The San Francisco call., 1910-09-25
PRINCES SPECIAL
MAKES A RECORD
$40 Miles Are Covered in the
Remarkable Time of
$50 Minutes

V TRAVELLING passenger agent
~ road. whose headquarters is in this
city and VINO works for an eastern
road, was recently stranded on a sun
day in town in which fair was in
progress. He walked about and could
find nothing to do until he came upon
a place where various prizes were Of
fered for knocking over rag dolls by
throwing baseballs-three shots for a
nickel
He threw three balls and hit nothing
He tried three more and hit nothing
He invested several more nickels. and
still had no luck.
Finally he went to his hotel in dis
gust and wrote to his wife:
Dear Wife: You can not imagine
how lonesome I am here. Indeed, I
have been missing the children all aft
ernoon.''
Five hundred and forty miles in $50
minutes is the record made by the spe-
cial train of Prince Tsai Hsun over the
New York Central lines. The time is
a record for a run of that distance and
DSdlS Tie lliIlc VI IHe w cIllclH Ccf1-
tury Limited of that company by so
minutes.
The princes special left Chicago at
$50 a.. m. and went over the New York
Central lines as far as Buffalo. $40
miles. arriving there at O'Clock in
the evening.
James H. P. Mason, travelling passen-
ger agent for the Washington Sunset
lines. with office at Los Angeles, is in
the city. He will make San Francisco
his permanent headquarters hereafter.
E. B. Yerington, general freight and
passenger agent of the Virginia and
Truckee, with headquarters at Carson
City. New, is in the city for a few days.
The Southern Pacific is planning for
new passenger station to be erected
at OrovilIe. A new station at Redding
is also planned.
D. W. Ferguson, district passenger
agent of the North Coast steamship
company with headquarters at Los An
geles. is in the city on a business trip
Lee L. Eicholtz. district passenger
agent OF the Illinois Central in this
city, was presented with an eight
pound daughter yesterday morning.
Is. ID. Caldwell, vice president OF the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
is due in this city Monday morning.
The Southern Pacific of Mexico has
notified the Mexican government that
construction work on the line down
the Pacific coast has been finished to
a point about 10 miles south of the
Santiago river, in the territory OF
Tepic. Under the terms of the con-
cession the company has two years
more to complete the gap that now
exists between Yago and Tequila. This
work may be finished in the next is
months. The southern division can
not be opened for traffic until the
bridge over the Santiago river is
finished some time early next year.
1t is said that no application has been
made for an amended concession to
extend the line farther down the
coast to the port of Manzanillo, and
that such an extension is not con-
templated. The force of laborers is
work pushed as rapidly as possible.
Grove Ketchum, travelling passen-
ger agent of the Westinghouse Sunset
route at Los Angeles. who becomes on
October 1 district passenger agent of
the Sunset lines, is in the city for
conference with P. K. Gordon.
William Lloyd has been appointed
an assistant superintendent OF the
Idaho division of the Oregon Short
Line and the Southern Pacific lines
east Of Sparks. with offices at Poca-
tello, succeeding J. H. Wellington, re-
tired. II. W. Joslyn has been ap-
pointed an assistant superintendent at
Pocatello.
ELKs TO BE "AT HoME''-Alameda. Sept. "a.
Alameda lodge of E1ks will hold an "at home
EridaE evening. Sentemhar 30 at its clnh-