The San Francisco call., 1907-02-16
Gossip of the Doings
of Railroad Men


A circular issued from the office of
the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Com
pany yesterday announced the follow
ing appointments:
James Agler, general manager, with
offices in San Francisco: B. f. Porter,
assistant general manager. in charge of
with offices at Eureka; r x. Ryan,
general passenger and freight agent at
San Francisco; H. w. Ellicot, general
purchasing agent, vice H. c. Whiting,
deceased. with offices at san Francisco;
+. X. Zook, engineer in charge of main
tenance of way, with other duties in
connection with new construction.
F. B. Winship of the Illinois Cen
tral, who was receiving the congratu-
lations of his brother railroad men for
having succeeded in bringing a train
of thirty-two cars of automobiles into
this city in eight days, is now being
quietly laughed at by his competitors.
Winship hates to hear the word auto
mobile mentioned in his presence The
day after the publication of the news
Winship was called on by prominent
citizen:
Il believe you are the gentleman
said the prominent citizen affably,
who hauled in a trainload of auto
mobiles from Chicago to San Franz
cisco in eight days?"
Il am, answered winship. beaming
over with pleasure at the fame he had
acquired suddenly.
Then, sir thundered the irate citi-
zen, how can you stand there and
look me in the face? DO you know,
81 haf u y
road 10000 spring shirts all of the lat
est design, ninety days. and when I
ask about these shirts, you plead your
inability to get them through because
of the congestion Of freight Shirts,
sir 10000 spring shirts. are left upon
the road and a whole cargo of murder
Gus machines are brought in on pas
senger time. / will sue the Illinois
Central.
Now, please tell me where I can
find Mr.. S. F. Booth He is the man
who said that the Union Pacific car
ried those automobiles on limited
time. I have patience, sir; patience as
slow as the Illinois Central and the
Union Pacific combined. but I am
| aroused now and I want to see that
man Booth
The Southern Pacific has put in a
fare of one and third from Saturday
to Monday for parties of three desiring
to- visit any point north of Bakersfield,
south of Red Bluff and north of San
Luis Obispo. This is regarded as most
important, as it will induce people to
secure places in the country who will
still retain their homes in this city.
l.. G. Sennard of the passenger depart
ment of the Southern Pacific, in speak
! ing of this, said:
There are 10000 mechanics in this
/ i.aifx lox
solely because they have been attracted
by the prospect of high wages, but be-
cause it is California. These men are
desirous of settling in the State and
are anxious to buy small property
which can be developed while they
work. 1t is our aim to get these peo-
| pie to go out into the country and see
what we have in the San Joaquin and
Sacramento valleys. This has been
| done in Los Angeles with success, and
/ there is no reason why we should not
apply the same methods here to build
UP our territory"
Edmund Burke has been appointed
chief clerk of the purchasing depart
nent of the Southern Pacific. He will
succeed II. w. Ellicott, who has been
made the purchasing agent of the
Northwestern Pacific.
Along railroad row it is noted as
something remarkable that there have
been no changes authorized on freight
rates for at least week. 1t is hoped
that this condition presages the issu-
ance of the new tariffs which have
been looked for so long. There are
now forty-four supplements TO the
/ west bound and fifty to the east bound
tariff for a railroad man to wade
through, to say nothing of the shipper
who. of necessity, cannot be familiar
with them.
t. j. Norton of the law department
of the Santa Fe arrived in this city
yesterday.
Charles E. Stokes of the Cooks Tour
list Agency has been touring through
Ceylon and comparing the size of his
feet with the alleged imprint of that
I of Adam, who, the natives say, visited
the island and memento of his
wanderings left an impression of one
visiting Begums. Maharanis and other
noble ladies at their gold -bedecked
palaces.
! w. j. Shotwell of the Denver and Rio
Grande, who went to Reno on a busi-
ness trip. is back in this city.
j. C. Stubbs treated most of the
people in the Flood building to a
genuine surprise by appearing at the
railroad offices yesterday. 1t was
thought he had gone East. but instead
of that he had been at Tonopah and
Goldfeld and it is said he will make
quite q stay here