Show Railroad Notes The work at the tunnel near Stockton Stock-ton Js f being rushed J J HIH denies that he Is connected in any way with Lord Thurlows Eureka Eu-reka Eastern projfect The steel cars or the Short Line are all being painted black This company Is also painting he cabooses red J M Hannaford becomes second vice president of the Northern Pacific and Thomas Cooper becomes general manager man-ager A lot of photographers were present at the hearing yesterday to secure pictures pic-tures of the star witness J PIerpont Morgan but at Mr Morgans request they were all sent from tho room The Southern Pacific Railway company com-pany has modified the homeseekers rate to California points so as to permit per-mit stopovers In California The rates are 525 from Missouri river points and 33 from Chicago Members of the joint passenger committee com-mittee In charge of the passenger business busi-ness of the railroads of the country will meet In New York today to consider the policy of the Western railroads as regards tourist traffic during the summer sum-mer W G Brownlee of Montreal has been made superintendent of the western division of the Grand Trunk railroad with headquarters In Detroit to succeed suc-ceed F W Egan who will become general superintendent of the Denver 8 Rio Grande This year the Eastern roads will try to prevent the Inroads of the Western companies which last year came east and Induced thousands of tourists to go to Colorado attracted by the low rates of the Western lines Thls year the Eastern roads Intend tQ exploit the resorts of the EasL |