Show WM SPROULE ULE IS 15 NAMED HEAD OF r rI I 5 Sg P. P COMPANY Railroad Headquarters I Will Be Moved Back to San Francisco With ReI Retirement Retirement Re Re- of K I I SA SAN FRA FRANCISCO CISCO April 10 10 I Simu with the announcement announcement announce announce- announce announce- 1 ment today that J J. J chairman of the executive committee commit commit- I tee of ot the board of directors of th the Southern Pacific company will re retire retire retire re- re tire on May 31 31 comes conies the decision to move mo e the headquarters arters of ot the road froth from New York back to San Sani i Francisco where they were ori originally located Mr aIr made the the announcement of his rei retirement re- re i himself at the annual or organization organization or- or meeting of the board held for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year ear He will retire und under r the pension rules of the company after forty-eight forty years jears of service He ls l's 71 years old The board of directors in accepting accepting accepting accept accept- ing Mr I decision to retire changed the present plan of ot operating the Southern Pacific properties and the supervision of operations heretofore exercised by byL byI L Mr 11 will after May 31 I I next be under the direction of the president William Sproule in San Francisco The board at its m meeting meeting meet meet- eting et- et I. I ing enlarged his authority to deal with the situation accordingly making maling him the chief executive oPI operating op oP- op- op I crating officer of the Southern Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- company and placing him InI in I charge of all departments BEGAN IN 1882 I Mr Sproule on whose shoulders falls fails very largey the burden Durden carried carried car car- ried ned by the retiring chairman first entered the service in 1882 in the freight department in San FranI Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- I cisco and since that time has been in n the traffic and executive departments departments departments depart depart- I ments with the exception n of five years jears In New York in the last year of which he was was president of Wells Veils Fargo Express company from which he resigned to become president president president dent of the Southern Pacific cOmpany company com corn pany in 1911 the place he has since held Mr Sproule has held successively successively successively suc suc- the positions of freight clerk assistant general freight agent lg general freight agent freight I traffic manager and s since nce 1 1911 11 the thet e t I presidency orthe company company- I i been signally successful in estabI establishing establishing I lishing policies that have gained i and maintained public confidence i and has made the railroad company a strong factor In th the development and progress of the territory it serves He has served it in many public capacities and is now a member of the federal reserve bank of the Twelfth federal reserve disI district district dis dis- and a director of the Golden I Gate park commission of San Francisco I RETAINS N. N Y V. OFFICE The general office of the company company com corn pany and its financial headquarters will remain in New York with Henry W. W DeForest as chairman or of orthe orthe the committee and of the board of directors both of the Southern Pacific company and its subsidiaries succeeding Mr Krutt Krutt- I in these positions I T The Tle e office of vice chairman has been created and will be filled by A. A D. D McDonald who has been vice president and controller ller of the company company com corn pany for twelve years and who has been in the service of the company for tor or twenty five years having risen from the ranks through the ac accounting accounting accounting ac- ac counting department his first position position 1 tion having been a clerk in the I Houston offices Mr Ir McDonald I acting under the chairman will have charge of the affairs f of the company's general offices In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and will act acU as his rep representative e e and of the executive com corn Coincident with the transfer of the chief executive offices to San Francisco tho the position of ot director of traffic now held by L. L J J. Spence will be Separate I traffic Jurisdictions will be established established covering the Pacific system the Texas and Louisiana lines and and I the Southern Pacific Steamship I lines under the direction of lo local al traffic officers all all being coordinated coordinated with respect to through traffic and that interchanged with I other lines under the control and direction of T. T M. M Schumacher vice president in charge of traffic with I I headquarters in Chicago Ill III Mr lr Spence will be the executive officer er I and head of the Southern Pacific Steamship lines and in a consulting consulting consulting consult consult- ing capacity with respect to questions questions questions ques ques- of importance involving consolidation consolidation con con- and valuation when I called on by the chairman or the I 1 president I SCHUMACHER CAREER I Mr 11 Schumacher came to the I Southern Pacific company when it iti I II acquired the El EI Paso Southwestern Southwest Southwest- I em ern system last November oember southWEst 1 and has since been occupying the position of executive vice ice president He lie was president of the El EI Paso Southwestern Southwestern South South- I western lines for years ears Previously south south-I he had many years' years experience both bothon on the Pacific coast and in the East Eastin I in different departments of various railroad lines including the Southern South South- I em ern Pacific and was assistant to J. J C C. C Stubbs then director of ot traffic of ot the tle Southern Pacific and Union Pacific systems In Chicago Paul Shoup now vice president at San Francisco under the new new- organization becomes executive vice Ice president and has Immediate charge e of the management and oPeration operation operation op oP- op- op of the railroads in the West with headquarters in San Francisco Like the other executive officers Mr air Shoup has been long in the service ser ser- vice ice of the tho company entering it as asa asa asa a clerk in the office at San Ber Ber- nardino Cal In 1891 J 1 P. P Blair remains as g general eral counsel of or the company N 0 G. G Y has b been en elected I nl ij on pas age 2 2 i I 4 y f t 0 r. r f f. f r. r f I 1 1 o n WM SPROUL IS S I NAMED HEAD OF I I S. S SP P. P COMPANY I Continued from page pago 1 1 e controller at New York to succeed A. A D. D l McDonald when the latter assumes th the duties' duties of f vice chair chair- man Is at this time assistant controller controller and has been In Inthe inthe l I the service of the the Union aril aria Southern Southern Pacific s 1111 for fol more I than forty orty years NEILL MOVES UP UP- Hugh Neill the Neill-the the present present secretary of the Southern Pacific company and its subsidiary companies has been elected vice president president and secretary Mr Nell has been in inthe the tho service of ot the c company for about thirteen y years rs Under the new organization tIon the theoffice theoffice theoffice office of Vice President nt W W. A. A Worthington will be In San FranCisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco instead of New York City Mr Worthington being attached to the staff staf of f the president At the same time time- the offices of ot F. F W. W Mahl lahl di director director director di- di rector of purchases and C. C R. R HardIng Harding Harding Hard- Hard Ing consulting engineer vill likewise Ilk likewise like like- wise be moved to San Francisco W. W B R. R Scott will remain as the president of ot the lines lines' In n Texas and Louisiana with the same duties and as heretofore I H. H B B. will in like manner remain as president of the Southern J Pacific Railroad Company of oC Mexico I |