The San Francisco call., 1909-05-25
Gossip of RaiIwaymen

Always be ready to have fire"
agent in the country In the progress
sive state of Oklahoma a family named
Mott entered a Santa Fe depot and
found it cold.
Cold" yelled the agent, why, it's
hotter than Chicago and he retreated
into the inner office opened a paper.
and toasted his boots before a big
fire.
The Mott family travelled as crowd.
There was Papa Mott, Mamma Mott,
Miss Mott and a Master Mott.
Master Mott commenced the trouble
by sneezing.
The dear child" said Mamma Mott,
is dying of cold. Aren't you, dear?"
Master Motifs teeth chattered. Miss
terrific nasal blast, and yet the agent
Here you, light fire. said Papa
Mott urged on to this show of brav-
cry by Mamma Mott. The agent
read on.
You are a brute" said Mamma Mott.
as she raped on the door.
Won't you please light a fire?"
pleaded Miss Mott.
Inc agent READ on.
Papa Mott brought the agent to the
attention of the state railroad COM
mission. The Santa Fe was fined a
good round sum.
The agent passed on.
w. r. Alberger of the Tonopah and
Tidewater railroad is in New York,
and it is believed his visit east is in
connection with the proposed road
from Goldfield to Ely All the pre-
liminary surveys have been made and
there are now four parties on the final
survey The first survey showed that
the length of the road was 225 miles.
with maximum grade of one and a
half per cent. Rumor is insistent that
the Gould interests will build the road
and that negotiations between 3. M.
Smith and the Gould interests have
been in progress for some time.
The first daily train from San Fran
cisco to Santa Cruz under the new
schedule via the Los Altos cutoff will
leave at sos m. and will reach
Santa Cruz at 11:10 a. m. The next
train will be at 3:15 p. m., arriving at
Santa Cruz at 6:25 p. m. The last
train will leave at $40 d. M and will
reach Santa Cruz at SIS D. M From
Santa Cruz the first train out will
be 6:45 a. m. and will reach the city
at 9:45 a. m. The next will be at
1920 a. IN. and will arrive here at
LIS p. m, and the last will be at 6:55
p. m. and reach here at $3.50 .. m.
The first daily train will connect
with the a. m. boat on this side.
reaching Santa Cruz at 1890 .. m.
The next train connects with the 2
p. m. boat and reaches destination at
sos p. m. Saturdays and SUNDAYS a
train will connect with the 5 D. m.
boat and will arrive at Santa Cruz at
$40 p. m. Sunday and Monday morn
ings a train will leave Santa Cruz at
$50 a. m. and will reach the CITY at
$40 a. m. A train also leaves Santa
Cruz daily at LAO p. m. and reaches
here at COS p. m. The new 5:45
p. m. train from Santa Cruz reaches
here at 9:58 p. m. The Southern Pa
cific will run a daily train from Sacra-
mento to Santa Cruz connecting ar
Tracy with the San Joaquin valley
train This train will leave Sacra-
mento at noon and will reach Santa
Cruz at 6:35 p. m. 1t will pass Stock
ton, Tracy, Niles, then over the new
line to Newark and on to San Jose.
The first of the Union Pacific freight
agents who are to attend the meeting
of the western freight association at
the Argonaut hotel tomorrow morning
arrived in the city yesterday. They are
]. F. Barron, Denver; w. J. Robinson.
Omaha; G. n. Curtis. Kansas City: C.
w. Axtell, Ogden, and E. r. Rrisch
Cheyenne. w. j. Hardy is to preside
and the visitors will be entertained bv
the Southern Pacific while here Hardy
has mapped out an elaborate program
and Charley Runyon has promised to
show them the most crooked railroad
in the world.