The San Francisco call., 1910-03-08
Gossip of RdiIwaymen

n MORE disappointed quartet has
~ not been seen for several months
Athan that comprising w. l.. CAL
hoon, chief clerk for S. F. Booth of the
Union Pacific; tom" Settle, manager
of the E. c. Horst company, and Messrs:
White and Mahaffey of j. NJ. Brewers
office, after an unusually long walk last
Sunday from Berkeley to Pinole.
The quartet were all in Berkeley and
some one suggested drink. A most
unusual suggestion for a Berkeleyite
Calhoon suggested a walk first
which was most necessary-and the
party started out TO walk. Calhoon
had a reputation as a pedestrian, and
to him it was only a short jaunt. They
walked and they walked and they
walked until they finally reached
Pinole. White was in the lead, Settle
second and Calhoon, the adept, a poor
third. Mahaffey managed to get to
work in time yesterday morning.
But the disappointment; ah. yes.
They spied a saloon at Pinole and
marched up to it in single fle-and-
found it closed.
r. NJ. Schumacher, vice president in
charge of traffic of the Western Pacific,
returned last night from the east.
where he has been busily engaged in
making traffic agreements between his
road and various eastern lines. The
actual organization of the passenger
and freight departments of the West
ern Pacific is now expected and several
hundred applications that have been on
file with Schumacher will soon be dis
posed of.
H. r. Higgins general agent of the
Southern, and W. NJ. Orr, general agent
of the Queen and Crescent, left last
night for the southern part of the state
on a business trip.
Regarding the repair of the washed
out portion of the tracks of the San
Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake, T. c.
Peck, general passenger agent of that
road, writes TO L. A. Bell, general
freight and passenger agent in this
city:
I'VE have about 81 ,O00.0O0 worth of
equipment in the washed out district,
which to recover will cost about 1920
600. and as it will only cost about
$500 900 to put the track in good shape
to operate all of our trains it has been
decided to expend this amount. This,
however, will not be the permanent
line as a new survey will be made and
line built on higher grade. which
will be immune from high waters
Many miles of the track is in good con-
dition. but the work of closing the gaps
will take some time, and within 80
days and perhaps sooner, we Will be in
shape to commence business. How
ever. we do not desire any of the roads
to sell tickets over our line until they
receive notice from US through an Of
fetal circular"
e. E. Calvin, vice president and gem
eral manager of the Southern Pacific,
who has been in attendance at the
merger hearing in New York and who
has been held UP at Salt Lake City
since Friday on account of the Nevada
floods. is expected to return this morn
ing via Portland.
w. B. Jerome, special agent of the
New York Central lines, with Office
at Chicago. is in the city on business
The colonist business of the South
ern Pacific for the first five days of
the colonist period shows an immense
increase over that of the same period
last year. Last Saturday afternoon the
sale of tickets was 1926, as compared
to 2,019 at the same time last year.
Charles f. DAILY, vice president in
charge of traffic of the New York Cen
tral lines. is due in this city the latter
part of the week.
]. Y. Callahan. general western agent
of the Nickel Plate, with Office at
Chicago, is in the city on a visit.
Bengal. the proposed junction point
of the Santa Fes new line from Parker,
is to be an important station along this
line, recent appropriation of $4,000
having been made for station grounds,
terminal yards and new track.
The Netherlands route, the daylight
trip down the Sacramento river by boat,
has become one of the Southern Pa
cifics most popular routes. Excellent
time is being made by the new steamer
the boat arriving half hour
ahead of schedule time on several oc-
casions since the inauguration of the
service. This boat carries no freight
and is specially fitted for passenger
service.
George NJ. Weaver, general western
agent of the New York Central lines,
with Office at Chicago, is in the city
on business.