlands, H. L. Bell Company in 1886 and has served with guarding trains, Ramtree crept behind and J. M. Fulton. its various lines since that time. and knocked him out with an ice pick lines. Mr. Burkhalter retires after VOL. II. ISSUED BY THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY BUREAU OF NEWS SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., JUNE 15, 1914 No. 11 STATEMENT ON WAGE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN ENGINEERS, FIREMEN AND WESTERN RAILWAYS PAY ROLL INCREASE OF NO CHANGES IN SERVICE NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY, ALONE, ON LONG TRIP A. W. Trenholm, General Manager of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway, and Chairman of the Conference Committee of Managers representing the Western railways which has been carrying on negotiations on behalf of these railways with a committee representing their engineers and firemen, who have requested general revision of rules governing compensation and in addition increases in rates of pay, made public the following statement, June 1st: NEGOTIATIONS SUSPENDED CHILD PAYS TRIBUTE TO S. P. SERVICE "The negotiations which have been going on for about three months between committees representing the Western railways and their locomotive engineers and firemen regarding the wages and schedules of these employes, were suspended today. The railways concerned in the negotiations number 98 and include practically all lines in the United States west of Lake Michigan and the Illinois Central Railroad, including this road, and all lines in Canada west of Fort William, except the Grand Trunk Pacific. The total mileage of the railways involved is approximately 140,000 miles. The number of engineers and firemen involved is about 55,000 and the wages now paid annually to them amount to about $67,750,000. Schulim Brown, aged nine, who was turned over to his aunt by the "The final request submitted by the A MONTH OF TRAVEL per hundred miles for all service, as old Schulim Brown, who was turned well as creating many new positions. over to his aunt in San Francisco by It took Schulim about four weeks to These and the other concessions re- the Southern Pacific Company a fort- make the trip, owing to a necessary dequested would increase the pay rolls of night ago after traveling, alone, all the lay at Ellis Island. When he reached the railroads represented more than $33,-way from Lemberg, Austria. Schulim the Island he wore a tag, calling atten (Continued on Page 8) couldn't even talk English, though he (Continued on Page 2) Boy Travels Alone on Long Trip From Austria SERVICE ON COMPANY'S (Continued from Page 1) tion to the fact that he was bound for wasn't afraid and I wasn't lonesome. San Francisco. This he exchanged for another, giving his name and destination, with the simple inscription on the back, "Please see that this passenger gets something to eat." It's not like that in Austria." TRIBUTE TO SERVICE ATLANTIC LINE The following is a schedule of sailings of the Southern Pacific Atlantic Steam The boy's expression of gratitude was only another tribute to the courtesy al- ship Line, New Orleans-New York: ways to be found a prominent feature of Southern Pacific service. Schulim didn't need to show the back of that tag. He told his aunt, Mrs. In arranging for Schulim's trip-his Fanny Biren of 1790 Haight Street, San parents are dead and he is to make his Francisco, so upon his arrival. The home with his aunt-Mrs. Biren had trainmen were only too glad to adopt remembered the Southern Pacific's repuhim. They guarded him as though he tation for safety and courtesy and had belonged to them and he had the time expressly specified the routing from Chiof his young life on the trip. When cago to San Francisco. After doing he boarded the Pacific Limited at Chi- that she knew she wouldn't have to cago he discovered that the dining car worry and left all arrangements for takconductor could speak his own language ing care of her nephew with the Comand his happiness was complete. pany. "As soon as we got word that "They did everything to give me a he was aboard the Southern Pacific we nice trip," he told Mrs. Biren, referring knew he was all right," was the manner to the Southern Pacific employes. "I in which she testified to her confidence. SHIPS LEAVE ARRIVE STEAM- LEAVE ARRIVE May June Wed., 3 Mon., 8 Momus Sat., 13 Thur., 18 Creole Sat., 20 Thur., 25 Momus July July Wed., 1 Mon., 6 Comus MERITORIOUS CONDUCT IS EMPLOYES' PICNICS SET FOR M13 Moms RECOGNIZED STUDENTS CAMP AT MONTEREY Season round trip tickets are now on sale to Monterey, where the second annual students' military instruction camp is to be held at the Presidio from June 26th to July 31st. The school was established by the War Department for students of educational institutions and is the only camp of its kind on the Pacific Coast and west of the Mississippi River. PARKING OF SLEEPERS THIS MONTH members of their families by the Com- Trains will leave Oakland The Southern District picnic will be held at Balboa, about forty miles from Los Angeles, on the 20th, and the Sacramento Division picnic at Auburn on the 27th of this month. For the Souther District's picnic the employes will reEffective immediately, arrangements quire about forty-four cars. There will have been made for the parking of be a fish barbecue and all kinds of sleepers for occupancy by passengers athletic games. until 8.00 a. m. on trains arriving at terminals as follows: No. 16, Portland; Sat., 11 Thur., 16 Proteus Sat., 25 Thur., 30 Momus Wed., 29 Mon., 3 Proteus Sat., 1 Thur., 6 Comus Sat., 22 Thur., 27 Creole Wed., 26 Mon., 31 Antilles September 2 Mon., 7 Proteus Sat., 5 Thur., 10 Comus Sat., 19 Thur., 24 Momus Sat., 26 Thur., 1 Creole Sat., 3 Thur., 8 Proteus Wed., 21 Mon., 26 Proteus Wed., 28 Mon., 2 Comus Sat. 8 Thur., 13 Sat., 29 Thur, > Sat., 5 Thur., 10 Wed., 9 Mon., 14 Sat., 26 Thur., 1 Sat., 3 Thur., 8 Sat., 10 Thur., 15 Wed., 4 MOD., 9 EXCURSIONS TO RENO Reno will be the scene of the Moose No. 210, Sacramento; No. 13, Oakland WORLD'S LARGEST FLAGPOLE and Eagles carnival June 29th to July 4th. There will be a pageant of the history of Nevada, auto, motorcycle and Indian pony races; balloon ascensions Hollingsworth of Portland, the Harri- and a baseball tournament; the enter Queen Rosaria, otherwise Miss Thelma and parachute jumps; athletic contests Club's successful candidate for tainment features winding up on July queen of the Rose Festival, presided at 4th with a Mardi Gras ball and parade. the flag-raising ceremony at the Oregon Reduced round trip fares will be in The Pacific Coast Association of site on the Panama-Pacific Exposition effect from all stations in Nevada and Freight Agents will hold its eighth an- grounds in San Francisco on June 6th. in California east of and including nual convention in Salt Lake City in Queen Rosaria's party included eleven Truckee, tickets to be on sale from July, having been called to meet at the attendants selected as Portland's most June 27th to July 3d. The return limit Hotel Utah on Monday the 13th. representative young women. will be July 6th. FREIGHT AGENTS' MEETING ATTRACTIVE RESORTS ON KEEN SPORT AND DELIGHTFUL SCENERY LINES OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY There are attractive places of resort every few miles on lines of the Southern Pacific Company. The following list of some may serve as a guide to which agents may refer or which may be referred by agents to persons planning vacation trips or otherwise intending to travel: San Jose and Mt. Hamilton.-Excellent hotels. Auto boulevard to Lick Observatory. Thirty-mile electric line ride through beautiful Santa Clara Valley. Santa Cruz and Big Trees.-"By the Glad Sea Waves." Hotels, casino and board walk. Cliff drives. Motoring. Golf links. Sea and fresh water fishing. Del Monte and Monterey-Charming hotel. Beautiful gardens. Forty-mile auto boulevard. Bathing. Boating. Fishing. Golf. Pacific Grove and Carmel-by-the-Sea. -Delightful family resorts. Bathing beaches and sea fishing. Byron Hot Springs.-New hotel and mineral baths in restful surroundings. Shasta Springs and Resorts.-Delightful places and crags and pines. Hotels and camps. Excellent trout fishing. Lake Tahoe.-Attractive hotels and camps in charming surroundings. Daily steamer trips around the lake. Excellent trout fishing. Upper Klamath Lake and Crater Lake. -Unsurpassed trout fishing in season. Comfortable quarters amid forests and mountains. Auto and motor boat service from Klamath Falls. Yosemite National Park and Mariposa Big Trees-Nature's wonders. A half day or night ride from Los Angeles or San Francisco. Comfortable hotels and auto stages. Paso Robles.-Hot springs. Hotel and finely equipped mineral baths. A place for rest and outdoor recreation. Golf. Tennis. Autoing. Santa Barbara.-The Mission City. Ocean boulevard. Hotels delightfully situated. Sea fishing. Yachting. Golf. Beautiful mountain drives. Los Angeles and Vicinity.-Noted tourist center. Ocean beaches within thirty minutes to an hour by electric lines. Bathing. Sea fishing. Hotels and pleasure piers. Pasadena, Riverside, Redlands and Mt. Lowe.-In charming surroundings. Easily reached by steam or electric lines from Los Angeles, TO BE FOUND IN LAKE TAHOE COUNTRY Under the title "The Tahoe Country, privilege enables those who desire to Its Lakes and Streams," the Southern pleasantly break an east or west bound Pacific Company has issued an excep- journey by a visit to this region. should see reaches the hands of people tionally attractive folder that agents likely to travel. The book is profusely illustrated. It tells briefly of the charms of the Tahoe country and with a list of the various resorts in the vicinity, their distance from Tahoe Tavern, the rates charged and the accommodations to be found, serves as a valuable compendium of information. The Tahoe country is easily reached by the Southern Pacific from Truckee on the Ogden route, and whether the visitor comes up from the San Francisco Bay region and the valleys of California, along the ridges and beside the canyons of the long western slope of the Sierras, or from Nevada up the wild gorge of the Truckee River, the journey is attractive because it is constantly in the midst of fine mountain scenery. EASILY REACHED BY RAIL From Truckee to the lake is fifteen miles by the narrow gauge of the Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company, which operates a daily train service from May 15th until October 31st, or later if weather conditions permit. This short trip beside the Truckee River to its outlet to the lake is most attractive. Stopover is permitted at Truckee on both railroad and Pullman tickets, which amid delightful surroundings will find The fisherman looking for keen sport both in the Lake Tahoe country. Tahoe, with its indented shore line, is a world of charm in itself, but the hills and slopes adjacent hold many surprises in the number and character of the lakes embosomed in forest and canyon, or set in granite cups on wide tablelands over which once passed the plowshare of the glacier. PLACES TO CAMP OR TRAMP The lake belt almost encircles Tahoe, and these shining waters in the midst of rock and forest are delightful places to tramp to or to camp beside, places for a day's excursion or a week's campfire, places to fish, to rest, to loaf and enjoy the piney air and the outlook from the peaks that arise on every hand. In the Tahoe region are a hundred streams, great and small. Some of these, notably the Truckee, the Upper Truckee, the American and the Yuba rivers, are famous for their beauty and their trout. Some are murmuring brooks, slow-winding through grassy meadows, but all are alive with trout and are beloved of the angler. Agents should boost this territory. It will help them in the graces of their traveling friends, and it will be appreciated by the Company. THE BULLETIN will be issued on the 1st and 15th day of each month. It aims to print matters of interest and information to all employes. Items of general interest are solicited and should be addressed to THE BUREAU OF NEWS, SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY AN EXAMPLE OF In recent issues of The Bulletin there have appeared from time to time articles calling attention to the lands offered for sale by the land department of the Southern Pacific Company at attractively reasonable prices. C. E. Wantland, general sales agent, now writes that the articles in The Bulletin have brought a number of letters of inquiry, all of which apparently mean business, and will result in sales that will bring about the further development of the territory tributary to the lines of the Southern Pacific Company. Mr. Wantland's letter should be a source of gratification to agents and other employes of the Company. It indicates that they have the right spirit of cooperation; that they take an interest in their work and that they are interested in developing the country tapped by the Southern Pacific. Had they not shown these articles to persons interested, it is apparent that there would not have been written the letters of inquiry received by the land department. CHANCE TO KEEP UP It is to be hoped that agents and other employes will continue their good work. The lands offered by the Company have rich possibilities, agricultural and otherwise. They have excellent transportation facilities, are favored by climate, and are generally sold on ten years' time, one tenth cash. They are to be found both in California and Nevada and the easy terms constitute, in themselves, a big inducement to settlers. The colonization of these lands means much to agents, in particular, for as an agency grows in business, so does it grow in importance. The opening up of a tract in the Kramer country in Southern California is of especial interest just now. When the railway from Barstow to Mojave was built, the Southern Pacific was supposed to have crossed a region that would never be reclaimed, and whose only inhabitants would be a few disconsolate railway agents, section foremen and men who worked upon the line. That was in 1883. Today, in 1914, not only has a change of opinion come about in regard to this region, but there are material physical evidences on every hand that those early day opinions are relegated to the junk pile of the past. The Kramer Valley proposition stands today as follows: The land is of known productive quality; the climatic conditions are favorable for the growth of pears, apples, almonds, olives and alfalfa; there is an abundance of cheap electric power immediately available for pumping and every other purpose. OPPORTUNITY FOR AMBITION AND SUCCESS By F. E. Scott The boy of today who doesn't start out in life with the ambition of being "someone" some day, is a rarity. But why is it that with all the early ambition and enthusiasm, the majority of us, when we have outgrown knee pants and have reached man's estate, find ourselves still one of the thousands of men with merely the rating of “an average”? Let us understand at the very outset that nothing is impossible in so far as success in life is concerned, unless we make it so! If we have failed to attain the height of our ambitions then the fault lies with ourselves-not_with our employer or the social system. True, we are dependent more or less upon the judgment of our employer. But none has more to do with the framing of our employer's judgment than ourselves. The reason why so many fail to accomplish what they start out for is that they have permitted themselves to be sidetracked. They give up the ambition for the shadow. To accomplish anything tenacity of purpose is imperative. must keep his eyes fixed on the final One must not look to right or left. He goal. There are always one hundred and one things to detract from the main issue; it is this that has caused so many They have lacked concentration and to fall short of their early ambitions. tenacity of purpose. Generally speaking, he who works by the clock gets paid by the clock. If one is to be successful it means work-work and more work. The trouble today seems to be that there are too many average men. If a man is only as good as the average he will only obtain an The reason average position in life. a man is made president of a concern is that he is rated higher than the average in ability. If you know only as much as your fellow workman, you'll have to learn more to get ahead of him. Success is purely a personal matter. If you can convince your employer that you can do better work than the man next to you he will start you going ahead, withThe Southern Pacific has placed on the mar-out any delay. He is as desirous of seket its lands in the valley at prices ranging from curing an exceptional man as you are $3 to $10 an acre. Here is a chance for the to secure an exceptional position, homeseeker, the land hungry. For a payment of one dollar an acre on the highest priced land one may enter into full possession and, with intelligence, industry and perseverance, success is practically assured. There is the Coachella Valley, situated in Riverside County on the "Sunset Route," about five hours from Los Angeles and on the other side of the San Gorgonio Pass from Riverside, Redlands, Colton, etc. Here, too, in one of the richest crop-bearing territories in the West, the Company has lands for sale on the same easy terms. In Northern Nevada, great for alfalfa, wheat, potatoes, apples, sugar, beets, cattle and sheep, there are other tracts on the market. Details may be obtained by writing either to C. E. Wantland, 702 Market Street, San Francisco, or 410 Grosse Building, Los Angeles, or to B. A. McAllaster, land commissioner, 805 Flood Building, San Francisco. Keep up the good work! Show these articles to your friends and ested. In after years they will be grateful for your having done so. ber, too, that as you help build up your own territory, so do you importance of your own work. others interAnd rememincrease the If you are wrong, admit it. If you are Always be pleasant, truthful, honest. right stand up for it, but always, always, be sure you are right and then go ahead. The big men of today are mostly "selfmade" men and the college man by no means has the monopoly on the big positions. It is not too late for you to start now. Remember truth, perseverance, honesty. integrity and stick-to-it-iveness will do more toward bringing the goal in view than anything else. Find your own opportunities and after you have found them, use them with the purpose of making life a success. |