The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-20
COLE at Santa
Margarita on the coast line of the

MarSdrlta on the coast line OF the
Southern Pacific, being in a rem
iniscent mood the other day, re-
called his first experience in railroad
ing in this state.
Il came to California well recon-
mended and was glad to get job as
a section foreman at Bakersfield. Like
many others. imagined that when a
man had served an apprenticeship on
an eastern road he had not much left
to learn in California. That was
where I made a mistake.
Ny boss was an old chap by the
name of Quinn. who reposed full con-
hdence in me. One day he burst into
the yard where 1 was working and
in an excited way asked:
What are you doing?'
Cleaning up the yard 1 replied.
All he could calculate was: I'm dis
appointed in YOU and then began yell
ing to the gang TO get out the handcar
and we piled aboard. Quinn kept on
repeating: I'm disappointed in you
: What for? I asked finally.
Not to follow them clouds. I am
disappointed in you. Yes, / am. See
clouds and not follow 'em. Here.
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harder. For the love of your souls.
pump harder. Yes, I'm disappointed
in you. See clouds and not follow en-
We tore along the track. Quinn
yelling to make still better time. We
ran over a stream which threatened
TO injure trestle. but Quinn passed
on without any other exclamation than:
I'm disappointed in you. Yes, that's
what I am
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excitement, for flowing down ravine
was a terrible torrent which had
washed out the track and was threat
ening more damage. we got to work
and repaired the track and turned
aside the current of the stream.
q" You are a nice railroadman, you
are said Quinn to me, not to follow
a cloud when you see it,
we don't have cloudbursts in the
country 1 come from, answered
humbly.
You don't. Ell? Well, that's a nice
country to learn railroading in. To
Halifax with such country"
There has been docketed for consid-
Grafton at the next meeting of the
transcontinental lines an application
for rate of $3.50 per 100 pounds on
motorcycles in carloads. The cur
rent rate is SIS per 100 pounds. 1t is
contended by dealers in San Francisco
that the motorcycle is coming into
common use, and that the present rate
is out of proportion with the number
shipped 1t is contended further that
if the carload rate as above is granted
this machine will not only be
used for pleasure. but also in the
business of delivering packages. There
is now being manufactured it is
stated a motor tricycle. which is being
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delivery of goods.
IAN Outline of Work and Reading
for Students in Railroad Operation" is
the name of a brochure written by F.
c. Athearn, superintendent of railway
clubs of the Hartman lines, and is in
line with the movement, inaugurated
by z. Fl. Hartman, TO train hp a body
of young men who can be called upon
to fill official positions. These young
men, before they undertake the study
Of railroading. must have as a foun-
dalton for their training a college or
| a technical school education, and are
selected because of their fitness to
value the relations that the railroads
bear not only to the industrial but
also to the social life of the COM
munities which they serve. These men
are appointed solely on the basis of
merit, and an appointment constitutes
a sort of postgraduate working fell
IoWship in railroading. In addition to
being paid a good salary the student is
given every opportunity to learn rail-
reading from a practical and a scien-
tific, standpoint. In speaking of this
f. G. Athearn said:
II look upon this as the greatest
social move of the age as regards the
relations of railroads to the social life
of our country. It is going to do away
with the public be apostrophized atti-
tude. which, unfortunately, has been
assumed. at times, by men who were
not familiar with the exact sociological
relations involved in their duties with
railroading. 1t will bring also a more
scientifically and better educated class
of men into railroad work and will
tend to make railroading an exact
science
"One thing Mr.. Hartman wants es-
pecially impressed on the minds of
these railroad students is the relation
Of the railroad to the public, and that
it is their duty to serve the public in
the operation of railroads as much as
the railroads. This is the chief aim
of this educational work"
T. ]. Wyche, division engineer of the
Humboldt division, arrived in the city
yesterday and said that the tracks of
the Western Pacific are now 6 miles
east of Battle Mountain, and that his
gangs had laid 800 feet of track last
Saturday, which is a little short of two
miles. According to the reports re-
ceived by the chief engineer of the
Western Pacific yesterday the track
was 81 miles east from Oroville and
% miles out of Winnemucca.
The people of Arizona. northern
Mexico, New Mexico and west Texas
will be able. this season, for the first /
time, to purchase variable route tickets |
to all eastern points. that is. they may
go for example, by New Orleans and I
the Washington Sunset route and re-
turn through Chicago. St Louis or
Memphis. This practically puts them on {
the same basis as summer excursion /