The San Francisco call., 1908-04-02
Gossip Of RaiIwaymen

There are to be gay doings at the
TRANSPORTATION club during the month.
Next Saturday the first lunch will be
served in the clubrooms, and is to be
repeated every saturday 1t Is hoped
that shortly lunch will be served every
day. On the anniversary of the great
disaster, which falls on Saturday, the
club will keep open house, and the
friends of railroadmen are invited to
make merry at the clubrooms. On
April % the club will hold ladies'
night and v. M. Smith, Bode K. Smith
and w. w. Webster promise that 1t
will be a musicale and vaudeville
show. Professionals have expressed
their Willingness to appear at the en-
tertainment, and Andy Stewart who
has a repertoire which even exceeds
that of Captain W. G. Leale in num-
bers and excellence, has given his word
that he will be on the program. His
only condition is that no flowers or
anything else be thrown at him.
'orhe practice of April fool joking"
saids~Charles Wilder to E. Black Ryan.
while lunching yesterday, lis utterly
reprehensible and / am glad to say
that nobody ever attempted to play
such silly pranks on me-"
mo, Charley" replied Ryan, 'T don't
believe any one ever did joke with
YOU"
.It depends on the man." continued
Wilder. "The reason 1 escape these
indignities Is because / never lose the
sense of my dignity. I am afraid I
would do something desperate If were
subjected to a joke Of this vulgar
kind" and then Wilder began to cough
violently and to cast baleful glanoes
at Ryan.
"What's the matter" asked Ryan
III ,er,o cr uyif r>fn
1T looks as If it were made Of
sawdust," observed Ryan.
There will arrive on Friday by the
Mongolia so Japanese who are on a
tour around the world. They will be
met by Charles E. Stokes and S. +.
Booth, and will be driven around the
city in automobiles. They will be en-
tertained at the ferry building by the
commercial bodies and will visit the
university and Oakland The members
of the party are big businessmen, i'm
porters, exporters, bankers, merchants
and seven newspaper proprietors. Three
interpreters accompany them and there
are three ladies in the party. They
will stay over at Salt Lake City and
hear an organ recital, and will spend
a few days in Chicago before going on
to New York and Washington.
That the Pacific coast is looking to
the state Of Chihuahua for it's beef may
he Judged from the fact that several
carloads of beef cattle have been
started from the town of Sauza for
California during the last few days,
over the Mexican Central It is un-
derstood that a contract has been TAX
en- by a meat packing concern in this
city for $4,000 head, delivery to begin
at once.
The Berkeley depot of the Southern
Pacific, which is said to be the most at
tractive architecturally In the west.
will be opened for occupancy in few
days. The Berkeley chamber of COM
merce expects to use 1t as central re-
ception place during the entertainment
of the fleet. The new depot at Millbrae,
which is also handsome in design. Will
be finished in a few weeks. A tempo
rary structure has been built at South
San Francisco and permanent station
building at Bay Shore.
D. j. Patterson, chief architect OF the
Southern Pacific, returned on Monday
night from Salt Lake City. The Harri-
man lines are building union depot
there and Patterson is experimenting
the work. 1t Will be one of the hand