The San Francisco call., 1910-08-12
LION WOULDN'
ANSWER PHONE
Positively Declined to Be-
Disturbed by Agent for
Railroad
fef ELLO. is. this the Northwest
ern?" came voice over the
phone yesterday morning

phone yesterday morning.
1T is.''
Well. is Mr.. Ritchie there? Wen,
will you ask him to call up West 6140
and ask for Wallace when he comes
in?'
When r. r. Rftchie. the genial agent
for the Northwestern, came in few
moments later he found the memo
randum on his desk. -
Hello" said Ritchie a few minutes
after his arrival, lis this West 6I4O?
This is Ritehie of the. Northwestern.
| guess Mr.. Wallace wants to talk to
me-"
There is no Mr.. Wallace here" came
back the answer.
Well, l was told to call up your
number and ask for Wallace"
THE only Wallace out here is a lion.
This is the Chutes's
When Ritchie returned from lunch in
the afternoon he found another memo
randum on his desk to call up a GER
tain number
! Look through the telephone book"
if there is a menagerie connected with
this number"
The Santa Fe has lately received an
experimental lot of 5000 ties from
Mexico. They are of mahogany ebony
native cedar and various other woods
The company is also getting some ties
from other foreign countries for the
same purpose.
Clyde w. Colby, general agent of
the Erie, will lea1e this evening for
nrfh In v1ai IoN
open branch office of the company.
Since the first Western Pacific fruit
train was run the road has maintained
schedule of more than 80 miles an
hour on fruit trains from Sacramento
to Chicago. The run of the first train
was LOG hours from Sacramento to Chi
cago.
A. T. Dice, general manager of the
Philadelphia and Reading, whose of
fee is in Reading, Pa, is visiting on
the Pacific coast.
Warren ]. Lynch, passenger traffic
manager of the New York Central lines.
with office at Chicago, who has been
visiting in this city for several days,
will depart this morning for Honolulu
on the Mongolia.
Thomas OLeary, master mechanic on
the Tucson division of the Southern
Pacific at Tucson, has been appointed
master mechanic at Los Angeles, sue
ceeding d. p Kellogg, whose appoint
ment as shop superintendent of the
general shops at Los Angeles was re-
centiy announced
The new terminal station of the
Denver and Rio Grande and Western
Pacific at Salt Lake City will be opened
August 15.
The Houston and Texas Central, fol-
lowing the example set by several other
lines, has started out, an experimental
farmers speciaf demonstration train.
with the usual number of lecturers and
exhibits.
. r. P. Ober, recently appointed a
travelling freight agent of the Western
Pacific. was formerly: in charge of the
refrigerator department of the North
ern Pacific at Tacoma.
H. ]. Snyder, general agent of the
National railways of Mexico, is distrib-
uting a handsome folder of the cen
tenary celebration of Mexico's inde-
pendence. Besides "a, large number of
interesting illustrations of the old and
new Mexico the booklet contains a con-
else history of the republic and a pro-
gram of events scheduled for the cele-
bration, which will last during the
entTe month of September. The folder
is replete with. a description of the
celebration.
H. ]. Morley has been appointed a
travelling freight agent of the Western
Pacific, with headquarters at Elko, New.
w f. Herrin. vice president and
counsel of the Southern Pacific. left
Wednesday evening for the north He
will meet President Lovett at Portland