The San Francisco call., 1909-06-06
Gossip Of RailWaymen-


ing them where to plant bees and how
to grow caulihowers. SO you see there
is some use in poetry after all
Heaven knows where the rest of th9
Southern Pacific poets will land They
may yet become general managers OF
an air machine route. That's the right
place. Ell? In the clouds2 Billy Web
ster, for an artist who can sing Soldier
Boy in such fashion as TO make
Bodie Smith feel like enlisting, you
are downright cruel. Still you might
have said something lower and would
have forgiven you.
NO, boys, I am not joking The
railroad business Is getting more seri-
Gus every day. and II YOU are not a
student don't think 0f going into the
business. It's the studious young fell
low who gets along
Look at Bert WOrthingtOn, for ex-
ample. He was studying always. He
never wasted his time and he's got his
reward early in life
There is one man we all know
right here in our midst who has risen
not through any pull, but through
sheer hard work and study. and also
because while he was true TO himself
he was true to all his friends and
those who tried to do right. and it
he ever erred 1t was on the side OF
leniency. Boys. remember that what
ever others may say of railrOadmen.
remember you are all doing man ;
work, and this work requires brave
men, whether 1T is in selling ticket
to an irritable old lady or running one
OF the Hartman twins down the noun
tain with the weather so thick that
you can't see an inch before you.
ITS mems work. is railroad work,
and the man who will get along with
railroad corporations is the man who
is like my friend I spoke about Just
now. He is true to himself and there
fore he is true 70 all about him. It's
an easy rule and a safe one TO follow
Some time so. when the sugar rates
We're advanced from California prodUc-
ing points to eastern competitive ter
ritory, it was understood that the New
Orleans rates also would be advanced
cOrrespOndingly. No action. however.
was taken by the New Orleans lines
and now they propose TO reduce the
rates 20 the Missouri river Kansas.
Nebraska, Oklahoma and other compet-
ing territory cents per 100 pounds.
While the Californian Tehncries OBJ
jected to the recent advance from Cali
fornia, considering that the New Or
leans lines did not live up to their
promise of a corresponding advance
time. they have been patient. hoping
that the matter would be rectided-
The proposed reduction the California
producer believes to be unfair and un-
reasonable, and they are now extremely
active in advocating a readjustment OF
the sugar rates to the territory un-
der consideration. so that they can
meet the competition offered by New
Orleans.
California lines have notified Agent
r.. II. COuntiss OF the TranscontinentaI
freight bureau to include sawmill
refuse and forest waste i'm the lumber
grouping which now applies from Cali
fornia to eastern points. The eastern
mills desire TO ascertain whether Cali
fornian pine contains SUFFICIENT proper
ties for making wood pulp to be used
in the manufacture Of paper. If it is
found that this material contains suf-
ficient properties. tnen a market will
be established in the east for the refuse
of the California sawmills which here
tofore it was found necessary to con-
sumo in the burners connected with the
lumber mills. The volume from this
source will not only be a valuable
acquisition to the lumber people. but
will add also TO the earnings OF the
transcontinental railroads.
W. A. Bissell and J. J. Byrne left the
city yesterday on the steamer Presi-
dent for Seattle to attend the meeting
of the Transcontinental passenger asso-
citation, which meets next Tuesday.
r A. Donaldson has returned from
Los Angeles. where he met and accom-
panied Ambassador Jusserand to this
city.
I'VE got along very well.v said Don
aldson, and 7 am not at all amazed
IA.
popular in Washington. Both are
charming people and one cannot help
liking them.
How does Monsieur Jusserand loo<g
Well. he is about as tall as Frank Bat
turs with about half Of Franks girth
and avoirdupOis." and Donaldson left
the rest TO the imagination.
The news Of the serious illness OF
A. ]. Allen was heard with sincere
regret by his old associates in the
Flood building. Allen is one of the
old guard and was one of the most
trusted employees Of Stanford. Crocker
Huntington and Hopkins. When the
Market street railroad company was
started, Allen was placed in charge
of the buying of stock and continued
with the company until r. p. Vining
was sent out here. J. L. Willcut was
then the general manager and secre-
tary. Aliens sickness is so alarming
that his daughter. Ruth, was wired to
hasten her journey to the citv She
was on her way here from the east
and arrived yesterday.
W. B. Jerome. special agent OF the
New York Central lines. arrived in the
city yesterday from Seattle He is
charmed with the exposition and saws
that the grounds alone are worth the
expense OF going there. He was three
on opening day and heard nothing but
words of praise from everybody. Je-
rome also says that business is bright
ening up in the east and that a better
tone prevails.