Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-06-21
THE DEAL CLOSED.
Colonel HOwland's Electric
Railroad Sold.
THE FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS
A New Company to be Incorpor
ated-A Fine Service
Promised.

Mr.. Samuel II. Taylor, the represent
ative of the Thomson Houston Electric
Railway Company, which for some time
past has been negotiating for the pur-
chase of the Rowland Electric road in
this city, arrived in town yesterday
morning. A HERALD man ran across
him at noon as he was standing in the
Nadeau House lobby. and asked how
the deal was progressing.
sit is virtually concluded" was the
reply. "The papers are all made out
and signed, and will be turned over to
me tomorrow. When I was here be-
fore, some three weeks ago, could not
make any satisfactory arrangement with
Colonel Rowland, who kept procrasti-
mating, unit at last l got thoroughly
sickened with the way 1 was being
treated. l therefore returned to my
Coast headquarters, at San Francisco,
and told the Colonel not to bother
me any more about the matter
until the papers we're ready. On
Saturday last received dispatch from
him announcing that the documents
W6T6 dli dldWh up bO L SdLbO cOdeAAt oAN
here am"
WHAT is TO BE DONE.
directly the papers are in my hands" !"
continued Mr.. Taylor, Eve will COM
mence operations. 1t is our intention to
incorpor ate new company, in which no
member of the syndicate under which
the road was formerly run will have q
place. This incorporation will take place
within the next thirty days,
and meantime we will be making
arrangements for our plant, which
has to come from the East. Altogether
it will take from 80 to 120 days to get
the line in operation with our dynamos.
Although the road is owned back East it
will be managed exclusively from here,
and one Of your good representative
men will be placed in charge, while the
Improvements are pending we will run
the cars by horses, as at present, though
We will probably put on little better SER
vice. We will take out all the big poles
on Pico street and also remove the arms
from the other stands"
"Your new road at Seattle met with
bad luck" said the penciller.
eyes, the fire wiped it out, like it did
everything else, but within two days we
were running again, and, strange to say,
the cable roads up there have not yet
succeeded in starting up again. tell
you the Thomson Houston 81 stem is
fine one, and one that the public will
appreciate when we get running. We
have had troubles every time we have
endeavored to get into town, but when
we are once established, the public always
say that they are glad we came, and that
they prefer our system of street transpor-
tation to any other. You gee we have
many advantages over cable road. In
turning curves like the one at the corner
of Spring and First streets, cable cars
have to go at almost full speed, whereas
with electricity as a motor the cars
can be slackened down at such
places to mere snail's pace.
"There is no doubt about it, electricity
is the coming power for transportation as
well as for lighting, hanging and all the
other appliances to which it is now being
directed"
Mr.. Taylor will only remain in the
town for a day or two, as he directs all
his compsny's business from their Pa
cific Coast headquarters at San Fran
cisco, and will leave for there as soon as
the necessary papers are turned over to
him.