Show THE SOUTHERN MANY THAI ma INS more than passenger trains abear a year making a string of cars and locomotives or a single train that would stretch more than halt half way around the world is the annual record of the san francisco bay terminals of 0 the southern pacific company however this is by no means a great portion ot of the traffic of this company A recent compilation ol of the train service ot of the three terminals on the bay oakland pier almeda pier and the third and townsend depot in san francisco shows a daily total tot allot lof trains I 1 with the exception of a number of I 1 extra freight trains that are n not I 1 ot run recording according to schedule all of these trains can call be found by a number designation I 1 on the time tables of 0 t the e southern pacific company only 49 of these trains carry freight freig Lt t al lothers being strictly first class lias passenger and mail trains the total number of trains d departing C part from the oakland pier ey eusry y day is 20 twenty of 0 which leight freight trains the total nu hiim Irrl vals to c be bore r I 1 at it the same terminal gh are freight is aho rising B Q outbound trains train S are i I 1 ger trains tor for northern broth 1 southern points a corres iding number arriving from th the e sam same points eints every day sixteen area are local passenger trains coming coaling from and going to all points within a radius of miles out ot or the third and Town townsend sena depot in san francisco 36 trains two of I 1 which are freights depart each 21 24 2 1 hours licurs A corresponding number of passenger and freight trains arrive at the same station daily trallis the remainder of this number of trains moving daily are suburban trains out of all three stat stations ioni seventy two suburban trains depar dep tand artand sixty eight arrive every day at alame da pier two hundred and thirty five suburban trains arrive at and depart from tile the oakland P pier erl eve every ry twenty tour four hours in and out of 4 both of these piers every day there Is a 2 total of trains I 1 walking albing eighteen miles ea eahl h day for a period of thirty ones one years through the snow sheds of 0 th the eSOU southern 11 pacific at the summit of the sierra I 1 INT nevada evada mountains during he has had to fight several des desperate p orate battles with baud bands s 9 of f t tramp ra TP afla 1 has had fiad to I 1 battle attl with severe sever e 1 h oi of the high Sl sierras erras is the record of manuel K silva whose n name ime has just been placed on tile the pension list of the railroad siva describes the hardships endured in that cold and sparsely settled section in a manner that would make the fingers of the news writer itch iteli for a pencil and wad of p paper per 1 I have walked eighteen miles every day for thirty one years a beat bea t of three miles over which I 1 made three lound trips every night figure it out sixty five hundred and 70 miles a year and miles in thirty one years more than eight times limes around the world silva is a native ot of portugal and is now on a visit to that country with his wife ile he entered the southern pacific service as a section laborer in 1879 ard and a year later became a shed watchman on off the night shift ile he has worked faithfully faith tully and steadily since assuming that position and was absent from duty only twice because or of sickness the duties of shed abod watchman are more responsible res pons than one would suppose and P S fl bayl ai t ue position for r thirty 0 malv or out a complaint bed bels against hin him I ie he e b has as ik ot r and pensioned although he il is s afy 1 afy 61 years old and upon his return from the old country will settle in the vicinity of the mountains tor for which he has developed such a fondness silva has a record that few other shed watchman or track walkers cau can approach he Is one of nearly a thousand employed emp loyes that are now enjoying pensions from the southern pacific company the pension system is voluntary on the part of the railroad length of service being tho the only requirement qui rement however a voluntary leave taking upon the part of employ es should they rellan in the com pany banys s emp employ oy for thirty or oven even less years would cancel their right to a pension |