The San Francisco call., 1908-11-28
:: Gossip of Railwaymen

Five tramps were put off train at
Palo Alto recently, ana, after
brief consultation among themselves,
marched up to the depot and purchased
FIVE tickets for San Jose.
You fellows must be flush. said a
prominent citizen. ito be buying tick
cts. I thought that was against your
principles"
1T is, old hoss," said the leader of
the gang, but we hears that this ere
place is a collidge town, and every old
gag is worked to a turn. And what
inducements is there for gents like us
to stay here with no eigaroots nor
whisky neither. Besides 1 always
do so hates a collidge town. 1t re-
minds me of my young days.
Y. A. X. Fassett, traffic manager of
the klamath Lake navigation company,
was in the city yesterday, and in
speaking of what is being done on the
California Northeastern, said:
Commencing today the new line Har-
riman is building to Oregon Will move
its terminus from Calor. which is prae-
tically on the border of California and
Oregon, to Worden, four miles beyond,
and the next move will be TO Holland,
on Klamath straits, which viii give a
direct rail and steamer service from San
Francisco to klamath Falls. The indi
cations are that the road will be COM
pleted into klamath Falls by next sum-
mer. The most difficult piece of work
the railroad engineers have to encoun-
ter is the filing in of three miles
of swamp and there is an enormous
force of men on this task. There is
no cessation in the labor between Wor-
den and Holland, and three shifts of
men are kept on this stretch of road,
for work is prosecuted both by day and
by night.
ern end of the road. construction is to
begin on the northern end. working
south, and Erickson & Petersen have
moved a camp to Klamath Falls and
They have one huge steam shovel busy
near klamath Falls and another at u
place four miles below.
Immense quantities of construction
material is being rushed along the line
of the new road. 1T is received at
Blidell formerly Teeter's landing, and
transported by boats and barges to
klamath Falls up the klamath river.
That section of country will soon be
prosperous. 1t is said to be eminently
adapted to the growing of celery, and
the government has established near
Wild Horse Butte an experimental
farm, where 1t will grow celery and
cranberries so as to-put it out of the
question of these being problematical
crops. Then it is also great wheat
country, and the future territory for
the box shook
Last year we sent out of there nine
carloads of shocks and this year 80
carloads, and this Will be increased
next year.
w. J. Harahan, assistant to the
president of the Erie, one of the newly
acquired properties OF e. II. Hartman
! has positive ideas as to what qualifi-
cations a railroadman must possess
He is so clear in his utterances on this
I - nj
say railroadmen. that he must have q
/ long standing acquaintance with Garlic
| ton c. Crane, for after a careful can
vass of railroad row it was agreed
J there was no man on the coast who
! had all the virtues demanded by Hara-
han to fit him for the job OF railroad
/ ing, except c. c. Crane. Harahan's
! ideas were given out in a speech a
! the New York Railroad club, when he
/ said that a man to be successful in the
railroad business should have honesty
properly applied; loyalty; ability tc
! harmonize; industry thoroughness
love of work; common sense; original
| ity experience; ability to systematic
and organize; and proper treatment o.
subordinates. The ordinary business
sense and capacity and disposition tc
treat the public frankly and courte
ously are merely the necessary essen
tials.'
Harahan has left the other essential!
for another time to discuss. But wha
| is worrying the railroadmen is what h'
means by honesty properly applied
+. II Torpey of the Pennsylvania
road, in speaking of business, said yes
terday:
4 There can be no denying the faci
! that conditions are steadily iInproY-
ing. Railroadmen are in position tt
know by the orders they get for cars
| and we are receiving innumerable in
quiries regarding the transportation OF
| construction material.
This month alone we took out of the
i Pittsburg territory for San Francisco
/ SO carloads of steel construction, while
the plumbing supplies we have brough
here one would imagine were for &
| good sized town.
For instance, the Pennsylvania ha.
hauled % cars of bathtubs for the Pal
ace alone, and another % cars for Other
! houses. We have brought for the
Palace % cars of thing. two carload:
of machinery and two carloads of radi-
| ators. 1t is a question what line will
have the hauling to the coast for the
palace of 30 or 40 carloads of furni
ture and carpets.
w r. Alberger has found the bust.
ness of the Tonopah and Underwater
railroad grown so heavy since he as.
sumed the position of traffic manager