Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-19
ABOUT THE RAILROADS.
Condition of the Western Traffic
Association.
The Situation as Regards Various
Members.
1t is Quarrel Between Chicago ana
New YOrk-Jay Gould Is Not
Liked-News Notes OF
Local Roads.

The best statement of the condition
of the Western Traffic association was
given in the Chicago Herald of the 10th.
as follows:
1t had been arranged that the meeting
OF the Nanecontinental association gen.
eral managers would be held at Chicago,
April 10th. Chairman Vining is now
asking the members if they will consent
to postponement. The obvious reason
for the postponement is the uncertainty
which overhangs the future OF the
Western Traffic association. There are
a number of important issues to be con-
sidered by the Transcontinental, the
questions of Pacific mail subsidy and
Canadian Pacific competition being
among them. But perhaps more import
ant still, certainly from an administrative
point of view, are the disjointed affairs OF
the Western Traffic association. The
Transcontinenta is the only unadulter.
ated division of this superior body. All
it's members are also members OF the
Western Traffic, and it yields implicitly
to the dictates from above. This trust
ing adherence to the counsels of the Big
Six makes it the favorite of the family.
Aliens in the ranks of the other subor-
dinate bodies give them sturdier and
more independent character. The Trans
continental would be the chief mourner
at the pyre of the Western Traffic asso-
cistion.
Chairman Vining has not yet an
nounced the wishes of the Transconti-
mental members, but it is believed they
will not convene until after the fateful
May 10th. when the Western Traffic will
undergo it's crucial test.
From the present date it looks as If
the meeting May 10th would not ma
terialize. There is an innate feeling
among the Chicago members that they
know when they have been trampled
upon sufficiently. When the agreement
was made in January, 1890, it was
explicitly provided that each alternate
quarterly meeting should be held at
Chicago.
Not one meeting has convened in this
city. Three times Jay could deliber-
ately and with malice prepense induced
his personal following to absent them
selves and thereby made quorum i'm
members are unwilling to meet the WIZ
ard. 1t ia a question whether they
shall longer truckle to his whims. They
pClhoPb, COGcCAb " 0ttChu tAO
next regular meeting at New York, but
erately planned by Gould to displace the
preston of personal feeling. just now
the disposition is not to dance attend
ance upon Mr.. Gould. Three weeks
hence the responsibilities for millions OF
earnings may outweigh that considera-
ton, but chances are that Mr.. Gould
will be very lonely May 10.
In that event the Transcontinental
association will require a reconstruction
to place it upon its own feet. The
Western Freight and the Western Pas
senger associations would be affected to
a much less degree by the disruption of
the Western Traffic, though the moral
effect Of that organization has been a
great sustaining power. The Trans.
missouri would need some repairs and
the Southwestern is in q condition so
desperate thata thorough reorganization
will be needed. This will be attempted
Independently of the Western Traffic
association at a meeting to be held at
Chicago this week.
NOTES.
The Southern Pacific company yester-
Gay COmpleUoO Vu0 Work VI Sraulnk Iuc
new line at Santa Monica.
From the progress already made, it is
Judged that the Santa Fe will have its
| Santa Monica line completed by the
middle of next month.
The Terminal company is putin 6
down freight switch extending from
Also street to First.
The Terminal company has bought oi
Mrs. Carr three acres of land on the
northeast corner OF Pasadena avenue
and Colorado street, and it is very prob
able that q new passenger and freight
depot will be erected there, and that
the curve in the track at that point will
be considerably Strengthened. To this
end the company has also bought sew
eral lots on the south side of Colorado
street adjoining its right of way.
G. s. Hagan, who has the contract for
building the new depot for the Southern
Pacific was seen by a HERALD reporter
this morning. He states that he will
build, in connection with the depot, a
frepsoof wine and fruit shed, 100 by
140 feet, at a cost of $1,000, which must
be completed by June 18th, according to
the stipulations of his contract.