The San Francisco call., 1909-04-13
Gossip of RaIIwlymen

He had celebrated Easter Sunday
with proper ceremonies and on Mon
day morning he was feeling the ef-
tects of the festivities
He wandered into a railroad Office
and with a determined look in his
demanded where he could find one of
the officials
"9l3. was the lsconic answer of the
boy in the outer Office
He went into the hall and returned.
This time he was angry, and, catching
the boy by the coat. beloved:
4 want no CUFF. 1t is 9:25 now, and
how can I find him at 9:13."
Colonel George G. Fraser has re-
ported 10 the police as mysterious a
robbery as that Of the Crocker pearls
lie says. He asserts that he and his
star baseball players numbering eight
men and himself. took the ferry boat
at an early hour Sunday morning for
Hayward. and while waiting at the
ferry some unknown party. or parties,
walked away with Two grips contain
ing the uniforms OF the players. Not
withstanding this distressing loss
Fraser and his dauntless eight went
10 Hayward. and put it all over the
local team Both sides claim the vic
tory by a score Of 10 3.
". B. Jerome western passenger
agent Of the New York Central lines
with headquarters in Chicago. arrived
in the city yesterday from the north
and said that business was booming
throughout the northwest. He was
much pleased with the exposition
grounds at Seattle, and said they were
marvelously beautiful and was conf
dent that the Alaska Yukon exposition
would be completely ready to open on
June J.
According TO Spokane there are more
miles OF railway under construction in
the Inland Empire" taking in l5o. 900
square miles OF territory in eastern
Washington, northern Idaho, western
Montana, northeastern Oregon and
southeastern British Columbia than in
any other similar area on this conti-
ncnt The mileage in Washington
alone is l,500 miles and the work in
the three other states and provinces
mentioned viii bring the total to 5000
Approximately $50 miles of line were
built in Montana last year, when that
state headed the list in the union for
new work. There are at present 1886
miles OF main line, branches. yard
tracks and sidings in Washington,
which was second, with between 500
and 500 miles built in 1908. The com
pletion Of the main line of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound viii
add as much more. In addition to this
approximately 1.i00 miles of steam and
electric lines are projected TO be COM
pieted before 1911.
Preparations have been made to be-
gin work a the southern end of the
Burlington's connecting link between
the Big Horn basin line and the Colo
rado Southern, building west and north
from Orin junction instead of south
and east from Kirby. The effect viii
be that the first OF the new track
age completed viii parallel the Chi
cago and Northwestern from Orin june
ton 10 point west OF CASHIER The
Burlington viii be able TO compete
for the business OF this section much
earlier than would he the case If the
kirby-Orin connecting link were built
from the northern end.
Engineers are said TO be surveying
for the 81. Paul up the Blackfoot river
and through the Clearwater country
10 Ovando, 65 miles east Of MissouIa.
Mont, and IS miles from Drummond
the nearest railway station. and will
follow straight line northward up the
swan river TO that place 100 miles. The
Northern Pacific has also a surveying
party out for the same purpose. and
DOAH ar at Noih dlODR the east side
OF Flathead lake, where, # is under
stood. the Great Northern has also had
surveys made.
The dried fruit business via all rail
from California in March was prac-
tically double that OF March, 1908. not
wthstanding that the Pacific Mail and
American Hawaiian lines handled be-
tween them about as much as was
handled By the railroads
Present indicat tions are that the usual
wool tonnage viii be missing to p
large extent from the railroad records
this spring. The fsthmus. boat and rain
lines UP TO the present date have han
died much more than the rail lines.
William y. Price, at one time general
agent of the Great Northern in this
city and subsequently travelling freight
agent for the Chicago Northwestern.
has been appointed district freight
agent Of the Wabash with headquar-
ters at Buffalo, n. Y.
Virgil G. Bogue, chief engineer of the
Western Pacific, is now at Salt Lake
City. According to a wire received 1
yesterday the track is now 10 miles.l