The San Francisco call., 1907-02-17
Gossip of Doings
of Railroad Men

III. J. Small, superintendent of motive
power of the Southern Pacific, left last
night for Portland to attend the an
nual meeting of the superintendent of
motive power of the Hartman lines.
The convention will be called to order
tomorrow. The steel car which was
built by Small at Sacramento has been
sent on to Portland and will be on eX-
hibition in that city for the benefit of
and also for the instruction OF super
intendents of the other lines on the
Hartman system.
J. II. Wallace. assistant chief engi-
neer of the Southerp Pacific, has COM
pleted the plans of the new depot which
/ is to be built at First and Broadway,
! Oakland, as soon as the material can
be assembled. The depot is to be a
handsome structure and will cost in
the neighborhood OF $50, 900. The COM
pany intends to build large passen-
/ ger depot at Berkeley, which will cost
| $4,000. Work on the new depot in
Los Angeles. which will cost $5eo.o00,
is to be commenced shortly. The next
/ most expensive depot is to be built at
Sacramento. which viii cost s25o.00o.
/ J. 3. Cook, who is interested in hotels
! in the Yosemite Valley. returned re-
4 Gently from d trip along the line OF the
new road which is being built to the
valley from Merced Falls Cook says
that there are about 100 men at work
and the road probably will be COM
pleted and in operation by May. He
said that the hotels in the valley would
be open by April l.
Track laying on the eastern end of
the Western Pacific has been delayed
I n vvi RI ha
been falling on the desert. making the
land too soft for work to be done. Lit
| tie was accomplished during January
and little has been attempted so far
but with the advent of fair weather
/ track laying will be recommended with
large gangs.
James B. Duffy of the Santa Fe and
James O'Gara of the Southern Pa
cific are escorting party of seventy
five Knights of Columbus to Mexico
City. They left last night and will
be absent about sixteen days.
Frank f. Fitzpatrick has been ap-
pointed general manager OF all the
! properties Of the Bay Counties Power
Company and 1t is reported that un-
der his direction the electric road
at Santa Cruz will be entirely recon
structed and built on standard gauge
lines.
william Hood, chief engineer of the
Southern Pacific. is back from his in
spection of the work that has been
done to restrain the waters of the
Colorado River.
E. E. Calvin. general manager OF
the Southern Pacific left last night
for an inspection OF the lines in the
southern part of the state
i The North Shore Railroad has just
placed an order for twenty electric
cars for use on the system.
Abner S. Mann of the passen ger
department of the Southern Pacific is
at his ranch in Mendocino Sounty.
W. r. Travis OF tho klamath Falls
stage Company and Captain Woodbury.
and Colonel Wilkins of the klamath
Lake Navigation CompanD and OF the
! Lake shore Stage Line are in the
city arranging for service into Kla-
math Falls from Pokegama and Grass
Lake They expect an enormous busi-
i ness into that section during the COM
i ing season. as the inquiries for land in
/ the reclaimed district have been ex-
i ceedingly large.
George w. Colby, general agent OF
the Great Northern, received tele-
4 gram yesterday announcing that the
Great Northern, which had beer
blocked for several weeks, was again
omen TO traffic