The San Francisco call., 1906-10-16
Gossip of Doings of
Railroad Men.

C. W. Colby. general agent of the
Great Northern, in speaking of the Hill
line of steamers. which ply between
Seattle and the Orient said yesterday:
These vessels have been doing an
immense business with China and
Japan during the last few months, and
the Minnesota, which will-leave Seattle
on October 20, goes out with a big
general cargo and a large passenger
list. Several San Francisco people
have taken passage on the Minnesota,
among them the family of George w.
Hooper of the firm of c. A Hooper
& Co. Mr.. Hooper is interested In the
California Manila Lumber and CONNER
clal Company and will make a stopover
In Japan and after spending few
weeks in that country will go on to
the Philippines. His party consists
OF i've persons. c. H Hilbert of this
city has taken passage also on the
Minpesota- He is going to the Philip
pines to take charge of the Philippine
Plantation Company, which has 43,756
acres in Cagayan Valley in Northern
Luzon. His home will be at the Ha
cienda Calabacao. General T. II. Good
man. who for many years was general
passenger agent OF the Southern Pa
cific. is president of the company. Mr.
Hilbert is accompanied by his wife
and child. William Robbins and Miss
Lola Allen. Charles NJ. Dickenson, one
OF the American Consuls General in
China. will be on the same boat Seattle
is doing her best to capture the China
trade and there were seven big steam
ers which sailed from there last month
for Hongkong. and all were heavily
laden"
Phil Gordon OF the Washington Sun
set Route is expected back from Ne
vada today and will leave tomorrow
for the southern part of the State.
T. X. Stateler OF the Northern Pacific,
though still confined to his home with
a broken leg. is said to be on the road
TO recovery. He admits. however, that
he is travelling slow freight" He
Will not be able to leave his home for
month.
Z. H. Prentice, brother OF Princess
Hatfield, and who is employed in the
office of 6. W. Fletcher as contracting
freight agent, will leave in a few
days for an extended tour of the old
world. Mr.. Prentice has been in the
employ of the Southern Pacific for the
past thirty years, and this will be his
first real vacation.
E. S. Andrews, who was formerly
travelling passenger agent for the Chi
cago Northwestern. has returned from
trip TO Chicago and was around the
various railroad Offices yesterday morn
ing telling his experiences in the East.
]. A Foster. private secretary to
Carlton c. Crane of the New York Cen
trail lines, returned yesterday from
vacation in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Mrs. D. T. Colby and Miss Colby.
mother and sister of G. w Colby. gen
eral agent OF the Great Northern, will
SAIL on the Cunarder Carmania for
Liverpool on October %. They Will
spend year abroad.
". H Davenport. general agent of
the Colorado Midland. left on Sunday
night for Los Angeles on business con-
nected with the company
Henry Lynch. who is looking after
the building OF the Peninsular Railway.
was in the city yesterday. He said:
There are two hundred men engaged
in laying track between Meridian Cor
ners and Halls, about ten miles from
completed in about a year. We have
also big force at work between May
field and Vasona- There are five hum
dred men at work there and three hun
dred and seventy-fiv teams. The line
from Mayf1eld will join the main track
at Nasona, which will then be joint
track into Los Gatos. We are secur-
ing rights Of way down the peninsula
and we hope to have a right of way
from Mayheld to San Mateo shortly
The line will be an electric road
Lynch declined to say whether the
Peninsular line intends to make Los
Gatos its terminal. or whether it will
2 hd
Tom Browne of London, whose name
appears on the St Francis Hotel reg
lister, has won for himself much fame
in railroad circles by his admirable
caricatures Of ]. c. Stubbs and E. 0.
Mccormick, with whom he went fish
ing in the Michigan woods Browne is
a wellknown English cartoonist, is
a member of the Savage Club and a
widely travelled man. He came here
| for the purpose OF travel and observa-
ton, and ii is suspected that on his
return TO London there will appear a
series of cartoons on American life.
Mr.. Browne drew the caricatures of
Stubs and Mccormick for the Chi
cago Tribune and Mccormick and
Stubbs look upon them as among the
most valuable of their art possessions
Mr.. Browne left yesterday for the Yo-
semitic and on his return will visit Del
MOnCes RdSO ROBES and the southern
! part of the State. He will leave for his
home early in November and has
promised Paul Shoup that he will come
TO California and go on a hunting ex-
pedition with him.
There was meeting Of all the rail-
road agents in the Flood building yes
terday, when a decision was reached
as to the signs that will be used to
announce the location of the different
/ foreign lines. Paul Shoup presided
The Southern Pacific took possession
yesterday of the San Francisco and
Ceos Bay steamship line, which oper-
ates between here and Coos Bay
The following Interpretation of the
Hepburn bill Will lay at rest all doubt
regarding the powers Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission with regard to
steamship lines. The opinion was OBJ
tained from a gentleman high in the
railroad world, who said:
The first section of the interstate
commerce law specifically provides that
the transportation OF property from
any foreign place to the United States