Show railroading IN AND OUT OF oliden from fridays standard rumor has it the near future there will be a number of changes among the officials of the oregon short line the most important of which will be the retirement of the present general manage rw H bancroft who will bo succeeded by horace G burt who for many year acted in a similar capacity on tho union another Is the appointment of W R a generali gener ari superintendent to E mr scott Is at the present time in ahls capacity at the oakland pier for he southern pacific and was formerly superintendent for that company with headquarters in this city both of the are expected to take effect on the first of the year this paper is of the opinion that sir bancroft will not b displaced unless he deabre to retire for be is very close homr harriman and is recognized as a railroad man of exceptional ability mr buckingham is also a capable official and is well thought of in ogden superintendent E C manson of the salt lake division of the southern pa 1 returned this morning after a trip of inspection over ahe line he was belated on the road by the recent on the line west of sparks effective today R K cobb is appointed to traveling freight agent to fill the vacancy caused by the death 0 robert craig mr coah cobh has been identified with the oregon short una for many ears and recently held tha responsible position of chief clerk in district freight and passenger D R grays office and his promotion is a recognition of his and past service for his southern pacific and other roads E H harriman is in the market lor forty fave tank cars 1300 steel under frame box cara of pounds capacity each and ekl steel under frame refrigerator cars of 60 1 pounds capacity each it is also said that he will soon place contracts for more freight car the new refrigerator oars arc wanted it la said to handle banana shipments to the west from new orleans and for certain other purposes not connected with the california fruit trade the southern pacific have sent another engine and crew to cobre to ba placed in service on th nevada northern this will be used until the arrival of the nevada northern engine which has been delayed inthe sacramento shops on account of waiting for material As the construction borte on this road Is being rushed all possible it was decided by the officials to place another southern pacific crew on until such time as their own equipment could be received this paper Is informed that the southern pacific hai decided to ulla a cutoff cut off from alorth to the short line connecting at ontario oregon surveying parties are now in the field the road will be allea long one of the local officials when asked regarding the report that burlington was coining to ogan by way of the echo canyon stated that in hla opinion the coming was an assured thing he said that when he WM in salt lake city it was common talk as a representative of the burlington had been in conference with general manager bancroft relative to making amicable arrangements for a right ot way along the line of the union pacific it is further stated the burlington sur vyora are quietly malt ins teats through the canyon and have bored into the hills in many places to ascertain the of the country lock through which tunnels might have to be driven boilermaker E johnson has been sent to newfoundland to legait the pump boiler on the stationary at that point I 1 it is said that the rio graude western is contemplating erecting a new passenger depot in connection with the proposed new freight depot on the corner 0 twenty fourth braet and wall avenue in order to be independent ot the union depot company athla report baa been contradicted by officials of tha rio grande but notwithstanding it comes from good authority that the new depot will te erected and win be used by the west em pacific and rio grande roads both of which are gould railroads that the report should ba denied can be readily explained by reason of the tact that until such time as ane new depot Ms built it will be necessary for gould to use the union depot tracks and it the plans were disclosed there would be a possibility of difficulties and some friction not only with the oregon short line but also with the union depot company the southern pacific officials hava been served with notice of a suit against them by the government in the united states district court at portland ore to collect penalties for their alleged violation ot the safety appliance act passed by congress in 1833 nd subsequently amended in 1903 similar suits have also been brought against other overland roade the act in question requires every train should have a sufficient number of cars so equipped with power or train brakes that the engineer on the locomotive such train can control its speed without requiring beyke men to use common handbrakes hand brakes fop that purpose all passenger trains are properly equipped with air brakes so the act refers more particularly to freight trains the southern pacific has many of its cars so equipped and as rule will not taka a car from another road coming in a through train unless it has air brakes the suit there tore is in the nature of a surprise surp ripe and Is probably the first action of ohp kaml brought in the federal courts on tah coast john general master mp chanec of the rio graude western with headquarters at salt balej has resigned he will be superseded by william donald recently of the mollar power and machinery of the missouri falling health is the cause of mr mr has held his position in salt biake tor nearly nine yeara he waa born at in and was educated t the canada college at toronto ont ha served his apprenticeship with the cuyahoga Cuya hoga machine works at cleveland 0 he served continuously with tha cleveland Ashta ashtabula bul railroad with the burlington tha sheboygan fond du lac the orth western and the milwaukee lak shora eastern in 1891 he was ap pointed superintendent of motive pow i er for tb e northern pacific he belij that position until slay when h was appointed to the position with th rio grande which he hag just re signed grand chief warren L stone of brotherhood of locomotive engineer who announced in buffalo a day or two ago that the brotherhood of lopomo alve engineers would he active in tha matter of railroad rat legislation said with reference to tha plans 0 the that the officers wil outline certain views which will b contributed to subdivisions sub divisions and fron there word will go to members ot tha organization organisation mr stone added that ehg whole matter would be done in secret |