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Show BIG FOUR OFFICIAL RESIGNS Passenger Traffic Manager McCormick Gees to tUe Southern Pacific. E. O. McCormick, passenger traffic manager of the Cleveland, CincinattI, Chicago and St. Louis railroad, Big Four, has resigned from that company to accept a similar position with tha Southern Pacific company, with headquarters head-quarters at San Francisco. This information in-formation came last night in the form of a telegram to C. H. Mitchell, city passenger agent of the Big Four in Chicago, as follows: , "E. O. McCormick has resigned to take service with the Southern Pacific railway as passenger traffic manager, headquarters at San Francisco. Presi- V dent Ingalls has appointed me general passenger and ticket agent, in full charge of the passenger department. These changes effective about Mav 1. "WARREN .1. LYNCH." The news was a complete surprise to local railroad men. as no rumor of a change in the traffic department of either road had been circulated. It Is believed that the approaching entrance en-trance of the Santa Ke into San Francisco Fran-cisco and consequent competition, something the Southern Pacific has not yet had to face on traffic into that city, is the cause of the change. Mr. McCormick is a progressive passenger man and is considered one of the best in the business. He was formerly general gen-eral passenger agent of the Monon, and subsequently of the Cincinnati, Hamilton Ham-ilton and Dayton, before going with the Big Four, in 1S93. W. J. Lynch, who succeeds him, has grown up with the system, rising from stenographer in the office of the p-isscnger agent of the old Bee Line at Cleveland in 1SS3. The position of passenger traffic manager man-ager is created on the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, Samuel Goodman bping general passenger agent and J. C. Stubbs, third vice-president, in charge of the traffic traf-fic department. Chicago Tribune. ... |