Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-25
THE RAILROADS.
The Southern Pacific at Santa
Monica.
The Line Not to Be Extended
North From the Canyon.
Electric Road People Claim They
Are All Right.
General Superintendent Fillmore of the
Southern Pacific Goes to Chino.
The Electric Road Fight-An
Excursion Arrives.

General Superintendent J. A. Fill
more and Superintendent j. A. Muir
returned yesterday from Santa Monica
where they had been inspecting the
work being done in extending the
Southern Pacific to the canon, prepara-
tory to the construction of wharf at
that place. Mr.. Fillmore was very
reticent about the matter. 1t was
learned, however, by HERALD reporter,
from excellent authority, that the plans
OF the company at this point, as ex-
clusively outlined in the HERALD weeks
ago, and which were at the time con-
tradicted by the other papers in the
city, were correctly described. The SUBJ
sequent assertions made by slow-going
contemporaries, to the effect that the
line was to be extended up the coast to
Hueneme are baseless, and are as ridicu
lous as their contradictions of the
HERALD's news announcements, and
then their falling into line with the same
news. The wharf will be built, and all
the energies of the Southern Pacific
company will be bent towards making
Santa Monica the commercial shipping
point of Southern California. Mr.. Fill
more, ]. H. Wallace, assistant superin-
tendent of way, and friends, left yester-
day for Chino to inspect the sugar
works.
THE ELECTRIC ROAD.
Despite the telegram from San Fran
cisco published on Sunday morning by
the HERALD that Senator Fair, of the
Pacific Rolling mills, intends to break
the contract by which the electric road
is being constructed, work went right
along yesterday on the line as usual.
Letters were received by the Electric
road officials from the Rolling Mills
company stating that more material had
been shipped. Officers of the road
stated positively that the contract would
not be broken, that even ifit was the road
would be built. The talk about the
Rolling Mills not being empowered to
take such contracts was stated to be
nonsense. The mills had made SIM
liar contract with the cable road of this
city, with the Second street road, and
with the San Mateo electric road. The
Mills company has already put money
up in the hundreds of thousands of dol
lars in the construction of the road, and
it is argued that they will not feel like
losing that as they would do if they
broke the contract.
On the other hand Mr.. Crank's ad-
herents claim that he has only COM
menced fighting and that when he plays
his trump cards that the electric people
will find that they are in the hole.
EXCURsIoNIsTs.
The following excursionists arrived
yesterday, from the east, via the Santa
Fe route:
Mrs. L. M. Good, Santa Paula, Cal.
s. E. Sheppard, Effie May Sheppard,
Osborn, Ohio; Miss Laura Brandriff, w.
j. Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Fritts,
Arthur Shell, Chicago; Mrs. Sarah Nc
Ebrea and family, Ventura, CAL. Mrs.
Hannah M. Reader, South Bend, Ind. !;
Mr.. and Mrs. Heber Stoddard, Lyons,
Kas.; Miss Fanny Sloan, Winslow,
Ariz. U. s. Little, VIM. Rudge, Coun-
Gil Bluff, Iowa; A. L. Colvin, George
Huling, Kansas City; A. M. Anderson,
Omaha; Lewis Wright, Pomona, Cal. !;
J. A. Lloyd, j. M. Murray. Denver !;
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. White, Colorado
Springs; H. Miller, Boston; A. Thomas,
Charleston, S. G.