The morning call., 1894-10-11
TO LIMIT TRAVEL.
Southern Pacific Plans to
Divert 1t.
ALL FOR THE SUNSET ROUTE.
Let the Central Pacific Be the
Sufferer.
IINION PACIFIC APPEAL IGNORED.
Great Encouragement Received by
Those Working in Behalf of
the Valley Road.
UNION PACIFIC APPEAL IGNORED.

the officers OF the Southern Pacific are
bending their energies 10 popularize the
Sunset route Beginning November l a
weekly train known as the Sunset limited
VIII run between San Francisco and New
Orleans via Los Angeles. Immediate con-
nection will be made at New Orleans with
the Piedmont Air Line Tor Atlanta, Wash
ington, Philadelphia and New York,
while the Ogden route will have the same
old accommodations. The Sunset limited
will consist OF a vestibue train, illumin-
ated by the Pintsch gaslght system, and
with Pullman composite cars and the
dining-cars del Monte" and Castle
Crags." The time has been shortened, too.
The run between New Orleans and New
York will be made in forty hours. Be-
tween New Orleans and San Francisco
the lime is scheduled at seveDty-seven and
a half hours, and from San Francisco TO
New Orleans at seventy-nine hours. Ac-
cording TO The new schedule the time rate
viii be about thirty-two miles an hour.
The fast limited trains out of the Eastern
cenlers for the shorter distances run at
from forty 20 sixty miles an hour.
Between New York and Chicago the
Pennsylvania line makes thirty-eight miles
an hour for distance of 912 miles. Iae
fast limited trains of the Burlington and
Rock Island. between Denver and Chicago
during the summer season. exceed forty
miles an hour as the rate of speed main
tanned.
The Union Pacific makes the 1854 miles
between Ogden and Omaha in thirty-two
and half hours. The fast mail makes
the distance in thirty hours, or a rate
slightly in excess OF Ihirty-fOur miles an
hour. For a long tine the Union Pacific
officials have sought to shorten the time
between The Missouri River and San Fran
cisco, and they claim that they will make
the run between Ogden and Omaha in
twenty-eight hours if the Southern Pacific
viii put on faster trains over the Central
Pacific line. If the latter company would
inaugurste a service such as 1t proposes
for the Sunset route over the Ogden route
the time between this city and Chicago,
Union Pacific officials say, could be re-
duced TO less than seventy-two hours,
which would be shorter by several hours
than the schedule between San Francisco
and New Orleans on the Sunset Lin
ited.'
By change in the Chicago and Alton
schedule the time between ST. Louis and
Pacific Coast points has been shortened
twelve hours. The Kansas City day ex-
press leaves the Union depot OF ST. Louis
at :55 A, NJ, and reaches Kansas City at
$50 P. NJ, instead of leaving at s 80 A. NJ.
ana arriving at 1856 P. n. as formerly.
This train connects with the new fliers of
the Union Pacific arriving in De nyer at
l 30 P. NJ of the next day.
+. ". Van Sicklen, second vice-presi-
dent of the Traffic Association, proposed
that merchants shall subscribe in blocks
of $1,000 each for the valley railroad. He
argues that il q business house pays a
comm ercial Traveller $1,000 a year to secure
business in the San Joaquin Valley, then
an investment of $1,000 in a railroad with
an assured earning capacity Is not only
safe but is a very moderate sum TO sub
scribe in order to hold the present trade
and to secure more.
He declared that the plan is working
satisfactorily and that the merchants are
making gratifying responses. Walter Castle
is uevoting his attention TO securing sub
scriptions from the merchants. Others are
devoting their attention 10 other lines in
which business men are engaged
Native sons in business here will be
asked to subscribe. and very liberal re-
the State with such earnest patriotism.
Several blocks of stock of $1,000 each were
taken yesterday.
H. W. Baxter, one OF tde best known
Tailw aymen in the west, and an old resident
of Portland, has been appoin ted general
agent for the Union Pacific, with head
quarters in th at city.
a turntable has been put in at the foot of
t-of ct
cable-iine.
The gauge on Bryant and Brannan
streets is being rapidly changed tn stand
ard by the Market-sIreet Railway Conn
panY, and these streets will be sbortlv
operated by electricity.
The railroad has begun the LAYING of
bitumen between its tracks on Kearnv
street.
A complaint was recently filed in the
UuIled States Circuit Court of the Sontb
ern District of New York ON behalf of
the Prescott and Arizona Central Railroad
Company against the Santa Fe, in which
1t is sought to recover SIS, 250GOO. The
damages are alleged to have been sps-
tanned through two contracts made by the
defendant in restraint of trade among the
several States.
Inc CUuipidiHI tudL the QefeQ0-
ants, knowing that the plaintiff company
was successfully running railroad which
did all the business between Prescott,
Ariz., and the roads in the Atchison sys-
tenn. cOnspired to get control of its capital
stock, threatening injury 10 its Business if
il did not yield on the defendants terms :;
that upon refusal to comply with this de-
mand the defendants built new railroad,
called the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phenix.
10 which was transferred all the traffic
formerly given to the Prescott and Arizona
Central.
a contract is submitted which was made
on November %, 1891. between the Atchi-
son companies and the Santa Fe. Prescott
and Phoenix, by which the former paid to
the new railroad 3 per cent of the freight
received by any of the railroads 10 the
Atchison system for traffic delivered by
or intended for the new line.
Counsel for the Arizona company de-
clare that the railroad and the Madison
square Bank of New York were plunged
Into bankruptcy by the Santa Fe's action.
Charged With Grand Larceny.
George Storck, butcher, living at Mill
Valley, was arrested last night on war
can't charging him with grand larceny.
lhe com planning witness is Charles Scott