The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-18
Gossip of the Doings
of Railroad Men


Phil K. Gordon. general agent of the
Washington-S Sunset route, is in the
southern part of the State. Gordon's
father, General Gordon. is returning
TO California by the Ell Paso gateway
and will be met in Los Angeles by the
former.
]. H. P. Mason, better known as
Jimmie" by his fellow workers in the
city ticket office of the Southern Pa
cific, and who is now in Tucson, AriZ..
having been appointed a travelling pas
senger agent of the Neutrality-suspicious.
route in the Territory. has already won
undying fame there as one of the
bravest of the brave. Mason was sit
ting in his Office one morning when he
heard the shrieks of women and the
screams of children. In a moment he
was on the street and there he beheld
wild broncho of the sun-scorched
plains charging down the highway and
terrorizing the multitude. "Jimme"
drew his trusty gun and with the first
shot brought the wild beast to its
knees and at the next shot the brute
gasped it's last
1t was also almost the last breath
Jimmie" breathed, for the owner of
the beast was even more ferocious than
the beast itself. But "Jimmie's" hero
ism was not to so unrewarded. The
Territorial Society was informed of his
gallantry. He has been made a life
member, and as il is the custom of that
organization to bestow new names on
honored members he has been label
ed as the phrase goes. Arizona Jim
ME" AT the same time Jimmie" has
been warned TO go slow" in shooting
cayuses, no matter how wild or
whether rderless.
H. p. Anewalt. assistant general
freight agent of the Santa Fe. and ].
l.. Dunley, superintendent of terminals
for the same company, will be back
this week from their trip to the Ha-
waiian Islands.
The Transportation Club will open
temporary quarters at So Eddy street,
owing to its home on Mint avenue hav-
ing been wrecked by last weeks storm.
Edward Chambers, assistant freight
traffic manager of the Santa Fe. in dis
cussing the car shortage situation, re-
marked yesterday: Business is exceed
ingly heavy all over the country, and
when the railroad business is heavy the
business of the merchant and also the
manufacturer is heavy, and not only is
the railroad overtaxed, but the receiver
VI The SOOuS Is lHCOl1DlOQ6Q, LOT 1T
takes him longer to unload. In other
words the receiver is hampered for
the want of facilities to take out his
goods. This is true also of the indi-
vidual consignee. His business has
grown beyond his capacity and his de-
lays serve to tie up the roads, for the
railroads are unable to make any CAL
culation as TO the release of cars, as
that depends on the merchant. While
ten out of a hundred may be ready to
unload promptly. others are not, and
the merchant does not take into con-
sideration that he may be at fault but
he lays all the blame on the railroad
for not having cars, and goes further
and says that the transportation COM
panies are holding cars back, when in
fact it is the merchant who is holding
back the cars. The business of the
manufactures has grown in the same
ratio as that of the railroads, and there
is not man who will not tell you that
he can get prompt service from the
manufacturer. People are ready to
criticise the railroads but if they
stop to think there is not a large
manufacturer who turns out his orders
promptly. They are without proper
facilities to handle their goods. The
railroad is in the business of manufac-
turing transportation and we give as
prompt service as any other manufac-
| turer.'
F. W. Mcdonald, industrial commits
sioner for the Santa Fe, has left for a
business trip to Chicago
! T. A. Graham, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Southern Pacific
in Los Angeles. is in this city.
William McMurray general passen-
! ger agent for the Southern Pacific lines
in Oregon, is in this city on a visit.
William Hood, chief engineer of the
Southern Pacific, returned last night
from the southern part of the State.
II. R. Judah returned yesterday from
visit to the Orient.
President e. P Ripley of the Santa
Fe gives to the employees of the COM
pany a Christmas greeting through the
medium of the magazine published by
/ the railroad. He thanks them for the
4 splendid work that has been done dur
! ing the year and wishes them nice
/ things for the year to come. The EN-
| lication. 1t deals with matters of in
! erick William Prince of the passen-
article. entitled Reconstruction of San
| Francisco
/ Townsend's Cal. glace fruits and can
dies at Emporium, Post and Van Ness
/ az nd