The San Francisco call., 1906-10-30
Gossip of Doings of
Railroad Men.

/ of the Union Pacific, and H. o. Wilson.
/ general agent freight department of
the same line, expect to leave during
the week for the mining districts of
Nevada. Booth will introduce Wilson
to the big shippers in Tonopah and
Goldfield.
/. M schumacher, traffic manager of
the Ell Paso Southwestern, arrived in
! the city yesterday schumacher came
| here to install the new agent, Wilde,
| in his position and also to look UP his
old business associates.
J. A. Munroe. freight traffic manager
of the Union Pacific, is at present in
Los Angeles and is expected in the city
during the week
Captain A H Payson of the Santa
Fe has left for the East and it is re-
ported that he will meet President Rip
ley at Albuquerque and travel with
him to the coast With President Rip
ley are all the high officials Of the
Santa Fe system, including J. w. Ken
bricks, second vice president G. T.
Nicholson, third vice president; w. E..
Jansen, fourth vice president, and Chief
Engineer w B. Storey Jr 1t is said
that Ripley's visit to the coast is with
out any particular significance and that
AAO 40 Oii iiio iCS uldI annual iHSpccIlOn
trip. They are expected in San Fran
cisco the latter part of next week
M. E. Clute, travelling train agent
of the Southern Pacific, is in Los An
geles
H. R. Judah. assistant general pas
senger agent of the Southern Pacific,
left this morning on the Coptic for
a trim TO the 0r{anf 10 ~
absent for about seven weeks
General Manager Calvin of the South
ern Pacific has established a night in
FORMATION bureau at the Oakland pier
This Office will have special telephone
and people will have no difficulty in
locating trains after the offices on this
side OF the bay are closed.
A ID. Daniel of the Atlantic Coast
line is on pleasure tour of the coast.
Tom Richardson, manager of the
Portland Commercial Club, is here on
a visit and expects to leave for the
north on tonights train. There are
Few men who have such a wide ac-
quaintance with railroad men as Rich
ardson. He has announced his inten-
tfon of stopping off at Drain. Ore, and
addressing the students of the Normal
School on railroads and the great
northwest
e. o. Mccormick, assistant traffic di-
rector OF the Hartman lines, is in
Los Angeles. AS Mccormick has not
taken any one in the ferry building
into his confidence it is not known
when ne will be in the city.
Charles S. Fee, passenger traffic man
ager OF the Southern Pacific left Chi |
cago for this city few days ago via |
New Orleans. but changed his mind and
is back again in the Windy City
James Horsburgh Jr., general passen- |
ger agent of the Southern Pacific, is in |
Washington, D. c..
a e. jackson, who has been appoint
ed to take charge of the advertising |
department of the Hartman lines in
oregon, will leave tonight for his new
post in Portland.
Peter Harvey. general agent of the
baltimore and Ohio, has returned from
Los Angeles
). L. Buell.. who was with the South
erh racine Tor many years and is now
the secretary and general manager of
the klamath Falls Land and Trans
portatlon Company, will leave tonight
Tor his home at klamath Falls. Kla-
math Falls was once called Linkville.
nut is now thriving city with brick
buildings and electric roads. Mr.. Buell.
says that company is now building a
pelt electr1c line to Lake Warner and
the town of Merrill. There is also an
electric line from klamath Falls TO
merrill, which is twenty-four miles
long, and branch to Bonanza eighteen
miles long. This is the work of Seattle
CAPITALISTS. There is now running on
the Lower klamath a steamboat capa
Die OF carrying 200 passengers and
Vessei on the Upper Klamath can ac
commodate 800 people. He adds that
there are three big corporations buyin.
up all the timber land in that country
one group of financiers is from Seattle
another from New Orleans and tbe
third from California.
The passenger department of the
southern Pacific announces that com
henclhg on November l there will be
: sleeper set out at Bakersfield which
Will De picked up by the Owl
1t rs reported that the arrival here
next week of President Ripley of tbe
santa he will be followed by soma
lennlte announcement as to the re- ,
atlons OF the Southern Pacific and :
santa re regarding the operation of
ne California Northwestern. San Fran
.lsco northwestern and the North shore
oaus py the proposed new holding
company, in which Ripley and Harri
nan are to have equal interests. II is I
sommon talk in local railroad circles {
nat the consolidation of the coast {
mes under the control of a holding {
'ompany VIII be followed by the as {
endency of Manager James ApIer of
ne California Northwestern and North {
1hore road to similar position with !
ne new corporation. and the retire
nenl ~ from an executive position of A |
mentioned. oo
The Emperor of China rises ar fo,u ,
,ciock in the morning to study Eng :
isn and Manchu before breakfast l. I
vnlch meal is at 5. He makes up for