The San Francisco call., 1910-01-21
Gossip of RaiIwaymen
&C AY. Crane, suppose man should
find himself on the top of The
Gail building with goose uns

90 AY, Crane, suppose a man should
find himself on the top of The
Gail building with a goose uns
der his arm. how would he get DOWN."
asked W. f. Schmidt of the Missouri
Pacific as he walked into the new York
Central office yesterday.
4 didn't quite get that. Let me
have it again, said Carleton Crane.
suppose a man should find himself
on top of The Call building with a.
goose under his arm, how would he get
down?"
Gee, that's tough one. What's the
answer?"
pick it." responded schmidt.
= Say, Schmidt, give me that whole
thing again, the question and the an
swer."
~Well,e began schmidt. suppose
man should find himself on top of The
Call building with goose under his
arm how would he get down? The
answer is. pick it"
Say, so try it on Colby; he's good at
those things. He'll come back and
spring it on me and I'll tell him the
answer. / don't know what it means
yet. but I'll be able to give Colby the
answer"
The interstate commerce commission
in recent decision has ruled that
railroad if it supplies two small cars
when one large car has been requested.
may only charge the rate for the one
large car.
W. H. Boardman, president and editor
of the Railway Age Gazette, is in the
city on visit.
The Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western is to open school for appren-
tices at its Scranton shops. The work
is to be in charge of the Young Mems
Christian association.
Fred Stocker, Pacific coast agent of
the Traders Despatch, left last night
on his semiannual trip to Chicago.
H. p. steinmetz and p. H. Bullock of
the Sierra railway are in the city and
are stopping at the Palace. IT is under
stood that they are placing orders for
equipment.
Railway officers having said that
800 miles of new road would be bull.
in Oklahoma in the near future were it
not for the restrictions in the state
constitution, citizens OF towns in that
state which are in need of lines are
stirring up public sentiment in favor of
an amendment to the constitution. 1t
is intended to eliminate the clauses
which forbid the sale of an Oklahoma
road to corporation outside the state.
The Union Pacific has announced that
it will make the same rates on lumber
shipments from Washington to points
east of Denver as 1t now makes on lum-
Der from Oregon. This is one of the
first traffic moves made by the Harri-
man lines since gaining access to Puget
sound.
All of the tyans- Missouri and trans
Iowa lines have been meeting almost
insuperable difficulties in the ordinary
dispatch of trains. The weather con-
ditions for the last six weeks have been
the worst known since the establish
ment of the Chica go weather bureau
and with the exception of the fast pas
senger trains all schedules have been
abandoned since the beginning of the
year Overland freight shipments have
suffered accordingly.
The Southern Pacific announced yes
terday that the annual colonist rates
would go into effect March NJ. The
fares will be: From Chicago. s33; from
Missouri river points, s25; from St.
Louis, Memphis and New Orleans, sS2.
Austen Corbin of the Spokane and
Northern is in the city.
William Kent was elected member
of the board of directors of the Mill
Valley and Mount Tamalpais railway
al the annual meeting of that road
yesterday to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Daniel f. Hayes
C. +. Runyon was elected president,
r. L. Ralston vice president and II. w.
Carothers secretary. The board of di-
rectors will consist of w d. B. de
Fremery, John E. Cushing. Fl. b. Sperry.
H +. Woods. William Kent, c. F. Run
yon and r. j. Ralston.
The reports of the president and Sec
retary show the road to be in pros
porous condition. Although no divi-
dends have been paid for the last two
or three years the earnings have been
entirely satisfactory and have been
used for improvements.