The San Francisco call., 1908-09-24
Gossip Of RaiIwaymen

Il want ticket to Hodson." said an
old man at the Union Pacific office
yesterday.
.'Hodson?" queried Tom Tilley;
where is that?"
well, | swear. Don't know where
Hodson is? Why, it's in Maine"
"Ah, certainly replied Tilley. Il
was not thinking when I spoke
Say. boss" continued the man. II
amt been there for SO years and 1 am
SO now. Do you suppose they will
remember me? People up in Humboldt
where / live say 1 hain't changed a
whack since 1 come there so years
ago."
We'll, you are a remarkably young
looking man l must say" replied Til
ley. You don't look day older than
Avila over there, and he is said to be
the handsomest man in railroad row.
We'll, then they'll all remember me
when I get there continued the old
man. as he gazed with unfeigned ad-
miration on handsome Henry.
What kind of ticket do you want
I guess you want sleeper said
Tilley.
"A what? What was that you said?"
he asked sharply.
"a sleeper; berth. you know, where
you can go to bed at night
fool with your uncle like that. 1 DON t
care what kind of train you've got;
what kind of carriage you've got.
All 1 wants is a place where / can sit
down and smoke my pipe. I won't
have the folks at the old home say.
Jabez is putting on airs because he
lives in California No, sir, am going
to show them there are people in Cali
fornia who have some sense left"
G. S. Fee, passenger traffic manager
of the Southern Pacific. has returned
from the Yellowstone park, where he
and E. o. Mccormick. assistant traffic
director of the Hartman lines, spent
10 days.
ssThe opening of a line to the Yellow
stone park is one of the greatest things
that could have happened in the west"
he remarked yesterday. Before the
opening of the road the park was not
easily accessible to the people of this
state. but it is now short trip into the
heart of the national domain. This
season we carried $500 people into the
park, which is merely an earnest of
what we will do in the future"
Franklin X Lane is expected in this
city early next month, when he will
hear the complaints of both the San
Francisco and the Los Angeles mer-
chants and importers against the South
ern Pacific and the Santa Fe for charg-
ing them switching tolls for moving
cars to private side tracks 1t is
expected that before coming here Com
missioner Lane will stop at Reno and
hear the complaints of the merchants
there against what they claim Is toe
high a rate on goods shipped to them
from the east.
Captain John A. Mellon of Colorado
river fame is in the city, and says that
as there has been an enormous dam
thrown across the Colorado river, and
as his steamer was not constructed tc
climb wall Is feet high he is out OF
business. There is no telling when
Mellon began to navigate the turbid
waters of that river from Yuma to al
most where the Colorado river rises. II
is said of him that he has seen the
phantom ship OF the desert, which has
lured many a prospeetor to his death
and has fought more sidewinders. Gila
monsters. Indians. horned toads floods
storms and mosquitoes than any otter
living man. The captain is here on
a visit and spends most of his time
crossing and recrossing the bay. as be
feels more at home on a ship than In
q hotel.
BY the loss of two vessels laden
with canned salmon from the north
a tenth of the total expected ship
mcftS through this mort IN fha east