The San Francisco call., 1909-01-07
Gossip Of Railwaymen

TACK INGLIS, having a touch of
L rheuma tism, was advised TO seek
relief at Byron springs and con-
y sented to try the cure. On his way
there he met a friend whom. ac-
cording TO his own statement. he had
not seen for IS years
You win come and stay with me-"
urged the new found friend. Il have
farm of $4,000 acres. make my own
wines and brandies, raise chickens and
have all the conyeuiences of a city in
the country oh. never mind about the
waters. l have an automobile and will
teach you TO run it You can go over
there every day.
Jack consented and spent one day
learning all about the automobile Next
morning he started for Byron, after
careful instructions as to what to do in
case Of an emergency.
That machine is q beauty" Jack OBJ
served TO a friend, "and though 1 ran
the thing all right l nearly lost my life
at the hands of an infuriated Chinese
It's all wrong having such dangerous
creatures at large, especially at hotel
1T was this way. / got to Byron
without any difficulty and ran her INTO
the shed 1t was done with wondertu III
skill. But when l left / had TO back
her out of the shed.
Then an Internal, souint eyed Chi
nese began to shout at me. l got nus
tered and backed harder than ever. The
brute then picked UP hoe and rushed
at me. trying to hack off my head L
put on all steam and backed away
harder than ever, meanwhile dodglng
the violent efforts of the insane Chi
nese to kill me.
suddenly 1 found the automobile
running rapidly backward; with a dex-
trous turn of the wrist l headed her
right and she ran away at the rate OF
about 100 miles an hour.
4 learned afteFward that 1 had been
running the machine over some choice
flower beds and the Chinese. who was
the gardener. swore he would kill me.
no. I never went back to Byron, for
hear they will not discharge that
Chinaman. They will never get my
custom. That's ALL
The Southern Pacific will be ready
shortly to open the new Dumbarton
gateway into San Francisco, putting the
city on the main line in a commercial
sense Practically all the work is done,
and what remains can be finished with
in the space of six weeks. Primarily.
the cutoff between Redwood and New
ark will be used for freight, but there
will be also local passenger service in
and out of San Francisco at least as
far as Newark Eventually the line
Will be connected with the San Joaquin
valley route. and will be fed by the new
line through San Ramon valley to
Pleasanton, now about finished, as well
as the other lines in the interior.
It's possibilities IN relation to the
movement of overland trains are yet
undetermined, but when the route
through Niles is opened it is likely that
certain overland trains viii be run via
Stockton and Dumbarton. 1t is be-
lieved that the Sacramento Southern,
now being built on the south side OF the
Sacramento river west, is to play an
important part in the through service
and will connect with the Port Costa
line near Antioch. Its use will obviate
the necessity of ferriage between Be
nicia. and Port Costa for many of the
through trains.
At present work is in progress on
2 600 of $500 miles of the Grand Trunk
Pacific between Prince Rupert on the
Pacific and Moncton on the Atlantic
seaboard. The company has spent
s20. COZ, 900 and the government $40, ,00o,-
600 to date on the enterprise. Men
are working night and day on the first
100 miles out of Prince Rupert and
on the rock sections east of Winnipeg
Rv September next there will be 1900
miles ready for the transportation OF
freight from a point west of Edmonton
at the foot of the Rockies to Fort Will
liam on Lake Superior. The only gap
not now under construction in the en-
tire system is 600 miles lying between
the end of the Prince Rupert contract
and Wolfe Creek, east of the Rockies
through the Yellowhead pass. The steel
is laid on the new transcontinental
road for 100 miles east of Winnipeg,