Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-16
THE RAILROADS.
THE TERMINAL COMPANY AND
PASADENA AGAIN AT ODDS.
General Manager Burnett Receives a GEN
eral Kick from the Trustees - News
Notes.

General Manager Burnett, OF the
Terminal company, yesterday received
the following letter:
DEAR SIR At meeting OF the board
of trustees of the city of South Pasadena,
held September 13, 1891, after due legal
advice on all points connected with the
franchise of the Los Angeles Terminal
and the city of South Pasadena, the
following resolution was passed:
Son motion of w. II. Mace, seconded
by Charles T. Moore, it is hereby or
dered that the clerk is directed to notify
the Los Angeles Terminal railway COM
pany that it is violating the provisions
of ordinance No. 2S, granting right Of
way to the Los Angeles, Pasadena and
Glendale railway company over and along
certain public screets within the city
of South Pasadena in the following par
ticuars, viz. They are not running
twelve passenger trains each way daily,
and they are not stopping all OF their
regular passenger trains at Monterey
road in said city, and that the round
trip fare from each of the following sta
tions. viz: Monterey road, Meridian
avenue, Palm avenue and Fair Oaks
avenue, to the business center of Los
Angeles city, on the line of the Los An
geles Gable railway now demanded,
charged and collected by said Los An
geles Terminal Railway company, ex-
ceeds so cents, including the round-trip
fare of said Los Angeles Cable railway
and the clerk shall also notify said
company, that unless they shall at once
comply with said ordinance in said par
ticulars, and in all other respects, the
proper legal steps will be taken to COM
pei such compliance. or have said COM
pany enioined from using the streets of
said city"
The Terminal company has completed
its tracklaying as far as Clearwater, and
will be running trains to Long Beach be-
fore many weeks. Regular traffic will
not be commenced until the line is COM
pleted to the beach, though General
Passenger Agent Wincup will run train
from Clearwater on circus days.
THE SANTA MONICA ROADS.
The board of trustees of Santa Monica
held its regular meeting on Monday
evening, when the assembly room was
crowded by citizens who appreciated
the importance of the work to be con-
summated. After the preliminary work,
ordinance No. 1876, which is known as
the Southern Pacific ordinance, came up
for consideration. 1t was read and
passed by a unanimous vote. At this
juncture E. +. Hewitt addressed the
board, thanking it for the confidence
it had expressed by its action, and
1Orly
would be soon commenced.
The ordinance as passed is the same
in all respects as heretofore mentioned
in the HERALD, and gives the railroad
the privilege to tunnel Ocean ave-
nue. and run up the base OF
the bluff on the ocean side to the
are several provisos connected with the
ant are, that the company shall build a
wharf at some point on the ocean 'front.'
age, between Front street, Santa Monica,
and Santa Ynez canon, and have the
same completed within one year. The
forfeit if they fail to comply with the
ative. They also are to build safe
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places where the travel to the beach
requires it, and keep asdagman or put
automatic CRATES at the openings of the
tunnel.
The cross lines are being run ON the
Santa Monica Wharf and Terminal COM
pany's line today, and they are setting the
grade stakes preparatory to commencing
work, which will be prosecuted to an
early completion.
NOTES.
r. H. Pratt, assistant general superin-
tendent of the Southern Pacific COM
pany, and II. J. Small, superintendent
of the motive power, arrived in this city
yesterday.
The Terminal company is building a
round house south of the depot.
General NJ. II. Sherman, president of
the Consolidated Electric company, re-
turned yesterday from San Francisco.
J. J. Byrne, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Santa Fe company, ar
rived in the city yesterday.
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