The San Francisco call., 1910-09-28
Gossip Of RdiIWaymen
ICn ILL" DOUGHERTY, roadmaster
X of the Southern Pacific. with

. i lA-1S IOdQlndSLSE
of the Southern Pacific. with
headquarters at Fresno, recently
took trip to Mexico. He had never
visited that section OF America and
spent his entire vacation there during
the early part of the Mexican centen-
NAL celebration.
Dougherty returned to Fresno few
days ago in his shirtsleeves. Every
railroadman on the line and every
travelling agent of eastern lines hap
pened to meet with "BilT' at the time
of his return. He was pressed for an
explanation as to how he lost his
coat.
Il lost it in Mexico somewhere and
somehow was the only explanation
he would give and the homecoming of
Dougherty without his coat has caused
considerable speculation among the
members of the railroad fra aternity in
the San Joaquin valley. The opinion
is unanimous that bill" left in a
hurry.
c. H. Schlacks. first vice president of
the Western Pacific, is on his way TO
this city after visit of a month to
New York, where he was in conference
with other officials of the Gould lines
The members of the state railroad
commission returned yesterday from a
trip to the various large cities of the
state, where important hearings were
held. They will depart again today
for Eureka, going overland, where
they will hold hearing on Saturday
T. M. Sloan, general freight agent
of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and
Salt Lake, with headquarters in Los
Angeles. is in the city on business
trip.
]. H. Pearman, district passenger
agent of the Western Pacific, left last
night on business trip to Salt Lake
City.
The banquet of the California AS
sociation of Traffic Agents, which was
scheduled for Saturday evening, Octo-
Der 1, has been postponed for one
week. Arrangements have been made
to hold the banquet in the Palace ho-
tel banquet room. Arrangements also
are being made for baseball game
between the members of the associa-
tion and the Transportation club.
James H. Garside of the Santa Fe
lines passed through this city last Sat-
urday on his way to Portland.
c. M. Levey, second vice president
Pacific, is out on the road on an in
spection trip. He will return to his
office this morning.
william Scholl, agent of the ,Phila-
delphia and Reading at Jenkintown,
Pa. is visiting in this city.
B. F. Porter, assistant general man
ager of the Northwestern Pacific, in
charge of the northern district at
Eureka, was in the city yesterday. He
is on his way to his home in Alabama,
his first visit in 20 years
Porter has been continuously in the
railroad business for 5S years, 81 years
of which were with the Santa Fe
road. During the civil war he was a
conductor, running on trains in the
south.
The railroads of the country are
shippers of apples between Aungust
IL and September 8. when the rates
to. eastern points were s1.4O instead
of 81, owing to mistake of the print
err Of the classification. Many of the
shippers held their shipments back
for the 30 days that it required to
correct the error, but this was un-
necessary. according to prominent off,
Gals, who say that they promised
when the error was first detected to
make plans for refund.
E. o. Mccormick. vice president of
the Southern Pacific. in charge of
traffic. returned yesterday morning
from Chicago, where he attended an
important conference of Hartman
line officials.
D. w Campbell, assistant general
manager of the Oregon and Washing
ton, with Office at Seattle. was in the
city yesterday on business He will
probably leave for the east this morn