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

George w. Fletcher, district freight
agent of the Southern Pacific, who has
been in the hospital for the past three
weeks, has sufficiently recovered to at
tend his office for an hour or so a day.
He is a wool shipper, and his focks
roam the northern hills. The fleece he
culled this year was the finest In the
land, and he was in a hurry to get the
wool East. He was waited on by all
the persuasive and eloquent freight
treaties he turned deaf ear.
mo, no." he replied gently to the
gentlemen of the various lines. 81 like
you all personally; I am charmed with
your eloquence, your extraordinary We
racity, the beauties of your respective
lines, but candor compels me to state
that you never live up to your prom
ises. I have friends among the mer-
chants, and they tell me they could
make better time across the continent
with an OK team. Oh. no, Mr.. Ritchie,
I am not referring to your line This
is merely generality. I am indulging
in the same sort of metaphors you
railroad men use when you talk of fast
freight time
Pacific. you can't ship your wool
around the Horn?'
II have a better plan than that" was
the answer. Il am going to ship my
wool up to Portland and then East by
the Northern Pacific.
THAT is a daring experiment."
laughed Wilson to himself; but aloud
he said, 81 hope the Northern Pacific
will do we'll by you
Now Wilson and the rest of the
freight men in the city are chuckling.
The wool shipper is begging the Harri-
man people to get his wool out of
Portland and send 1T East. The North
ern Pacific is badly congested and
says, virtually, that it does not care
rap for the thirteen cars of wool that
are offered.
| kilograms were flying fast and thick
early yesterday morning between this
city and Portland. andathe wool grower
was heard to exclaim that he believed
thirteen an unlucky number.
H. c. Bush,S-trafic manager of the
Colorado Midland, is in the city and
will sail on the Mariposa for Tahiti on
Monday. Bush is well known here
for he was with the Santa Fe for many
years when it had its offices in the
Phelan building. Everything is pros
porous in Colorado" he remarked yes
terday; there is big boom in mining
and in agriculture and everybody is
been opening up a number of cement
mills and / understand we have quite
large colony of San Francisco peo-
| pie in Denver and elsewhere. l am GO
! ing to Tahiti for the benefit to be de-
rived from a sea voyage My daugh-
ter is with me and so is w. w. Nichols
and his sister. Nichols is the vice
| pany"
! The railroad men who have been
nearly freezing to death in the ferry
nave are confident that by next week
they will be housed In their new quar-
ters in the Flood building. The Union
! Pacific passenger department will be
/ the first to move, and it will be at the
corner of Powell and Ellis streets on
Tuesday. With the exception of the
| Colorado Midland and the Great North
ern. all the important foreign lines will
be in the Flood building. The two roads
named will be In the Monadnock build
/ ing.
Malone Joyce district freight and
passenger agent of the Colorado Mid
land in Los Angeles. is in this city.
Joyce has come to town with a fresh
stock of stories for the de1ectation of
Traffic Manager H. C. Bush He came
here to see Bush off on his voyage to
the islands of the South Seas.
Edward Chambers of the Santa Fe.
who went to Chicago to attend the
meeting of the Transcontinental Asso-
citation, is on his way to this city.
G. J. Jones, assistant general freight
agent of the Southern Pacific. has been
able to return to his Office after an III
mess Of several weeks.