Show To f 0 Mo M Goe GoeI I to the Harrimae im arn System Syte C 0 t 0 r e 7 ft V 0 g y yv v ft iv 0 2 4 0 4 0 V Vt t 0 y 4 44 4 0 il j r J V 0 A 0 S 0 0 0 0 r o 0 0 THOMAS L S M SCHUMACHER Denver Rio Eio Grande Official who goes goes to Harriman Lines NOTICE KT OTICE from Chicago received IN yesterday morning mornin t rf f the ap appointment appointment appointment of Thomas Milton Schumacher Schumacher Schumacher macher vice president Jre ident In charge of traffic of the Denver Rio nio Grande and Western estern Pacific railroads with offices in San Francisco Francise as assistant traffic director of the Harriman lines with offices in Chicago Chicag came as a great surprise to railroad men here h re Mr Schumacher will succeed Ernest ErnestO O 0 McCormick ick who has bas for six sic years ars been assistant to Traffic Director J T C Stubbs and who will assume aume the yost position tion of vice president of the Union Pa Pacific Pacific chIc with offices in San an Francisco W V H Bancroft vice vl e president and general manager of ot ih he Oregon Short Line railroad said yesterday eter that the dispatch from Chicago was the first intimation of the appointment He H declared that Mr Schumacher was a railroad ra man nian and that he would doubtless make malce ma e good in the new position J A Reeves general g freight agent ag of the Oregon Short Line stated that he had heard a rumor that Mr tIre Schumacher was as to be appointed to some position with Uh ith the Harriman lines but the dispatch was the first real news which he had received One official who is well weli informed with conditions on the railroads of the country countr declared that It was probable probable probable able that there would be a consolida tion of the Denver Rio Grande and antI Western estern Pacific roads under un er one me man management management management with George Gould as president president dent and with E T Jeffery and Charles H occupying prominent prominent prom I nent places in the management Mr Schumacher Is well known to railroad men here Several years ears ago he was traffic manager for the Oregon Short Line in a position similar to that held by b J T A Reeves He left the Oregon Short Line to become traffic manager of the United Fruit company compan and later left that company to assume the position of traffic manager of or the El EI Paso Southwestern road roa From that position he went to the Western Pacific His assumption of the new position is due it is said to the desire for a larger field for action and because the salary inducement was made so s great that he did not care care to reject t IL it It has been suggested by railroad men here that as the salary salar of ot Mr Stubbs Is about per year ear the salary of Mr Schumacher would probably be not less than The appointment of E O 0 McCormick McCormick McCormick mick as vice president of the Southern Pacific will not affect the present pre ent po position position sItio of E E Calvin vice president and general manager of the road W WH WH V VH H Bancroft stated yesterday that he I believed that Mr McCormick would i be vice president In charge of traffic of I the Southern Pacific |