The herald., 1895-04-27
FROM THE RAILROAD OFFICES
II q. Thompson is in the City for
a Week
Catalina Carrier Pigeon Service 10 Conn
mcaec--?srSonai Gossip and
News Notes

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q. railway. Chicago, who for the past
month has been in Southern California.
left FOR his hom' last night. He was ac-
companicd by his very interesting family,
who Ii I'VE been here eight or ten weeks
spending most Of the time at Santa Bar
bara.
ii. G. Thompson. formerly general pas
sehger agent tor southern California Tor
the Santa Fe system, arrived in the city
yesterday on the overland. He will re-
main W elk or ten days. Mr.. Thompson
IS now the assistant to the passenger
trafhc manager OF the same corporation.
The steamer Coos Bay of the Pacific
Coast Steamship company will sail from
san Francisco on MAY LIST % place OF the
steamer Eureka. This change is for this
trip only.
In anticipation OF the usual season s
carrier pigeon service between Santa
Catalina island and this city practice was
commenced yesterday. a number of Los
AM eles birds were liberated from on
bGaru the Falcon when off San Pedro
about two miles. The island birds were
also put into training yesterday. The
service promises to be much more COM
plete than last year.
Travel to and from Santa Catalina is
said to be IS per cent better than at this
time last year. This is what Mr.. Lowe
Travel from this neighborhood to Homo
lulu is steady. Hugh b. Rice, the local
agent for the Oceanic, the Pacific Mail
and the Occidental and Oriental steam
ship lines, provided passage tickets for
y. G. Stubs. until recently the manager
OF the Hotel Rubio, Echo mountain; Miss
l.. NJ. Kidder of Pasadena and Norman
Hoyle of Eel Toro. all OF whom will sail
from San Francisco today. By the
steamer leaving about May Dist party of
twenty or twenty tivelr ersons from South
ern California will be passengers.
4, V. Hull and wife have arranged for
Passage tickets from a local agent for
steamship Alameda from San Francisco.
Purser Lambert and Chief Steward
Seely of the Pacific coast steamer Eureka
spent the day-yesterday-in Los Ageles.
A concert will be given at the Redondo
beach hotel tonight by the Rebagliati
Spanish quartette. This musical organ
iZation is said to be very clever one,
containing most excellent soloists. Span
ish music and rarely-met-wth instru-
ments are features of the quartette. The
usual Saturday low price tickets, good for
Monday return. are on sale. On Friday
next the Rebagliati band will be heard
in this city. where lovers of good music
may attend in numbers.
Captain c. n. Stelry, the general attor-
nev for the Atlantic and Pacific railroad,
arrived in town yesterday in special.
A reporter visited the chamber of COM
merce early in the day yesterday. Out of
the eight names in the register seven
were from eastern points. One of the
seven who registered their names and add
dresses five also registered remarks, pre-
sumably on the exhibits to be seen in that
building. These remarks were: Very
good; Stupendous; Out of sight; Worth
seeing. and Gee whiz!'
Excursion agents and railroad men here
state that the number of passengers east
bound exceeds the number coming west,
and that this condition will pro bably con
tinue through May and June. They all
agree in the opinion, hoover, that after
the LIST of July the heaviest travel will be
in this direction. and that a very large
perez ntage of eastern people who go away
from home at all during the summer will
visit California. -lE
The Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe
railroads yesterday afternoon accepted
the reduced rates allowed them by the in
tcrstate railroad commission, which will
go into effect on May LIST and apply to
Seeding oranges only and via gulf ports.
The rate to eastern points via New Or
leans and Galveston will be about 60
cants, as against 80 cents prevailing at
present.
c. L. Garfield, general agent of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul ut San
Francisco, is in town.
Freight Agent Chambers of the South
ern California is out of the city.
W. G. Van Week, general superinten-
dent of the Atlantic system of the South
ern Pacific in is the city. He came in his
private car. the Texas.
The evidence given before the interstate
commerce commission in Denver has
been so convincing that the railroad men
have conceded that the demand of the
Denver jobbers and manufacturers for a
reduction of rates ia q just one. But they
contend that, if lower through rates
be granted, the rates to intermediate
points shall not be lowered correspond
ingly. The Colorado compliments do not
object to this exception. since all they
demand is TO be put OH an equal footing
with Chicago and other eastern points in
reaching markets west, north and south.
There will be variety of amendments
in the freight schedule of the transcOn-
tnental association which will go into
effect on May |. The local agents have
not been advised yet as to what the
amendments will be, but expect the new
schedule in few days.
The report of the Canadian Pacific rail-
way shows that that corporation had to
take its share OF the hard times during
the past two years. The net earnings,
which were SIS. APO, 900 IN 1892, dropped to
$7.741, 900 in 1893 and to $$6. 423, 900 in
1874, and this, with the almost total stop
page of the land sales. made it necessary
fo asa divi1pu1 JayrppntS