Show CARPENTER DROPS OUTGeneral OUT-General Sales Agent for Utah Fuel Company Retires Retres F L Carpenter general sales agent for the Utah Fuel company has handed in his resignation for the purpose of going to New York with the Fairmount Coal company the Sharp concern Mr Carpenter has been in the coal business busi-ness in Utah twentyone years and has obtained an enviable reputation TV H Myers is the logical man for the vacant position He Is traveling sales agent for the company Mr Carpenter Carpen-ter came to Utah in 1882 and worked for the Rio Grande Western He entered en-tered the coal business and has risen step by step rapidly to be one of the companys best men He will leave in about two weeks Mr Babcock in the City S H Babcock former assistant general gen-eral traffic manager of the Rio Grande Western returned yesterday from the coast accompanied by his family Mr Babcock says that he enjoyed the trip thoroughly and that he allowed no business busi-ness thoughts to mar the pleasure of his outing For this reason he has abeo utely I no plans for the future and he has not courted correspondence touching business matters There have been rumors ru-mors that he had under consideration offers from Eastern roads but he said he could not discuss the reports because be-cause he know nothing about them and that he was not decided regarding his plans for the future Mr Babcocks private pri-vate business Interests are large enough to keep l him busy and he may calculate not to reenter the railroad service even If the opportunity presents Itself Low Rate on Short Line The Oregon Short Line and the Union Pacific have started the excursion business busi-ness this way again by offering Jointly tickets lo nil points from Chicago and S1 Louis and intermediate stops to all points in Oregon and Washington and principal places in Montana and Idaho I commencing September ICth and good till November 30th They are From Chicago to Oregon and Washington S2B from Sl Louis 30 and from Kansas City and Omaha 25 The othe iatcs are in proportion Rawlins to Rio Grande Kansas City Aug 29F S Rawlins superintendent of transportation of the Kansas City Southern railway has been appointed chief clerk In the office of the general manager of the Denver Rio Grande effective September 1st Railroad Notes The Short Line runs an excursion to Ogden this morning at 920 Kenneth Evans of the auditors office of-fice of the Short Line has resigned to accept a position In Ontario Or On Saturday the 12th the Short Line will run u special excursion to Northern North-ern Utah and Idaho for the benefit of belated vacationists J J Duckworth who has charge of the Short Line blacksmlthlni shops at Pocatello Is to come to Salt Lake today to take up similar work here for the company William A Patton and a party of friends came through the city last night in n special car and because of the lateness late-ness of the train did not go through the programme scheduled for them Mr Patton Is assistant to President Cassatt of the Pennsylvania systems The annual meeting of freight representatives repre-sentatives in Utah will be a full one according to a letter from the chairman of the Transmissouri freight bureau to Assistant General Freight Agent Ree sot s-ot the Short Line I will be held at the Knutsford on Tuesday No radical action on freight tariffs Is expected George Geiger of the Rio Grande Western is to be transferred from Grand Junction to Salt Lake to fill the position of assistant superintendent while E II Williams Is on indefinite sick leave The new man at Grand Junction is to be J G Matthews who has resigned the position of superintendent superin-tendent of the Wyoming division of the C it S to take it The change will be made Tuesday The San Pedro and the Salt Lake Morcur will run a train to Mercur from Eureka lo accommodate the people who want to aee the championship game of baseball between the teams of the rc specllve lowns |