The San Francisco call., 1907-03-12
Gossip of theDoings
of Railroad Men


ceiving from the East about 1000 per-
sons a day, and II this ratio be kept up
till the last day of April San Francis
CO, to which the majority of the trav-
elers are coming, will have a respecta-
BILE addition to her population. The
numbers that have been taking advan-
tage of the colonist rate is far in ex-
cess of that Of other years and it is in
teresting to note that the Northwest
which had quite a boom in population
in the last two years, is getting but
little patronage this year. The general
offices of the Southern Pacific give out
the following figures for a single day
Saturday: ogden 446, Ell Paso 301,
Portland 72. Los Angeles 7. These,
with 129 reported by the Santa Fe.
make total of 995 persons, and this
is the smallest number since the colo
mist rate went into effect on March 1.
Monday morning reports from Oak
land to the operating office of the
Southern Pacific read like those of
general action. There are always some
killed and injured to be reported, and
it seems as though on the second day
Of the week men were more anxious to
cross the path of speeding trains than
on any other day. The summary yes
terday was as follows;
J. Southern, badly bruised and sent
to the hospitals struck while crossing
in front of q railroad train which was
running at the rate Of twenty miles an
hour.
Gee Up, Chinese. head cut and other
wise bruised. Gee Up tried to cross In
front of a moving train which was go-
ing at the rate of eight miles an hour.
Thomas Fernando, left leg cut OFF be-
low the knee. He said he had no idea
the Southern Pacific could move trains
so rapidly.
p Murphy, trackwalker for the
Southern Pacific; killed by Santa Fe
extra. travelling at the rate of thiry
miles an hour. Murphy was dead when
picked up.
There was high water at the foot Of
Broadway, Oakland, yesterday morning
and several ladies and Carleton c.
Crane objected to leaving the train at
that station and swimming to dry land.
BY common consent Crane was selected
as chairman of the grievance commit
tee to wait upon Conductor Nutting and
ask him to devise ways and means for
the passengers to get ashore without
being drowned.
regarded as a whole Hfe-saving crew.
Make fast the bow line" he COM
mented, as Conductor Nutting placed
the plank In position.
Let go there, aft" shouted Crane,
and as he stepped on the plank II was
deftly withdrawn. Had 1t not been for
his athletic training he would have
been precipitated head foremost into
the muddy pool
Did you ever see such lot OF land
lubbersp remarked Crane. as he gazed
at the grinning trainmen.
Captain A H Payson returned on
Sunday evening from Santa Barbara.
where he had been, as he explained,
not on railroad business, but to give
President Ripley his revenge at golf.
Payson again proved his prowess by
defeating Ripley. His success possibly
was the reason for w. A. Bisseu hav-
ing left for Santa Barbara yesterday
morning. Bissell. however, intends to
go as far as Los Angeles on business
for the company.
@. q. E. USHER, assistant passenger
traffic manager of the Canadian Pacific,
arrived In this city yesterday and will
make a tour of the coast before re-
turning to his home at Winnipeg. It is
said he will appoint district passenger
agent with headquarters In this city
before leaving for the East.
A meeting of the Transcontinental
Passenger Association Is scheduled for
May at the Glenwood Tavern, River
side. The passenger agents In this
city expect that the congress will be
largely attended by the passenger traf-
ao officials throughout the country.
Spillman J. Marks. who has been pas
senger agent In the Union Pacihcs Of
fees in this city for three years, has
been ordered to Los Angeles as city
passenger agent in that place His
position here will be taken by G..
Lowry.
H. p. Anewalt assistant general
freight agent Of the Santa Fe. who
has been in Arizona and the Southwest
on business for the company. returned
yesterday.
r. n Jones. who has been the general
freight and passenger agent OF the
Santa Fe for many years at Prescott
Ariz., has resigned to engage in private
business and will be succeeded by Paul
R. Hastings, who has been the auditor
OF the Santa Fe. Prescott and Phoenix