The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-18

Il am only mentioning this IN the
hope that ii will strike Frank in the
right spot, and when he gets to lee
turing again he won't forget to give
the modest railroad housemafd a few
valuable hints. Poor chap. he wants
them badly enough. because he is nat
uraIIy in a fog, having to get up before
breakfast.
1T Is a good thing when the officials
and the men get together and have a
heart to heart talk. There should be
no impossible gulf between them
There was a time when the old South
ern Pacific was one large family and
Governor Stanford would chat to the
men as If ne were their true and good
friend. and the old man was He had
their friendship and they had ffs.
''Of course, things are changed now.
But the old spirit should prevail. and
the official who goes about trying TO
make the men feel that they should
have an interest in the welfare of the
road, outside their salary. is the man
who is doing his work in building up
the road. So here's to Frank"
Railroad agents report business,
especially eastbound tonnage the dull
est for July of the years since the fire.
Investigation, however. shows this as
more apparent than real and is &C
counted for by the enormous tonnage
being handled by Panama and Tehuan-
tepec ore than 10000 cases of
canned goods, more than 5000 bales Of
wool. 5000 barrels of wine and nu-
merous carloads of hops, dried fruit.
beans and miscellaneous commodities
have moved by water since June 20,
and reservations show that this move
nent will continue. For the first time
| in the history OF great many mer-
chants they are being approached by
the agents OF Californian lines with In
quiries as TO the probable number OF
cars which will be required to handle
the eastward movement of their out
put The replies frequently are far
from satisfactory. The logical outcome
OF this should be much more favor
able rail rate than at present to meet
this growing competition. Certainly
with the Western Pacific almost ready
to enter the field in this part of the
country. and the Chicago, Milwaukee
and Puget Sound in the north, the
quantity of rail tonnage will have to
| be substantially increased in order to
make a showing on the right side Of
the ledger.
/ Double tracking work is being
| pushed at various points between Chi
caEo and Kansas City, Mo, on the
Santa Fe, and it is expected to have
the entire ass miles finished by the
/ end of 1911 Double track is already
! laid as follows: Chicago to Edelstein.
/ I42 miles: Knox. Ill. through Galesbury
/ to Surrey. u miles; Smithshire west
across the Mississippi river to Wye-
conda Mo- So miles; BuckIin to Roth
Vile Is miles; Carrollton to Camden.
! 80 mics and between Camden and Kan
1 sas City, % miles. This leaves about
/ 1s5 miles vet to be constructed. From
/ Edelstein. H.. TO Knox, 35 miles; Sur
rey TO Smithshire. Is miles; Wyaconda
/ TO Bucklin. 20 miles; Rothville TO Car
roIlton, 80 mics. and between Camden
and Kansas City. about 10 miles. On
4 the section from Edelstefn 20 Knox
/ the contracts for grading and masonry
/ have been let and work is about to be
started Work is about TO be com
menced on the gap between Rothville
/ and Carrollton: contracts for half OF
the work having been let. The grading
and masonry for the second track will
be finished this year and track laid and
/ ballasted in the early spring When
all the improvements are finished the
Santa Fe will have complete double
track from Chicago west to Kansas
City. ass miles. a complete three track
! line from Kansas City to Emporfa,
Kan. I2S miles. and a complete double
track from Emporia TO Mission. SO
miles.
+ J. B. Frawlsy, travelling passenger
agent of the Union Pacific at Kansas
/ City, arrived in the city yesterday.
Frawley brought $50 EIks TO Los An
geles in II cars and says that all of
+ them are coming to San Francisco be-
! fore returning home He admits that
/ he was responsible for an Elk celebrat-
/ ing his golden wedding on the train
and giving the happy couple a dinner
with lots of wine
| And after that" he said 10 s F.
/ Booth, every Elk on the train was
having q golden wedding. that is as
/ far as the wine was concerned In
\ fact. I celebrated several golden wed
dIngs of my own just to encourage
matrimony in the herd"
I The oficials of the Canadian Pacific
and 500 line will MAKE soon a trip over
the Chicago division of the 500 line,
/ formerly the wisconsin Central, with
/ the view of making permanent inn
provements. II is likely that a cutoff
will be built to shorten the line 40
miles The 500 line is now about 81
miles longer than the Chicago. Mil
waukee and st. Paul. the Chicago
North western and the Chicago, Burl-
ton and Quincy, and this cutoff is
necessary in order TO equalize the time
between Chicago and st. Paul and Min
neapolis
The tracks OF the Western Pacific
have reached the second crossing of
the Feather river and work is to be
commenced shortly on the bridge,
which is to be a single span. ESQ feet
in length. The total length OF the gap
has been reduced to 200 miles. There
are now ESQ miles of continuous track
out of Oakland.
Evan ]. FouIds of the law department
of the Southern Pacific, left last night
for the Seattle exposition and will visit
the Yellowstone park before return
ing home.
/ E. o. Faulkner of the timber and liz
department. of the Santa Fe. is in the
city and will leave today for the north.
west.
i CDANICH KING ANGEDEn