The San Francisco call., 1910-06-07
Gossip of RaiIWaymen
&C" HEN 1 fought wolcott." be-
Wv gan Jack Inglis yesterday.
there was nothing to IL

but
But what?" inquired half a dozen.
well it was this way 1t was the
morning after Wolcott had fought with
some celebrity in this city / was walk
ing up Market street and noticed a
crowd gathered around saloon at
First and Market streets. 1 inquired
about the excitement, and when I
learned that the negro was inside I
went in to meet him. A friend intro
duced us, and after shaking hands 1 at
tempted to jolly with him.
I squared off and said, I've been
looking for you for long time
Il realized then that he was drunk.
He drew back and made a swipe at
me, which had it landed amidships,
where 1T was aimed, would have robbed
the Union Pacific of a good freight man.
l saw what l was up against and
reached the street in less than a quar-
ter of a second. The black demon was
after me-a crowd of about 400 also
ran-but I reached Fremont and Mis-
sion streets first There the negro
stopped, but L didn't. oh, it was a
great scrap"
The Santa Fe will open its Cadiz-
Parker cutoff July 1, which will pro-
vide a short line from this state to
Phoenix, Ariz. All freight for Phoenix
and other points on the Santa Fe,
Prescott and Phoenix will be handled
via the cutoff, which will materially
improve the service from San Fran
cisco to that territory.
Official announcement has been made
of the appointment of w. E. Loves as
assistant general passenger agent of
the Baltimore and Ohio in Baltimore
Loves, since 1897. has been general ad-
vertising agent of the company. He
will continue to have charge of ad-
vertising and matters pertaining to
passenger train schedules.
H. A. Buck, general agent of the
passenger department of the PennsyI-
vania lines, returned to this city Satur-
day after an inspection trip over the
lines of his company and of the new
Pennsylvania terminal in New York
The trip was taken by all passenger
agents of the company
The first passenger train of the San
Pedro. Los Angeles anj Salt Lake
road will be run over the lines of the
Chicago Northwestern, Union Pacific
and Salt Lake road June II.
The twenty-first annual convention
of the association of railway surgeons
of the Baltimore and Ohio system is
now on in st. Louis.
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The advertising staff of the Harri-
man lines opened its annual meeting
at Del Monte yesterday.
w. r. Scott, assistant general man
ager of the Southern Pacific, left Chi
cago Saturday on his return to this
city.
Douglas White. general advertising
manager of the Salt Lake route. was
in the city yesterday. He is attending
the meeting of the Hartman adver-
tising men at Del Monte.
Total gross earnings of all United
States railroads reporting for the first
two weeks in May to Dun's Review
aggregate $1S,050,S0S. an increase of
12.1 per cent compared with the earn
ings of the same roads in the corre-
spending period a year ago All the
leading systems continue to make ia
vorable returns, and in no section of
the country is there any decided in
dication of a setback in railroad traffic
Prosperous conditions, as reflected by
very large freight movement, are
generally shown throughout the south
by the large earnings of Mobile and
Ohio, Southern, Louisville and Nash
vile, Central of Georgia, Seaboard Air
Line and Chesapeake and Ohio in that
portion of the country, and in the west
and southwest by Denver AMI Rio
Grande, Texas and Pacific, Missouri Pa
cffic and a number of other roads
satisfactory increases are also made
by the Wabash, Grand Trunk, Minne-
apolis, st. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie
and other roads farther east.
In the following table are given the
earnings of all United States roads re-
porting for the first two weeks of Nav
and the increases as compared Wit,
the earnings of the same roads for
the corresponding period a year ago:
also for the same weeks in the two
preceding months. together with the
percentages of gains over last year:
1870 Increase. Pet
May. weeks. SIS 050 sos 81 a50.9S9 i2I
April. 2 weeks. 16903973 175s $50 II6
March ks II 02o 4Gf