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1 111 rHE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE ROOMS 73 7-738 FRISCO BUILDING .. ST. LOUIS WM. L. HUCCINS, Jr.. Editor THA C. MOORE. A~xdafcEdlfor WM. McMILLAN. Adoerflaln# Manager

VI I NOVEMBER. 1929 No. 2

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Contents of This Issue Pages Frisco A~lnouncrs Air-Rail Scrvice ...... A S. 0. Dutlt~Urges Consolitlation Changcs ...... 3 Crowds View Rooth at Dairy Show...... A Springficltl Clerk Versed in Magic ...... 7 Trictl Fourtcen Times on Sligo Hill ...... 8 News of the Frisco Clubs...... 10-12 Thanksgiving-A Cnrtoorr by Jolrir L. Codscy ...... 13 Col. F. G. Jonah A\vardctl Enginccrs MctlaI ...... 14 Car Damage Decreases 14.6 Per Cent First Xine Months ...... 1.7 Frisco's Pensacola Eshibit Car Ecgitis Tour ...... 16 Springficltl Girls' Study Personality Building ...... 17 For Meritorious Scrvice ...... 19 Decp Sea Divcr On Arkansas River Bridge Job ...... 20 Scction Forcman Satn Rickulm Makes No-Accident Record ...... 21 Locomotive Fuel Performance Records ...... 24-2.; Frisco Employes' Hospital Association Statetnent ...... 26 A Pap of Praise from Frisco Friends ...... 28 Pension Roll ...... 29 Ho~ncrnakers' Pages ...... 30-31 The Twilight Hour ...... 32 Frisco Babies ...... 33 Flashes of Merri~ncnt ...... 34 Frisco Illechat~ic ...... 35-41 Frisco Family Ncws ...... 41-72

THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE MEMBER Tba Frlvco Employes' 3lspazlne Is a monthly publication devoted primarily to the lnlerests ,( the "lore ~II:III25,000 active nrrd retired e~~lployesof the Frisco Lines. It conlalns stories. .:ma or currwt II~~S,pel~snlli~l notes ilhollt elll~~losenand their flmilies. articles dealing nilh various phases of railroad work. poems. cartoons and notices regarding the serrice. Good drzr photographs suitable for reproduction are especially desired, and will be retunled gnly when reauested. -411 cartoons and drawings nmsl be in black Iudin drnMng ink. Employes are invlted to write articles for the magazine. Contributions should be type- arltten, on one slde of the sheet only, and should be nddrmed to the Edltof, Frlsco Bulldinz, st. Loula, Yo. Dlstrlbuted free among Frisco Emploms. To others, price 16 cenls a copy; subscription rate 91.50 a year. Advertlsin~rates will be made known upon a~pkation. KELLOGG GROUP Page 4 FRISCO ANNOUNCES AIR - RAIL SERVICE

T .Jacksonville, Fla., one day 9 :00 a. nl. on United States L early in October, a busy Florida to California Via ways, Inc., and disembark in D- business executive boarded ver at 2:10 p. m. the same day. the Kansas City-Florida Special Rail and Air NOWAuailable Passengers from the East 5 of Frisco Lines. Up through At- ride the Frisco's Meteor from! lanta, on through the cotton fields - Other Air Connections at Louis to Tulsa, may leave OL of Mississippi and Alabama and Dallas, Tulsa and St. Louis homa's oil capital at 8:00 a. into Memphis, he rode comfort- via Braniff Air Lines, lnc.,! ably behind powerful engines. Amarillo, connect there As he retired for the night, he Western Air Express and sun~moned the conductor of rive in Los Angeles at 9::' the train. In. the same day. Similar!: "I wish you would kindly ice is provided to Wit' \v i r e Kansas City and re- Falls, Breckenridge, Abi serve space for me aboard the and San Angelo, Texas. [Vestern Air Express plane And so Prisco Lines ha:

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leaving there tomorrow morning for in n~uchthe same matter-of-fact man- ognixed the fast-moving plane G ,I Los Angeles," he said. ner. additional transportation medium At 8:30 next moriiing, the executive As the Frisco's Texas Special roared the perfect service it is striving at I left the Frisco's crack Florida train up from San Antonio and Fort Worth times to give, but it is not attemp! in Kansas City's spacious union sta- to St. Louis, the Robertson Aircraft to influence its patrons to use air: tion, stepped into an automobile oper- Corporation received a wire in its St. travel. Rather, this railroad is n: ated by the airway company and was Louis omices reserving space on the ing advice on these connection^ 1 driven to the flying field. 011 the ruli- Chicago plane which leaves St. Louis way, with motors warnling for the 13- at 12:45 in the afternoon. When thc the spirit of helplulness to the pa.: . hour flight, stood the ponderous Special arrived at 11:35 a. m., a red- gel's who desire to travel a though graceful Folcker F-10, a gigan- cap escorted the air passenger to the swiftly than trains may take the11 t tic tri-motored ship. It had awaited waiting bus of the Robertson Com- For patrons who may have sl I Lhe Frisco's passenger. He took his pany, and he was driven to Lambert- qualms as to the safety of air t~ seat, the pilot received his final or- St. Louis field. At 3:15 that after- a brief glance at the records of I! ders, the three powerful motors in- noon he arrived in Chicago. ern Air Express, a typical a~r creased their speed, and the plane Passengers on the Bluebonnet of company, may be interestlng. M ' took off. Frisco Lines may leave St. Louis at flying the Los Angeles-Salt Lakr That evening as the sun sank into 2:01 p. m., arrive in Dallas at S:06 route of the W. A. E., have I I the Pacific ofP San Pedro harbor, the o'clock the next morning, and board 2,700,000 miles in the last three rf business man stepped from the plane Texas Air Transport Flying Service, without a passenger killed or an nl i11 Los Angeles. Inc., planes at S: 25 the same morning of mail lost or damaged, and wlh His trip from Jacksonville to Los for Houston, or leave on another on-time record of 99 per cent Ai~geles,ria Frisco Lines and West- plane operated by the same company 1926 this company had five plane. ern Air Express had taken forty-seven at 8:30 for San Antonio and Browns- 20 employes. It now has 40 pl , hours. ville, or on yet another plane at 10:45 and 325 employes and operate: On other trains of Frisco Lines, on a. nl. for El Paso. lines instead of one. Over all ik. other planes of other air companies, Florida Special passengers who de- senger routes involving purel! 1 similar instances in the romance of sire air passage from Kansas City to travel, the company operates 141 transportation were being performed Denver, may leave Kansas City at tri-motored Fokker monoplanes. Page 5 JNN URGES CONSOLIDATION CHANGES

, LOUIS. 310.. October 15.- ways should aim are in ~rocess '' I Early legislation by Con- Age Editor of being attained. Senator Cum- '-' > ,re,, radically changing ex- nlins estimated that by consoli- .ling consolidation provisions of Present Prooisions of Trans- dations there could be achieved rl~a Transportation act was ad- a saving in annual operating ex- ;mated by Samuel O. Dunn, edi- $lortation Ad C/nw 0 rK a bh penses of five or six hundred mil- L- 7 *$orof the Railway Age, in an ad. lion dollars a year. His estimate ~Jressat the dinner of the Associ- uridorlbtetlly was greatly exag- IP~TrafPlc Clubs of America, in St gerated. However, since 1920, with- buis October 15. The existing con- Editor Dunn Says- out the rapid and extensive policy .didation provisions were declared "Eristir~g corrsolidntio~t provisions of consolidations he advocated hav- ractically unworkable and a serious rrrc practici~lly rr~rz~~orlznblcnird a ing been carried out, annual oper- ~bstacle to consolidations, rather than criiorrs o6staclc." ating expenses have been reduced 1 means of promoting them. ***** $1,400.000,000, and even within the "They provide, for example," said "Rn;lz~,nyseivicr has 6ccrr greatly last six years economies in operation Ur. Dunn, "that if two or more rail- ;rllprovcd (since the tmrrsportrctioit equivalent-if allowance be made for aay3 are combined, the corporation RC~)and is rrozu cor~ccdcd better thnir the advances in wages made mean- I orning them shall not issue securi- time-to $750.000,000 a year have PZT~Dcforc." tlrq in excess of the value of the con- ***** been effected. vlidated properties, and it is made "Wngcs (to rnihtny cwployrs) arc "How have these great economies 'the duty of the Interstate Commerce Irigltcr tltnrr iir orry ycor excepting in operation been accomplished? I Commission to proceed immediately 1920." Chiefly by the investment of billions to the ascertainment of such value of ***** of capital in inlprovements which 'h~properties involved in the pro- "Frright srrvicc is costirrg the pub- have enabled the railways to produce pved consolidation'. In the O'Fallon lic a6orct $850,000,000 n year Irss niore transportation with a given (ace the Supreme Court held that the thnic it zootild nt tire ratrs of 1921." amount of labor, fuel and materials. romm~saton's method of valuation ***** Experience shows that great progress "17 not in accordance with the law "Orrr po1ic.v rccjard:rrg colrsolida- can be made in promoting the public PI the land, and in consequence there tiorrr slrorrld be orrc of cvolrctioi~,rrot interest without consolidating all the la not today and probably will not be of rcvol~rtiort." railways into a comparatively small lor some time a final valuation of a ***** number of systems, and that those ,rqle rallway that could be used by "Thc I~rtei-state Conrirrrrcr Coin- who have advocated consolidation as r11~cornmission in determining what lrrissioia .~hottld 6c rrlicvcd of thr almost the only solution of the rail- lqmt of securities should be al- ii~!rirdotr to rirnkc a gcrrcrnl plau oj road problem have exaggerated their lnred to be issued by a consolidated rorrsolidatioirs." importance. It shows that what is r lrlray system." ***** mainly needed to promote the inter- Concerning the proper objectives of "[2niI.iiny.s of the colcirlry shoil/d ests of all concerned-of the railways c~~n~olrdations,---- Mr. Dunn said: "Rec- roi~rDiirc,grow and drvelop ilr the frc- themselves, their employes and the " the fundamental principle trrrc ns they Irn7'c irr tire /vrst-crcept traveling and shipping public-is the g policy regarding railways thrrt ror~solidatioirs 7trlriclc trd to rs- making of such improvements in by the government should fa6lisIr rirorropo1ir.s irr lnrgc scctiorr~ every mile of railway in the country the public interest, what rhorrld be prcvrr~tcd." as will render it practicable to render nust the railways do in order ***** won it such service as the traffic ole the public interest? First, available warrants, and to render this 1st render good service; sec- service at the lowest practicable cost. hey most give their employes The principal test of any policy of brking conditions and pay them consolidation is whether it will fur- :es; third, they must charge "A prograin (of coirsolidntiort) ther such improvements. ~leand non - discriminatory that 7uorrld 7tvxkcrr the stroirg roads "Our policy regarding consolida- nd, fourth, they must earn a iirore thait it strcrrgthcrrctl /kc wrok tions should i~otbe one of revolu- urn. What has been accom. roods, wolrld prozpc disastrous." tion, but of evolution. In England toward attaining these ob- since the war they have tried the pol- since the Transportation act, icy of revolution. They provided by the consolidation provisions, the rates in effect in 1921. The rail- arbitrary legislation that all the rail- sea? roads should be consolidated into ways have never earned the fair re- service rendered has been groups, and specified the railways turn assured by the Transportation Improved. and is now univer- that should be included in each group. act; but their net operating income nceded to be better than ever Apparently nobody is satisfied with has been increasing, and it seems Wages are higher than in the results. probable that this year they will earn r excepting 1920, and higher "The existing consolidation provis- ortlon to the cost of living an average of 5% per cent on prop- erty investment, which will be the ions of the Transportation act should er before; and the working be repealed. The Interstate Com- best result since 1916. ns of employes are the best merce Commission should be relieved "It would appear, therefore, that all et were. Freight service is of the mandate to make a general the public about $850,000,000 the objectives at which any govern- ess than it would have cost at ment policy in dealing with the rail- (IVOZEturn to Pagc 26, please)

Page 7 I SPRINGFIELD CLERK VERSED IN MAGIC

I OPEAKING of unique hobbies caIled and internreted it as seven -the Frisco employes at : their midst, a magician who Off ice Expects to Sign Vaude- Mr. Walton has made a deep .I~PS within a short time to sign study of the origin of magic, and In Orpheum contract. V~UCContract as Magician he again refers to the second To interview a man versed in U time magic is quoted in the Bible $3 art is about as enlightening in the story of the plea of Moses Lo attempt Lo discover, unaided, the statement, pledging our word that we and Aaron before the Egyptian King -ret of his magic. Truly one ex- will not reveal any of the secrets that to release their people so that they .Led in an interview to discover at we learn. might sojourn to another land. To >st,one of his more simple tricks so "Magic is very old and has bee11 Drove that his mission was of divine -rtifying from the standpoint of an practiced from time immemorial, and origin, Moses turned his rod into a tienee. but when Mr. G. L. Walton, we find traces of it in the lives of serpent. All of the magicians of the crk in the office of the store- land were asked to do the npw at West Shops Spring- same thing but they all failed. !d submltted to an interview, "Modern magic is a long

q told the "why" and the step from magic of old," he .;hen", but not the "how." said. "We no longer regard it Yadcian Walton gladly pre- as supernatural but we look aded to explain how he upon it as a time honored art .;itched a card from the palm which has stood the test of : hi8 hand to the back. Then centuries and is now most en- .? did it again, and the card tertaining. To me magic is a 'mppeared. It was neither in science. It is based on funda- \i, palm or at the hack of his mental principles, not on hit .md. And that was the "how" or miss methods. Judging from

a b.1 he neglected to explain. the accounts which history has He waved a pencil before preserved for us of the niar- jmr eyes-and the pencil bent I vels performed by the ma- ..PIawayed. Surely it was gicians of antiquity, it is evi- d~her. And then he handed dent that these men were very '* over to be examined and it skillful in practicing their art. -roved ta be just an ordinary The expIanation then, for the =:#Men No. 1 yellow Frisco seemingly greater miracles :wiL His explanation of the that were produced in ancient tow" that time was that his times, is that people believed '!:~nds moved faster than the in the supernatural powers of . , could follow. the magician." 11:. Walton's Came has not According to Mr. 'Walton, ,-:y spread in Frisco circles, the Egyptians are the flrst ."o! on February 10 and 11 he people of whom we have any I .. .;.+~d , in a performance record of being distingushed :irn at the Shrine Mosque in for their proficiency in magic. ;!wrriqfleld, where more than 1 In the New Testament Simon

'~l!~~~l~witnessed his card Magus is mentioned as a ma- ":ickj, and illusions of many gician. He is said to have be- ,:+. He averages about two witched the people. Some of r:,~rmancesa week. Recent- his feats were to make himself !ie entertained at the Frisco invisible and to free hiinself "43 Club at Springfield and from bonds and chains. ' 1: been requested to repeat Greek historians tell that performance within the the peoples of that land be- !r tuture. lieved that supernatural pow- ltlen Mr. Walton was a ;\IF,. ASD AIRS. G. L. \V.\LTOS ers were mixed with human -311 lad, he accompanied his affairs. Their gods- were half ..'idr to witness the performance of the ancients. The first record we human creatures with the powers of : mician. He was deeply interest- have of magic in ancient times is in 1:erforming supernatural acts. '. He wanted to know just "how" the Bible. You remember the story Mr. Walton is assisted in his per- *:! dl done. For years he wonder- of Pharaoh's dream of seven full ears formances by his wife. "She likes it : mere he could study the art, and of corn and seven withered ears, of just as much as I do," he said, "and , - dry he got in touch with a man seven fat cows and seven lean cows. since most magicians require a helper, :'I ?ad a slight knowledge of magic Pharaoh was much disturbed by the it is more than fortunate that she ' he gave him the name of a cor- dream and summoned all the ma- likes to assist me." . :mdence school. gicians of the realm to come and in- The U'alton's have two children, a ;he course is very expensive," he terpret it. None of them were able daughter three, and a son five years I1; 1, "and we have to sign a long to explain the dream until Joseph was (Now tur~lto Page 22. plcasc) TRIED FOURTEEN TIMES ON SLICO HI1

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