The San Francisco call., 1906-11-29
Gossip of Doings of
Railroad Men
All the railroad offices will be closed
IN honor of Thanksgiving.

All the railroad offices will be closed
IN honor of Thanksgiving.
Peter Harvey, general agent of the
Baltimore and Ohio, says that it is
worth the while of any railroad man
TO cross the continent and see the new
general offices of his company in Balti-
more. ut is the finest building in the
world" declares Peter 1T is thirteen
stories in height, 1SOx150, and cost
$z,225,000, and is on the corner of
Baltimore and Charles streets. 1t took
exactly two years to build. Why, you
have no idea of the magnificence of the
building. Every head of the depart
ment has corner room and a bath,
hot and cold shower. and a lounging
room, Then the head of every depart
ment has his own private dining room.
where he can entertain his friends
at the expense of the company. The
very finest chef in Baltimore is hired
by the company to take charge of the
dining rooms of the heads of depart
ments- Then there is a dining room
for the clerks. who are given their
luncheons free. The company believes
that It is better to feed the employees
than have them wandering all over
the city and be late in getting to their
Offices Harvey left last night for Los
Angeles.
II. II. y JuudH, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Southern Pacific,
writes from Japan that he has recov-
cred his health and expects to be back
in San Francisco by the middle of De-
cember
w. S. Hooper, now the cashier Of the
San Bernardino National Bank, is in
the city on visit. Hooper used to sell
tickets for the railroad company thirty
qf the f00f n Market
street. He says the company had a shack
at the foot of Davis street and a boat
used to go over to Oakland once every
hour and one to Berkeley once every
two hours. Hooper later was the
Southern Pacific's agent in Cotton. He
was in the ferry building yesterday
renewing old acquaintances.
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L. S. Stanton of the Chicago Milwau-
kee and st. Paul returned yesterday
from Watsonville, where he has been
corral1ing several carloads of apples,
which are destined for the English
market He says that there is a splen-
did crop of Newton apples and many
hundreds of cars are being shipped
direct to London. The fruit is sent in
refrigerator cars and it takes thirty
days to reach the destination. The
English people care for no other apple
than the Newton pippin and the grow
ers are deriving a handsome thing out
of the taste of their friends across the
Atlantic.
The Santa Fe people are certain that
they will be in their new offices in
the Monadnock building by next Sat
urday. The place is beautifully fitted
up and the Santa Fe will have one
of the handsomest offices in the coun-
try.
Andrew Stewart of the Chicago and
Alton started for long trip through
the Sacramento and San Joaquin val
leys yesterday. He expects to be abb
sent for about two weeks.
Edward Chambers of the Santa Fe.
in speaking Of the orange crop, said:
'It has been a source of surprise to
many people not connected with the
railroad business to learn that not
withstanding the increased acreage in
oranges this season the output will be
the same as last year from the south
ern counties. The number of cars that
will be sent out will be between $4,000
and $4,000. The crop is light There
is an increase In the PorteryilIe sec
tion and also farther north and
think that there will be fully 1000 cars
sent East from the northern part of
the State"
Henry Lynch. who is looking after
the interests of the Peninsular Railway
as consulting engineer. says that the
work of building north is proceeding
satisfactorily and that he went over
five miles of the. road from Meridian
Corners to Halls in a car yesterday.
The line so far is only single tracked.
w. l.. McGinnis has been appointed
cashier of the Pullman Car Company
in this city. McGinnis is well known
In railroad circles and is a general
favorite with the public.