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Nobody knows the trouble that Chairman Edward Norphlet Brown of St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Co. has seen. But a lot of people know him for an able troubleshooter. He railroaded for 27 years in Mexico, serving eleven years as president of National Railways of Mexico. In 1914 when Mexico's revolutionary atmosphere became impossibly hot, he resigned, going two years later to the chair of Pere Marquette, then called "Poor Marquette." His rehabilitation job there was so good that the Frisco, run down physically and financially, called him in 1919. Again he did a good...
...Frisco Land. One of the executors of the properties of the late Thomas B. Slick, "King of Wildcatters," is his widow, daughter of a vice president of St. Louis-San Francisco Railway. Last week on land belonging to the railroad, and on which is located a roundhouse, the Slick interests brought in a well yielding 50,000 bbl. of oil and 4,000,000,000 cu. ft. of gas daily...
...Thomas Killilea. frequently have a hard time getting audience as Ringling representatives. Yet between this triumvirate, all America is divided into three parts,, each has his particular sphere of influence. In Washington, Detroit and Cleveland, Pressagent Bell, who left a good job with the St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R. R. five years, ago, handles all circus "public relations." Newark and Cincinnati are the peculiar province of Pressagent Killilea, who abandons his Boston advertising business each March to follow the white tops. Dexter Fellowes is supreme in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee...
Rock Island-'Frisco. The first major move by Dillon, Read & Co. in the railroad field was their obtaining control of the Seaboard Air Line. Last week it was revealed that the firm controls about 11% of the outstanding stock of Rock Island and a large block of St. Louis & San Francisco, which controls Rock Island. Foreseen: a Rock Island-'Frisco merger...
...valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface of 5,450.9 sq. ft. this engine developed a tractive effort of 59,800 Ib. While 60 different engine crews were operating No. 4113 to make the record, David L. Forsythe, Frisco's equipment foreman, rode every mile. Every five days he would leave his smooth-breathing charge, go back to the caboose, snatch eight hours' sleep. Now 65, Foreman Forsythe began with the Frisco at 14, was a "hoghead" (engineer) for 41 years...