The San Francisco call., 1910-03-01
Gossip of RaiIwaymen

GOSSIP OF KdllWdymen
r BLACK RYAN has moved his Of
fees from room SSS to room 81
I' in the Flood building and yester-
day his pet pigeon. Jim" tapped
at the window of room sSs all day try
ing to attract the attention of the new
occupants.
Ryan likes his new office much bet
ter, but he says that the loss of Jim
seems hard, and he was busy yester-
day afternoon trying to make arrange
ments to have the pigeon fed. every
morning.
Engineers representing the operat-
ing and construction departments of
the Western Pacific are in Sacramento
going over the proposed site of the big
railroad shops to be erected in that
city Work on the shops. which viii
cost s75OOoO, will be commenced ac-
cording to the engineers. in about a
month. The plant is to be modern and
complete for handling all the repairs,
rebuilding and overhauling for the
Western Pacific from Salt Lake City
to the bay. When once started the
work will go ahead as rapidly as pos
sibIe.
S. A. Hutchinson. general tourist
agents Of the Northwestern and of the
JJnion Pacific, with Office at Chicago,
is in the city for few days
Work is being rushed on the new
terminal freight depot Of the Santa
F'e at Oakland. and it is expected that
within two weeks time freight win
be delivered by that road at Twenty
first and Adeline streets, West Oakland.
The freight sheds and platform will
not be completed for more than a
month, but just as soon as the bal
lasting of the track is finished and
/ sufficient ground has been filed in to
permit the transfer wagons to: be
driven alongside the: tracks goods viii
be delivered there:
Louis w Basten. chief tariff clerk of
the general freight department of the
Union Pacific. with office at Omaha, is
in the. CITY, r.:~.*..
One of: the most important traffic
agreements for many months was COM
pleted Saturday when the Western Pa
ciic and Union Pacific agreed /: on : a
repicrocal basis of diversion for freight
rendered either line at Salt Lake City,
whether westbonna :or :eastbound: ~:
Grove Ketchum, travelling passenger
agent of the Washington Sunset route,
with. office at Los Angeles; is in: the
city on business:
Indicative of the work done by the
relief departments of the Pennsylvania
system are the payments of $if6. 054.1 8
made during the month of January. The
monthly report; issued blythe Pennsyl-
vania, February 26, shows that the sum
e a. G n L1r Il h.,
these departments since 1856.
On the lines east Of Pittsburg and
Erie in the month of January, pay
ments to the amount of sI23,175.09 were
made to members of the relief fund.
In benefits TO the families of. mem bers
who died. s41.7S3.S9 was paid, while
to members incapacitated for work the
benefits amounted to SS1,391.20. The
total payments on the lines east of
Pittsburg since the relief fund was es-
tablished have amounted to s20,155,-
O36.29.
In January the relief fund Of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pfttsburg
paid out a total of S52.S79.1O, of which
S22. .000.67 was to the families of mem
bers unable TO work. The sum of
s7,4e473o.11 represents the total pay
ments of the relief fund of the Penn
sylvania lines since it was established
in 1889.
Walter G.. Boehnke contracting
agent of the Erie in this city, left
last night for trip through the San
Joaquin valley.
Tunnel No. 10 of the Southern Pacific
company just this side of San Luis
| Obispo, portion of which caved in
last Friday morning, causing the de-
tourment of coast line trains, is not to
be repaired, according to information
given out yesterday afternoon at the
offices of the company, but is to be
done away with entirely. Already a
gang of 400 men are at work cleaning
up the debris as fast as steam shovels
working at both ends can loosen it,
It was intended at first to repair the
break. as feet; but when work was
started other portions began to give
way and it was decided to make a cut
The tunnel is 265 feet in length and
as IS feet fell in the first break il
will not be such a difficult job to cut
through that portion of the mountain
/ The ground is a sort of clay and is
not difficult to cut through. The work
will be completed in about eight days
F. s. McCabe, chief aclerk of the pas
senger department of the Chicago, st
Paul. Minneapolis and Omaha, with
| office at Milwaukee, is in the city on q