Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-19
STREET WHISPERS.
How the Storm Affected the
Railroads.
CITY MATTERS ADVERTISED
Inquest On a Chinaman Drowned
In q Small Creek Some
Time Age.

through the pass is very high, and diff
Guilty is experienced in keeping the track
in usable condition. The overland OF
yesterday was expected in at late hour
last night. It is reported that good
deal of snow was blowing about in the
mountains during the storm, and that
the water in the mountain streams is
higher than it has been at any time dur
ing the season.
Other portions of the Santa Fe road are
all right, and according to reports doing
very good freight and passenger business.
The Southern Pacific also reports that its
business during the months Of January
and February will make very good
showing. Travel from the East is
picking up considerably. The out.
look for the tourist travel through the
rest of the season is fairly good, al.
though the exuberant predictions of the
excursion agents at the beginning Of the
winter are not likely to be carried ont.
The unusual mildness of the Eastern
winter and the prevalence of the grippe
has seriously affected the natural course
of travel to this Coast.
Freight Auditor Wilder of the South
eru Pacific reports total east-bound ship.
ments for January to have been IA $685.
71O pounds, about half of which was
from San Francisco. Oranges shipped
aggregated over 100000 pounds.
The old report about the probable re-
tirement of Senator Stanford from the
Southern Pacific presidency in order to
devote more time to the Palo Alto Uni
versity is again in circulation. 1t is &C.
companied this time by the suggestion
that Colonel Fred Crocker may be
chosen to succeed him. Those who
should know consider that there is no
immediate probability of Senator Stan
ford's retirement from the position he
has 80 long held.
Mr.. J. A. Muir, assistant division
superintendent of the Southern Pacific,
received yesterday letter from Hervey
Lindley, in which the latter bestows
much justly merited praise upon the
company for the excellent manner in
which the large crowd of visitors to
Whittier was handled. Attention is
called to the fact that although the trains
were filed to the platform steps not a
single person was injured, owing to the
vigilance of the employees and officials
who had the affair in charge.
The Southern Pacific proposes to make
vigorous objections to the action of the
Police Commission. which deprived them
Of depot officer. Officer Rulo, one of
the oldest and most efficient men on the
force, was removed by the recent action
of the commission. The company main
tains that the large amount of taxes
which it pays annually into the city
treasury entities it to the protection
of at least one officer, and the commits
sion will hear from them to that effect.
Clinton Jones, the Rock Island agent
1T San Francisco, is in Colorado. With
other Rock Island officials, he recently
made tour of the new Colorado Mid
land (standard gauge, which runs vest
erly from ColoradotSprings and is des-
tined to rival as a Rock Island connec-
ton the Colorado lines of the Rio Grande.
1t is now constructed nearly to Grand
junction on the Rio Grande Western and
the present plan is to have an arrange
ment with that road, now being made
standard gauge, 80 that Midland trains
can 60 from Colorado Springs to Ogden.
Shrewd railway guessers predict that
these Colorado lines, extending 80 rapidly
westward, are destined to prove impor-
tant factors in the race OF Western rail-
ways toward this Coast.
The Railway Age, in referring to the
recent blockade in the Sierras, praises
the efforts to raise it, and adds: The
Central Pacific company has never had
twenty years in which it's road over the
Sierra Nevadas has been operated, and
the fact that, in addition to the benefit
of long experience, it was never 30
thoroughly equipped as this year for
fighting snow, indicates the unprece-
dented character of the elemental attack
which may never be repeated in inten.
sity.
The arbitrators have arrived at a de.
cision in the case of the Brotherhood ol
Railroad Conductors vs.. the Cincinnati
New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway
Company. The decision is in relation tc
the discharge of sixteen conductors, and
it is as follows:
Having heard and considered the
testimony presented, have arrived at the
following conclusion, viz: The railway
company shall have the alternative tc
reinstate the men in their respective
positions on the division on which they
were formerly employed, or on any Other
division operated by the con- pany; or the
company shall pay, as hereinafter pro-
vided, sum equal to four az months
wages for each man; each man shall
have the alternative, in case reinstate.
ment is offered by the company, to take
the money compensation. If he accepts
reinstatement his money compensation
will date from the date of discharge to
the date of his reinstatement. The wages
per month are fixed at ninety dollars, ,and
the aggregate sum is determined at fifty
seven hundred and sixty dollars. This
sum shall be paid by the railway com.
pany to trustee to DO named by the
Grand Chief Conductor OF the Brother
hood of Railway Conductors, who is
George W. Howard. Such trustees will
disburse the fund on the order of the
Grand Chief Conductor of the Brother
hood of Railway Conductors"
Before the question was submitted to
arbitration the Cincinnati, New Orleans
and Texas and Texas Pacific Company
had. through its officials, held several
conferences with the men, and, while the
company refused to reinstate the dis
charged men, they were offered two
months pay.
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