The San Francisco call., 1909-12-30
Gossip of RaiIwaymen
y EsoLUTIONs- are in order along
< railroad row. Every. raftroadman
~ has written out a; set of new year

has written ouI. asSet OF new year
resolutions: .s..*
G w. Colby of the Erie. has. resolved
Eto refrain from poetry during 1910.
Carleton Crane has resolved to. tell no
funny. stories -
s. F. Booth has resolved to decline all
.toastnraster positions for the: year.
F. John Ingels. has resolved to go to his
home earlier each evening.
Lew stanton has decided to grow a.
Ernllstache: and. Max .Podlechs has resolve ed.
ito keep away from banquets for one.
year.
e. Black Ryan slid :.he would not
make new year resolutions.
/ sI made. new year resolutions many
years ago. hesaid. '.Alf proved futile.
In a complaint filed December 20 with
the interstate commerce commission the
freight rates ON citrus. fruits from Pa
.cific coast points to other parts of the
United States are declared to be ex-
cessive,: .extortianate and ~unduly dis
icriminatory
The complaint requests the commits
| sion,. first, to reduce the rates charged
! by the Interstate carriers on all citrus
fruits except lemons; and, secondly. to
issue an order declaring that the pres.
ent rates on lemons shipped from Cali-
fornia, Nevada and Utah to other parts
of the country are. reasonable.
| The complaint was filed by the Ar.
| lington Heights fruit exchange of Cali
| fornia and about 100 other producers
and growers of citrus fruits, against
| the Southern Pacific. company and 495
other carriers.
In respect to the number of carriers
made defendants in the proceedings. the
complaint is the largest ever presented
to the interstats commerce commission.
1t includes all: of the important. rail-
road systems and lines in the United
States and approximately fve-sixths of
the entire interstate mileage of rail-
ways.
Officials of the Grand Trunk Pacific
railway of Canada, including Captain c.
H. Nicholson, manager of the steamship
| lines with headquarters at Vancouver.
B. C.; ]. E. Dalrymple. assistant freight
traffic manager; w. P Hinton. general
passenger agent; f. C. Salter, European
traffic manager of London, Eng; G. T.
Bell. assistant passenger traffic man
ager and W. E. Dobbs, secretary. ar
rived in San Francisco yesterday morn
ing from Los Angeles.
1t is understood that the object of
their visit is to investigate traffic con-
ditions in connection with new steam
ships which have already been arranged
for and will be put into commission
early next summer between Seattle.
Victoria, Vancouver and Prince Rupert.
B. c. These new vessels are being
built at Newcastle-on-Tyne and will be
high class in every respect
/ The Grand Trunks new transconti-
mental from the Atlantic to the Pacific
/ will be completed according to the
contract between the Canadian govern
ment and the railway company by the
! end of 1911. Prince Rupert will be the
terminus of this system, and the action
of the Grand Trunk in providing steam-
/ ship service between the coast cities
/ and Prince Rupert at this early date
! is to give the necessary transportation
facilities for the rapidly growing needs
of Prince Rupert.
The party is accompanied by the
roads Pacific coast Representatives, Col
onel w. HI. Bullen, Los Angeles, and L.
| v. Bruce of Seattle. and is travelling In
the Grand Trunk official car .1Muskoka.',
The officials will remain in San Fran
cisco until January 1.
| A map of the Erie railroad. showing
the route from Chicago to New York
! through Buffalo Albany and Boston.
with miniature electric lights showing
to what points through sleepers run.
has been placed in the window of the
| local Erie Office. 1t is novelty in rail-
road signs and the first on the Pacific
coast
| Il. w. Gillett has resigned as traffic
manager of the Las Vegas and Tono-
| pah, and J. III. Brown has been appointed
to succeed him. The change becomes
effective January 1. Gillett retiring per-
manently from railroad service.