The San Francisco call., 1908-11-17
Gossip Of RaiIwaymen

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'I have read about the mild Hindu
all my life" said ]. l.. Buel, right of
way agent for the Southern Pacific at
Auburn, but I never knew him to be
such a dead game sport. There was
big tat fellow around here who was
fond of his glass and who began his
drinking bouts with beer. After he
got tired of beer he would switch oil
to whisky and wind up with cham
pagne.
"MOney-he had money to throw to
the birds. and after a grand windup
he disappeared. His departure was
followed by a horde of other Hindus,
and some people were hoping they
would be as liberal with their coin as
the dear departed.
Not so. The later arrivals were
looking for their compatriot, who had
hired them out to the different
ranches. logging camps or wherever
men could be used, and had fled with
their money to his native land
while he was feasting on the best
he compelled his countrymen TO sub
sst on boiled rice and drink ditch
water the ground, he explained,
that high living was against their re-
ligion, but tnat he was exempt, as he
was a Christian.
The mild Hindu may be honest in
his own land" concluded Buel but
some of them have picked up all the
naughty ways of the white man to
make easy money, and are proficient
in the science of grating"
What the railroadmen in the for
eign agencies in the city feared would
happen has happened, and the east
bound tariff, which was received yes
terday, contains the following para
graph:
The rates named herein are sub
ject to the absolute and unqualified
right of initial carrier to determine
routing beyond its own line
AS the initial lines are in a position
to determine what route freight shall
travel to Chicago it looks as If some
of the transcontinental lines are placed
in peculiar position by this ruling
of the new tariff.
For instance, the Santa Fe has it's
own line into Chicago and the South
ern Pacific, with its friendly connec-
tions. also practically its own line into
Chicago. The same may be said of
the San Pedro. Los Angeles and Salt
Lake line, and it is argued by some
railroadmen that the lines not in the
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matter to secure freight for the east
The Hartman connections are the
Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul and
the Chicago and Northwestern, while
the Illinois Central is a Hartman
property, and when the Western Pa
cific is in operation the Gould line into
Chicago will take care of all freight
delivered to it by its western connec-
tion.
There is a growing disposition on
the part of the California lines to take
care of all the Pacific coast business.
and this new rule looks as If it meant
the shutting out Of all other roads not
in the Hartman combine. The South
ern Pacific and the Santa Fe work in
the most perfect harmony, and as they
are the initial lines a present it seems
as If they will keep all eastern busi-
ness pretty well to themselves and
have the government authority for
their attitude.
Railroadmen generally are mueb
perturbed over the situation, for they
see in the new rule their own doom
They declare it is but the preliminary
step for the closing down of all for
eign agencies and the establishment
of large clearing house with one hjr
man at the head and a number Of
clerks to do the work of apportioning
freight to the favored lines.
1T will save the different railroads
In the country something like 500. 600
000,' said an old railroadman "and
soon the general agent will be as ex-
tinct as the dodo or the dinosaurfan ).
and he looked at his expense aecoun+
as if it was the last one he was to see,
There is railroad eating house in
Georgia where the service is so s1o,,-
that the unfortunate persons who
patronize the place are at their wits,
end to find new expIetives to relieve
their feelings. Imprecatfons onIv
demorallze the colored gentlemen who
attend on the tables, for a new ex
preston makes delays all the moro
serious, as the walters hold conventions
on them in the kitchen to discover tbair
meaning. The situation has become so
intolerabIe that the proprietor has AZ
cided to remedy it. and to accomnlisb
this has printed in red ink on the ton
of the menu:
"Impatieace dries the blood sooner
than age or sorrow"
That's mighty fine. massa," said the
head waiter, as he spelled out the
legend; mighty fine. But, Lord brass
you. sab, what use would dem fina
words be If Mistah WiIlum Hood of 5e
Sufferin Pacific were in dis here parts 3,
John Sebastian, passenger tramo
manager of the Rock Island lines and
f. w. Thompson, general agent of that
road, left last night for Portland and
Seattle.
w r. Alberger is in town. He Is
the traffic manager of the Tonopah and
Tidewater railroad.