Rail Construction Begins on San FranciscoOakland B.y Bridse

With the laying of the first Redwood tie by Bridge Engineer C. W. Andrew on November 29, construction began on the double-track interurban rail facilities designed to put the $77,000,000 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge into full use before the opening of the Golden Gate International Exposition.Work on the railway facilities for the East Bay yards and railroad overhead as 'ivell as for the San Francisco terminal is well under way.

A total of 50,000 individual ties, or nearly 2,7m,W board feet of Redwood, will go into the bridge proper at the rate of one tie a minute on the specially constucted tie-laying machine. Rail service is scheduled to begin by November, 1938.

In addition to the structural grade bridge ties, more than 4,000,000 board feet of other grades of Heart Redrvood rvill be placed in this great structure.

When the last tie is laid early next summer nearly 7,000,000 feet of the heart grades of California Redwood will have been used on the bridge proper, the San Francisco Terminal Loop and the East Bay surface facilities.

Unusual Greeting Cards

Tom Crain, of The Celotex Corporation, Los Angeles, sent out a novel Christmas greeting card made of Celotex Utility Board, to the dealers.

A friend of his says that some of the dealers are talking of copying the idea when they are getting ready next year to send Christmas cards to their customers. This friend concluded facetiously: "We may yet see lumber dealers send out their greetings otl 2x4's or 2x6's. Now wouldn't that be something?"

Back From Northwest

C. H. Ditewig, West Oregon Lumber Co.. Los has returned from a trip to the mill at Portland, Angeles, Ore.

Visiting The Northwest

Neal Tebb, Southland Lumber Co., Los Angeles, spent the holidays at Sumner, Wash., with relatives. He also visited the company's head office at Aberdeen. Mrs. Tebb, their young son, and his sister, I\{ary, accornpanied him on the trip.

Los Angeles Visitor

!Vm. W. Kilworth, vice-president of the Vancouver Plyrvood & Veneer Co., and owner of the Washington Handle Co., Tacoma, was a recent caller at the office of Tacoma Lumber Sales, Los Angeles, on his 'rvay to Tacoma after an Eastern trip.

A New Yidar Wish

By W. R. Hunt

The sun is just rising on the morning of another day, the first day of a new year. What can I wish that this day, this year, may bring to me? Nothing that shall make the world or others poorer, nothing at the expense of other men; but just those few things which in their coming do not stop witti me, but touch me rather; as they pass and gather strength:.

A few friends who understand me, and yet remain my friends.

A work to do which has real value without which the world would feel the poorer.

A return for such work small enough not to tax unduly any one who pays.

A mind unafraid to travel, even though the trail be not blazed.

An understanding heart.

A sight of the eternal hills and unresting sea, and of something beautiful the hand of man has made.

A sense of humor and the power to laugh. A little leisure with nothing to do. A few moments of quiet, silent meditation. The sense of the presence of God.

And the patience to wait for the coming of these things, with the wisdom to know them when they come.

Unexpected

A golfer had lost his ball, and not unnaturally, was inclined to be annoyed with his negro caddy. "Why didn't you watch where it went?" he asked angrily. "'Well, sah," said the boy, "it don't usually go nowhar, and so hit took me unprepared like."

I walked a mile with Sorrow

And ne'er a word said she.

But oh, the things I learned from her

When Sorrow walked with me.

-Robert Browning

Hamilton.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.-Mark Twain.

Heis an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, l,ofty things impressively and moderate things temperately.-Cicero.

A TIRED RE?ORT

Wise Guy: Changing a tire, eh?

Driver: No. Just a kindly disposition. I get out every few miles and jack it up to give it a rest.

A Verse For Winter

By Martha Banning Thomhs

When bare trees rub their knuckles in the cold, And stand forlorn and aching to the grain Of every joint,. and flat-eyed puddles hold A chill, clear light more colorless than rainI shall remember how the clover ran In rowdy mobs along the ragged cliff Up where the slanted, sunny fields began . Wild-carrot, furtive commoner in stiff Queens-lace . . and roses joyously alight With hidden candles burning in their hearts; I shall remember fledgling swallows' fight, Long, long delays, and frantic furried starts For nowhere and that lovely, nameless scent Of salt and lilacs mixed enchantingly; I shall remember when the winter's spent, These things come true for people by the sea.

Forewarned Is Forearmed

Mrs. Jackson: "You lazy loaf.er. S'pose I tooken sick an' couldn't do washings, how would you live?"

Mr. Jackson: "Ah never thought ob dat, honey. Ah'll sho hustle around tomOrrow an' glt some healf insurance on you.t'

You may depend upon it that there are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.-Robert Owen.

The Artist

Bricklayer: "Ullo, Bert. Where's that helper you took on-the chap that used to be an artist?"

Second Ditto: "'Aven't you 'eard? Soon as he laid a couple of bricks, he stepped back off the scaffolding to admire his work."

Another good thing about telling the truth is, you don-t have to remember what you say.-Coleman Cox.

It's hard to find a pair of friends that are.entirely satisfactory to both a man and his wife.