Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-10-16
SHOO FLY!
Manager Wade Brushes Off
San Diego Kickers.
He Will Run His Road Strictly
on Business Principles.
Not Afraid of Any Delegation of Sore
heads to Topeka.
He Explains that His Company Ire ats
AIlsections Fairly and Helpfully.
No Grounds for Charg-
ing Favoritism.

AS it looks now the regular annual
meeting of the directors of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad which is
to be held in Topeka, Kansas, on Octo-
Der 18th, will be devoid of any very
great public interest.
1t is known, however, that there will
be a delegation from one portion OF
Southern California on hand to present
a grievance and which will endeavor to
show that San Diego has been discrim-
mated against by the management OF
the Southern California road in favor OF
Los Angeles.
There is in San Diego an element OF
the population who seem to think that
all of the misfortunes, all of the hard
luck that has fallen upon them is due
to the Santa F6. These people forget
the fact that prior to the advent OF the
Santa Fe at San Diego, the place was
but a village; that since then it has be-
come city and that all of this advance
has been due to the fact that the Santa
Fe has made San Diego the terminus OF
its system.
Not thinking or considering this fact,
the San Diego residents have been max
ing life miserable for the Santa Fe Off
GERS in vain and nonsensleal
effort to show that Los Angeles was ia
vored and San Diego overlooked entirely
by the road.
The fact, as stated in yesterdays
HERALD, that a few San Diegans have
seen fit to send delegation to Topeka
to present what they may consider their
grievances to the board of directors, Is
matter which cannot be passed unno-
ticed.
General Manager Wade of the South
ern California road, in conversation with
a HERALD reporter last evening, said:
ga committee of citizens from any
locality in Southern California are priv
ileged to go to Topeka and file with the
Santa Fe directors any complaint they
ma have at hand. In reply l will say
that sinceI have assumed the general
management of the Southern California
road have endeavored to treat all sec
tions OF the territory covered by our
lines fairly and without discrimination.
This was what business and common
sense dictated, and that was and is the
only policy we are following now. If it
became necessary to make change in
the matter of shops or offices or any
thing of that character that change was
made in the interest of the company
and not in the interest OF any particut
lar town or city.
eyes, [ have heard about the San
Diego complaint, but | really cannot see
where the citizens have any kick com
ing, to use vulgar expression. | have
interviewed the leading merchants,
property owners and business men there,
and they all admit that we have done
the right thing by them, and all that
could be asked.
81 look at it just this way: Anything
that helps to develop or advance South.
ern California as whole or any part OF
it is in our interest. Why should we, as
a railroad company, discriminate against
San Diego in favor of Los Angeles? We
are the only company entering the city
of bay'nclimate, and in Los Angeles we
have the Southern Pacific to compete
with. Tell me why it is to our advan-
tage to take anything to a competing
point when we can, as some San Dlegans
claim, carry it to non-competlngpo point,
This is al folly.
''Please state that the Southern Cali
fornia road and its management past,
present and future will do everything
and anything it can to enhance the IN
terests of all the country it covers. But
at the same time we must conduct our
affairs on business principles, and we
cannot and will not go beyond these
orrat1n1o ~