The herald., 1893-01-16
NEWS ABOUT THE RAILROADS.
The SantaFe Building a Steamer
for Coast Service.
Two Bids Received for the Controlling
Interest in the DOnahue Road.
A Railroad Time Table Which Can
Be Understood Invented by
Bright Southern Pa
cific Employs.

Much interest has been manifested,
says the San Francisco Chronicle, lately
in the mission of the $50 ton steamer
recently launched and now at Folsom
pier 2, where force of workmen are
laying the main deck and calking it. On
Monday the Rosalia will go under the
shears at Folsom pier and have her
boilers and engines put in. The upper
works are now on their way from the
east, and the planssshow them to be de-
signed for an excursion or ferry steamer.
But just where the steamer Is to run is
uncertain, as the projectors decline to
give definite information.
The persons known in connection with
the new steamer are j. j. Eberts and G.
L. Dimon, jr. All bills have been
promptly paid and the work on the
steamer is being pushed in a way that
leaves no doubt but that the steamer is
wanted for some purpose as soon as pos
sible. 1t is expected that she will be
ready for her trial trip about March 1st.
A gentleman who claims to be in
formed ON the subject said yesterday
that Eberts was very close to several
officials in the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad, and his understand
ing WAS that the Rosalia would be used
90 fast excursion steamer between San
Diego, Santa Barbara and Channel
island, in connection with the railroad.
1t is expected tnat the steamer will be
able to make 16 miles an hour. She
will have 20 fine state rooms and Sleep
ing accommodations for 50 persons, and
Will be able to carry 400 people on day
trip. Eberts and Dimon contracted with
j. S. Kimball last June for the construc-
ton OF the steamer at Whites ship yard,
on Alameda point. EDsrts said yester-
day that if the Rosalia came up to ex-
pectatlons another contract would be let
for a similar steamer in design, but $50
tons larger in size. He declined to say
positively where the Rosalia would be
located when in service.
THE. DoNAHUE ROAD.
The two New York banking firms OF
j. and W. Seligman & Co. and Laden
burg, Thalman & Co., who hold the $4,.
600, 600 blanket mortgage on the Dona.
hue railroad and own $4,000 shares of
its capital stock, have bid for ths re-
naming $4,000 shares by offering $780,
COO, or $40 share, says the San Fran
cisco Examiner.
Yesterday the bid. together with a
check of $42 900 to bind the bargain,
was filed in the Marin county superior
court at San Rafael, and Judge Angel
lotti set February 24th next as the day
on which the sale of the road will be
considered.
Executors J. F. Burgin and Peter 7.
xysf ha,r
spective attorneys, @. F. Hanlon and
George r. B. Hayes. Hepburn Wilkins
was present to represent the creditors,
and Russell J. Wilson for the New York
bankers.
A dispatch from San Rafael last night
gave information that William Graves,
manager of the North Pacific Coast rail
| road, also fled a bid yesterday with the
county clerk of Marin county for $780,
600. The telegram did not say whether
a check accompanied the bid or not.
AN IMPROVED TIME TABLE.
To the average man who only travels
occasionally the railroad time table is al
ways puzzle. That sober journal, the
London Punch, showed on one occasion
how by the use of BradEhaw's complete
railroad guide it required "a days to 60
to Brighton, which is really only a
couple of hours ride from the English
capital. Railroad men also admit that
the best railroad time table is not easy
to understand, or at least requires prac-
tice to read dquickly.
To remedy the ill George F. Richard
son, chief Of the car service department
of the Southern Pacific, has invented
and copyrighted new form of time
table. At first glance it looks ike the
plan OF hot-water heating service for
big hotel or hospital, but very little
study shows that it is a simple and in
genious device. For every train on this
map there is line from the starting
point to the terminal. On these lines
at intervals arrows are marked showing
the direction which train is moving,
30 that there is an up aud down line be-
tween every two points, one showing the
train from San Francisco to any destina-
tion, say Ogden, and another from Og-
den to San Francisco, while if there are
two or more trains in each direction
daily there are two or more sets of lines,
one set with arrows in one direction and
the other with arrows in the opposite
direction.
At the starting point there is circle,
while at the far end of each line there
ia another circle, in which the time of
arrival is printed. Other circles be-
tween the extreme points give the time
of arrival at other stations. The sta
tions are marked on the lines just as
they are reached in regular rotation.
The time of arrival at way station by
down train is on circle on the down
line, and of an up train on the up line.
| In order to avoid confusion all the trains
moving from any starting point are on
the left, while the incoming trains are
on the right in each disgram.
To represent the trains of the South
ern Pacific company there are four dia-
grams on the chart; one for trains rum
ming as far as Ogden and Portland. one
for trains going to Albuquerque and Ell
Paso, the third for the Monterey line to
Santa Cruz and Santa Margarita, and
the fourth for the narrow gauge line to
Santa Cruz. Each of the local railroad
companies has little diagram to itself,
but all are on the one map.
The chart to represent every train
leaving San Francisco either from the
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