Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-14
General GIeanings.

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General GIeanings.
The overland trains were on time
yesterday.
| A Sunset excursion went out on No
20 last night.
Mrs. Langtry in her private car
went north on No. IS yesterday.
The stage rates to the top of Mt.
Hamilton have been raised from $3
for the round trip to So.
Two extra passenger trains were
run to Santa Monica yesterday and
forty carloads of persons in all con-
veyed.
1t is expected that the Oregon and
California Railroad will be taken out
Of the receivers hands during next
month.
Mr.. Williamson Dunn left for San
Francisco yesterday. He will attend
the meeting of the Transcontinental
Association.
The Southern Pacific surveyors are
encamped at Ramona, surveying a
new route from there to Whittier
through the Marengo pass.
Mr.. John May, Passenger Agent
of the Atlantic and Pacific, died last
week of pneumonia. He was formerly
connected with the Chicago and Alton
line.
1t is stated that the Santa Fe is
about to introduce a new system oil
car heating invented by Messrs.
Houston and Hackney of that Com
pany.
Another story is to be added to the
Southern Pacific offices on Fourth and
Townsend streets, San Francisco,
owing to the increased pressure Of
business.
Under the new management nearly
81 900 tons of steel rails, 1900, 900
ties, 1 100 cars and twenty. seven loco
motives have been purchased for the
Texas and Pacific Road.
Superintendent Fillmore, of the
South Pacific Coast line, says that
there only remain about 900 feet Of
tracklaying to complete the four-mile
Boulder Creek branch OF that road.
| The Watson Manufacturing Com
pany Of Brightwood, Mass, has an
order for palace Car for King Louis
/. of Portugal. II will cost about
$18, 900 though the designs are not yet
fully completed.
The Chicago and Northwestern
Road. will put ON limited vestibule
train between st. Paul and Chicago
on the 18th inst. Another one will
shortly be put on between Council
Bluffs and Chicago.
The Southern Pacific has made a
special rate for delegates attending
the Democratic State Convention in
this city. The usual single fare oi
So from San Francisco will be
charged for the round trip.
The annual report OF the Central
Pacific shows $l53 900 spent last year
for repairs of bridges, an increase
over the previous year of SOL 900
OF this, $500 was spent on the
American River bridge.
The transportation committees oi
Delaware, District of Columbia, New
Jursey and Pennsylvania have de
cided to send their delegations to the
National Educational Convention ovel
the Chicago and Northwestern road
The new freight route of the Bur
lington system via Cheyenne will be
opened for traffic on the 18th inst
Shippers will be given a choice o.
routes over this new way or via the
ID. & K. G., and the Burlington claims
that It powhas the shortest line intt
Chicago.
The Southern Pacific steamer, ths
Eureka x plying between New Yorl
aud New Orleans, ia considerably
overdue and feafs are entertained fo
Der safety. She was carrying a con
siderable amount OF California freight
and had about seventy-five carloads
aboard for San Francisco.
The Ramona and San Bernard NJ
Railroad will leave the main line O
the Southern Pacific at Ramona, pasl
through South Pasadena near where
the Marengo Hotel stood, thence pas,
east of the Raymond Hotel and NORTH
through Pasadena, when it will fol
low the trend OF the mountains to it
destination.
| A Milwaukee man has invented ,
new method of applying power TO
the propulsion OF cars. In applying il
to the railroad cars an attachmen
operated by cable extending the
whole length Of the train is placed ol
every axle. By means of ratche
the mower of the loconofiva 10 tronc
mitted directly to the axles and whel
the throttle is opened the wheels q
every car are set in motion simulta
! neously with the wheels OF the loco
motive. 1t is claimed that by thi
. device locomotive can draw a muc
larrlE load than hu the nraaar