The San Francisco call., 1908-10-18
Gossip of Rai!waymen

Captain Hans Peter Laurintzen of the
Santa Fe ferryboat San Pablo an
nounced early in the summer that when
the duck season opened he would go
hunting and provide a feast for all his
friends in Alameda county.
i am no piker." explained the cap
tain, and when I say duck it will be
duck There are others who live in
Alameda county, and have shooting pre-
serves all to themselves, but did any
body to get duck from them?'
1t was last Monday that the captain
went on his duck hunting expedition
in one OF the smallest and swiftest
boats In the harbor. He said he would
be absent for two days. When almost
a week had slipped by with no sign of
the captain fear was entertained for
his safety. His friends wired all the
shooting boxes between here and Sac
ramento for tidings of the missing
sheliback, and no one had seen either
the captain or his boat
Some thought he had been drowned
IN the sloughs. Others feared one of
mis- howitzers had exploded, killing him
and blowing the boat to pieces. Each
new theory, more startling than the
last, plunged his family into deeper de-
SPAR. Finally he reappeared.
For heavens sake, captain, where
Don't talk to me about ducks, y
growled the captain. There are none
In this part of the world"
How do you make that out?'
why, 1 cfrcumnavigated the Farai-
lones, skfrted the coast till 1 was of
Alaska, went west till 1 must have
been abreast of Formosa, then south
TIL 1 was off the coast of Peru, and
then home, and never saw a duck in
all that time.
i guess W. c. Donnelly is the only
truthful hunter in California"
The Southern Pacific and the Santa
Fe have changed their switching basis
on carload lots moved from the ware
house on one road to a warehouse or
industry on the other road. Heretofore
tne charge has been 25 cents per ton,
minimum 50 per car for each road. The
new basis will be % cents per ton
minimum IS per car for the originating
line and 12h cents per ton, minimum
800, for the other line This will
make the switching charge $3.50 in
stead of $40, and will apply to all
points in California where there is
switching interchange letween the two
roads.
The Hartman lines, which have been
experimenting for some time with a
new cooling process, have decided to
adopt the Sprague system, and E. O.
mccormick wires from Chicago that il
VIII revolutioniZe the movement of
green fruit from California In a tele-
gram received from his office yesterday
Mccormick says:
Plants win be established at Roseville and Col.
ton; where the experiment work has been car
rleo on, one for the northern route and one for
me southern. IN connection with the expenditure
OF over Sl.oOo. 600 for ice making plants Forty
carloaos at a time can be thoroughly chilled
within four hours at the Cotton miami snd on
same degree of chill it would take four days In
the ordinary ice plant. The experiments OF the
department Of agriculture. which has been work
ing with the fruit shippers and the Southern Pa.
cinc, demonstrate that the greatest value lies In
the rapid reduction IN temperature which sus-
pends absolutely the decaying process of nature
AR blasts passing over ice are forced into +be
cars Dy vacuum exhaust. which in itself re-
moves the immediate chemical cause Of decay
The Southern Pacific MANAGEMENT annou1cas
that by this preservative method the distance
and time between California orchards and the
lated. "i
Green deciduous fruit shipments this year are
II IS believed that with the adoption of the Row
system the shipments easily be increased to
ZUOoO per year. Great benefits to both the cit-
rus and deciduous fruit growers viii result Cars
edA M De moved from any part OF the state to Col
ton or RoseTille within "a hours and as decav
win have no time to begin and there will be
1bsoiuteiy no opportunity thereafter until the
Iruit Is removed from the cars ID is believed
that II can be picked when ripper and better IA
FoFed than under old conditions.
Construction work on the Pacific