Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-17
AMONG THE RAILROADS,
The Cable Road to Be Reha-
bilitated.
The Southern Pacific Abandons the
Quarry Branch.
Encouraging News for tho Cable Com
pany-Work at Santa Monica.
News Notes and Per-
sonals.

The cable road people were made hap
py yesterday by receipt of the news that
Hon. J. F. Crank had started on his
way back to this city from the east,
having completed arrangements for re-
habilitating the cable road system and
for electrizing the horse car lines be-
longing to the company.
RIGHT OF WAY TOO EXPENSIVE.
1t is now settled that the Southern
Pacific company will abandon the pro-
ject of obtaining stone for the Santa
Monica harbor from the Levering quarry
at Coldwater canon, by building a
branch road from The Palms, and instead
will use the deposit OF granite in the
cafion back OF the Soldiers home, which
is just as good, though it will require
little more heavy work to make it avail
able. This change has been made on
account OF the difficulty in obtaining
right of way for the proposed branch
from the Palms to Coldwater cailon.
AT SANTA MONICA.
The Santa Fe graders are within the
town limits and are pushing construc-
tion for all there is in it.
On Sunday the Southern Pacific. re-
moved all cause of complaint from
Santa Monica people by running trains
to the hill and from thence to the
canon, all trains to and from the
canon stopping at the station on the
beach.
G. F. Herr, the general freight agent
of the Union Pacific road, in this city,
together with Fred Thompson, of the
Rock Island, and J. w. Adams, of the
Chicago and Alton, left for Fresno yes
terday to capture the Democratic dele
gates who will 60 to Chicago.
George E. Mcmillan, the Southern
Pacific agent at San Diego, was in the
city yesterday.
w. H. Davenport, freight agent of the
Union Pacific, returned yesterday from
San Francisco.
S. B. Hynes, the general freight and
passenger agent of the Southern Cali
fornia railroad, is taking care of the
editors. AS chaperon Mr.. Hynes has
no equal.
The Transcontinental association will
meet in Chicago on the Goth. General
Freight and Passenger Agent Hynes of
the Southern California will attend the
session.
The Southern California company is
collecting complete crop report for
Southern California.
A PAYMAsTER TROUT EXPERT.
Mr.. Godfrey Holterhoff, the paymaster
of the Southern California road, when it
comes to trout fishing, holds his rod with
regular hypnotic fist, and draws fish
out of brooks as easily as he draws pay
warrant. He told a HERALD reporter
yesterday remarkable instance of his
Commodore Blackman of the general
managers office, were recently up in
Millard's s caflon. Mr.. Holterhoff failed to
provide himself with fishing tackle, and
as the others were we'll equipped he de.
cided to show them what he could do.
He borrowed the oommodore's cane for
pole and took the pin which held Mr..
Henderson's boutonniere in place and
deftly made It into hook. There are
usually no flies on Mr.. Henderson, but
on that occasion big bluebottle buzzed
around the lightning pass writer, and
Holterhoff, to whom anything like a
bottle is objectionable, hit it over the
ear and impaled it on the hook. He
then took a piece of bale rope, which
had been used to tie up a demijohn
of bread, and tied one end to
the pole and the other to the
pin and wandered up the cafion. In an
hour he returned with six trout, the
igb test of which weighed two pounds
and the biggest elk pounds.
This is true story. Mr.. Holterhroff
will corroborate it, 80 will Mr.. Hender-
son; and the commodore for the latter
weighed the fish. .I..