Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-10
TOURIST TRAVEL.
An Order Which Hurts the
Excursion Men.
81 BERTHs TO KANSAS CITY.
Arrival of Another Sunset Exeur-
sion = List of the
Travellers.


The Southern Pacific Company, it is
said. always discouraged the excursion
business, inasmuch that it means having
to haul back at intervals long trains OF
empty cars at a big expense to the trans
portation department. When Pullman
secured control of the tourist cars on the
coast, it was thought that the excursion
men would drop out of the ring, but in
stead of doing so they set to work plan
ming a way out of the difficulty and,
finally, as they thought, found it. Their
plan was to charter cars from Pullman
and then relet them to the tourists,
charging, of course, the sleeping berth
dues, though even these, up to the first OF
the present month, were not upheld on
account of the competition among the
railroads. But an order just issued by
General Passenger Agent Goodman, OF
the Southern Pacific, aud received in this
city yesterday, gives them another
Knockout. The S. P official instructs
his en- ployes here that they are not to
engage berths for second-class tourists
until the car attached to the overland is
first filed, and even then no Pullman
second class car Can be chartered for
less than twenty passengers. The out
come of this will be readily apparent.
An excursion manager will not now be
able to reserve any berths for his patrons
until about O'Clock on the day
the excursion leaves the city, for
until that hour it is not known
how many vacant berths there are in the
through car. These will have first to be
let cut, and if the agent fails to get
twenty or more people together he will be
unable to send his patrons out. Then,
again, it is impossible to promise through
berths to Boston, Cincinnati, and the
other points, as was advertised during
the past few days, as those who will have
to occupy the through car will have to
change at its terminal point.
There seems little doubt, therefore,
that the excursion second-class business
will 60 to the wall altogether, and travel
will have to run in the regular daily
channels. The conveniences of this to
the railway companies are easily
seen. Under the present system
the tourist cars run nearly
empty for two or three nights, and then
comes an excursion and four or five cars
loaded to the muzzle have to be hauled,
and on arriving at the other end accu-
mulate and have to be sent back as
empty specials. AS far as the travelling
public is concerned the losing of the ex-
cursion agents means having no man.
ager in personal charge of them during
the trip across the continent. Southern
California will lose by the new deal for,
as has before been pointed out in the
HERALD, the excursion manipulators did
an enormous amount of advertising for
this section back East which the rail-
road companies will certainly not main
tain. The Santa Fe men were glad to
hear of the new order for they have been
badly handicapped of late, as theirs is
the only one over which no second
class excursions have been run since the
first of the year.
ANOTHER CHANGE.
The following dispatch, just received
by the different railroad agents here, ex-
plains for itself another change which
has occurred:
Commencing April 10th, tourist-car
or Kansas City will be 50 every day."
Up to to-day, the date of this notice,
the charge to the points named has been
So, and the reduction is explained as fol-
lows: Pullman has not yet obtained
control of the Denver and Rio Grande,
and the lines operating in connection
with that road have therefore been trans
ferripg their passengers to it at Ogden,
-, urbinI ya;nf tha D,,Ii,,oov fara xr7oa
and thus got their patrons to the Mis-
souri, River for the So rate. To meet
this, the other roads have therefore
made a rev arrangement with Pullman,
and SO all around is now the order of the
day.
The Santa Fe officials did not get the
notification the same time the other rail-
roads did, but the moment they heard
it they declared a like reduction, and a
placard was soon prominently displayed
in the Offices of the company in the Phil
lips Block, reading, "$2 berths to Kansas
City,"
SUNSET PARTY.
Another Sunset excursion pulled into
the city in the small houre yesterday
morning. The travellers came from Bos-
tson via New Orleans and report pleas
ant journey. Their names are as follows:
j. s. Bags, of Washington, D. c.; L.
Buck. G. H. Buck, A. @. Buck, Philadel-
phia; Joseph Bower. New Haven. Conn. !;
j. R. Batchelder, Boston; 81. s. Bart
lett, Pittsfeld, Mass; r. Bartholomew
and wife, S. Boyer, Delaware, O.; L.
Dahl. Baltimore; W. P. Fully, Boston
N. II. Goff, Washington, D. c.; r.
Hane, New York; Sarah Howard, Syra-
cuse; Miss L. j. Leman, Boston;
Del is Lucy. Washington, d. c.; E.
Miller Meriden M. Samuel, Uniontown,
Pa; Ed MCGOWAN, Washington, D G;
Sohn Parkerson, Norwich, Conn; Geo E
Plaine, Toledo, O; Miss A Rochester,
Cumberland, Mo; G Ramble, Philadel-
phia; John Kelly, Birmingham, Conn !;
John Smith, sr, Boston Fl F Smith,
John Smith Jr, New York; H N Leep.
Toledo: S V Taylor, Baltimore; w
Thomley, New York; H Teele, Boston
A s Welsh, Broadway, New York V
Wade, Boston.
THE WEY ERMAN CASE.