SECTION Mov 9 1927 Ii inost s ever Ituoi\.n i Bearings in r: jerklessstartii are realities o it11 Ti~rllten 'l~aperetl I<oller Bearings. \i I-lot-box hazards and delays are unknoii.11. I{vca more is gained than good n-ill, reputa- tion and traffic volume. 88% of starting pon.cr is saved; tonnage rating is unaffected at lo\v tern- X'-R.ly \ ~cm of a I'lmken-equipped l>emtures. Journal ear is \iirtually noI1-existcIit. R"1l"""l J""rr';l'. T'mk'" tc'~er"' \\ cc,n$tructlon, 2 mkCn POSlTII'E1,Y A frzction cf previous maintenance cost per~nits AIIG,vFI, and ~ i ~ k ~ ~ - ~ ~ d ~ - srerl rails~ ant1 curvc,s Page 2 ~Z/G&W,@MP LOI%S'#~WZJNE November, 1927 R. F. CARR, Memphis W. E. LOWRY, Hickory Flat, Miss. Prssldsnt Vice-Pres. and Gansral Manager SPECIALIZING IN R A I L R O A D BUILDING MATERIAL Strong as Ever for the "Frisco" GENERAL OFFICES - MEMPHIS, TENN. Phone, Main 2312 P. 0 . Box 1032 In Fighting F i r e SOLVAY CALCIUM CHLORIDE as eff~ctiue ~ Y Q S aspkin water Write for Booklet NO. 8255 THE SOLVAY SALES CORPORATION 40 Rector St. New York ~DEBA RDELEBECNO ALS Sipsey - Empire - Corona - Carbon Hill - Hull FOR DOMESTIC, STEAM, GAS, BY-PRODUCT AND CERAMICS The South's Largest Producers and Marketers of HIGH GRADE COALS A DeBardeleben Preparation Southern Railway Building Gives Added Value BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA // COMPANY WESTERN TIE AND TIMBER II 905 SYNDICATE TRUST BLDG. WALTER POLEMAN, President A. R. FATHMAN, Vice-president E. A. NIXON. Vice-president THOS. T. POLEMAN, Sec'y and Treas. Treated and Untreated Cross and Switch Ties, Piling, Car and Track Oak Owners of KETTLE RIVER TREATING COMPANY MADISON, ILLINOIS Zinc and Creosoted CROSS TIES, Modern ~ d z i nan~d Boring Machines Treating Plants located at Madison and Edwardsville, Ill. E. A. NIXON, President E. J. STOCKIKG, Sales Mgr. A. R. FATHMAN, Vice-president H. G. RlcELHINNEY, Sec'y and Gen. Supt. R. E. KNEELAND, V.-P. and G. Mgr. J. E. PETERSON, Treasurer I Plants at ABERDEEN, MISS., on Frisco M COLUMBUS, MISS., on Southern SUPPLYING S T E E N , MISS., on Southern P I L I N G for WiIBLEY, MISS., on C. Q G. J. W. McMURRY MILPORT, ALA., on Southern on BRIDGE WORK FERNBANK, ALA., on Southern M I K E P. P A R R A DEALER IN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH POLES TIES AND PILING for RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION AND FOUNDATIONS 1x 30 COLUMBUS, MISS. ~ F @ c o Novcazber, 1927 Pagc 3 ~MPLOJ%S'~@ZINE Pnge 6 TEXAS "TALKS TURKEY" IN MILLIONS Brady-on-the-Frisco Will Stage Annual Turqey Trot Nooember 11-20,000 Birds in Parade - -- - By BEN B. LEWIS, Frisco Lines, Ft. Worth. Tex. A": whole-hearted tribute to the Brady turkeys, brought about by the 5th to December 15th. Shipments are key industry which will net more general use of pure-blooded made in refrigerator cars, mostly to far:m ers and ranchmen of the stock for breeding purposes. And due New York and Boston, but some to "Heart o~ t Texas" country more than to the choice meat of these improved San Francisco and other centers. Mr. one mi11 ion dollars this fall, Brady, strains, the Brady market last year C. Crawford, energetic Frisco agent Texas orI Frisco Lines will stage its was several cents per pound higher at Brady, predicts that the Frisco mill fourth annual turkey trot on Armistice than at other Texas points. When haul her usual quota of these cars. Day. November 11th. you "talk turkey" in Brady, you are About twenty carloads of live turkeys ThiI s unique pageant will be filmed making good, straight talk. are also shipped out each year. by thl ree nationally known news reel The turkey is essentially a ranger comp,a nies, thereby spreading the of the "wide, open spaces", where he fanle of thls Frisco city to the four attains a great growth of limb; but corne1 .8 of the earth. several weeks before the appointed Thc~ usands of live turkeys will time of his destiny he is restricted to proudI ly "strut their stuff" before the closer quarters and allowed an ex- admil- ing eyes of ten thousand expect- ceptionally generous feed, to render ~-.r. lvi .!s itors prior to gracing the tables him full-fleshed and savory. of Thanksgiving celebrants in all McCulloch county is peculiarly parts of the United States. adapted to acconlmodate turkey traits, The Brady post of the American having plenty of range room and an Legion will have charge of the pro- abundant supply of feed, which is per- gram, which has come to be the big haps the reason, coupled with the play-day event of the year in a sec- progressiveness of her citizenship, tion where the serious business in life why she has forged to the front as the is raising livestock. The word "cat- foremost producer of the turkey in tle" has ever symbolized the Texan's the entire Southwest. flrst 1l ove, but in spite of the fact that Brad)r ships ten cars of cattle to one PLAY FOR SUFFERERS car () f turkeys, the "million dollar turke y crop" is not lightly esteemed. C0 1 or and charm are lent to these Frisco Best Service Team in annu: 11 pageants by elaborately dec- Charity Contest, Oct. 9 orate11 floats depicting various phases of thc s turkey industry. which has ex- Hc's ''proud of kissclf" just nowbz~t RISCO Best Service baseball team, pandc? d rapidly in the past few years; wo~ith taste good on your table of the Seventh Street Station, St. and by the picturesque costumes worn Thank sgivir~gd ay. Louis, did its bit for the benefit by th e cowboys and girls who attend of the sufferers, because of the tornado in gaI a attire. It is said that a favorite weapon of which hit St. Louis last month, by To many a hungry boy the sight of the ancient cave man was a club made arranging a double-header baseball one 1a, rge "gobbler" lifted brown and from the mammoth's foreleg, while game which was played at Fairground juicy from the oven on Thanksgiving S amps on undoubtedly performed Park, St. Louis, Sunday, October 9, Day t o the place of honor on the fes- wonders with the jawbone of an ass. before a crowd of approximately 8,000 tive board, is a thing of wonder. They claim in Brady that the "clean- fans and from which was realized a Imagl ne, then, the sight of twenty ed" hind leg of a "turkey tom" serves gross return of $913.29, all of which thous and "gobblers" in one compact just as well! Some of the birds grow was presented to the St. Louis Chapter flock! Brady has frequently been exceedingly large, it is true; and if of the American Red Cross. treat€ ?d to this remarkable spectacle, present plans materialize, Brady in- The Frisco team, which won sixteen when vast herds have been corralled tends to send a few of the largest of the twenty-one games it played this in thc3 beautiful pecan groves adjacent specimens on the market to president season, played the Morgan Haulers, to the3 four large dressing plants locat- Coolidge, Vice President Dawes, Gov- which had won the championship in ed in that city. ernor Moody, and other notables. the St. Louis AIunicipal League this Thc3 ranking of the turkey in the An amusing, if slightly expensive, season. The Morgan Haulers defeat- econo mic structure of iv1cCulloch incident occurred during the turkey ed the Frisco team 6-2. This game count y was aptly portrayed by one of trot last year when a large tom be- was the main event of the benefit the fll oats in last year's turkey trot. came freightened and flew through double-header. The preliminary game A gia tnt papier-mache gobbler twelve a plate-glass window of one of the was between the Pants Stores and the feet t all and eight feet from the tip of stores. The ofPe;l:ler was promptly Chevrolet Motors teams, the Chev- his h ead to the lip of his tail, rode sentenced to be executed-on Thanks- rolets winning 6-5. rnafes: tically with his queen upon this giving Day! The chairmen of the Frisco Best float Ia t the head of the parade. Near- The Pour dressing plants are Service team committees which ar- ly onc a-half million turkeys were dress- thoroughly equipped to handle cleanly ranged this event were: E. W. Miller, ed at, and shipped from Brady last and promptly the task of slaughtering, arrangements; R. 1~.K lein, grounds; year. cleaning, cooling, packing and Ioad- Miss Agnes Larkin, ticket seller, and Ex1p erts claim that constant improve- ing of approximately one-half million M. E. Slattery, ticket taker. Arthur rnent has been noted in the quality of turkeys during the season November Boen, is manager of the Frisco team, More than 20,000 birds "posed" for their picture (nbove) at the aimlial "Turkey Trot" in Brady, Texas, Novewaber 11, 1926. Brady will have even more birds in the 1927 Trot Armistice Day. Rough Handling Damage Decreases 35.4 Pcr Cent First Nine Months W ITH the operating department termlnah is urged by RI. fix. Sisson, report shows competition has result- goal set at a 50 per cent re- assistant general manager, Springfield, ed in decided fluctuations, a notable duction in the amount of clam- who points out that the report Shows instance being the climb of Western age to cars due to rough handling for the terminals stand, for the first nine division from fifth place for the first 1927 as compared with 1926, the Per months this year, exactly where they nine months of 1925 to first place for centage decrease for the first nine stood for the corresponding period the corl.esponding period of months of 1927 stands at 35.4. in 1926 and 19%. Greater conl~etition between the .4mong the divisions, however, the The report: PER CENT STANDING DAMAGED DIVISION DIVISION NUMBER CARS AMOUNT DAMAGE NUMBER CARS HANDLED TO TOTAL OR or DAMAGED HANDLED TERMINAL TERMINAL 1927 1926 1925 1927 1928 1925 1927 1926 1925 1927 1926 1925 1927 1926 1925 -- TERMINALS Sprlngfleld ...... 7 Birmingham .... 21 St. Louis .......... 55 Memphis .......... 81 Tulsa ................ 85 Kansas City. .... 103 - - - - - - - - - Total ........... 352 608 584 $13,054.50 $21,738.45 $22,148.50 3,571,S31 3,785,770 3,816,802 .0098 ,0161 .0153 DIVISIONS Western ......... 2 Eastern ....... 18 So. Western .... 17 Southern .......... ::6 Central .............. 16 River ................ 20 Northern ........... -103 - - - Total ............ -233 441 358 $ 9,295.90 $13,253.08 $16.914.6.i 3-,726,931 3-,989,536 3 ,8-79,390 .--00B-3- -,0M-111 y-.00-0-2 - -- - Texas Lines. .... 24 14 24 3S7.50 233.00 585.50 102.110 116,886 128,371 .0235 .0120 .0187 Total System. ... 609 1,066 966 $22,737.90 $35.224.68 $39.648.65 1827 Cornnured wlth 102G Per cent decrease in number cars damngcd .......................... 42.8 Per cent increase in number of cars handled Per cent decrease in amount of damage. ................. .., .......... 35.4 per car damaged ..................................................................... 64.0 Per cent decrease in amount of damage per car handled. ..................................................................... 3-1.. 1.8- Page 8 FRISCO DOCTORS MEET IN FORT WORTH 26th Annual COzTo ention Frisco Medical Societ.~H eld Oct. 17-18- To Pensacola in 1928 NE hundred and flfty of the 646 Hospital, Port Worth, on "Some High claim agent of the Texas Lines, and doctors and surgeons of Fri sco Points in the Present Day Management a cornedlan of system-wide fame, pre- Lines who supervise the health of Fractures". A paper on "Osteo- sented his famous black-face Negro of the 30,000 employes who constitute myelitis" by Dr. S. N. Mayberry of minister sketch to the doctors. Max- the E'risco family, journeyed to Ft. Enid, Okla., closed the session for the field was the hit or the evening, al- Worth, Texas, last month for the day, and the doctors prepared to make though the competition was great twenty-sixth annual meeting of the merry at the stag banquet which was among the acts that followed. Miss E'risco System Medical Association, Eleanor Brler, a Spanish dancer; the October 17-18. Palmer Sisters, with an imitation of If there be any among the vast Pat Rooney's famous clog dance; Bess Frisco family inclined to belleve the Coughlin in popular songs; lone Fer- "docs" were on a pleasure trip. then guson, the "Frisco" dancer let them take a careful look at "--- (and how she did dance for " formidable series 'of discus!~ ions the doctors!); and Miss and papers which took up a1m ost Lillian Murphy, billed as every minute of the daylight tL ours the "Personality Lady", a of the conrentlon-and forge! t it. singer--all did their credlt- Beginning at half past nine able share in making the o'clock the morning of the banquet a successful affair. opening day, a series of pa- The Seven Aces, a widely- pers were read and dis- known radio orchestra of cussions made, the very the Texas Hotel, played sev- names of which produce a eral selections before the feeling of unwonted giddi- meeting w a s flnally ad- ness in the mind of the lay- journed. man to the profession. Dr. L. P. McCuistion of On through the day the Paris, Texas, opened the medical termn bombarded second morning's session the atmosphere of the con- with a paper on "Manage- vention chambers in the ment of Acute Surgical Ab- Texas Hotel, and the morn- \ domen"; and was followed ing of the second day found by Dr. C. E. Burford of St. the medicos still at their Louis on "Differentiation of earnest task of solvine the Ureteral Obstruction." problem8 of human aches Many Friscoans will recog~rizcD r. S. A. TYoodward of' A paper on the "Radio- and pains to which the flesh Fort Worth, retirirzg prcsideftt of Ilze Frisco Systcw dfedicol logical Diagnosis of Gall is heir. Association, as Ihe man in the above picture. Bxt mmy will Bladder Lesions" was then When President Dr. S. A. want to krrow the two Frisco girls with Dr. Woodward. They read by Dr. C. E. Gilliland Woodward o p e n e d the nre Misses Willetta Lacc7oell (icft), aild Elairre Smith, nwscs of St. Louis; and Dr. Elbert meeting, Dr. Joe E. Dildy of nt the Harris Hospital, Frisco vrcdical lteadqrrarters at Fort Dunlap' of Dallas, Texas, Brownwood, Texas, p r e- Worth, nitd they had charge of rcgistratiorr for Ihc doctors discussed the "Female Env sented his paper on "Medi- who atte~rdedt he corrverrtioir i~rF ort Worth, October 17-16. ploye in Relationship to the cine as an Avocation" and Medical Department". was followed by Dr. W. F The chief surgeon of the Miller of El Paso, Texas, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Dr. with s treatise on "Surgical Aspects of held a1 S o'clock ill the g:and ballroom F. Marion Inge, a guest at the meet- Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Lung Ab- of the Texas Hotel. ing, presented a paper on the "Open scess and Empyema". Discussions fol- As the only entertainment function Air Treatment of Burns"; and the lowing these papers had hardly been of a meeting dedicated to a serious chief surseon of the Muscle Shoals. concluded when Dr. Lloyd B. Clinton study of medicine, the banquet was a ~irmingham & Pensacola Railroad. of Carthage, Mo., read a paper on great success. Dr. Clarence Hutchinson, discussed "Traumatic Surgery", followed by Dr. Judge W. M. Odell, general attorney "End Results in Gastro Enterostomy." Q. R. Enloe of Ft. Worth on "Spinal for the Frisco Lines of Texas, presid- Dr. E. B. Parsons, chief surgeon of Anaesthesia". Dr. Enloe explained to ed as toastmaster and Chief Surgeon the International & Great Northern the doctors the benefits of this new R. A. Woolsey of St. Louis received a Railroad, also an honored guest, pre- method of operating painlessly with- pleasant surprise when Dr. Benedict sented a valued paper, and Dr. W. H. out the use of ether, and stated that presented him with a beantiful Swiss Shultz of Kansas City, discussed "ln- the method was now in use at Harris watch, chain and knife, a token of fected Dental Residual Areas as a Pri- Hospital in Ft. Worth, where F-risco esteem from the members of the As- mary Focus of Infection in Intraocular patients are cared for. sociation. Diseases". At the afternoon session, Dr. S. R. While Texas Hotel waiters were At the afternoon session the elec- Benedict, chief surgeon of the Ala- busily serving courses of the dinner. tion of officers brought Dr. Charles 0. bama Power Company, of Birmlng- an entertainment program of real Huffman of Columbus, Kansas, to the ham, presented a paper on "Some In- merit, arranged by the Fort Worth presidency of the association (see teresting Fractures and Their Treat- contingent of doctors, was receiving story in another part of this Mags- ments" and was followed in the same great applause. ,cine), succeeding Dr. S. 0. Woodward vein by Dr. C. H. Harris of Harris First, Emzy Maxfield, assistant (Colrchrded ON next page)