The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
GLASS AND GLAZING.
Gossip of the DoingS of
the Railroad Men.

r. A. Murray, city passenger agent
of the Great Northern, believes there
is more money IN a political job than
in a railroad Office He served as an
election officer in Berkeley precinct
on Tuesday and received the sum of
$40 for looking after twenty-one votes.
1t cost about 800 to register these
ballots.
C. L. Canfeld.. general agent of the
Chicago. Milwaukee and ST. Paul. is
looked for next Monday
J.J. Byrne. passenger trafic manager
of the Santa Fe. little thought when
he prepared the kite-shaped folder for
the Santa Fe that the greatest use
it would be put TO would be by the
gfvers of progressive whist parties
The folder is in the shape of a kite
The start is made from Los Angeles
and the line continues around to that
city again. touching at Pasadena, PO-
mona, San Bernardino, Redlands.
Highlands and then again at San Ber-
nardino. Riverside, Orange. Fullerton
and Los Angeles. AS couple move
they 90 TO a station. and the first TO
reach Los Angeles gets the irst prize.
while the BOBBY prize goes to the
players who do not get beyond Pasa-
dena.
S. F. Booth, general passen ger agent
of the Union Pacific, who has returned
recently from Goldheld. says that thirty
TO forty miles of the GOldfeld and Ton
opah road have been built south Of
Goldheld toward Bullfrog and connec-
tfon will be made between the two
places within the next four months.
All the camps look well and a great
amount of mining machinery Is being
shipped in there, which proves the
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senger travel is extremely heavy. but
Tonopah and Goldheld, Booth says, are
sadly in want Of hotel accommodations.
John w. Brock. president of the Ton
opah Railroad. is at present in the
Greenwater district. where it is re-
ported some big strikes have been made
lately.
W A Bissell. assistant traffic man.
ager OF. the Santa Fe. will probably
leave for Los Angeles in a day or so
TO meet President Ripley. Mr.. Bisseu
says the volume of business in the
East is simply astonishing. and though
all the railroads thought they had pro-
vided themselves with sufficient equip
ment. it is impossible TO get enough
cars to haul the material offered.
F. W. Mcdonald. Industrial commits
sioner of the Santa Fe. announces that
the Santa Fe and the Las Vegas and
Tonopah Railroad have issued a joint
tariff with the Santa Fe from Daggett.
Mr.. Mcdonald says the new road is
doing good business both in freight
and passengers.
This road will really move all the
supplies for the big mining camps and
also machinery" ne observed yesterday,
and the news that a tariff has been
nj he Of nj 70 all
chants who ship foodstuffs into that
section of the country. Beans bacon
and -four are sent in there in vasA
quantities"
J. S. Leeds. manage OF the santa re
Refrigerator Dispatch Company. which
is solely a Santa Re corporation. ar
rived in the city yesterday from Chi
cage. Mr.. Leeds speaks OF the Santa
Fe as -the banana peel route be-
cause of the rapidity with which fruit
is slipped into Chicago. Il am out
here on pilgrimage" he remarked,
.and judging from what I hear. there
will be a big citrus shipment east this
season l shall stay here for few
days and viii then move on to Los
Angeles.
W. S. Palmer. general superintendent
for the northern division Of the South
ern Pacific; r. H Ingram. general SUI
perintendent of the southern division;
W. NJ Buckley. general superintendent
OF the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company. and z c. Manson. general
superintendent OF the Salt Lake df-
vision OF the Union Pacific, left Tues
day night for Fresno. The conferences
with the Order of Railway Conductors
is not yet concluded
Chief Engineer Dunn OF the Santa
Fe has completed an inspection Of the
route of the new Louisiana railway
from Shreveport TO New Orleans and
it is said that the object is preliminary
TO making traffic arrangements similar
to those completed recently between
the Louisiana railway and the Missouri.
Kansas and Texas.