Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24
THE RAILROADS.
President Marvel of the Santa
Fe Arrives.
He Enters q General Denial Of
Road Building Reports.
Southern California, He Thinks is
Remarkably Prosperous.
No Line Being Planned to San Fran
ciscO-The Points Of Talk With
the Santa Fe's President.
News Notes.

Santa F6 affairs must be couleur de
rose. Never was President Marvel so
afable to newspaper men as yesterday.
AS rule this important railroad per-
sonage, when approached by reporter,
is about as talkative and amiable as a
frozen clam. He, like all railroad men,
never tells anything of Importance, it is
true; but as the people like to read
what such personages say, and then
guess at whether they are telling the
truth or the reverse, their utterances
have to be chronicled.
M. Marvel arrived from San Francisco
yesterday afternoon, and went at once
to the general office OF the company,
where he was awaited by lot of local
railroad officials. First was James
Campbell, president of the Santa Monica
Wharf and Terminal railroad company,
which proposes to build from Inglewood
to Santa Monica. Mr.. Campbell stag
gered under the weight of maps, plans
and right oil way deeds he carried, but
his face was illumined by smile of tri-
umph when he came out from his talk
with the Santa Fe magnet"
Mr.. James McFadden, the owner of
the Santa Ana, Newport and Sunday
Observance railroad, was next. Mr..
McFadden had map of his road drawn
on the back of copy of the ten COM
mandments. He talked with the mag
net for another hour, while an official
of the Terminal railroad cooled his heels
in the ante room waiting his turn.
Colonel Gassen, of San Diego, also did
some anteing in that ante room. The
colonel had the San Diego Pacific Beach
road in his pocket. From the Way all
these gentlemen looked when they came
out after their talk with Mr.. Marvel, it
Is fair to presume that they sold their
roads, if such was their object.
In answer to the reporters catechism,
Mr.. Marvel said that he had not received
any propositions from San Francisco
people about building to that city; no
sir, he had no surveyors locating a road
to the north; no sir, he did not contem-
plate building road to the north no
sir, there was nothing in all the reports
to the contrary, no sir.
No, sir; he did not intend to build
any extensions of his system in South
ern California. Temescal mines? Well,
he was going there; if he could see tin
enough he might build the spur. He
did not know what he would do about
the Temecula caflon route. 1t would
not do to rebuild it where it had been,
and the company had no money with
which to reconstruct it; he would look
the matter over while here and decide.
The money market is very tight. No
matter how good securities are, it is
| almost impossible to sell them. South
ern California seems to be better off
financially than any other part of the
country. He is very we'll satisfied with
the business done by the local roads
during the past year. The prospect for
business is excellent.
About the proposed line to Santa
Monicalhe knew nothing more than that
there was such scheme. He would
look into it while here, but had come to
no decision as yet.
That is about what the gentleman
said. There are some people who will
think he did not mean all of 1T, particu-
larry about the plan to build north.
EXCURsIoNIsTs ARRIVE.
A Phillips excursion arrived yester-
day, in charge OF G. w. Canty. The
party came via the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific, the Denver and Rio
Grande and the Southern Pacific roads.
Its personnel is as follows:
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Dows, Boston (;
Grace Clewell, Cleveland, o.; o. F.
Payne, Boston; Mrs. E. Nevins, Miss
Nevins, Frankfort, Kan. Mrs. J. N.
Parge, Lynn, Mass. Mrs. S K. Chase,
Miss Eva Chase, Miss Essie Chase, Mrs.
S. A. Nickerson, Ina Nickerson, Flor
ence Nickerson, Bridgeport, Conn; W.
G. James, ]. J. Gurney, A. G. Williams,
Boston; Miss Ida Williams, Belle Muir
rey, Chicago; Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Dyer,
Miss Mary King, Mrs. j. H. Morgan,
Cohassett, Mass. Mrs. J. L. Whitmore,
Miss A. Whitmore, Portland, Me. j. A.
Hale, Pottsdam, N. Y: Florence Chris
tie, Mrs. E. Christie, Boston, A. Mil
ler, Beatrice, Neb. Mrs. M. A. Murry,
Georgetown, o.; Mrs. J. j. Kocher,
Syracuse, N. Y; Miss Anne Bick, Miss
G. Larson, Mr.. and Mrs. Mathew John
son, N. Nelson, New York city; E. L.
Hutchinson, Chicago; ; Mrs. F. D. Crafts.
Manchester, N. H.; Mr.. and Mrs. Had
eler, Boston; E. Hennury, New York; (;
j. w. Burns, Oshkosh, Wis.,. Mrs. G.
Chambers, Miss A. Chambers, Miss
Bessie O'Brien, Mrs. Fred Lockhart,
Windsor, N. S.; Mrs. William McCul-
lon, Harry O. Ray, Annapolis, N. S..
Mrs. Chas. Nuthin, Stratford, Ont:
Miss S. ]. Garretson, Anderson, Ind. /;
d. w. Morgan, Butler, Ind; r.
T. Buchanan, Logansport, N. VI;
M. L. Faulkner, Albany, N.
Y; w. R. Shaw, Moline, ILL.,;
James Monroe, F. H. Bishop, Charles
Waterman, H. Harvey, New Haven,
Conn.,. Mrs. ]. II. Yeakey, Freeman,
Mo-; Mr.. and Mrs. @. B. Wingate, New
Mr.. and Mrs. Q. R. Horton, jamestown,
New York; G. L. Harding, Kansas City,
Mo-; A. E. Golden, Joliet, ILL.,. F. l..
Sawyer, Lawrence, Mass. S. M, Stone,
Watertown, Mass. j. G.. Barrett, Sa-
lem, Mass. Mrs. L. 0. Wheeler,
Charlestown, VT; Mrs. F. D. Varrum,
Iona, Mich; Mrs. and Miss A. Hale,