The San Francisco call., 1906-10-11
Gossip Of the Doings
Of Railroad Men.

An informal dinner was given last
night to Charles E. Stokes and Nor
man E Blanch OF the Thomas Cook e
sons Touring Agency by their railroad
friends in this city Stokes is booked
for a long trip around the world and
will leave tomorrow on the Nippon
Maru. He will be accompanied by
BIanch. who viii represent the COM
pany in Hongkong-
There are few transportation men
who are so well liked as Stokes and
he has been the recipient of many
CONGRATULATIONS on his being able to
circumnavigate the globe at the ex-
pense of his corporation The dinner
was given by S. F. Booth and Henry
AyiIa of the Union Pacific; A G. D.
Carroll. general agent of the Pacific
Mail: Harry Buck of the Pennsylvania
lines and Charles Rutherford of the
Rock Island
Napa Valley on business last Tuesday
brings back a wonderful horse story
He saws that as the train was ap-
preaching the city of Santa Rosa he
heard continuous shrek of the loco
motive and came to the conclusion that
somebody must be on the track trying
to commit suicide To his amazement
he saw deep Od9 Nurse Sd1lOplnS
down the track in front of the engine
Right ahead of the horse was trestle.
which. Buck declares, Is fully thirty
feet long. The animal raced across
the trestle as If 1t were a piece OF
wagon road. Ahead was another
trestIe. The train came to halt and
the trainmen went forward and drove
the horse away, as it refused to nego-
tiate the second trestle-
H V. Platt. superintendent of the
Los Angeles division of the Southern
Pacific. is a man after the heart of the
late Coils F. Huntington. who hated
to see anything go to waste. 1t ap-
pears that Platt was at Cotton re-
Gently and was going through the
Yards when he saw a brand new spike
shining in the sand He picked it up
and then sought the foreman of the
yard.
DO you know he said to that
worthy. that spikes cost money. This
spike is worth at least a quarter of a
cent. wholesale. You must teach the
men that a railroad to be kept out of
the hands of a receiver must be run
on strictly economical principles 1t
is Just such wicked waste that has
ruined many road
AN did ye foind thot?' asked the
foreman III al oui1itAnS Iono "
voice.
Il did"
Well, well. that bates iverything
Here I have had noine min all the
bIissid naornin' troying to foind thot
spoke and not one av thin found it
but yersilf"
Nine men at the rate of So a day.
PIatt left the yard sadder man
Henry Avila, who represents the Gu
nard line, announces that he has re-
ceived circular from the head ONCE
that the steamer Caronia will leave
New York on January and February
1s on a special trip to Alexandria,
Egypt
t. E. Gibbon. vice president and
chief counsel of the San Pedro, Los
Angeles and Salt Lake road. has re-
turned from vacation 10 Honolulu,
where he went for the benefit of his
health. Mr.. Gibbon was in town yester-
day and said that he had made many
trips during the last few years, but
he had never enjoyed himself so much
as he did on this occasion.
T. ]. Kelly of the Southern Pacific
has returned from vacation at Gilroy
Hot Springs.
P r Lund, chief train agent of all
the Hartman lines. will leave on Fri
day for his regular trip to the south
ern part OF the State
NJ z. Clute. travelling train agent
of the Southern Pacific, is in sonoma
on business.
Artist j. Cress. who has done many
OF the large wall paintings for the
Southern Pacific, had an experience
lately which he is not likely TO forget
He was employed to do the large paint
ing on the east wall of the Flood build
ing OF the limited crossing the Lucin
cutoff. He was 40 feet above the
ground. and remembering that he
wanted something he thought that he
would make swift descent. He
wound the rope around his arm and
one OF his legs and began to slide
The distance was farther than he
thought and when he reached the earth
he found that his right arm was para
Iyzed He had to lay off week before
he recovered the use of the arm
Joseph McE1roy. Pacific Coast agent
for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
was on a business trip through Sonoma
and Napa counties last Monday and
Tuesday.
H P Wood. secretary of the Ha-
waiian promotion committee, left for
Los Angeles yesterday. Mr.. Wood will be
the guest of the Southern Pacific Com
pany and he will travel through the
State in order TO acquire knowIedg ge
which will be useful to him when he
returns TO the island.
The many friends OF A. Ottinger will
be glad 10 hear that he is recovering
from his recent painful accident in the
park. Ottinger has been confined to
his room since Sunday, but he is hope
full of being able TO be out within a
few days
The Southern Pacific Company start
ed out one OF its new Photographic
cars yesterday to take photographs of
Industrial scenes in the San Joaquin
Valley to replace the pictures destroyed
in the fire The car is in charge of
G. Hassell and is well fitted up for