The morning call., 1894-10-26
TO CARRY CROWDS
New Lines to Be Opened
for Travellers.
ALL WILL LEAD WESTWARD.
Second-Class Tourist-Cars for
the Service.
ALL WILL LEAD WESTWARD
NECESSARY TO MEET DEMANDS.
They Will Run Over Various Roads
and Mostly to Southern Cali
fornia-Dangerous Rails.

Second-clsss passenger travel from the
East to California has increased steadily
within the past few weeks, until it now
reaches a condition requiring improved
and more ample accommodations than the
railroads have been giving.
Southern California receives the larger
number Of these tourists and immigrants,
although the northern and central dis
tricts attract many of them. ALI things
considered, so some railroad men say, the
south is getting more than its share, which
is easily accounted for. Southern Cali
forna is by far the better known district
among Eastern people. who constantly
read about its wonderful climate and re-
sources. while the north hardly takes the
trouble of informing them of all it has to
offer.
To meet the demand for accommodations
the Southern Pacific Company has made
arrangements to establish new lines Of cars,
principally second-clas tourist coaches,
from Chicago. AS the bulk of trave Is
tending southwark most of these cars
will be run on the Southern Pacific into
L Angeles and other cities below the
Tehachapi Mountains. A great variety
OF routes have teen selected, so that tour
ist cars will be running over lines and
making connections in a way that were
never made before. The ''lines" will be
opened on Novembe l as follows:
Through tourist car from Chicago to
Los Angeles via the Illinois Central, New
Orleans and Sunset route daily.
Through tourist car from Chicago to
San Francisco via the Wabash, Iron Noun
tain, Texarkana and Ell Paso routes daily.
Weekly tourist sleeper from Chicago to
Los Angeles via Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific, Fort Worth and Ell Paso.
Weekly tourist sleeper from st. Paul 10
Los Angeles via Chicago. Rock Island and
Pacific, Fort Worth and Ell Paso.
Weekly tourist car from Cincinnati to
San Francisco via the Queen and Crescent
route to New Orleans. and thence over
the Sunset line.
Through standard sleeper from Chicago
st. Louis, Texarkana and Ell Paso and
Southern Pacific daily.
Through standard sleeper from New Or
leans to San Francisco via Sunset route
daily.
Through Sunset Qimited) from New Or
leans TO San Francisco, weekly, with
which the through standard sleeper will
be run from Chicago over the Illinois Gen.
trail, making a time a little over eighty
seven hours. Chicago to Los Angeles.
This is better time than at present given
by the direct roads of the Santa Fe system
be tween Chicago and Los Angeles. and
for that reason an increase of speed in
Santa Fs through trains may be expected
next month.
The Central Pacific accommodations are
considered very ample, and for the present
no change will be made in the passenger
trains.
Good prospects from the East for first
class travel 10 California are reported to
the Southern Pacific passenger depart
ment. From Southern California advices
have been received at the same place that
nearly all the southern hotel accommoda-
| tions have been engaged for winter months.
Some time ago two new styles of street.
railway rails were taken mp by the Mar
ket-street system for their evident supe-
| riority over those already laid down
| throughout the city. These rails were
submitted to the Board of Supervisors and
permission TO lay them was readily granted.
| One is tall rail without flanges, or shoul-
ders, near the top. The other is much
| lower in Insight. but has wide shoulders on
each side. In theory they had much to
commend them. but in practice, at least,
| the former is q failure. Four or five
blocks south of Howard street were laid
with the flangeless rail for the new electric
line on Third street. The basalt blocks
were laid close to the rail on either side,
| so no obstruction was left in the pave
ment. But the blocks have proved TO be
much softer on the nside of the rails than
the old-fashoneG iron shoulder. The re-
suit is continuous row of deep, narrow
grooves, that frequently sink six or eight
| inches below the surface. Trucks aud
other vehicles, the wheels of which fit the
rails, have cut the stone blocks in this
| fashion after two or three months wear,
aud now buggy wheels are smashed or
| torn upon Third street. For this reason
the street is already Stunned by buggies
and carts with narrow wheels