Los Angeles herald., 1890-11-18
REDUCING THE TINE.
FROM LOS ANGELES TO CHICAGO IN
EIGHTY-EIGHT HOURS.
Great improvements on the Santa Fe.
Some Points on the Chicago Exhibit.
People Who Are Coming Here.

Fe, returned here from Boston q few
days ago, where he had been to meet
and confer with Messrs. Magoun and
Barring. who may accompany him when
he leaves for California next week. The
Santa Fe, which averages rising thirty
miles an hour at present between Los
Angeles and Chicago, and makes the
run between the two places in four days,
has had some new locomotives COM
pleted for thatservice, and will put them
on the road about the middle of the
present month, and shorten the time
eight hours, and make the run between
Chicago and Los Angeles in three days
and sixteen hours, and have dining cars
on all the trains clear through, num-
Der OF which are already being placed at
different points on the road. This will
be the quickest and finest regular train
across the continent, and will beat the
Southern Pacific about twenty-four
hours. This new fast service will take
the San Francisco passenger from Chi
cago to his point of destination, via the
Atlantic and Pacific, in little over four
days. 1t is safe wager to lay that
ny tlC JllhC bllC COubilChh dCluC COIl-
! pany completes its Coast Line, the Santa
Fe will be running vestibuled trains
between Chicago and San Francisco in
one hundred hours over its own lines.
New bridges and new culverts, and the
removal Of earth in deep cuts and other
improvements along the whole line are
being made, and it is the determination
of its president to at once make the
Santa Fe the fastest, best and altogether
the most enjoyable and, of course, one
of the safest across the continent. As is
we'll known, large majority of the peo-
pie of Southern California already travel
by this line when they make transcon-
tlnental journey. The Santa Fe is
highly pleased with its patronage
throughout Southern California, and
will soon construct another branch,
which will lead from the main line to
the Temescal tin mines, the owners OF
which will soon commence operations
on a gigantic scale.
There is no doubt in my mind that in
less than three years there will
be still another transcontinental
thoroughfare terminating either at
San Francisco or Los Angeles,
or at both places. Los Angeles is going
to be great gamer by the completion
of the Coast Line, which will do it more
good, or as much, as a new transconti-
mental railway. My impression is that
its builders will run vestibule train,
with parlor, dining and composite cars,
lighted with electricity and heated by
steam, between San Francisco and Los
Angeles, in from seventeen to eighteen
hours, or even less. I know that it ID
the object of Mr.. Huntington and Still
man and Towne to make the train fast
ne and a dandy service in every respect.
New locomotives and cars are already
ordered, and great patronage is ex-
pected. 1t is fair to presume that where
one person now travels between San
Francisco and Southern California, there
will be from thirty-6ve to fifty when the
Coast Line is completed
VIII Winter in Southern California.
Mr.. and Mrs. George M. Pullman have
issued cards for stunning reception on
the 18th inst, after which they will
leave for California, accompanied by
their two daughters and twin sons; and
all but Mr.. Pullman will winter in
Southern California, taking in San
Diego, Los Angeles, Pasadena and Santa
Barbara. Mrs. Pullman is very fond of
the latter place. She is in poor health,
but attributes returning strength to the
beneficent atmosphere and climatic
balm pervading the southern portion OF
the queen state of the Pacific. When
the country hereabouts gets on its invit-
ing autumnal manners and Chicago's
Indian summer sunshine successfully
subdues the bleak zephyrs from the
lake and repels the threatening blasts
from the west, Mrs. Pullman calls it
Southern California weather, and longs
to again get out to that flowing slope
where Hygeia benignly reigns, and
where the exquisite winter air is i'm
rregnated with spices from far off
Cathay.
The Southern California Exhibit.
Since it has been established, the
Southern California Permanent Exhibit
has received four cars of fruit, vege-
tables, minerals, etc., from the four
southern counties that projected the ex-
hibit, and considerable number OF
people visit the Rialto building daily.
Among the things that astonish most is
watermelon from San Bernardino
county weighing just 101 pounds;
oranges from the same county which
have HuIS Oh JlG trees CeIl months ; q
sweet potato from Los Angeles weighing
twenty-five pounds; squash weighing
ESQ; fourteen watermelons weighing in
the aggregate 972 pounds; one hill OF
sweet potatoes, forty-eight pounds;
beet four feet two inches in length
measured by some gentlemen from the
board of trade; corn in stalk nineteen
feet in height; and orange, lemon and
lime, walnut, pepper, cactus, banana,
yucca and accacla trees in boxes. From
San Diego county, ITO plates OF various
fruits, consisting of oranges, lemons,
lines, pomegranates, persimmons, APP
pies, pears, grapes, and all varieties of
vegetables; also marble, honey, pre-
pared fruit in cans and jars, raisins, figs,
walnuts, peanuts, chestnuts, pecans and
guavas.
Orange county holds her own with
ninety plates of ounces, pears, pome-
granates, guavas, persimmons, apples,
grapes, and nuts of all varieties known
in Southern California, and there are
monster squashes, beets, turnips, spuds,
pumpkins, watermelons, hops, parsnips
and sweet potatoes from the baby
county, and corn in stalk from seventeen
to nineteen feet in height. A bale of
alfalfa hay is an object of much atten-
tion. There are great many ounces
that weigh over two pounds each.
There is a splendid display OF dried