The San Francisco call., 1908-08-19
Gossip of RaiIwaymen

Did you also slip on banana peel?"
asked sympathetic friend of w. W.
Webster who had his arm in a sling
a la John A. Gill.
mo. sir" answered that uncrowned
hero. II received this most painful in
jury in saving a man from a terrible
death"
oh. you have gone into the life
saving business?"
Il will beg you to understand" re-
piled Billy with great hauteur. that
there is no vanity in my constitution.
This act was purely a voluntary one,
spontaneous combustion. as 1t were. of
all the braver elements within me, and
the mans life was saved"
How touching"
But l may burst up again with
spontaneous combustion" continued
Billy. Il will never attempt again to
save any one. / am being sued for
the price of new suit of clothes for
that act. It was this way: 1t was
near the life saving station and the
moon was on the wane, when a man
got so close to the car that he was
nearly struck.
Without a moments hesitation I
jumped at him. and with toss OF my
right arm l flung him clear off the
street and nearly into saloon"
Is he Srdl6Iul.
He does not know what it means. L
have been playing the part of King
Lear ever since. Why, that man has
the audacity to come into this office
and demand $50 for my having ruined
suit of clothes in saving him from
being ground into a pulp by Thornwell
Mullallys car
Did YOU ever in your life before
hear of man being sued by a man
for having saved biS lffa9s,
A. ]. Earling, president of the Chi
cago. Milwaukee and st. Paul, is the
ideal man for president according to
right of way man of that road In
speaking of an interview he had with
Earring, he says:
Il remarked to Mr.. Earling that, as
all the rights of way had been secured
into Seattle and Tacoma, L supposed
job
When this line is built we will vet
have something like 800. .000, 600 left
over to do some more building. There
VIII be branches built / would not
We're In your case. worry about work
to do, replied Earling
Paul Shoup. assistant general pas
senger agent of the Southern Pacific.
ras. He viii take with him Gilbert
Hassell. official photographer of the
Southern Pacific, and w. II. Bull, an
artist in the employ of the COMPANY.
Their objective point is the high wa
ters of the Kern and King rivers They
VIII also visit the Roaring river coun-
try and climb Mount Whitney, Mount
Iyndah and the kaweah peaks. being
absent for about two weeks
f. S. Granger. who built the lines
in the Santa Clara valley which have
been taken over by the Southern Pa
cific, is attempting to interest the resi-
dents OF the San joaquin valley in an
electric line from Hanford to Fresno
which. it is purposed, will run throu gh
Kingsburg and Selma, traverse the La
guna de Tache rancho and touch at
Laton. He was at Selma on Monday
trying to obtain franchises from the
townspeople and was expected at Fres-
no yesterday for the same purpose
1t is reported on excellent authority
that the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul viii have laid it's tracks into
Seattle and Tacoma by the first of the
year, but the formal opening OF the
line to traffic will be deferred till
June l.
III. p Anewalt of the Santa Fe has
been on trip through the Stockton
and Lodi country and reports that the
potato crop this year not only EQUALS
that of last year but is better than in
many previous years. There is a free
movement to Mexico, Kansas and. par
ticularly. to points in Texas. About
20 carloads a day are going east. The
Kaw river foods are responsible for
the heavy movement from the coast.
as they destroyed a great proportion