Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-20
THE RAILWAY MEN.
How the Huntington Party
Passed the Day.
An Early Visit to San Pedro
HarbOr.
Carriages Provided for Drive About
the City,
An Informal Meeting of the Chamber OF
Commerce-views on San Pedro Har-
bor-Brief Interviews.

The Southern Pacific railroad party is
now in San Diego and will return to this
city again this evening. They spent
Sunday night at Santa Monica, leaving
at 6 O'Clock yesterday morning. At
half-past 6 the train reached the
switch at the corner of Sew
enth street and Alameda, and was trans
ferred 10 the San Pedro track without
coming into the Wolfskill depot. At
this place DIR. J. P. Widney, the chair
man of the committee on commerce in
the chamber of commerce, General E.
E. Hewitt and J. A. Muir, of the South
ern Pacific, and H. q. Osborne joined
the party.
The run to San Pedro was made in
thirty-fve minutes. After short halt
at the depot, where Captain Banning
came on board the train, it pulled out
to the point, where good view Of the
half-fnished wharf was secured. The
members of the party left the cars and
went out on the pier. DR.. Widney pro-
duced the chart, which has done service
on a number of similar occasions, and
explained the improvements which it is
proposed to make whenever an appro-
priation can be secured. An hour was
spent in this way, and the return was
made to the city at 8 80.
The members of the chamber of COM
merce who had been appointed COM
mittee to assist in the entertainment of
the party were waiting at the depot
when the train came in. They were
Major E. w. Jones, Eugene German,
A. H. Denker, M. l.. Wicks, X. Cohn,
Captain A. w. Barrett and Secretary H.
w. Patton. After some slight delay,
caused by the failure of those who had
promised carriages to be on hand, con-
veyance was obtained, and the railroad
party was driven to the city hall and
through the business portions of the
city. The expedition brought up at the
chamber of commerce. The permanent
exhibit was examined, and an informal
meeting was held.
At this meeting DR.. Widney went
over the ground of the work that has
already been done in the effort to secure
suitable appropriations for San Pedro
harbor, and called upon the railway
company to advance their own interests
by assisting in the work.
Mr.. Huntington made short speech,
in which he seemed to approve all that
was claimed for San Pedro, and said,
with regard to the matter of the diff
Guilty of securing proper appropriations
''It is necessary to send men OF force,
fighters, to congress if anything is
wanted, for it takes great force for the
far west to make an impression on con-
gress. The preponderance OF population
is so great in the east that it in itself
ha oh
of the west.'
Colonel Crocker expressed his opinion
that the natural advantages possessed
by San Pedro were greater than those of
any other harbor on the coast of South
ern California.
At the conclusion of this meeting the
party again entered the carriages and
were taken back to the depot. They
left for San Diego about noon. A dele
cation of prominent citizens from San
Diego was expected, and the train was
delayed short time while an effort was
made to ascertain where they were. As
they could not be found, the train finally
started without them. 1t appears that
the San Diegans arrived in the city at
IL AS and went to the Westminster, eX
pecting to find the railroad party there,
and thus missed seeing them.
The party will leave San Diego at 6
this morning and will return to Los
Angeles, making stops at Riverside, San
Bernardino and other places. In the
afternoon they will visit Redondo
Beach. They will spend part of the day
on Wednesday here and will then leave
for the east.
In the course of the forenoon inter
views were had with various OF the men,
bers of the party, President Huntington
declared that he was out of politics, and
proposed to do his best to keep the road
out. 1t had been run too long, he said,
for the benefit of one man. Henceforth
it should be run as a business PROPOSE
tion. Colonel Crocker expressed desire
to see Stanford sent back to the senate,
and hoped that there would be no politi-
cal quarrels in the republican party in
this section of the state.