The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-04
Gossip Of RaiIwaymen

T t is to be feared that Charles w.
Nelson has incurred the displeasure
of W. A. Bissell. Bissell does not
agree with Byron that no one ever saw
a rose without being possessed of a
desire to pluck it.
Bissell thinks rose should be left
to bloom on the stem until 1T fades
away, and the man who cuts one is
little better than a murderer. Now, up
at Lake Tahoe where Bissell has
country place, lilies, wild ones, called
Washington. blossom with profu-
sion that would have made King Solo
mon sit up and take notice
BisselI is so fond of these lilies that
he hires a man to patrol the coun-
try. so that no vandal shall destroy
the bulbs. The flowers grow on stalk
eight feet high, Charley Nelson says,
and are even more fragrant that Ia
hitian gardenia. The lilies are in bios
som now, and their fragrance would
put to shame Riverside orange grove
in poisoning time Nelson picked a
big bunch of them yesterday and
brought them to the city
Il hope you will forget Them" said
Bissell looking at the blossoms. What
a shame to pick them and take them
down to the city" he added.
Forget those heah hoahs," said the
porter. to whose care they were en-
trusted. Not much. Each time 1 opens
the door that smell neatly knocks me
down.
Mighty powahful smell, sab. Neatly
a florida that is
mighy powahful, too
Following the Inauguration of the
Shasta Limited, which has proven such
a pronounced success. and by reason of
increased local train service in the
San Joaquin valley, the Southern Pa
cific announces that commencing next
Sunday the Owl between San Francisco
and Los Angeles will be restored to it's
original schedules hours. The train
will leave San Francisco at p. m.
and arrive at Los Angeles at a. m.
and leave Los Angeles at s p. m. and
arrive at San Francisco at sos a. m.
Commencing on that date the coach
now carried from San Francisco on
the Owl will be taken off that train
and the Owl will become solid, yes
thule, electric lighted Pullman train.
To take care of the coach business
heretofore handed on the Owl connec-
ton will be made at Tracy with train
No. 3S, which leaves San Francisco at
4 p. m. This new train will run from
Tracy down the west side of the San
Joaquin valley, through Newman and
Los Banos, arriving at Fresno in time
to connect with the Owl train will
leave Fresno about ! a M, via MERGED,
Tracy and Niles, carrying the Fresno
and Yosemite sleepers, and arriving at
San Francisco at S:2S a. m.
The Santa Fe is preparing to let con-
tracts for the construction of the line
from Parker, Ariz., on the Colorado
river to Bengal, Cal, completing the
cutoff for short line between Cali
fornia and southern Arizona. TIE
bridge across the Colorado river has
been completed and has been in opera
ton for some time and as construction
of the 100 miles proposed is of easy
character it is expected that the road
will be opened for business by the end
of the year.
This road not only opens up new
mining and large agricultural areas,
but will lessen greatly the time con-
sumed in the handling of traffic be-
tween Phoenix, and Wickenburg and
that section of Arizona and California.
The San Joaquin valley is now doing
its maximum deciduous fruit business
and trainload is leaving Fresno daily
for the east. The shipments consist
of peaches and plums. The refrigera-
tor car supply has resumed normal
conditions and there is no trouble in
furnishing the required equipment for
perishable fruit. The Santa Fe is in
particularly good shape.
Samuel Russell Bogue, son of Chief
Engineer Virgil G. Bogue of the West
ern Pacific, who has been attached to
the law department of the Gould road,
! intends to sever his connection with
the Western Pacific and will engage in
the practice of law independent of any
| corporation. He has made a good rep
utation for himself in the law depart
ment of the new road, and his future
has many promises of success.
Clyde w. Colby, general agent of the
Erie, will leave today for Chicago to
attend a general meeting of the off,
Gals of that road. He will be ac-
companied by W. H. Mofitt, who is
to go over the Erie lines and make
himself thoroughly familiar with its
| conditions.
The committee on railroad statistics
commissioners has sent to the rail-
roads of the country a circular let
ter designed to obtain. the opinion of
| the carriers as to the advisability of
changing the date of the ending of
the fiscal year from June 80 to Deem
Der 81. While the circular is not of
fetal. it has the approval of the chair
man and other members of the COM
mission.
|
During June, 77046 cars were han
died by the Western New York car
service association with an average de-
tention of LIS days, or 92.9 per cent
of the time limit. The total shows
an increase over May of $3.50 cars,
the average detention that month being
1872, or 91.S per cent of the limit In
June, 1908, the total was Sc, 205 cars.
with an average detention of Isl and
| percentage of 92.9.
! Marked Improvement in the number
| of cars handled in the fiscal year end
ed June 30 1909, is shown in the Pa
cif1c northwest demurrage reports. The
total was 939,321 cars compared with
| S39.296 cars for the preceding year, a
gain of 100,025 cars. or II per cent
| w. H. Tayloe has been appointed
| general agent of the Southern railway
| at Denver, and will be succeeded by
H. T. Carey as general passenger agent
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