The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-29
NOT FEARFUL OF ARREST,
Mr.. Huntington Will Not Allow
That Stone Pass Affair to
Worry Him.
He Considers General Hubbard Fit
to Be President of the United
States.

From Truckee westward Coils P. Hunt
ington's train made lively time yesterday.
1t shot down the hill at rate not war
ranted by the time schedules, dashed
through Sacramento and pulled into Oak
land pier about P. NJ. Mr.. Huntington
was greeted by number of friends on the
ferry-steamer, and then went direct to his
house on the hill.
He was ready for business Immediately,
He is always that way. ''Nothing gives
me more pleasure than to 60 to my work,
said he, in the course of half-hour's chat
with CALL reporter. He was as ready to
talk and give advice and crack jokes as if
he had not just had a 3000mile spin across
the continent He was as epigrammatic,
as keen in lodging the point OF questions,
as shrewd in his re ponses, as kindly in his
manner, as sturdy in his bearing, as he
ever was Years numbering over three
score and ten rest lightly on his shoulders.
When the topic of that famous interstate
pass of Frank M. Stones was brought up
and he was told that the matter was to be
revived, he looked annoyed.
"I've heard no reports that I was to be
ar rested" said he,'' and it isn't worrying
me bit. | let the affairs of the day take
care of themselves. | never cross bridges
until l come to them. | don't know what
Mr.. Stone said on his examination in
court. l didn't read about it. was too
busy. Mr.. Stone is very nice young man,
and I'm sorry If he is offended at anything
he thinks | said. | think [ must have
been misquoted in the dispatches. but
there's no use denying things. | remember
story of the Fremont Buchanan cam
paign. 1t was charged that Fremont was
Catholic. and a great many people
thought Fremont might like to come out
and deny the charge. At this the Roches-
ter Times, a Republican organ, said:
James Buchanan is an ass. Ii he isn't,
let him come out and deny it!
Il think the labor unions make great
mistake. They might be a tremendous
power for good. They might teach men
to be better and to do better. But do they ?
They ought to teach economy and saving
and teach men to work with an honesty of
purpose. When | was q boy and worked
on farm UP in Litchield County, Conn.,,
l used to work from daylight until it was
too dark to see and felt was doing only
what was right. Now men try to do the
smallest amount of work for the greatest
amount of money.
1--WE often told manufacturers that if
they would make the best article they
could for dollar they would acquire a
fortune, but if they make the poorest
thing they could for a dollar they would
be buried by the town in the end.
"Are there many changes contemplated
here following the appointment OF Mr..
Kruttschnitt as general manager? | don't
know of any, but we let those things come
along as seems BEST Mr.. Towne was a
charming mana charming man, and l
had hoped that he would come to
be the manager of both systems.
a ma
that, so We appointed Mr.. Kruttschnitt,
who is an able fellow. I've no idea that
Mr.. Morse is to come here, or that Mr..
kruttschnitt's appointment means that
any other consolidation of offices is to fol-
low.
"Ive noticed, of course, the recent re-
duction in our grain tariff ordered by the
Railroad Commissioners. 1t isn't right,
but I've no idea that anything but justice
will be done. The Supreme Court of Min
nesota has said that general scaling OF
the tariff In that manner was equivalent
to confiscation of property, and I've no
idea that anything of that sort will be per-
mitted in this country just yet-not so long
as the strong judicial arm of the Govern
ment is able to maintain ITSELF
II cannot say whether or not the request
for breakwater at Santa Monica will be
considered by Congress at the coming
session. Congress attends to those things.
There's no question as to which is the
better harbor down there, and the Con-
gressmen know it as we'll as do.
True, the Government engineers have
reported something about San Pedro.
They have nice little lagoon at San Pc
dro, where whaleboats used to run in at
high tide, but the harbor is unquestion-
ably at Santa Monica. l don't know
whether it really needs breakwater, for
I'm told there hasn't been time since our
wharf was built that deep-water ships could