The Frisco Employes' Magazine, April 1930
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LEE MERCANTILE COMPANI Kanras City hUnneapolis Trenton South Bend Salina San Pranciteo OVERALLS UNION-ALLS JACKETSvv With YOUR RAILROAD'S EMBLEM ON BIB OR SLEEVE Maintaining an Engineering Department for Consultation, Investigation, Reports, Surveys, Designs. FRISCO TERMINALS at PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, WARRIOR RIVER BRIDCE ad Other Important Wok for Frisco Lines BUILT BY THIS COMPANY Magnus Company INCORPORATED JOURNAL BEARINGS and BRONZE ENGINE CASTINGS NEW YORK CHICAGO Page 3 THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE ROOMS 73 7-738 FRISCO BUILDING .. ST. LOUIS WM. L. HUCCINS. Jr.. Editor ARTHA C. MOORE. Aaaociate Edllor WM. McMILLAN. Adoerllalna Manaaer APRIL. 1930 No. 7 Permission is given to reprint with or without credit, in part or in fulI. any article appearing in this Magazine Contents of This Issue Pages Pensacola, Florida, Celebrates Mardi Gras March 34.................................................................... 4-5 S. L. Coover, Oldest Conductor, Retires ............................ .... ........................................................ 6 A Page of Frisco News Pictures ......................................................................................................... .7 Major B. R. Davidson Receives Fifty-first Pass................................................................................ 8-9 Railway Service Aids Prosperity ................................. ,..................................................................... 10-1 1 By S. 0. Dunn News of the Frisco Clubs ....................................................................................................................12-18 Frisco Earns $89,109,286 in 1929................................................................................................................ 20 J. W. Surles Promoted to Assistant Superintendent Motive Power .............................. ..... ........,21 Pierre 0. Wood Dies February 20 .................................................................................................... 22 Accident Decrease Equals 33-1/3 Per Cent ............................................................................................26 Frisco Trains 96.6 Per Cent on Time During February ..................................................................28 Car Damage Decrease 29.2 Per Cent ...................................................................................................... 29 Locomotive Fuel Performance Records ............................................................................................30-31 The Pension Roll .......................... ....................................................................................................... 32-33 Homemakers' Page ................................... .............. .......,............ .... ................... .................................. .... 34 The Twilight Hour...................................................................................................................................... 35 For Meritorious Service ..............................................................................................................................36 Flashes of Merriment .................................................................................................................................. 37 Frisco Mechanic ......................................................................................................................................38-45 Frisco Family News ..............................................................................................................................45-80 THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE MEMBER The Frlsco Employes' Magazlne Is a monthly publlcntlon devoted primarily lo the interssta of ;be more than 25,000 acllve nud retired employes of the Frisco Lines. It eontalns storles, Items of current news. personal notes aboul em~)loyes and thelr fdmllles, articles deallng wlth varioua phasw of rallroad work, poems, cartoons nnd notlces regarding the servlce. Good clear photogtaphs aultable for reproduction are especlalb deslred, and will be returned ~nly when requested. All cartoons and drawings must be In black India drawlng Ink. Employes ate lnvlred to mile articles for the mngazine. Contrlbutiona should be type- written, on one sfde of the sheet only, and should be addressed to the Edllor, Frisco Bulldlng, St. Louis, Mo. Dlstrlbuted free among Frisco Employes. To others, price 15 cents a copy; subscrlptlon rate % $1.50 a year. bdvertlsinr rates will be made known upon a~plieation. PENSACOLA CELEBRATES MARDI CRAS LUNGING gaily into the en- King Priscus XXI V and ly for the royal falnily. chanting realms of phantasy. The floats in the parade, de- P~ensacolians forgot business HiS Queen Lead Thousands signed by Miss ~arionHowe, of cares for two glorious days and Pensacola,, depicted the adven- gave themselves W-ho~eheartedly of MCYQ Subjects in Pre- turous and romantic history of to the celebration of Mardi Gras Pensacola, said by many to be on March three and four. Ruled Lenten March 3 and 4 the oldest city in the United during that period by his im- States. The first float represent- perial highness, King Priscus the the San Carlos Hotel. ed an Indian village with braves Twenty-fourth and his most gracious A deserved rest had been arranged and their squaws gathered around a queen, Pensacola's jubilant citizens for their majesties, and no public ap- tepee set in a forest clearing. Pan- found a deal of entertainment ar- pearance was required of them on fllo de Narvaez, Spanish adventurer, ranged for their approval by their Monday night. However, subjects of and a handful of his men featured the majesties. the King and Queen made merry at second float, which was a representa- Throughout Saturday aud Sunday, many balls and dances throughout the tion of a small boat making its way March 1 and 2, furious preparations city during the night, the principal through the water of Pensacola Bay. were made throughout the city for Spanish, French and English occupa- the heralded arrival of the Kine and tion were represented in the next his brilliant retinue three floats. A walled Spanish Monday. Excited watchers gathered by t h R hundreds at the huge roses mak- foot of Palafox ing a beautiful street wharf at s e t t i n g. Indic- that time. and ative of the Maid watched eagerly of Orleans was for the silvered the seventh float, wingls of the with a huge white R o y a1 seaplane. horse bearing a Soon the plane lovely rider in arrived and King costume. An- Priscus, in the other float in the elegance of his p a r ade featured ermine robes and a gigantic book bejeweled crown with the letter- and scepter, and ing "The English with ma~kedface Language", indic- in keeping with ative of the Mardi Gras tradi- tongue which had t i o n s, stepped come to stay in a ashore to be wel- His iblajestg I<l?tu Priscrrs XXlV and Ilev ~Vltrjeslythe Qwreir, rrrlers of the