The San Francisco call., 1910-08-13
CASEY STRUCK
THE EWRONOCAR
u0 NE of the biggest bIunders a
railroad ever made" said Uncle
- Huobje veSterfav s.1vaS whom

u0 NE of the biggest bIunders a
railroad ever made" said Uncle
Hughie yesterday, was when
hired an alleged brakeman to work in
the yards around Oakland He gave
his name as Casey, but there was al
ways considerable doubt as to whether
or not that was his true name.
''The road should have known in the
first place that Casey was no railroad
man. He couldn't couple or uncouple
cars that were standing still, let alone
moving cars. He couldn't read and sew
eral times he sent cars to the wrong
destinations.
His worst piece of work was in the
shipping of valuable race horse from
Emeryville to Salt Lake He re-
ceived instructions to ship the horse
in any loose car about the yards The
first car that caught his eye was an
empty refrigerator car A bunch of
hay and other feed, along with the nee
essary bedding, was placed in the car,
the horse run in with much difficulty,
the door closed and sent on its way
He did have, sense enough to put in
watering trough, but he forgot that a
horse drinks more water than a man.
and half filled the trough.
Now, any darn fool knows that a
refrigerator car is air tight, and when
that car arrived at Salt Lake the thor
oughbred was nearly dead Casey re-
mained with the company for some time
after that 1t took the officials a long
time to find him out
w. j. Peoples, special agent of the
transporta p-department of the Penn
sylvania lines, with. headquarters at
Philadelphia, is in the city for few
days.
F. S. McGinnis, travelling passenger
agent of the Southern Pacific at Los
Angeles, was in the city yesterday. He
was in charge ofsthe Mills party.
An order has been issued by the in
terstate commerce commission extend
ing the effective date of the commits
sion's order in the California lemon
case from September to November /.
The order provides that the rate on
lemons from California points to east
ern destinations shall not exceed 81 90
per 100 pounds. 1t was held by the
commission that the present rate of
S1.15 unreasonable.
Is
E. e. Lamberton, agent of the Allan
tic steamship lines of the Southern
Pacific, with headquarters at New Or
leans, is in the city for a few days
with Mrs. Lamberton. They are stop
ping at the Manx.
Charles s. Fee, passenger traffic
manager of the Southern Pacific. will
return to this city this, evening after
an extended trip throughout the east.
JsJ. Geary, general freight and pas
senger agent of the Northwestern Pa
cific, is at Sebastopol experimenting
traffic matters at the apple show.
At meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Oakland traction company.
held In Oakland yesterday afternoon.
w r. Alberger, traffic manager of the
Tonopah and Tidewater railroad was
elected vice president and director. Al
berger Will continue in his position
with the Tonopah and Tidewater.
The election of Alberger as active
vice president of the Oakland traction
company means that the Smith inter-
ests are to be concentrated under one
management.
The action is taken, it is said. be-
cause of the recent action of the South
ern Pacific in making Paul Shoup as
sistant general manage of the Soufh
ern Pacific electric lines