Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-04
THE RAILROADS.
MILLIONS TO BE SPENT IN RAIL.
WAY CONSTRUCTION.
The Work Now Under way-The Santa
Fe's wretched Depot-News Notes and
Personals.

Inc amount OF money now being spent
IN railroad construction in and about
this city is something enormous. First.
there is the Terminal company's new
lines under construction, its depots,
shops, etc., to be built at the foot OF
First street. Then there is the Belt
Electric street railway company's work.
comprising a score of miles of double
track road, and the great power house.
The San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit
company will also expend large
amount of money in changing the gauge
and putting down new steel. In the
next twelve months it is more than
probable that couple of million dollars
will be expended here in railroad con-
stluctiOn alone.
If the Santa Fe could only be induced
to join the procession and erect re-
spectacle depot in this city, then there
would be cause for rejoicing. Any little
cross road station has a better depot
than the Santa Fe gives the best par
rons OF its road, the Los Angeles people.
NOTES.
The Southern Pacific company has
just added to its rolling stock parlor
funeral car. 1t is constructed solely for
the use OF funerals where the body is to
be transferred from the state or city to
another. The car is elegantly fitted up
into four compartments, there being
separate parts for ladies and gentlemen
at each end of the car, and drawing
room in the center. Just off the draw
ing room is small compartment in
which to place the casket, and the latter
can be taken from the car by a side
door,
The Belt railway men are putting in
their curves at Fourth and Spring
streets.
There were several changes made yes
terday in the local railroad offices, says
Saturdays San Francisco Chronicle. G..
III. Miles, formerly with the Erie, as
sumes the position of city passenger
agent of the Rock Island, while Ed
Waugh, the late incumbent, will leave
for better position in Chicago on Mon
day next. F. Critcherson is the new
city passenger agent of the Erie, and T.
J. Kelley, formerly with the Wabash,
has succeeded Charles Alberger as city
agent of the Denver and Rio Grande..
If the occasional traveller gets on the
wrong train or boat once or twice in life
time no one is surprised, but when an
experienced travelling passenger agent |
does SO 1t is surprise, states the Chron-
icle. Smith Shattuck, the agent for the |
Ohio and Mississippi, has been in this
city over and over again, but the new |
ferry depot puzzled him. He secured |
his sleeper for Los Angeles, and then |
went to the foot of Market street and |
boarded the boat for Alameda. After
arriving at the mole he discovered that
something was wrong. The result was
that he passed one night more in this
city than he intended to, and only
left yesterday morning for Los Angeles.
A. j. Fillmore left San Francisco on
Friday evening for his trip to the east.
He will probably be absent about six
weeks.
E. L. Lomax, the general passenger
agent of the Union Pacific, arrived in
San Francisco ON Saturday.
The Chicago and Atoms winning over
of the Grand Trunk line is still fruit
ful topic of conversation. This means
only one of the trunk lines, but the fact
that it carries with it the acquiescence
of the president of the lines is a very
factor in the Chicago and Al
toms fight. The company in carrying
out its fight has called in the aid of the
ticket brokers and has placed a number
of tickets in their care for sale. This is
not the first time that a railroad COM
pany has made use of ticket scalpers,
and the latter are wide enough awake
to avail themselves of the privileges and
the tacit admission of their influence.
+. II. Mccormick, general agent of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail-
way, left San Francisco on Saturday for
Kansas City, where he will meet Gen
eral Freight Agent j. NJ. Johnson and
the general and commercial agent of the
freight department, who will travel by
special train over the lines of the Rock
Island system for the two-fold purpose
of inspection and social meeting OF the
freight representatives to exchange
views and get better acquainted with
each other.
How to Succeed.