Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-08
THE TOURISTS.
The Heaviest Travel Yet to
Come.
A CHAT WITH MR.. VAN ARNAM.
He Speaks of The Glass of People
Who Are Coming
In.

The Southern Pacific has been MAXIM
INQUIRIES from all of its Eastern agent
regarding the prospects of travel t.
Southern California and the advices in
dicate that the rush will be much NOR
than was anticipated at the opening 0
the season. Messrs. Raymond antici
pate an increase of twenty carloads owe
their travel of the previous year in spite
OF the fact that there are host of conf
petitors in the field. Speaking to g
HERALD man yesterday Mr.. H. Var
Arnam, who is travelling passenger agent
for the Southern Pacific in the East
said: "There is no doubt that the
heaviest travel in this direction is yet to
come. The election followed by Thanks.
giving Day and then by Christmas
holidays SO soon afterwards has kept
many people at home, and they will
make the trip after the new year has
opened. Then again there are number
of agriculturists who lease farms by the
year and whose terms expire on the last
OF December, and they are waiting TIL,
then before they break up their homes.
l have been through the East pretty ex.
tensively during the past four months,
and l can tell you that there is not q
place from city to hamlet where l have
been that have not heard of some one
coming to California. Out of the popula-
ton of the United States it is estimated
there are 1000, 900 who have been ad-
vised by their doctors to find warmer
and more genial climate, and big
proportion of these will come here in
time. You have no idea how visitor
from California is besieged with ques-
tions when he strikes an Eastern town.
People want to know if it is really as
good as represented and whether the
stories about the climate and soil were
not merely western yarns. You have of
course noted that the tide of travel in
this direction this year has been nearly
all second class, and this is matter of
congratulation for you. The people who
come frst-class, with round-trip tickets,
are simply sight-seers, and very small
percentage indeed can be induced to
come back here to live, for the social
surroundings of the Atlantic seaboard
are naturally far ahead of anything
you can offer here yet. But in the Sec
ond-class tourists you have good solid
citizens. Many are merchants and few
health seekers, but the majority are
farmers and men with little capital
who are looking for home in country
where advancement is more rapid than
in the competitive East. You do not see
very much of them here in town for they
do not ride about spending money on
pleasure. They scatter and 60 to the
settlements and villages, and when they
have found the place that suits them they
quietly settle down and establish their
homes. These are the sort of immi
grants you want, men of muscle who
can help you in developing the
wondrous resources at your com
mand. | was very pleased to
discover concluded Mr.. Van Arnam
that you have sown great deal more
wheat in this section this year than has
been the case since the real estate boom
struck you-it will do more good than
stalking out imaginary streets over land
that it is crime to allow to lie waste"
ANOTHER AGENCY.
A rival to Messrs. Raymond & Whit
comb is in the field in the shape of
Badgers Pleasure Excursions, one of
whose parties is to leave Boston for Los
Angeles on February Goth. The tourists
will travel in private Palace hotel cars
and the trip is dated 80 as to last forty
five days. The route is via the Fitchburg
Railroad, New York, Lake Erie and West
ern New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio,
Louisville and Nashville and the Sunset.
On arrival in this city the tourists will
be taken to the Westminster Hotel, and
from there will radiate to the different
points of interest. A handsome timer
ary has been issued in which Los An
geles is referred to in glowing terms aud
will make good impression on the
Fasteners who peruse it.
A SPECIAL PARTY.
A special train containing $50 Min
nesotans is on the road. They are
booked for all points in California, and
the Los Angeles delegation will arrive on
the Goth inst.