The San Francisco call., 1908-05-16
Gossip of RalIwaymen

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There is a great deal in brass but
tons remarked Fred Shoup of the pas
senger department of the Southern Pa
ciflc; more than 1 ever suspected.
Now" he continued. this never could
have happened to a railroadman, not
even to handsome Allan Dunn. the lit
erary light of the Southern Pacific, but
went with the navy.
MY friend Lieutenant Station of the
Connecticut, who by the way is even
better looking than Dunn, was on that
famous excursion to San Jose. He and
three other officers were in an automo-
bile viewing the sights when he no.
ticed an automobile with four ladies'.
TIL trade you two officers for two
ladies', cried Station.
Done exclaimed the ladies, and
there never were two merrier parties In
the Santa Clara valley. Now if that
had been a modest lot of railroadmen
there would have been no fun on the
trip
You must take your hats off to the
navy where the ladies are concerned" :"
The Mexican government has with
drawn its objections to a ruling of the
interstate commerce commission requir-
ing the publication in the United States
of passenger fare schedules in which
more than one carrier participates In
compliance with this ruling of the COM
mission the passenger departments of
the different Mexican roads will file no
stice of their concurrence in any sched-
ule under which tickets are sold from
the United States through to points in
Mexico
Though the ruling was made one year
ago, the Mexican roads ignored it by
reason of the objection of the Mexican
government. on the ground that it i'm
piled an assumption of authority on the
part of the interstate commerce COM
mission in the regulation of railroads
which held charters under the govern
ment of Mexico. There has been no OBJ
lection to compliance with the ruling
by the Mexican road, as their inability
to comply with the ruling interposed
difficulties in the way of encouraging
through passenger business by the sale
of round trip tickets or special excur-
sion rates from the United States to
Mexico.
A clause attached to the form pre-
pared to notify concurrence of Mexican
roads specifies that the concurrence is
files with the interstate commerce
commission without prejudice to the
authority of the Mexican government.
1t is expected that at the present
meeting of the transcontinentaI freight
bureau in Chicago, the revision of the
east and west bound commodity tariffs
will be. finally arranged, and new tar
ifs issued by the middle of July. 1t
is not thought that the lines inter-
ested in these tariffs will take any
steps to duplicate the action of the
lines east of Chicago in raising class
rates. The raise east of Chicago will
affect, only in a small degree, the rate
to points west of Chicago; the Joint
rates being the only ones to suffer.
The raise east of Chicago affects all
class and commodity rates, excepting
flour and. perhaps. lumber. but as
nearly everything the Pacific coast uses
is covered by commodity rates the
damage will be slight to the coast.
This country has gone fleet mad
exclaimed William Mckay, general
manager of the Lake Tahoe baseball
team. DO you know, had made
every arrangement to take my team to
Davis to play the local team. and they
wired me that owing to the torpedo
boats being at Sacramento there would
be no game, as everybody wanted to
see the%boats. Think of thati Imagine
those people would rather see a few
warships than see us play BALI What
is to become of the national game il
these navy chaps are to be here much
longer?"
The chief engineers office of the
Western Pacific reported yesterday
that the tracks were already at NJ
street, in Livermore, and that there
should be no great delay in getting to
Pleasanton. as there were no grades in
the Livermore valley. Eleven bridges
have to be built between Livermore
and Oakland but as the steel is stored
at Stockton it will not take much time
TO put them up after the rail reaches
the points where they are to be con-
structed.