The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
Gossip Of Railwaynen

search into the causes of broken rails.
and it is understood to be the opinion
of the committee that the manufacture
ers should be made to furnish a rail
that will stand scientific tests.
.It is absolutely preposterous for
persons to say that the railroad busi-
ness is precarious, remarked Colonel
w. d. Sanborn of the Burlington, "and
the man who makes the assertion that
no one is sure of his job simply dis
plays his ignorance.
Why look at this Office alone. There
is that gay lad, E. A. Mudgett, who can
hold his own with any one in any
sort of game. He has been with this
company for % years and looks young
enough to be mistaken for a college
graduate
And how about that spry blade, E.
S. Harrison, who is as youthful in his
habits a society belle, and loses his
passes as regularly a rich girl loses
her necklaces or diamond tiaras.
am afraid l will never be able to teach
that boy to be careful, though he has
been with me for 90 years and was
with the Denver and was with the
Denver and Rio Grande for 80 years
before he Joined me.
Then take the case of another of
my lambs. c. L. Gage. 1t is 21 years
today since he came with the Burling-
ton, and his hair is as black as on the
day be came with U.S."
And how. about yourself, colonel?"
asked A. H. Moff1tt of the Erie.
oh, merely a few years, compared
with some of the men L know L am
Just an infant, as it were, with the
Burlington. Well, yes, have turned
my fortieth year with the company.
But what is that? A mere trif5e
l feel as If l had only joined yesterday
when l see those young looking fellows
ike Harrison around me-
The Transcontinental freight bureau
mas notified shippers of several changes
IN rates from California terminals to
snip side, Galveston, when exported TO
Cuba, Porto Rico, West Indies. Pana-
ma. Central and South America.
Beans, peas dried in packages minimum
weight 1000 pounds. GO cents
canned goods, olives. vegetables. preserved
hermetically sealed. minimum weight an ooo oo
pounds, 60 cents. ooo
:, Fish, dried, saIted or picked, in packages
minimum weight 10000 pounds, 60 cents
!, MIX, condensed, sealed cans boxed or in hot
Ties. owners risk of breakageT or weather. mini
mum, 10000 pounds CO cents
Wine, California except champagne rninin,r,,
$4,000 pounds, In barrels or kegs carload 5o
cents less than carload s1.34; in glass, carloads
Brandy, California, minimum 80 600 mounds In
WOOD, carload 81 cents; in wood less than car
aoaa, Sly; IN glass, carload 67 cents less than
Champagne. California, 10000 pounds mini
mum, carloads s1-04. less than carload 81 81
Liquors, s 81 not otherwise specified, bottles, mini
mum 10000 pounds, in wood, carload 81 cents
less than carload S1.67 in glass carload %
cents, less than carload S1.s4
These rates apply only on shipments
consigned direct from one port of ORR
gin to destinations in Cuba, Porto Rico.
West Indies, Panama, Central or South
America. Rates named will not apply
son shipments originally consigned to
domestic points and afterward recon-
signed or diverted to these countries.
The Baltimore and Ohio has decided
to invade the Canadian freight field.
and with the completion of a connec-
tlon With the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton railroad at New Baltimore q
which is now under way, will open a
last through service and will enable If
to enter Canada via boats from Toledo
Not only is the Pittsburg district to be
benefited, but Chicago and other west
ern territory reached by the Baltimore
and Ohio will obtain a new Canadian
connections, since the point of iunc-
ton with the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton is on the direct line from Pitts
burg to Chicago
E. E. Penn, who looks after the pas
senger interests of the Canadian Pa
cific, is at present in Los Angeles.
T. A. Graham, who represents the
Southern Pacific in Los Angeles. has
been in the city on business He will
accompany the special agricultural and
horticultural train of the Southern Pa
cif1c when 1t starts on its tour through
the southern counties. The train will
leave Los Angeles March 10.
C. E. Smith, agent of the Erie Des-
patch in Los Angeles, is here on busi-
ness.
C. H. Miles of the Chicago. Milwau-
kee and st. Paul Harry Buck of the
Pennsylvania; s. F. Booth of the Union
Pacific. and r. r. Richie of the Chi
cago and Northwestern, left yesterday
for Sacramento.
G. L. Potter, third vice president of
the Baltimore and Ohio, will arrive
in the city this evening, and rooms
have been engaged for him and his
party at the Fairmont.s He is accom-
panied by his wife and j. S. Wilson Jr..
banker of Baltimore.
Robert c. Smith, contracting freight
agent of the Santa Fe, with headuuar-
GERS in New York city.yis on trip to
the coast.
~
George Miller, who has been repre-
senting the Yosemite Valley railroad
in. this city, has been transferred to
Los Angeles, and left last night for the
southern city
C. S. Fee. passenger traffic manager
OF the Southern Pacific. returned yes
terday from Chicago.
j. C. Stubbs. traffic director of the
Hartman lines, changed his intention
of coming to California, and went
directly back to Chicago from Tucson.
c. H. Williamson, agent of the New
York Central and Hudson River rail-
road, with headquarters in Buffalo, is
on a visit to the coast
Track laying has been resumed by
the Western Pacific west of Elko, and
from now on there will be no inter-
rllptiOn to the work.