The San Francisco call., 1908-05-13
Gossip of RaIIwaymen

He was a gallant sailor and stout
enough to engage in half dozen bat
ties with all the odds against him. He
was not quite vanquished in his last
encounter with hospitality. but was in
that condition when it would have been
no disgrace to cry enough"
He was tacking down Market street
when he encountered Jack Inglis of the
Union, Pacific. Jack beamed on the
sailor and the sailor beamed on him.
Say mate" said the sea dog, "let
me know your name and your address.
Fact is we'll you know how Ii is, see
ing as you are a gentleman, to have
been on a time for three days and then
to be awfully thirsty. If you could
let me have Is cents 1T will be re-
turned. My name is"
Look OUT said Jack. here comes
| the patrol"
Fine fellows. said the sailor, fine
fellows. Watch me. pass them"
He Strengthened out threw his chin
into the air and. thinking he had es-
capped detection. resumed his loose, dis
| jointed walk
You don't think me drunk. do you?"
he was heard exclaiming to the pa
troll, who took him in charge. IF you
do, ask that gentleman. He was COM
plimenting me on my being the only
sober man in San Francisco this morn
ing"
John D. Isaacs, consulting engineer
for the Hartman lines, Is on an in
spection of the oil pipe line. which is
now being constructed from Vulcan,
Kern county. to Port Costa.
The line" said Isaacs. will be 2SS
miles long and 1t was the intention
to have 1t completed by June l, but
owing to the delay in obtaining ma
terial 1t will not be finished until
either the last of June or the middle
OF July. Five pumping stations have
been built and everything looks prom
ising for a good service"
]. NJ. Neeland. vice president OF the
| Pan-American railroad, announces that
about June he will take up with the
government OF Mexico a formal appli-
cation to build the Mexican Pacific be-
tween Jalisco, state of Chiapas, on the
Pacific, and Campeche on the Atlantic
The road is to be S12 miles long and
will make connections with the Pan
American in Chiapas and the United
Railways of Yucatan at Campeche.
/ concessions have been secured already
from the state of Chiapas and federal
concessions will be shortly applied for
i from the government to cover the en-
tire route. together with privileges re-
garding taxation and importation of
material The estimated cost of the
road Will be s25. 200. 900 of our money.
i A standard gauge road has been oper-
ated along the Yucatan coast for years
running between Campeche and Pro-
i greso. This is to be linked by the
4 Mexican Pacific with direct connections
to all northern points of Mexico and
the United States. Neeland expects to
be in the City of Mexico in about two
weeks to prepare the way for his en-
terprise.
California has received since the first
of March 23.571 immigrants and there
are still a few more days to hear from,
as the time limit is nine days before
4 the colonist rate goes out Though
the immigration to the coast has not
been as great as in former years. 1t
lis said by the. railroad people that
California has received more bona fide
immigrants than any other year in
which the colonist rate has been op-
erative. The immigration was as fol-
lows FL Paso, 1862; Ogden. 1859;
Portland, 2.54s, and Los Angeles. 571.
/ Joseph McIlroy of the Missouri. Kan
!, sas and Texas has just returned from
ans extended trip through the south
j, west. In speaking about his visit to
Imperial he remarked that in the VI
} cinity of Ell Centros16, 900 orange trees
had been set out the past season. and
that several acres had been planted
out to asparagus. The train on which
he rode had ITO passengers. and the
, conductor told him that the immigra-
tion into the valley had for several
months been about 200 a day.
William Mckay, manager of the Lake
Tahoe baseball team, and. incidentally,
lemployed by the Southern Pacific. has