The San Francisco call., 1908-04-10
Gossip of RaiIwaymen

When Andy Stewards telephone bell
rang asking him how shipments should
be made to Tabasco he declared he
was not to be fooled that way and in
formed the inquirer that the first of
April was long past. In reply to the
inaudible man at the other end of the
phone, quoth Andy:
you can't catch me that way"
''Oh, sure, I know you are in earn
est he laughed.
mo, l am no idiot" he answered
angrily, and 1 did go to school, but
not that kind of school you went to-
he continued.
Whats that? Go where? Well
amt you asking me after a hot place
No. amt joking. 1 am in dead earn
est. AS the representative of the only
way Oh. my only way goes nowhere,
Ell? You needn't be personal with your
jokes even If you do want to know
about Tabasco."
Whats that. Andy?" asked friend
"Oh, nothing" cried Andy. Some
body is trying to take a rise out of
me by wanting to know how to ship
to Tabasco, as If there is such a place.
NO such placer" said the visitor.
WELL you had better not let Phil K
Gordon hear that. 1t is a state of
Mexico and the way to get there is
to travel all around the United States
till you strike Phirs road and get to
Mobile. You then wait for a steamer
which circles the universe and then
lands you in a creek or a swamp on
the gulf of Mexico. I don't know
which. Andy. my boy. it's time you
began to study geography
The railroad companies will an
nounce shortly cheap excursion rates
n i7ric ;ot,
be held from September 29 to October
at Albuquerque, N. NJ. The visitors
will be afforded an opportunity to
see the work being done on the great
dam by the United States government
in the valley of the Rio Grande A
railroad is to be built to the dam, and
the cost of the irrigation plant will
be $S,000.000. Some $4,000 acres will
have to be acquired to build reser-
voir 45 miles long, five or six miles
wide, giving storage capacity of $780,
00o,000,000 cubic feet. This amount of
water would supply all the needs of
Chicago, would fill the Hudson river
basin from New York to Albany, or
would cover the state of Massachu-
setts six inches deep, but instead of
doing all this it will irrigate 200 900
acres of land in New Mexico.
SICILY, remarked well known
railroad engineer, promises to be the
haven for those who have struck hard
times and are waiting for the finan-
cial atmosphere to clear. I have let
ter from an old railroad engineer who
has lost his place and he tells me that
for IS week man can rent palace.
servants, pay for his food, wine wash
ing and have something left over for
extra luxuries in that delightful island.
AS there are more railroad engineers
out of work than at any known time.
since railroad construction commenced
this letter ought to be good news to
them-provided they have the means
to get to Sicily
Colonel George G. Fraser announces
that he, with nine other railroad men,
will open the baseball season at Napa
next Sunday. The Transportation club
will have Amos Burr act as mascot and
expects an overwhelming victory.
The engineering department of the
Western Pacific announces that by
next week the work of grading to
Berry creek. 20 miles east of Oroville,
should be finished and track laying
commenced.
julius Kruttschnitt, director of
maintenance and operation of the Har-
riman lines, is now on an inspection
trip of the Sonora railway and also
of the Cananea, Yaqui River and Pa
cific railway.
e. E. Calvin, vice president and gen
eral manager of the Southern Paclic.
has returned to town after an inspec-
tion trip Of the lines in the southern
part of the state.
Edward Chambers of the Santa Fe
is expected in the city today from Los
Angeles.
Sherman. are guests at the Fairnont
and are registered from Boston
Mr.. and Mrs. George ]. Jenks OF