READY REFERENCE GUIDE FOR AGENTS

FILE THIS IN BOOK No. 2, SECTION 11, OF TARIFF FILE

Proposed Schedule of Southern Pacific

New York-New Orleans Steamers The National Education Convention

Below is the proposed schedule of sailings of the New York-New Orleans line steamers up to and including September 29, 1917:

Effective May 15th, the service will be the same except the auto bus leaving El Portal at 7.30 a. m. will be withdrawn and leave at 6.15 p. m. instead. arriving at Yosemite Valley at 7.45 p. m., which will give through daylight service from San Francisco to Yosemite Valley in connection with train No. 84 leaving at 900 a. m. and Yosemite Valley train No. 2 leaving Merced at 2.15 p. m., arriving at Ft In the saving of life and limb, every- Portal at 5.50 p. m. This service will body gains. Nobody loses. be daily.

READY REFERENCE GUIDE FOR AGENTS

FILE THIS IN BOOK No. 2, SECTION 11, OF TARIFF FILE

Fishing Bulletins Issued by Portland Ogden Route Passengers Afforded a The Advantages of Upper Berths Are

Division.

Fishing bulletins are now being regularly issued by John M. Scott, general passenger agent at Portland, Ore., showing conditions along the streams reached by the lines of the Southern Pacific Company. These bulletins contain much matter of interest to anglers, and readers are invited to take their cameras along with them on their next outing and send in pictures to the bulletin for reproduction

purposes.

New All-Rail Service.

Great Sight.

With the approach of the summer season, trains Nos. 5, 20, and 24 will resume a schedule calling for fiveminute stops at American Station to enable passengers to view the American River Canyon at this point from an observation platform built at that point for this purpose.

Pointed Out.

The growing popularity of upper berths is viewed with satisfaction by railroad officials who see in it the solution of what once threatened to prove a serious problem. The cooperation of all concerned is asked in the matter of calling the attention of the public to the advantages offered by such accommodations. These advantages have been expressed by users of upper berths as follows:

Superior ventilation and a more even temperature. A saving in cost to the traveler of twenty per cent.

In soliciting business for the Ogden Route, agents and other employes should bear in mind the wonderful mountain view afforded by this arrangement. At American Station the train, suddenly emerging from among mountain ridges, passes out on a Individual curtains, which the PullThe Pennsylvania Lines have inau- rocky ledge above a two thousand-foot man Company is gradually introducgurated a "Federal Express" through precipice. Into the abyss the rugged ing, increase the sense of privacy and all-rail service between Washington, mountain sides slope downward, sink- security. D. C., and Boston, Mass., following ing in almost sheer descent. the completion of the Hell-Gate Sierras rise like a wall beyond and Bridge, which makes possible ahead looms the dark promontory of through all-rail route to New England Giant Gap. points via the Pennsylvania New York City terminal. No. 172 leaves Washington daily at 7 p. m., reaching Boston at 7.10 a. m. No. 171 leaves Boston at 7 p. m. and arrives at 7.20 a. m.

City Office at Reno.

a

A city ticket office has been opened in Reno, Nev., to handle local and interline tickets. Assistant General Freight and Passenger Agent J. M. Fulton will be in charge.

The ticket agencies of the Southern Pacific Company and the Pacific Electric are being consolidated in one building at Long Beach, Cal. J. E. Guy will continue as the Southern Pacific representative there.

Train Stops.

Beginning April 1, Brophy on the Portland Division was replaced as a flag stop for trains Nos. 161 to 170, both inclusive, by Horsford.

The following additional stops have been arranged for during the life of the current time tables:

Coast Division: Train No. 78 will stop on flag at San Ardo.

Western Division: Train No. 504 will stop on flag at Halvern, No. 510 at Milbrae, and No. 21 at Cygnus. Train No. 26 will stop regularly at University Avenue, Berkeley.

During the life of current Western Division time table, train No. 25 will stop at Richmond to discharge passengers from Los Angeles and beyond.

During the life of time table No. 23 trains Nos. 13 and 16 will make regular station stops at Grenada, instead of on flag as at present.

The

Noise, arising from the movement of cars, is less noticeable in the upper berths on account of the greater distance from the wheels and rails. Users of upper berths are less likely Dates Are Announced for Portland to be disturbed by people moving up Rose Festival. and down the aisles.

The annual Rose Festival in Portland will be held this year on June 13th, 14th, and 15th. This is always a magnet for thousands of tourists who revel in the delights of Oregonian floriculture and hospitality. A big committee of citizens is already at work on the program.

Free Side Trip Eliminated. Effective May 1, 1917, the free sidetrip from Denver to Pueblo, Colorado, and return, now furnished to holders of tickets reading to and from or through Boulder, Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont, Loveland, Lyons, Cheyenne, Helena, Butte, Great Falls, Yellowstone National Park, Ogden, Utah, McCammon, Pocatello, etc., as authorized in C., B. & Q. Tariff No. 183-D, C., R. I. & P. Circular No. 923, and U. P. R. R. Circular No. 2-1916, will be withdrawn.

Grand Trunk Tickets to Buffalo.

Our attention has been called to tickets issued to Buffalo, N. Y., reading via Grand Trunk Railway from Chicago.

Tickets to Buffalo from Chicago reading via the Grand Trunk Railway should be provided with two coupons, one reading Grand Trunk Railway to Suspension Bridge, and the other Lehigh Valley Railroad Suspension Bridge to Buffalo.

Circular Letter No. 265, relating to the honoring of passes in Southern Pacific Company cafe observation cars, has been cancelled.

In addition to these advantages, users of upper berths are furnished with all the latest conveniences intended to furnish the complete and entirely satisfactory service for which are intended. Permanent the cars clothes hangers, mirrors, and electric light fixtures are provided in upper as well as lower berths, and the springs and mattress are equally comfortable.

Failure to recognize the advantages of the upper berth necessitates the railroad company providing twice the number of cars necessary to provide comfortable accommodations for the traveling public.

There is no point therefore to ticket agents informing passengers that they have "Only upper berths left." or to make other remarks calculated to disparage the conveniences of the upper berths. This type of accommodation is winning the favor of the public on its merits, and is entitled to the support of Southern Pacific Company representatives.

Filing Re-Issued Pages.

Agents have been requested to use special care in filing re-issued pages of loose-leaf tariffs to avoid the necessity of supplying "original pages," which is an expensive waste. In filing "corrections" care should be taken not to throw out pages which are not reissued.

Care Would Have Avoided This.

A freight brakeman, walking alongside of improperly piled lumber, was bruised about the head and shoulders when the lumber fell upon him.

Rise in Cost of Railroad Material

Requires the Strictest Economy

If carelessness was costly before it is doubly expensive now. To replace the same amount of goods damaged in transit the Company today must pay double and treble what the bill would have been a few years ago. Material that seems almost insignificant to the layman now assumes serious propor-2337. tions to the railroad company. Par- 2552. ticular vigilance should therefore be 2595 shown in effecting economy wherever possible, at the same time maintaining 2598. the high standard of service.

J. D. Brennan, superintendent of the Sacramento Division, quoting figures from the office of W. R. Scott, vicepresident and general manager, urges economy in the use of printed blanks and stationery supplies, which have increased in cost from ten to one hundred and fifty per cent.

By accumulating the day's business 16 and transmitting all matter for one station or office in one envelope a great saving may be effected simply. Typewriter Ribbons-Paragon. "With reference to scrap paper,' says Superintendent Brennan, "an office should be able to accumulate from the process of conducting its own routine business sufficient waste paper for scrap purposes, and not requisition expensive paper or use printed blanks

ISSUED BY THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY BUREAU OF NEWS

Agricultural Expert of the Southern Oakland Station Master Has Ticket
Pacific Advises Nevada Farmers.
Dated 1780.

San Francisco Marvels at Rapid Construction of Building.

(Continued from Page 1)

quired, when reduced to figures that the average layman readily comprehends, are particularly astonishing.

Efficiency in Conducting Transportation
Shown in Southern Pacific's Report

Much matter of interest to employes to the Atlantic seaboard territory, and is contained in the thirty-third an- there were fewer cars on our lines Two million, four hundred and fifty-nual report of the Southern Pacific than in the previous year, yet by betCompany, just published. The report ter loading and movement, the Comshows that 1916 was in many respects pany handled 43.45 per cent greater the banner year in the Company's ton mileage of revenue freight than history. last year-two cars in 1916 were made to do the work of three cars in 1915.

eight thousand bricks are being used. Of this number, two million are the rough brick, 440,000 the pressed brick variety, and 18,000 are arched brick. Roughly this constitutes 390 miles of bricks, enough to reach from San Francisco into the heart of Mojave Desert. Of hollow tiles, 38,000 are being used, while the amount of cement in the job is represented by 40,000 barrels.

SOME ASTONISHING FIGURES

The glass provided for in the plans of the architects, Bliss & Faville, was one of the largest orders ever placed with California manufacturers. For the 1736 windows, the transoms, elevator doors, glass partitions, etc., approximately 130,000 square feet, or three acres, is required. Three miles of heavy flexible cable are required for the nine great elevators. There are six miles of pneumatic tubing, fifteen miles of pipe for the automatic sprinkling system, thirteen and a half miles of plumbing and soil pipe, fourteen miles of steam-fitters' piping, two miles of vacuum pipe, fifty miles of wire and twenty miles of conduit.

As an example of the unique problems successfully met in the construction of the building, one floor will include the largest business room in San Francisco with a floor surface of 36,000 square feet, and a length of 750 feet. This room will be used by the Auditor of Freight Accounts and his enormous office staff. By reason of the difference in atmospheric pressure in a room of such size, special ventilating systems are provided at heavy expense, guaranteeing a constant circulation of fresh, clean air without resort to windows which, if opened wide, would precipitate a small cyclone.

Other unusual features provide for the Company's own water supply, except for drinking purposes, a pneumatic tube dispatch service modeled along the lines of a telephone exchange, an automatic fire extinguishing arrangement in every room, the most elaborate draughtsmen's quarters on the Coast, and many appli ances for safety and commercial comfort.

J. Q. Barlow, assistant chief engineer of the Southern Pacific Company is bending every energy toward the task of completing the big structure on time. G. B. Herington is the engineer in direct charge. W. S. Gilbert, superintendent of construction for Lindgren & Company, is the man who has kept the pot boiling.

Railroads give indirect employment to industries that employ four millions of operatives, it is estimated.

Efficiency in conducting transportation is reflected in the following showing:

The average load of freight moved in a loaded car increased 2.01 tons, or 9.30 per cent.

The percentage of loaded to total freight car mileage was increased from 69.87 to 72.52.

With an increase of 43.45 per cent in revenue ton miles of freight, payments for loss and damage to freight decreased $161,883.76, or 18.61 per cent, consuming only .630 per cent of freight revenues as compared with 1.008 per cent in the previous year.

Operating expenses were profoundThe average freight train load was ly affected by the unprecedented prices the highest on record, being 553.59 of all kinds of materials, which each tons, an increase over the previous month attain higher figures than the year of 71.50 tons, or 14.83 per cent. previous month. Locomotive fuel Through heavier freight train load-alone added $1,693,814 to operating ing there was saved the equivalent of 3,215,274 freight-train miles.

The average miles run per freight car per day was 39.15, compared with 30.15 last year, an increase of 29.85

per cent.

The gross operating revenues were $163,427,423.02, which exceeded the earnings during the previous calendar year and surpassed those during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916.

The revenue from freight traffic increased $26,129,277.27. The volume was augmented by business formerly handled by steamships, operating via the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the Panama Canal, which have been temporarily diverted to more profitable Transatlantic service; and the European war has given an impetus to mines and agriculture which has resulted in prosperity in all lines of endeavor.

a

Revenue from passenger business reflects decrease of $4,944,954.59 compared with 1915, the Exposition year. It is estimated that the competition of automobiles deprived the Company's lines of earnings in excess of $1,000,000.

Of the total increase in railway operating expenses, expenditures for maintenance increased $3,801,978.37, or 10.05 per cent, and transportation and other expenses increased $6,940,220.42, or 12.73 per cent. The Company's high standards as to roadbed, structures and equipment, have been maintained during the year. Although a very heavy traffic was handled, the number of freight cars undergoing or awaiting repairs at the close of the year was 4 per cent of the total equipment, a number very much below normal. The condition of locomotives was also very high, indeed never in the history of the Company has equipment of every class been maintained in such a high state of efficiency.

Traffic conditions, brought about largely by the European war, brought many of the Company's freight cars

expenses. The constant increase in the prices of locomotives, cars and all kinds of material needed in the operation and maintenance of railroad lines, will add largely to the increase brought about by the eight-hour law. The effect of these increases will be most acutely felt should the present abnormal volume of freight traffic be substantially reduced.

Taxes have consumed 13.70 per cent, or $8,269,292.28, of the net revenue of $60,338,686.50 derived from railway operations. The aggregate amount paid for taxes is 26.26 per cent higher

than the previous year.

Commerce Commission, the fiscal year
Following a ruling of the Interstate
is now the same as the calendar year,
so that the report is for the year end-
ing December 31, 1916.

This Might Have Been Avoided by
Thinking "Safety First."

The necessity for thinking and acting with the "Safety First" idea always in mind is shown by a recent accident in the River Station yard. Los Angeles, when a brakeman endeavored to turn on the gas in a coach that was being used as a caboose. Encountering some difficulty, the brakeman lit a match to see what was the matter. An explosion followed. causing a fire which destroyed the coach and caused a loss of $3000 Care in ascertaining that the gas was leaking would have avoided the accident and the peril it brought to the brakeman.

Lecture on Explosives.

Moving pictures showing the proper method for the safe handling of explosives were a feature of a lecture by H. B. Eyde, United States inspector of explosives, at the Southern Pacific Club House at Sparks, Nev. Superintendent B. A. Campbell presided.