Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-09
THE RAILROADS.
THE AIR FULL OF RUMoRs ABOUT
RAILROAD SCHEMES.
Lester Scott Chaperoning Mr.. A. r.
White-The Redondo and Santa Fe
Roads Railroad Commissioners Com
ing-Notes.

The air is full of rumors about railroad
schemes, and OF course the wise ones see
in many of the rumors the fine Italian
hand OF Lester Scott. Mr.. Scott is a
regular Machiavelli in railroad diploma
cy, and is now hard at work on some en-
terprise, which may turn out to be OF
great Importance.
A Mr.. A. F. White has been in the
city for some weeks. When at his place
of business, he can be found at No. II
Wall street, New York, but while in
California he has been chaperoned by
Mr.. Scott.
Mr.. White has travelled with his chap
eron considerably; up through the San
Joaquin valley, down to the coal fields
OF Utah, down to San Pedro, where
careful inspections of the water front
were made, as we'll as at Redondo. Mr..
Scott, it is said on good authority, has
also furnished Mr.. White with numer-
GUS tracings Of railroad surveys, of sta
tistics of freight, OF the amount of coal
consumed in this vicinity, and all sorts
of information which people contem-
plating the construction of new rail-
road would want to know.
Mr.. White has not made much OF a
noise while here; in fact the HERALD
reporter was the first newspaper man to
unearth him, but he has been gathering
a great amount OF information, and it is
probable that he will be heard from in
the future.s
THE REDoNDo AND SANTA FE.
For while back it looked very much
as if the little Redondo railroad would
commence rate war against the big
Santa Fe company, and as far as could
be learned the Redondo people had pre-
pared themselves so as to hold the win
ming hand. The proposal was made to
the San Gabriel Valley railroad people
by the Redondo people that freight be
transferred between their two depots,
and by this arrangement the Redondo
people would have been able to have
seriously cut into the trade of the Santa
Fe from all points west of Monrova.
AS nothing has so far come of the mat
ter, the supposition is that the Redondo
people carried their point without tax
ing out their scalping knife.
THE RAILROAD COMMISSION.
The railroad commissioners did not
meet yesterday, says Tuesdays San Fran
cisco Chronicle, but their efforts to find
grievances have been rewarded and they
are going a-gunning on Thursday next.
That their business is to be highly i'm
portant may be gathered from the fact
that they will be gone ten days in the
Southern Pacific's special car Carmelo,
which is now being loaded with goOdly
S,InnlU Af holt for and a ah 1ano1
paraphernalia and piscatorial tackle;
rifles and shotguns; minute books and
foolscap paper. The party will include
the whole commissionary outfit-Messrs.
Rea, Beekman, Litchfield, Secretary
Kelly, Bailiff Eldred and Stenographer
E. G. Johnson, as we'll as two or
three pointers to ferret grievances and
other game. The first stop will be made
at Pasadena, where the complaints
against the Los Angeles Terminal and
Southern California will be given an arr
ing. When the grievances have been
settled, or taken under advisement, the
special car will proceed to San Diego.
Then the party will take run over the
Otay line. visiting the Sweetwater dam
and getting back to business at River
side on Monday, April 18th.
Meetings will be held in Los Angeles,
Santa Barbara and Bakersfield, where
the board will meet on Friday week, and
at Fresno the following day. 1t is ex-
pected that the Carmelo will return
with it's precious burden on Sunday
week, by which time it will have discov-
cred that the railroad commissioners
lot is not an unhappy one.
NOTES.
The Terminal railway notables 60 to
San Pedro today to inspect their prop
erty there.
J. H. Howard, general manager of the
Oregon Improvement company. went
north Yesterday after stay of some
days in this city.
w. E. Kerckhoff, receiver of the San
Gabriel Valley road, has been very i'll
with pneumonia. He was slightly bet
ter Yesterday.
W. B. King, formerly of the San Ga
briel Valley railroad, passed through
the city yesterday en- route to Coronado.
LC. P. Huntington and A. N. Towne
arrived in San Francisco on Tuesday,
and the annual meeting Of the directors
of the Southern Pacific company will be
held in that city on next Wednesday.
Judge w. R. Kelly. assistant to the
general solicitor of the Union Pacific,
has left San Francisco for Omaha.
J. H. Millard, one of the directors Of
the Union Pacific, and party, are ex-
pected to reach San Francisco during
the week. A tour of the state is con-
templated by the visitors.
WILL DISCUSS FINANCE.
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