The herald., 1894-12-30

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The piece Of red ribbon ornamenting
the Gargoyle'a coat-lapel last evening
was entirely superauous it intended
msrslv as evidencing his football patrl-
otism. The glowing tint. on the end Of
hin nose would have answered every
purpose. ;s
..Been out in the wind" he said.
rather apologetically, aa he joined .
proup in the reading room OF tho Hotel
Nadeau. "The whole town will be red
ton;Sht'n There was pause for q mo-
ment: then the Gsrgoyle broke out IN
fresh spot.
"Sneakjng OF MY friend Leeds" be
said there had been no previous con-
versation on any subject. but they real
ixed that the Gargoyle should be per"
mittsd TO choose his own form OF intro
dnctior. 40 they settled back In their
aaey chairs and kept their ears open.
-.Speaking of my friend Leeds, re-
nested the Gargoyle, reminds me OF his
previous railroad history in the east and
and am constrained to remark that, In
INV humble opinion, Calls P. Hunting
ton had cause for personal graduation
the dsy that Mr.. Leeds assumed the
managerial chair Of the Traffic asaocia-
tioh.
"Oh. yes for time the Trcffic asso-
citation did great things. The North
American Navigation company has had
the. credit of breaking the Pacific Mail
eompapy's agreement with the Trans-
sentimental association. But Coils has
. wonderful gift of foresight when his
own millions are threatened. He saw
that the siO0, 900. q. month bribs would
not be paid much longer by the over
land roads, and what he feared was lest
the end of that mammoth fraud might
be brought about through railroad COM
petition.
"Clearly it was to Collis' interest to
make the people OF California believe
that escape from his yoke lay in water
J transportation. It.was an easy and cheap
thing to charter few vessels. 1t was
right in line with the Temper of San
Francisco merchants. They saved in
freight rates good deal more than the
effort cost them, and for the timo being
. which Coils fondly hoped would be
very long time-railroad competition
was forgotten.
''And even the Navigation company,
designed 90 it ostensibly was, to throttle
the Pacific mail and Southern Pacific
monopolies go far as overland freight
was concerned, played moro or less into
the hands OF Collis. Had their steam-
srs stopped regularly at a southern port,
San Pedro or Rsdondo, as they started
out to do, the result would have been
equally advantageous to this section and
disastrous to the Southern Pacific. Man.
ifestly they could not stop At Collia-on-
the-6sa. and to stop at Redondo or San
Pedro meant injury to Santa Monica.
This would never do. The southern SER
vice was gradually discontinued, end in
order to6 .nally give Leeds sn excuse for
taking off the steamers entirely and
thus leaving the long wharf in safety,
Coils reduced overland freights suffic.
iently to enable Mr.. Leeds to point his
ist fore6ngsr triumphantly at what I
have done
"Then good-by to the Navigation COM
pany. You see. it WAS que ton
whether Collision the Sea should die the
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the Ogden grade. Coils hoped that nei-
ther of these catastrophes-or holo-
causts, as my friend Colonel Otis would
say-mlght befsll him. To save overland
freights and com petition he bethought
himself Of Mr.. Leeds and a navigation
company. Inadvertently these menaced
Collis-de-mar, so he threw the toys away
and bought new play ythings. One of these
is patent, back-actlon. extension SUBJ
scription book for a competing valley
line to the north, with drawing strings
attached to each entry.
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1T is . very pretty toy-one of the
cutest things of it's kind ever invented by
Collis' massive brain. He is going to
take out patent ON the contzivance and
try to sell them on royalties to each large
town in the state.
but Los Angeles won't want one OF
them, for she has not Leeds to ma
nipulate the strings. -.-
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II see Colonel OTIS out.of.town
young man has discovered that there is
some little discussion going on in the
state these days about valley railroad
project with terminus at Los Angeles.
! had hoped that the colonel's eagle eve
might eventually come to see copy OF
THE HERALD and that In this way be
would come to know OF the existence OF
this burning Issue. But now the know
ledge will come even more easily to him,
/ suppose. He has only to read his
own paper. Ergo. you shall zee the rs-
suit Of his awskenng Colonel Otis
won't do the thing half way, you can
depend on that.
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.'Now, let me tell you of the good luck
] mad fishing the other day. No? Tired
10 soon! Oh, well. if you insist, only I
want mine weak"