The San Francisco call., 1908-07-21
Gossip Of RaiIwaymen

Il am willing to concede," remarked
Frederick w. Prince yesterday on his
return from his vacation, that the Yo-
semitic is really beautiful, and since my
road takes passengers into the valley
am still more convinced that it is a
place worth visiting.
II walked and rode over all the
trails and fshed. Well, the fishing
there is a wonder. / am about one of
the best trout fishers in the country,
but, unfortunately, have not kept up
my sprinting, and so lost good many
trout that should have eaten
What's that about sprinting?" asked
Robinson of the Wabash, whose speed
has won him considerable renown in
the Santa Fe offices.
1T was this way" explained Prince.
Il landed the fish all right. One morn
ing, at Little Yosemite, / caught an
enormous trout. ; He was the biggest
ever seen there. / landed him on the
bank and w. N. Hearn, superintendent
of the Postal Telegraph. and l were adj
miring it when that blessed fish gave
a wriggle and raced us to the water.
Hearn can do a mile in II seconds. But
that fish beat him to the bank
Next morning 1 caught another fish.
that looked like the twin brother, and 1
was washing off the mud when he gave a
sudden spring, jumped over our heads
and Topped back into the water
w. H. Whalen has been appointed
division superintendent of the Shasta
ceed Thomas Ahern, who was trans
ferred to the coast division.
Whalen took charge of the division
at midnight last night. He was for
merly division superintendent of No.
1S6 on the Chicago and Northwestern,
with headquarters at Boone, Iowa,
Since f. II. Hartman secured con-
troll of the Erie that road has become
a source of much trouble to it's COM
petiters. From being regarded as one
of the weaker lines it has suddenly
become one of the stronger. Much
to the chagrin of other roads it is now
the largest carrier of packing house
products and dressed beef out of Chi
cago to seaboard.
The change in the Erie's traffic con-
dition occurred the day following
signing the contract between the Erie
and the Illinois tunnel company, where
by the former allows cents per 100
pounds in all traffic delivered to it
through the subway. 1t may also be a
coincidence that p. D. Armour, of whose
packing house products the Erie is
now a large carrier, is also in control
Hartman is interested in both the Erie
and the tunnel company.
Competitors of the Erie have made
bitter protest and sought an explana-
tion for the reason for their loss of
business, but they have got no satis-
faction.
BY the end of the week the Western
Pacific will have built a line over the
Flower lake tunnel in Nevada and have
also considerable work done on the
subsidiary line in the Sierra Nevadas,
which can be used If anything should
happen to close the tunnels.
Two passenger coaches were received
yesterday by the Western Pacific and
were sent to Marysville TO be put into
service,
George w. Vickers, president of the
Phoenix Republican, paid a call yester-
! day on II. p. AneWalt of the Santa Fe.
and, in speaking of the territory. said
he expected great boom there this
coming winter The fact that the tenn
perary dam at the big Roosevelt dam
had been completed, which insured
water for all the lands now under
cultivation, gave additional security Ia
the raising of fruit. With the compile
ton of the permanent dam he looks
for a large immigration into Arizona.
The hop growers in Oregon and
washington have to a large extent
pulled up their vines owing to low
prices which have prevailed in the last
three years. This will affect seriously
the output of the United States. and. il
Is hoped, will have tendency to
strengthen the market. The railroads
do not anticipate any diminution of the
crop in California.
1t is stated that on September Is the
western division of the Southern Pa
eific in the state of Sonora. Mexico will
be completed. The whistle of the To-
comotive is distinctly heard in Hermo-