Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-27
RAILROAD AFFAIRS.
Announcement by the New
Line to Chicago.
ITS EFFECT ON CALIFORNIA.
Departure of a Burlington Excur-
siOn-WOrk on Local
Branch Roads.
ITS EFFECT ON CALIFORNIA.

Branch Roads.
The following official notice has
been issued by the Chicago, Santa F c
and California Railway:
On Sunday, April Goth, this com.
pany will begin to run daily passen-
ger trains between Chicago and Kan
sas City. Our road between Chicago
and Kansas City is ASS miles in
length, measuring from Dearborn
Station (corner Dearborn and Polk
,streets) to Union Depot, Kansas City ;
being over thirty miles shorter than
the shortest of the old roads. Eighty
nine per cent. OF our track is tangent,
and only eleven per cent. curvature {:
our grades are very light, and nearly
all the crossings with other roads are
made under or overhead.
Our passenger equipment being en-
tirely new, needs no description, but
we will say that everything approved
by practical application for the COM
fort of travellers is found in our trains,
including steam heat taken direct
from the locomotive.
Our daily vestibule express trains
between Chicago and Kansas City
were built by the Pullman company,
and include smoking and reading
rooms, dining-rooms, drawing-rooms
and sleeping-rooms. These are the
only vestibule trains in the world on
which ordinary passengers can find
accommodation without paying extra
railroad fare and without forcing them
to patronize the sleeping cars.
Through vestibule sleeping cars
will run from Chicago to Kansas City,
Atchison and Topeka (and vice versa)
without change, connecting at all of
these cities in Union depots. Through
passengers have choice of route via
Kansas City and Topeka or via st.
Joseph, Atchison and Topeka, as
tickets reading via Kansas City will
be honored via st. Joseph at passen-
gers option.
EMMoNs BLAINE,
General Passenger Agent.
The train which leaves the Santa |
Fe depot in this city at 10 P. NJ. and
arrives at Kansas City at $50 p. M
on the fourth day will connect there |
with the train for Chicago, which |
city will be reached at 2:30 P. NJ. on
the following day.
WHY THE LINE WAS BUILT.
According to the Chronicle, the con-
struction Of this line by the Atchison
was the result of negotiations with the
Chicago and Alton, which fell through
just at the moment when the Atchison
people thought the matter was all
settled. The Atchison tried to pur-
chase the Chicago and Alton in order
to have through line Of its own into
Chicago. The Alton people talked
business for a while and then
backed off. The result was that
the Atchison at once determined to
build line of it's own. That
line is now complete and will be
opened with grand hurrah on Mon
day next. 1t will be big day for the
Atchison as well as for California
for the latter particularly, as it now
has through ra,l connection with
Chicago by line that is controlled
entirely by one company and wholly
under one management. Railroad
fnanciers are questioning the policy
of the Atchison in building this line.
The company has expended more
money than any other in construction
from the Missouri river to Chicago,
and the practical query being pro-
pounded is, will the business pay for
the outlay? The management claims
that all the physical conditions are
favorable for satisfactory results; that
having the shortest, smoothest and
best equipped line it cannot fail to
gain large share of the traffic now
enjoyed by the older routes, as we'll
as paying local business.
THE CALIFORNIA BUSINESS.
The company has not yet decided
upon its course in respect to California
business, but there are hints of through |
vestibule trains from Chicago to Cali
fornia, and shortening of the exist |
ing time schedule by twenty hours or
more. That this could be done with
out any undue strain upon the re-
sources OF the company there is no
'doub-. 1t is certain that for the whole
distance traversed by the new line
that vestibule trains will be run, and
from this it is judged that the COM
pany proposes to run such trains
through to this coast. The trains to
be put on the new route will be heated
by live steam from the locomotives,
thus marking the practice of the COM
pany as in the front rank in this re-
gard. 1t is fair to assume that the
Atchison has great regard for this
end OF its system as we'll as for the
Eastern end, as it is now undertaking
a most complete system of repair and
renovation on the Atlantic and Pacific,
and that part of its route between AL
buquerque and Mojave will be in first
class condition before the year is out.
A statement is going abroad that as a
retaliatory move, the Chicago and AL
ton, which is likely to be crippled by
the operations of the new line, is ma
turing plans for the construction of
main line reaching several miles into
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe's
territory.
The Teachers, Convention.
The special excursion train to San
Francisco conveying the teachers to