The San Francisco call., 1909-02-07
Gossip of Railwayrnen

that eminent attorney yesterday.
Yes, he is.' replied ]. E.
Well, 1 would like to see him." an
swered the businessman.
What can ] do for you?" asked J. f.
Il would like TO see your father. my
son. paternally said the prominent
citizen.
4 am he"
You are your own father. eh?" Now,
my boy, / see you have the same pro-
pensity for joking as has your esteemed
father Let me tell you, my lad, that
there are few lawyers. unless they are
distinguished like your father. who can
AFFORD to joke. 1t detracts from their
dignity
But [ am that distinguished attor-
ney. shouted j. E., rapidly losing his
self-possession.
Just then Walcott Durbrow entered
the room.
'Hulloa, Edmund" he said cheerily,
Where is your father? p. F. wants
TO see him In hurry
Look here. Walcott, are you insane? :?
Don't know me. eh?" shouted John E.
Foulds
Good heavens. J. E., is that you?
Who would ever have known you?
Why, where are those ambrosial curls
about your face2 Fallen before bar
ber's vulgar shears? No wonder Paul
Shoup was asking me just little
while ago who that handsome college
boy was in the law department. ! said
it was your son. Pray accept my hum
bic apologies"
A handsome. tall. blonde Individual
who is described by fair stenographers
in the different railroad Offices "a
dear has been making the rounds of
the various offlcials and getting money
under false pretenses. He has never
asked for more than a dollar, but as
most men are ashamed to acknowledge
they are duped he has not been eX-
posed.
During the rainy spell he picked up
respectable salary by visiting differ
ent men and asking for 81 to get a
cheap umbrella, saying he would return
the money that night. He. called on
". B. Hinchman Of the Tonopah and
Tidewater and said
BY the way. G. W Lupton sent me
out in a hurry and that is the reason
I am dripping wet. for 1 forgot TO take
my umbrella and it is too far to go
back to China basin for it,
You are wet" replied the sympa
thetic Hinchman.
IF you would let me have a dollar
for an umbrella l will bring it back TO
you tonight"
He got the dollar and later Hinchman
learned that he had imposed on 10
other men with the same story. so that
he secured s1I that day by posing in
wet clothes with martyrlike air.
F. G. Athearn, superintendent of rail-
way clubs for the Southern Pacific, has
recently returned from an extensive
trip in Mexico along the line of the
Hartman railroad and says that the
railway club building at Empalme is
nearly completed and will be one Of
the handsomest ediflces in that part Of
the country. There will be altogether
five club buildings on the line of the
road. but the others will not be started
until the divisions are defined.
At the meeting of the transconti-
mental bureau in Chicago, "a structural
steel firms of San Francisco. members
Of the California metal trades associa-
tion, will plead for a differential freight
rate on raw material shipped TO the
coast. H. W. Kerrigan, one of the
committee, in discussing this matter
with the railroadmen at the conference,
said that the prevailing rate was re-
sponsible for IS. 600, 600 in wages going
east for 1908, and for the leasing of
75 per cent of the contracts let by
builders in San Francisco, when the
work could have been accomplished
here. employing local labor and keep
Kerrigan, the bureau fails to consider
our appeal favorably we will be forced
TO import our raw material around
the Horn from Belgium, and then we
will be on a fairer although by no
means equal footing with easterners."
H. NJ. Briscoe, general freight mana :
ger of the Boston and Albany. says
his line will meet the new reduced i'm
port freight rate schedule of the Boston
and Maine. The Pennsylvania and
Reading will conform also to the rates
| Of the Boston and Maine on westbound
| freights from Boston and New England
points in order to protect the ports OF
Philadelphia and Baltimore. The new
rates mean a reduction on all import
business in any event and perhaps q
long contest over the question of At
! lantic coast differentials. Roads anX-
ious for peace feel aggrieved that q
/ fight has been begun from Boston al
a time when traffic conditions are moi
hattering. and in the face of the fact
! that everything had looked so promis-
ing for higher class rates and, per-
haps later, an advance in commodity
rates, both of which are considered
now as having been knitted.
The great Dumbarton cutoff. which 1.
| TO put san Francisco on the main lin'
commercially, will be opened for bust
| ness on the first of March. Severa
| million dollars have been expended OF
the Bay Shore cutoff and the DumbartoI
/ cutoff to create profitable all raj
route between San Francisco and th'
east. via Ogden, as well as for loca
coast business. Just now considerable
speculation is being indulged in as t
its possibilities in a passenger way.
The American Hawaiian line has ad
vanced the rate on hops 10 cents pc
hundredweight. making the presen
rate 90 cents per 100 pounds from Sal
Francisco to New York. This is goo'
news to the railroads. as it will fore
a considerable portion of the futur
hop tonnage to the rail lines. 1t i
understood that the steamer line doe
not care for the class of business, a
it is too bulky for its weight.
|
About 10000 acres have been plante,
to bananas near Acapulco by a groul
Of Seattle capitalists. and 10000 addi
| tional acres have been cleared AMI
made ready for planting. In the com
pany's holdings are some 100000 acres
and IT is said If this crop comes off il
| good shape at the end of the COMING