Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-02-01
4 RAILWAY xInc On ms TRAVELS.
Arrival OF Sidney Dillon His Emil
nent Achievements for Half a
Century.

In the HERALD of yesterday was an
nouuced the arrival of Mr.. Sidney Dill.
lon, President OF the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company, and party consisting Of
Mrs. Dillon, his son-in-law. DIR. Wyckoff
and Mrs. Wyckotf, and his grandson.
Sidney Dillon Ripley.
The car in which the party is travelling
is one designed by Mr.. Dillon himself,
and built by the Pullman Car Company
in Chicago. 1t is without exception the
most conveniently arranged travelling
hotel and passenger car combined that it
has ever been the fortune of the HERALD
reporter to have examined. All the fin
ish Of the car is Of the plainest aud most
unostentatious description. 1t is fin
ished in native woods without gliding or
ostentatious adomment. The car is
about 6S feet long and contains kitch-
en-, dining hall, office and sleeping rooms,
made with an eye to the most compact
arrangement at!aipable in the disposi-
ton of the closets ard other places of es.
sential convenience for travellers.
Mr.. Dillon is one of the most noticea.
Bile of American business men. He
commenced life when lad Is years old,
carrying water for men engaged on
railroad construction train, and has stead
lily advanced in this connection till he
has become one Of the foremost business
men in the world. When he arrived at
mans estate he commenced the building
Of railways and has been in the busi-
ness ever since, period Of over so
years. 1t is said that he has built more
miles Of railway than any living man,
and expended on them more than $780,
900, 900. Although now more than three
score and ten, being ~ years of age,
with hair as white as the driven snow,
his eye is not dim and his natural force
is not abated. He is of Celtic nationali-
ty. like Andrew jackson, and has very
striking Likeness to the old hero He is
full six feet in hight, erect aud manly,
with kindly countenahce that com
mands respect aud confidence wherever
IL is seen.
Mr.. Dillon was very courteous aud
took great pains to describe his trip,
which was by tie way of Washington,
st. Louis, New Orleans and the Sunset
Route to FL Paso. thence to chihuahua
and return to FL Paso and Los Angeles.
His return will be by San Francisco and
the Central and Union Pacific Railways
to New York, their point of departure.
The trip has beel enc of pleasure all the
way, and the party appears well pleased
with Southern California
Yesterday afternoon the rarty went
to San Gabriel, where Their car will re-
main while they visit places of interest
in the valley. They will spend week
or ten days in visiting objects of interest
in this section of the country, which will
give Mr.. Dillon some needed rest from
his official duties. In regard to the ex-
tension Of the Utah Central Railroad,
which is now built 200 miles from Salt
Lake City towards Los Angeles, to a
connection with the Southwest system of
railways, Mr.. Dillon was very reticent
and gave no opinion, but expressed
high opinion Of the mineral wealth and
freight-producing powers of the route
from Utah to Los Angeles. Mr.. Dillon
was free to state that the Los Angeles
reporters showed more politeness and
decorous regard for the propriety Of
questions to be asked than the reporters
Of Gotham. An amusing instance Of the
persistency and cheek Of the New York
reporter was shown in his own expert
ence few years since. when report
was sent about the streets that he had
failed in business engagements. To be
sure Of the truth of the rumor the re-
porters came to his house and walked him
up at midnight, to know if he had failed.
The venerable gentleman informed them
that he was not aware of the fact, ni I'd re-
tired to his couch again to mediate upon
the barbarism of New York reporters,
who spare neither age nor sex, nor the
quietude of the midnight rest Of au aged
man, to get answer to an item of news
which had no foundation in fact.
The visit of this eminent railway
maker and manager may be of some
Importance to this section of the coun-
try, and we hope that when the weather
clears up our leading business men will
call on Mr.. Dillon and pay him that re.
spect which his great worth and ability
entitle him to receive.