Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-05
THE TOURISTS.
Another Party Arrives In
the City.
HANDSOME TRAVELLING CARS.
A Number of Excursions to Leave
the East for Los Angeles
this Week.

rived in the city yesterday morning in
charge of Conductor John Lawrence.
The party came by the Chicago and
Alton, Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cifc, and all comprising the expedition
announced themselves as highly salts
fed with the Accommodations and exper.
fences en- route. The following is list
of the passengers:
Mr.. and Mr.. F. E. Argall, Miss Dido
Argall. Miss Louisa Pill, Miss Matilda
Pill, Miss Harriet Hosmer, Mr.. Robt.
Turner, Mr.. John Durkin, Mr.. j. M.
Ford, Mr.. w. A. Wood, Chicago; Mr..
and Mrs. MUIR, Miss R. A. MUIR, Miss
Louisa MUIR, Mr.. o. L. Darling. Miss
Jas. Field, Mrs. A. NJ. House,
Martin Lewis, New York City ;
John Mcdonald, ]. NJ. James, Mrs.
John Connor, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Shaw,
Boston; Thos. Conklin, Genoa Junction,
Wis; Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Williams,
Charles Williams, Miss Pearl Williams,
Economy, Ind. DR.. Carrie L. Roe,
Fairfield, Me-. Mrs. Jennie Keyes, Miss
Fannie Keyes, Master Harold Keyes,
Walker, Iowa; Mr.. and Mrs. Levi W.
Hydow, Mr.. and Mrs. P. Ottorson, Ian
singburg, N. Y; Mrs. A. Nichol.
son, Miss Elsonore Nicholson, Miss
Florence Nicholson, Miss Jannaita
Nicholson, Shawano. Wis; Mr..
aud Mrs. Smith Freed, Miss Mana
Freed, Mr.. Geo. Freed, Master William
Freed, Bloomington, H.; Miss Ida
Trip, Pardersville, Wis.,; Miss L. Dav.
enport, Bloomington; Geo. R. Swain,
Lake Village, N. Y; G. A. Lewis, Chi
cago; Grant F. Clayton, Utica, N. Y;
Arthur E. Bennett, Dear Park, ILL.,; Mr..
and Mrs. G. Wilson, Frank Wilson,
Misses Lille and Nellie Wilson and three
children, Chicago; Burton Conway, Le-
roy, ILL.,; Paul Seiffert, Bloomington
Mrs. E. W. B. Johnson, Miss Florence
johnson, Mrs. G. M. johnson, Oswego,
N. Y; Mrs. D. w. Coward, Miller, Oak.
Mrs. Mint Williams, Youngstown, NY.
G. P. Crommett, Waterville, Me.
INCREASED ACCOMMODATIONS.
The enormous tourist travel into Cali
fornia has got all of the railroads hard
at work trying to outdo each other in in
ducements to the public. 1t is impos-
sible to hold out any advantage as re-
kdIO6 ldIO5, DCCduSC tllC ldtCD dIC hACu
by the Transcontinental Association, and
any open cutting would at once mean a
railroad war. The only way, therefore,
that they can compete with each other
is as regards the accommodations, and a
complete revolution has taken place in
this manner during the past few months.
The old-fashioned style of conveying Sec
ond-class passengers across the continent
in plain plank seats, on which at night
the tired traveller had to stretch himself,
covered only by his blanket, has
been entirely superseded, and
the innovations which in a
marked manner, first commenced
with the tourist car, has culm mated in
the coaches another road has put upon
the road. They are intended purely for
the excursion travel to California, and
five have so far been turned out of the
shops and will be run bi-weekly in con-
nection with excursions from Chicago.
Two of them arrived in the city yester-
day with the tourists whose advent is
chronicled above, and were inspected
and admired by all the railroad men in
town. A HERALD reporter was shown
over them by Mr.. j. w. Adams, and
found them to be far beyond anything he
had conceived was on the road for second
class travel. They are as we'll equipped
as Pullman cars, being carpeted, curtained
and upholstered in a very
handsome manner. Every seat
is cushioned, and at night each
sleeping berth is made up with mat
tresses, pillows, sheets and other ap-
purtenances of a first class bed. The
fittings are nickel-plated, and the cars
are lighted SO that traveller can read in
any part of them. There are dressing
rooms for the ladies, smokingrooms for
kitchen and steam heater at the end of
each car. A buffet attachment will in
future form one Of the features of the
service, making the cars the most COM
plete on the road. They will spur the
other companies to keep up with the
competition, and the result will be that
the second-class tourist service in and
out of California will be practically on a
frst.class scale by the opening of the
next season.
TRAVEL ON THE SANTA FE.
Travelling Passenger Agent H. N. But
terfeld, of the Santa Fe, reports that the
arrivals into Los Angeles over his road
have averaged 120 day for the past two
weeks. The Company has all it can do
to keep pace with the travel, and passen-
ger coaches are not allowed to ret1ain
idle moment. Sixteen new tourist cars
have been received during the past few
days and an extra equipment
has been obtained from Messrs Pullman.
THE FIRST PARTY.
The first of the Illinois Central excur-
sion cars stood on the tracks in the
Southern Pacific yards yesterday morn
ing. The tourist buffet car, which had
been ordered at Chicago when the party
started. was not on hand, so the com
pany had to swear in regular Pullman.
AS it was his initial trip the travelling
agent did not keep any record for publi-
cation of the names of the travellers, but
will do 80 hereafter.
NOTES.
A Union Pacific excursion will leave
the city tonight.
A Chicago and Alton excursion left for
the East last night.
A large number of excursions will
leave the East for Los Angeles during
the present week.
The Burlington system and Messrs.
Warder Bros. will send out excursions
on Wednesday evening.
A Raymond & Whitcomb excursion
will leave Bostc in vestiDule train for
Los Angeles tomorrow, arriving here on
the 10Th inst.
TMpOpmAN CuANCES