The San Francisco call., 1910-06-09
1 7 HAPPENED IN
ALAMEDA! WOW!
Loving Isle City Maid Clasped
Strange Man In Fond
Embrace
fllT was at my station in the beauti

CIT was at my station in the beauti-
full city of Alameda that 1t hap
pened,' said William F. Schmidt of
the Missouri Pacific "As the train
stopped an old gentleman alighted. He
mad progressed only a few steps when
young lady skipped up to him, threw
her arms rapturously about his neck
and kissed him half dozen times, say
ing:
Oh, papa, I'm SO glad you've come
The old gentleman threw both arms
around her and firmly held her to his
breast In minute she looked UP into
his face, and horror stood in her eyes.
Oh. good heavens, You're not my
papa she cried. trying to free her
self from his embrace
oh, yes, am. insisted the old
gentleman, holding her firmly You
are my long lost daughter. and Tn
Just going to keep you clasped lovingly
man.
When the policeman arrived con-:
tinued Schmidt, he found the old guys
diamond stickpin in the girls hand ,
The Lackawanna has filed tariffs
sion showing an increase in eommuta-
ton fares on suburban lines as high as
20 per cent.
The state railroad commission will
hold its regular monthly meeting next,
tuesday, June II. Another meeting
Will be held at Stockton, June II. to
hear the side of the stockton shippers
IN the San joaquin valley rate case.
w. w. Charles, assistant treasurer
OF the Tonopah and Goldfeld, with
ONCE at Tonopah, is in the city at the
Stewart.
s. p. Howard, general freight agent
of the eastern and Lake Superior di
visions of the Canadian Pacific. having
resigned, the following appointments,
enective June 1, have been announced:
Fl. e. Macdonell, general freight
agent. eastern division, Chalk river and
east. also Smiths Falls to Newport. Me-
gantic and Quebec. including branch
lines. Office at Montreal, Quebec.
w. 5. Elliot, general freight agent.
Lake Superior division. Chalk River
and west to Sault Ste. Marie and Port
Arthur, but not including the line south
of Romford junction. once at North
Bay, Ont.
w. B. Bamford. general freight agent.
Atlantic division. st. John, N B., vice
III. z. Macdonell, transferred.
L. Mulkern, district freight agent.
London, Ont, vice w. B. Bamford.
transferred.
L. F. Cockroft, general passenger
agent of the Oceanic steamship com
pany. left yesterday for Honolulu.
Notice was received at the local
office of the Salt Lake road yesterday
that the passenger service would begin
June IL instead of June II as pre-
viously announced
The Southern Pacific will have new
time cards of the Sacramento, western
and coast divisions, effective June ~.
The changes will cover mainly in
creased train service to take care of
the travel to the Santa Cruz noun
tairs, Santa Cruz and other Monterey
bay points. Traffic officials of the
company expect this years travel to
be unusually heavy There will be
through trains from Third and Town
send streets in the morning, afternoon
and evening, which will run through
to Santa Cruz. Returning there will
be two morning and one evening train
from Santa Cruz. Through trains will
also be run from Oakland.
On Saturdays there will be
o'clock train for Palo Alto. returning
leaving Palo Alto at D. ym, arriving
in this city at p. m. Westbound San
Francisco Overland Limited time will
be shortened two hours, arriving in
this city at 5:2S p m. instead of at E:2S.
Additional motor car service will be
put on between Sparks, Reno and
Truckee for the Tahoe business.
George III. Higbee has been made
vice president and manager of the
Pacific Coast steamship company, with
Office in this city. f. C. Ward has been
appointed assistant manager of the
same company with office at Seattle.
E. o. Mccormick. vice president in
charge of traffic of the Southern Pa
cific. announced the appointment of
II. S. Lincoln to be assistant to the
vice president and of r. NJ. Gibson of
Chicago to be secretary. Lincoln has
been with the Southern Pacific com
pany for many years. He was expert
rate clerk to ]. c. Stubbs when Stubbs
was located in this city.
W. D. Sanborn, general agent of the
Burlington, returned from Salt Lake
City Tuesday.